Eight Red States Are Suing to Keep Migrants and Their Kids Apart
A migrant child from Guatemala waits in the McAllan, Texas airport after being released from a US detention center.Ed Jones/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Eight Republican-led states sued Friday to stop a Biden administration program that allows Central American child refugees to legally…
GOP Senator Pans Biden Court Pick as “Beneficiary” of “Racial Discrimination”
Sen. Roger Wicker on a Congressional visit to Kyiv, Ukraine.Pavlo Bagmut/Ukrinform/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The Onion headline writes itself: White Man From South Thinks Black Woman Getting Unfair Advantage. In this instance, it’s Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker, who told…
GOP-Dominated Pennsylvania Court Declares Mail-In Voting Unconstitutional
Chester County election workers process mail-in and absentee ballots for the 2020 general election.Matt Slocum/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.A Republican majority on a five-judge panel of Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court declared on Friday that the Keystone State’s widely used vote-by-mail system…
We Uncovered How Many Georgians Were Disenfranchised by GOP Voting Restrictions. It’s Staggering.
A voter drops a ballot off during early voting on October 19, 2020, in Athens, Georgia.John Bazemore/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.“States are not engaging in trying to suppress voters whatsoever,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declared last year. Facts…
Biden Administration Revokes Mining Leases Near Minnesota’s Boundary Waters
A lake within Minnesota’s Boundary Waters.Getty Images This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A Chilean mining giant’s bid to construct a massive underground copper-nickel mine just a few miles from Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness has hit another major snag. On Wednesday, the Biden administration canceled a…
Ted Cruz Is Fundraising Off a Debunked 1/6 Conspiracy Theory
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.In the spring of 2016, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) exploded when Donald Trump cited a baseless conspiracy theory that claimed Cruz’s Cuban-born father was involved in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. At a…