The Rise of Vivek. The Return of Masters. The College Libertarians Won’t Go Away.
Cheney Orr/The Washington Post/Getty; Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The 2024 election cycle looks like it will feature not one, but two late-30s contrarians who got their start rapping about libertarianism on elite college campuses. The first is Vivek Ramaswamy,…
Trump Has Already Raised Millions Off His Georgia Mugshot
Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump’s mugshot has powered a historic fundraising blitz for the former president. Trump’s campaign says it has raised $7.1 million since he was processed at an Atlanta jail on Thursday night for attempting to overturn…
The Fox GOP Debate Melted Down When the Word “Climate” Was Mentioned
Morry Gash/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Something incredible happened in Milwaukee tonight. When GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy declared that the “climate change agenda is a hoax,” a crowd full of Republicans started to boo. He was responding to a question posed by…
Royce White Announces Run for Senate With New Conspiracy Theory
Mother Jones illustration; Getty; Richard Rodriguez/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Royce White announced that he will be running for U.S. Senate in 2024, according to a video posted to his Twitter account. This came within days of a debut of a new conspiracy…
Voting Rights Groups Condemn Atlanta’s Verification Process for Cop City Referendum
A canvasser with the Stop Cop City Vote Coalition speaks with an Atlanta resident. Brynn Anderson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Monday, more than 25 of the leading voting rights groups in Georgia—including Fair Fight Action and New Georgia Project, both founded by…
A Growing Chorus of Conservative Legal Scholars Say Trump Should Be Barred from Presidency
Evan Vucci/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump now faces two indictments and 17 charges related to his role in attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, and in both cases, prosecutors are aiming to try the former president before the 2024…