Donald Trump and the Birth of QMaga: The Storm Is Coming
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It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In May, during an Aspen Institute conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the audience, “I want the Republican Party to take back the party, take it back to where you were when you cared about a woman’s right to…
Top Senate Republican Who Voted To Overturn 2020 Election Admits Biden Won Fairly
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla.Andrew Harnik/AP Photo Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The false claim that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election has become gospel among most Republicans. Polls over the past year have shown that nearly 70 percent of all…
Trucker Protest Gets Booted From DC-Area Staging Ground
The People’s Convoy block the roads to protest against country’s COVID-19 restrictions and mandatory vaccination in Washington on March 16, 2022. Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The trucker protest in the Washington, DC-area has finally…
QAnon’s Chief Enabler Ran a Website Where He Brushed Off Concerns About Pedophilic Content
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The QAnon conspiracy has always stood on a morbidly ironic contradiction: “Q,” the pseudonymous poster who claimed to be a government insider batlling elite liberal pedophiles, infamously became a phenomenon by posting on 8chan, a website where users…
Stranger Dangers: The Right’s History of Turning Child Abuse Into a Political Weapon
Tom Williams/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.At some point between the ’80s and now, leaving children unattended in public became unthinkable. To let children as old as, say, 10 walk by themselves became grounds to investigate parents for neglect. As a…