Report: US Intel Officials Believe Russia Secretly Backed Albanian Candidate
Lulzim Basha, the former leader of Leader of the Democratic Party of Albania, seen here in 2021, denies receiving secret funding from Russia.Visar Kryeziu/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Back in 2018, Mother Jones reported that payments made by a shell company to an…
How a Former Transcendental Meditation Devotee Ended Up Funding America’s Wildest Right-Wing Spy Op
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Nate Martin always thought there was something a little off about the new couple in town. Beau Maier and Sofia LaRocca had shown up in Wyoming in 2019 with thin resumes and few references and quickly…
With Little to Attack SCOTUS Nominee, Republicans Are Going Full Hypocrisy
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell with Ketanji Brown Jackson at the US Capitol on March 2, 2022Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.While you wouldn’t know it from the attacks Republicans are lobbing at Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s…
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Wants You to Know Why SCOTUS Is FUBAR
Sen. Whitehouse during the October 2020 confirmation hearings for Trump Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett.Greg Nash/Zuma Press This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US Senate is not a crowded, rambunctious place like Britain’s House of Commons or other more lively legislative bodies around the world.…
Big GOP Donors Poured Money Into Kyrsten Sinema’s Campaign in September
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Arizona Democratic Senator Kyrsten Sinema has spent the last six weeks under increasing pressure from progressives to stop obstructing President Joe Biden’s agenda. Along with fellow Democratic moderate Joe Manchin (D-W.V.),…
How a Mysterious Russian Businessman Got His Picture Taken With Donald Trump
Donald Trump campaigns in Aston, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia, on September 22, 2016.Evan Vucci/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Monday, the Justice Department announced the indictment of two Republican operatives for allegedly funneling $25,000 from a Russian citizen to Donald Trump’s campaign…