At the RNC Prayer Breakfast, Speakers Said the Quiet Part Out Loud
Jentezen Franklin (right) at the 2024 Republican National ConventionMother Jones illustration; Patrick T. Fallon/AFP/Getty; Kiera Butler/Mother Jones Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On the final day of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, I arrived at the Pfister Hotel ballroom 10 minutes before…
It Doesn’t Take a Conspiracy Theory to Explain Law Enforcement Incompetence
Nate Gowdy/Mother Jones Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A notable trend over the last few years has been the Republican discovery of jail. I don’t just mean that a lot of Republicans have simply ended up there, although a number of them have.…
Megadonors Are Showering Donald Trump & Co With Cash
Mother Jones; Andrew Rice/Unsplash; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Campaign finance disclosures are made public too ridiculously slowly to be of much use for real-time political analysis, but they do reveal some general trends in terms of who supports whom, and how…
The Audacity of Elon Musk’s $180 Million Pledge to Elect Donald Trump
Mother Jones; Str/NurPhoto/ZUMA; Starmax/Newscom/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story was originally published on Judd Legum’s Substack, Popular Information, to which you can subscribe here. Billionaire Elon Musk has pledged to give $45 million a month to a Super PAC that’s encouraging swing-state supporters…
Democrats Seem Set on Rushing Joe Biden’s Nomination. Republicans Are Thrilled.
Joe Biden speaks from the Roosevelt Room of the White House.Artem Priakhin/Sipa/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. As Republican delegates convene in a red, white, and blue balloon-filled Milwaukee arena to formally nominate Donald Trump as their presidential nominee, Democrats are at a…
J.D. Vance’s Past Attacks on Trump Aren’t Hypocrisy. They’re His Main Argument.
Donald Trump and J.D. Vance at the RNC.Nate Gowdy/Mother Jones Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In the days when the nation’s confused liberals and bereft neocons wanted to understand the rise of Donald Trump with empathy—but without challenging too many assumptions about power…