Trump Cements Your Upcoming Week of Hell With More Reelection Hints
Kyle Mazza/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In spite of losing a reelection bid, getting twice impeached, and facing a litany of lawsuits, Donald Trump is all but certain to run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. GOP politicians have long treated the former…
Has Joe Biden Lowballed the Threat to American Democracy?
President Joe Biden leaves the stage after speaking about threats to democracy on November 2, 2022, in Washington, DC. Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter is written by David twice a week…
We Need to Talk About Herschel Walker’s Controversial Mental Health Diagnosis
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In his 2008 book, Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder, Herschel Walker described 12 alters, or separate identities that used to take over his psyche. There was the “Consoler,” who soothed Walker as he was mocked for…
How Voter Suppression and Gerrymandering by the Texas GOP Derails Environmental Justice
Robin Rayne/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This piece was published originally by Capital & Main. They say everything is bigger in Texas—and that includes the scale and brazenness of voter suppression efforts. The 2020 election saw record turnout in the Lone Star State, an…
The GOP Is Trying to Throw Out Thousands of Votes in Detroit—Again
Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Absentee ballot processing is kicking off today in Michigan, and the Trump-backed candidate running to become the state’s top election official is already trying to throw out tens of thousands votes—specifically in the Democratic stronghold…
Russia Revives Its Botnet to Hit Swing-State Democrats
Contributor/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Russian trolls and bots are coming back online ahead of the midterms—this time, amplifying right-wing vitriol on Gab, Parler, Gettr, and other minor social media platforms serving far-right audiences. Cybersecurity researchers have identified the reactivation of inflammatory accounts linked…