A Middle-Class Agenda for Democrats
I’m trying to temporarily avoid the torrent of impeachment/corruption-related news that threatened to drown us over the weekend, so here’s something else to start the week. It’s apropos of nothing in particular, and has nothing to do with any specific Democratic candidate for president. It’s just something to think about. As progressives, we have a…
Mitch McConnell’s Opposition to Federal Election Security Is Hitting Home
Mother Jones illustration; Stefani Reynolds/ZUMA, Michele Sandberg/Getty Don Blevins, Jr., has a lot to think about. In his job as the clerk of Fayette County, home to Lexington, the University of Kentucky, and more than 240,000 registered voters, he’s in charge of making sure elections happen securely and accurately. “There’s a lot of hand wringing…
There’s a Wave of Democratic Insurgents Hoping to Join the Squad
Adam Vieyra / Mother Jones“All of this is brand new,” says Alex Morse, the 30-year-old mayor of Holyoke, Massachusetts. He’s waving a tattooed arm in the direction of several dozen brick factories and warehouses, towering vestiges of this former mill town’s once-thriving paper industry. They appear largely vacant and in various states of disrepair, yet…
ICE’s Revolving Door: Top Official Goes to Work for Private Prison Company
An administrator walks through the Winn Correctional Center, a prison run by LaSalle Corrections that now holds immigration detainees, in September.Gerald Herbert/AP In June, when Scott Sutterfield became Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s top official in the Deep South, the number of immigrants detained in the region was exploding. Between February and August, ICE started using…
Bloomberg Is Starting His Campaign With A Big Asset—His Gun-Control Group’s Email List
Michael Bloomberg speaks at a Moms Demand Action rally in Nashua, NH, in 2018.Cheryl Senter/AP Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg officially entered the 2020 Democratic race Sunday with a potent asset: The vast trove of email addresses amassed by Moms Demand Action, the nonpartisan gun control advocacy organization hosted under the umbrella of…
GOP Senator Says Trump’s Deranged Crowdstrike Conspiracy Theory Might Be Correct
Donald Trump with then-Senate candidate John Kennedy (R-La.) in December 2016Andrew Harnik/AP An influential Republican senator on Sunday leant credence to President Donald Trump’s deranged “Crowdsrike” conspiracy theory—the debunked notion that the Democratic National Committee, with help from Ukraine, fabricated the 2016 Russian hacking operation. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) claimed during a Fox News Sunday…