Will Democrats Ever Wake Up to the Importance of State-Level Races?
Voting booths are set up at the Orange County Supervisor of Elections Office on the first day of early voting for the 2022 midterm general election in Orlando for the 2022 midterm elections.Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.More than any election…
Brian Kemp Is a Different Kind of Threat to Democracy
Mother Jones illustration; Robin Rayne/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On a bright, crisp Saturday morning in late October, Stacey Abrams’ purple campaign bus arrived in Stone Mountain, Georgia. The city of 6,700 outside of Atlanta is best known for its nearby state park,…
Evan McMullin Put Democracy On the Ballot. Utah Voters Probably Won’t Care.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In mid-October, the actor Mark Hamill, a.k.a. Luke Skywalker, turned his star power on Evan McMullin, who is running a surprisingly competitive race for Senate in Utah. First came the tweet: “I like @EvanMcMullin SO much, it makes me…
Nevada’s MAGA Secretary of State Candidate Appears to Be Blatantly Ignoring Campaign Finance Law
Mother Jones illustration; Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Even by the anything-goes standards of post-Citizens United America, the campaign finance practices of far-right Nevada secretary of state candidate Jim Marchant are comically reckless and almost certainly illegal, according to multiple…
GOP Candidate Mark Finchem’s Lawyer Proposed Fake Elector Votes That “Aren’t Legal”
Mark Finchem, Republican candidate for the Secretary of State of Arizona, attends a conference promoting conspiracy theories about voting machines and discredited claims about the 2020 presidential election at a hotel in West Palm Beach, Fla.Jim Rassol / AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that…
How to Understand the Connection Between the Herschel Walker Abortion Stories and His Abuse
John Bazemore/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The second woman to allege that football star-turned-Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker pressured her to have an abortion amid an affair told her story in more detail on Tuesday, saying that Walker had told her she and the child would…