Report: Yet Another Example That JD Vance Used to Hate Donald Trump
Mother Jones; Gage Skidmore/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Surprise, surprise. JD Vance’s self-proclaimed seamless journey from a “Never Trump” conservative in 2016—who called the former president potentially “America’s Hitler”—to a fervent supporter of the man in 2020 may not be the complete…
Will Young Voters’ Initial Excitement for Harris Get Them to the Polls?
Sunrise Movement activists marched to the Democratic National Committee’s office in July to urge Kamala Harris to make bold climate policy central to her campaign.Rachael Warriner/Sunrise Movement/Inside Climate News This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. On Tuesday, the youth-led activist group Climate Defiance—which had loudly called…
An “American Iron Dome”: Perhaps the Most Ridiculous Trump Idea Yet
Mother Jones illustration; Paul Sancya/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Donald Trump’s Republican Party platform, released in July, contains little in terms of tangible policy proposals. But one of the few concrete ideas is a call to (apologies for the capitalization) “PREVENT WORLD…
West Virginians Overwhelmingly Take Advantage of the Affordable Care Act. They Still Support Trump.
Left: West Virginia delegates wear hardhats in Fiserv Forum on the first day of the Republican National Convention. Right: Res-Con in Charleston, West Virginia.Mother Jones; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/AP; Helena Milburn Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. This story is a partnership with the…
Only 7 Percent of GOP Voters Like Project 2025
The Heritage Foundation building in Washington, D.C., in 2024.Andrew Harnik/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Even Republicans hate Project 2025. That’s according to a new NBC News poll released Wednesday, which found that only 7 percent of Republicans have positive views of the…
Why Ballot Measures Are Democracy’s Last Line of Defense
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In June, Ohio held a special election to fill an open congressional seat in a district that voted 72 percent for Donald Trump in 2020. On Election Day, former Ohio Supreme Court Justice Maureen O’Connor drove the length…