Steve Bannon Was Just Sentenced to Four Months in Prison
Former President Donald Steve Bannon in Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday, Oct. 4.Curtis Means/DailyMail/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday, Steve Bannon, the former Trump advisor, was sentenced to four months in federal prison for two counts of contempt of Congress. The sentence,…
Glenn Youngkin Is Only as Moderate as the Election Denier He’s Campaigning For
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin speaks at a rally with Oregon gubernatorial candidate Christine Drazan in Aurora, Oregon. Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Is Glenn Youngkin running for president? Paul Ryan thinks he should. A voter in Tucson told him to. The Republican…
Prosecutors Seek 6-Month Sentence For Bannon
Steve Bannon outside of Manhattan State Supreme Court in New York, US, on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2022. John Nacion/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Justice Department wants Steve Bannon imprisoned for six months and fined $200,000 for contempt of Congress, a charge resulting…
Prosecutors Cite Mother Jones to Debunk Claim by Oath Keepers’ Founder
Mother Jones illustration; Jared Ramsdell/Journal Inquirer/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Justice Department prosecutors cited Mother Jones on Tuesday in the trial of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. The defense had argued that messages Rhodes sent to a woman whom he later claimed was a…
“My Only Regret Is That They Should Have Brought Rifles”
Oath Keepers’s founder Stewart Rhodes at a 2017 event. Susan Walsh/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Justice Department’s case against five members of the Oath Keepers militia group is so extensive that it is expected to take a month lay out. But it is…
Biden Asks Americans to Vote for Democracy—But Is Voting Enough?
Doug Mills/Sipa USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A few hours before President Joe Biden delivered his fiery speech calling former President Donald Trump and “MAGA Republicans” representatives of “an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our Republic,” Trump went on a conservative…