More and More Rappers Are Hopping Aboard the Trump Train
Paul Sancya/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Since kicking off his 2024 presidential campaign, Donald Trump’s team has tried everything to appeal to Black voters. In February, Trump told a group of Black conservatives that his indictments endeared him to “the Black people.”…
The Teamsters and the GOP Had a Moment Last Night
Nate Gowdy/Mother Jones Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Monday night, after the triumphant entrance of former president and GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, Teamsters Union general president Sean O’Brien addressed the Republican National Convention. “I refuse to keep doing the same things…
Rudy Giuliani, Who Called for “Trial by Combat” on January 6, Blames Democrats for Stoking Violence
Rudy Giuliani outside the site of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.Sam Van Pykeren/Mother Jones Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Rudy Giuliani has a message for Democrats: Their rhetoric, especially President Joe Biden’s, has been “an invitation of violence.” Democrats “get away with…
Tucker Carlson Warned an RNC Crowd of a “Spiritual Battle”
Nate Gowdy/Mother Jones Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Toward the end of the sweltering first day of the Republican National Convention yesterday, I hiked a few blocks away from the red-clad crowds and MAGA merch to Milwaukee’s ornate symphony hall. There, former Fox…
Even Republicans From DC Get Behind Trump at the GOP Convention
Corey Lewandowski walks off stage as preparations take place for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The last official anti-Trump resistance within the GOP went out with a whisper in Milwaukee on Monday night at…
Anti-Abortion Firebrands Are Celebrating the Trump-Vance Ticket
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) has railed against abortion, divorce, and people who don’t want to have children. Now, he’s Trump’s running mate.Annabelle Gordon/CNP/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. After former President Trump announced on Monday that he had picked Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio)…