Breitbart Just Exposed a Right-Winger’s Racist Texts. How Did We Even Get Here?
Former President Donald Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in 2019 at a rally celebrating Trump changing his legal residence to Florida.Paul Hennessy/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday, Breitbart published a long report exposing racist and anti-semitic text messages from Pedro Gonzalez, a somewhat well-known…
Yes, Nikki Haley’s Attack on Obama Is Silly. It’s Also Very Telling.
Mother Jones illustration; Jason Lee/The Sun News/ZUMA; Karen Ballard/ZUMA; Joseph Bustos/TNS/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.I get the sense that former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, along with other candidates of her ilk, find themselves most relevant when they’re sparking outrage. One of…
Meet the Rich Guys Who Want RFK Jr. to Be President
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced his bid for the presidency at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel on April 19, 2023, he pledged to a cheering crowd to “end the corrupt merger of state and corporate power that is…
Trump and DeSantis Are Competing to Show Who Hates Immigrants the Most
Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis hold a Covid-19 and storm preparedness roundtable on July 31, 2020. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After signing one of the most draconian anti-immigrant laws in the country last month, 2024 presidential hopeful and Florida Gov. Ron…
No Labels Exposed: Here’s a List of Donors Funding Its Effort To Disrupt the 2024 Race
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.No Labels, the political outfit preparing to run a “unity” ticket in 2024 that Democratic strategists and Never-Trump Republican operatives fear will siphon votes from President Joe Biden, is what’s known as a dark-money group. Unlike…
Kevin McCarthy Is Fundraising Off Trump’s Indictment Lies
Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.There is no better representative of the moral slide of the Republican Party in the Trump years than House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. This congressman from California, as the ranking House Republican, excoriated Donald Trump after the January…