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The Next Political Battleground: State Supreme Court Races

Rally encouraging voters to vote yes on Amendment 2 in Kentucky.Stefani Reynolds / AFP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.For decades as a Republican legislator in Kentucky, Joseph Fischer has pushed bills to restrict abortion. He sponsored the state’s 2019 “trigger law” making the procedure…

“We Don’t Need a Celebrity”: Herschel Walker Isn’t Everybody’s Hero in His Hometown

Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One hundred and seventeen miles Northwest of Savannah, nestled between fields of cotton and grazing livestock, sits the majority-Black town of Wrightsville, Georgia (population: 3,638). The sleepy southern hamlet is where Curtis Dixon, now 67, taught GOP Senate nominee…