Ammon Bundy Led an Armed Standoff With the Government. 100,000 People Still Voted for Him.
Ammon Bundy speaks to a crowd in front of the Ada County Courthouse in downtown Boise. Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Of all the far-right extremists on the ballot Tuesday, perhaps none had the bona fides of Ammon Bundy.…
Illinois Is Poised to Pass a Huge Win For Workers
Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Illinois workers are on the verge of a historic win: a labor rights amendment to the state constitution that—among other things—would make the state the first to ban so-called “right-to-work laws” throughout its territory. The amendment, on the…
Blake Masters and Peter Thiel Thought They Could Buy an Arizona Senate Seat. They Were Wrong.
Mother Jones illustration; Mario Tama/Getty; Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.During his days as a Stanford libertarian, Blake Masters was nothing if not principled. The 36-year-old Peter Thiel protégé turned Arizona Republican Senate candidate considered voting morally indefensible, taxation theft, and nationalism a…
Funding Fringe Candidates in Republican Primaries Is Still a Terrible Idea
John Gibbs, Doug Mastriano and Don Bolduc.Cory Morse/The Grand Rapids Press/AP; Brian Cahn/Zuma; Reba Saldanha/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Democrats had a plan: Fund the right-wing radicals. For the 2022 midterms, according to numbers compiled by the Washington Post, Democrats spent $19…
DeSantis’ Policies Are Terrible for Moms. He Convinced Them Otherwise.
Mother Jones illustration; Daniel A. Varela/Miami Herald/AP, Ricardo Gomez Angel/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Election Day, the much-hyped red wave didn’t crest quite as high as some polls predicted it would, with Democrats scoring key victories in several states. Yet it was…
In Minnesota, Keith Ellison Narrowly Wins Attorney General Race
Mother Jones; Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune/APMother Jones; Richard Tsong-Taatarii/Star Tribune/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In a close race State Attorney General Keith Ellison, a former six-term congressman and Deputy Chair of the Democratic National Committee, has narrowly won re-election as the top legal officer in…