Report: Elon Musk Has Been Funding Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Mastermind
Elon Musk speaking at the symposium about antisemitism, organized by the European Jewish Association, in Krakow, Poland.STR/NurPhoto/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Long gone are the innocent days when media outlets claimed the independence and nuance of the politics of Elon Musk. Now,…
GOP Senate Candidate Larry Hogan Says His Democratic Foe Is Awful. He Once Praised Her as “Great.”
Mother Jones; Nathan Howard/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Larry Hogan, the former governor of Maryland, has a tough task. As he now runs for the US Senate, he claims to be a reasonable, non-Trump Republican, hoping to win over Democrats and independents…
One Month From Election Day, Helene Has Snarled the North Carolina Voting Process
MelissSue Gerrits/Getty Images/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. There are battleground states, and then there’s North Carolina. Former President Donald Trump won the state by 1.3 percent in 2020, his lowest margin of victory in any state, and polls now show Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris within just…
How a Top House Race Became a Fight Over Communism, Immigration, and Asian American Identity
Left: Rep. Michelle Steel (R-Calif.). Right: Democrat Derek Tran campaigning in Little Saigon.Mother Jones illustration; Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Zuma; Christina House/Los Angeles Times/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. “This Jay Chen for American Congress, he’s perfect for China,” one agent told his colleague…
How Abortion Foes Are Using Transphobia to Derail New York’s Equal Rights Amendment
Mother Jones illustration; Jose Luis Magana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In late August, on the fringes of a press conference outside New York City Hall, a man wearing a “Kill your local pedophile” T-shirt and a “Babies Lives Matter” pin screamed at…
Idaho State Senator Tells Native American Candidate to “Go Back Where You Came From”
Idaho Sen. Dan ForemanOtto Kitsinger/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Thinking before you speak publicly is an important skill. Idaho State Sen. Dan Foreman, a conservative Republican, apparently did not get the memo. As Boise State Public Radio, an NPR affiliate, reported on…