This Organization Backed Kamala Harris in 2003. Now It’s Trying to Change the Face of Politics.
Kamala Harris meets with supporters in front of the 24th street BART station while on the campaign trail running for District Attorney in San Francisco in 2003. Mother Jones; Mike Kepka/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Back in 2003, when Kamala…
Hundreds More Former GOP Officials Endorse Harris
Hundreds more Republicans say they’ll be voting for Harris in November.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The trend continues: Republicans are defecting from former President Donald Trump in droves. More than 200 Republican officials who once worked for former President…
Trump’s Campaign Sure Doesn’t Seem to Want People to Hear Him at the Debate
Mother Jones illustration; Patrick Semansky/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It appears that even the Trump campaign wants the former president to keep quiet. That’s according to a story published by Politico this morning, which alleges that the Trump campaign is locked…
The DNC Gave Kamala Harris a Major Boost
Gripas Yuri/Abaca/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The Democratic National Convention wasn’t just four days of good vibes: It was also the cause of a major fundraising and volunteer boom for the Harris-Walz ticket. A massive fundraising haul is nothing new for Harris.…
Joe Biden Promised to Be a Bridge. Democrats Finally Made It to the Other Side.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The operating word of the Democratic National Convention was “vibes.” They’re good, if you haven’t heard. They’ve shifted. For a group of people often dismissively referred to as “bedwetters,” Democrats are as excited as they’ve ever been at…
A Happy Marriage at the DNC: Coastal Liberalism and Prairie Progressivism
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. If you did a word cloud diagram of the Democratic convention in Chicago, the two big words that appear would be “freedom” and “joy.” Less prominent, if it showed up at all, would be “progressive.” Yet the Democrats…