Report: Virginia Deputy Attorney General Resigns Over Praise of January 6 Rioters
JT/STAR MAX/IPx/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.A Virginia deputy attorney general who oversaw election issues in the state resigned after a Washington Post investigation revealed she had used her Facebook account to spread various election conspiracy theories and praise the January…
Can Trump Be Barred for Running for President Because He Flushed Papers Down a Toilet?
Mother Jones illustration; Evan Vucci/AP; Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The latest Donald Trump scandal is about as surprising as finding mold on pizza left in the fridge for a month. A few days ago, the Washington Post revealed that when Trump…
The Trump Coup: Maybe We Can’t Handle the Truth
A pro-Trump demonstrator carries a sign near the US Capitol on the one-year anniversary of the January 6 attack.John Lamparski/AP Editor’s note: This essay by David Corn first appeared in his newsletter, This Land. But we wanted to make sure as many readers as possible have a chance to see it. This Land is written by David twice a week…
Trump Sent Asylum Seekers Back Into “the Depths of Hell”
Gendarmes patrol Omar Bongo Square in southwestern Cameroon.Marco Longari/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In August 2019, I wrote an article for the now-defunct Pacific Standard magazine about Martin, an asylum seeker from Cameroon who was denied protection by the United States…
Sick Kansas Republican, Absent for Entire Legislative Session, Shows Up to Enact Gerrymandered Map
Kansas state Reps. Michael Houser, left, of Columbus, and Richard Proehl on April 2, 2014.John Hanna/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.An anti-vaccine Kansas Republican, sick with an undisclosed illness, was so dedicated to overriding a Democratic governor’s veto of a gerrymandered…
The Offensive, Bizarre, and Offensively Bizarre Questions Republicans Have Asked Ketanji Brown Jackson
Ketanji Brown Jackson testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing to be US Circuit judge for the DC Circuit.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Supreme Court confirmation hearings are often more a forum for primetime senatorial grandstanding and…