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…
How One Group Is Tackling Voter Intimidation In Arizona
Paul Sancya/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Mari Alvarado, a retired public school teacher, has served as an election poll worker in Arizona’s Maricopa County for more than a decade, but she’s never experienced anything like she has in the last two years. “It…
Top GOP Secretary of State Candidates Hobnob with Extreme Conspiracy Theorists
Kristina Karamo, candidate for Michigan Secretary of State, Mark Finchem, candidate for Arizona Secretary of State and Jim Marchant, candidate for Nevada Secretary of State, attend an earlier conference on conspiracy theories and discredited claims about the 2020 presidential election at a hotel in West Palm Beach, Fla., in September. Jim Rassol/AP Fight disinformation: Sign…
Watch Barack Obama Attack a GOP Senator for Eyeing Social Security Cuts
Former President Barack Obama campaigns for Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, in Milwaukee.Morry Gash/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Barack Obama is campaigning in key battleground states for Democrats ahead of the midterm election. And in…
How a Big Lie Activist Could Win a Deep Blue Seat in 2022’s Biggest Battleground
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In a deep blue Arizona district, a conservative group is spending big bucks to boost the write-in campaign of a Republican activist who led the push for Arizona’s notorious 2021 election “audit”—without telling voters which…
“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…