More Leaked Audio: Bannon Bragged That He Used Porn to Help Smear Hunter Biden
Mother Jones illustration; Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/ Getty; CBS Sunday Morning/ZUMA Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Steve Bannon’s machinations around the 2020 presidential race were, at least according to his own words, sleazier and more cynical than even some of his…
Inside the Powerful Anti-Abortion Campaign to Convince You That Everything Is Just Fine
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Late last month, shortly after the US Supreme Court stripped away federal protection for abortion rights, Dr. Christina Francis, an OB/GYN based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, took to Instagram with an urgent message: She wanted her…
Leaked Audio: Before Election Day, Bannon Said Trump Planned to Falsely Claim Victory
Mother Jones illustration; J. Scott Applewhite/AP; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On the evening of October 31, 2020, Steve Bannon told a group of associates that President Donald Trump had a plan to declare victory on election night—even if…
Justice Department Questions Sidney Powell’s Funding for January 6 Defendants
Sidney Powell launched outlandish election fraud conspiracy theories at a November 19, 2020 presser.Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via ZUMA Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The US Justice Department on Wednesday questioned payments to high-profile January 6 defendants from a nonprofit run by…
A Republican Stood Up to Trump. So Right-Wingers Smeared Him as a “Pedophile.”
Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers.Mother Jones illustration; Patrick Semansky/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine. Notions of white innocence and victimhood—which oftentimes but not always concentrate on the idealized child and family—are incredibly potent…Those ideas helped propel the (bipartisan) war on…
Insurrectionist Anti-Vaxx Doctor Simone Gold Was Just Sentenced to 60 Days in Prison
Dr. Simone Gold, founder of the anti-vaccine group America’s Frontline Doctors, speaks at an event in Jenks, Okla., on June 30, 2021. John Clanton/Tulsa World via AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.For most of the past year, Simone Gold, a…