How Democracy Nearly Died in Wisconsin
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It was six weeks before the November election, and in his snug campaign office in suburban Milwaukee, located in a shopping plaza between a dentist and an acupuncturist, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers scanned the brightly colored maps that hung on…
Kari Lake Is Still Trying to Overturn Elections
Ross D. Franklin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Kari Lake is still trying to win the election she lost. Her latest move is a conspiratorial 70-page lawsuit filed in Arizona on Friday in which the former local news anchor asks that she be declared the…
Kyrsten Sinema Is Leaving the Democratic Party
Kent Nishimura/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is leaving the Democratic Party and registering as an independent. Politico has the scoop, which you can decide is either unsurprising or something of a bombshell. The news comes shortly after two key moments…
Raphael Warnock Beats Herschel Walker in Georgia Senate Runoff
Mother Jones illustration; Brynn Anderson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Democrat Raphael Warnock—the incumbent junior Senator from Georgia, the son of a former sharecropper, and the senior pastor at the church where Martin Luther King Jr. used to preach—has won the runoff election against…
“It Appears All Hope Is Lost,” House Republicans Warn
Kevin McCarthy is disappointed.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last month, I got an angry email from the Republican Party. I’d just written a snarky blog post about some dubious fundraising solicitations from the House GOP campaign arm—”13X MATCH…
Herschel Walker Said He Got Into Law School. That Seems Highly Unlikely.
Republican Senate Candidate Herschel Walker brought his Evict Warnock Tour to the northeast of Georgia on November 28, 2022.Sue Dorfman/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 2014, Herschel Walker delivered a speech to a group of National Guard members in Wichita, Kansas, about overcoming…