January 6 Panel Subpoenas the Secret Service for Text Messages
Secret service agents stand beside the ‘Beast’ as President Donald Trump arrives at Palm Beach International Airport on September 8, 2020. Allen Eyestone/The Palm Beach Post via ZUMA Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The select committee investigating the January 6 attack…
From Texas to Arizona, the GOP Border “Invasion” Argument Keeps Getting Crazier
National Guardsmen stands watch over a fence near the International bridge in Del Rio, Texas.Eric Gay/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.During a press conference on July 5, several county officials from Texas gathered to pray, read the Pledge of Allegiance,…
Don’t Fall into the Collusion Trap on Trump and January 6
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Here we go again. Watching the recent coverage of the January 6 investigation, I felt a stab of deja vu. As the House committee probing the insurrectionist riot held a hearing this week that…
“The West Wing Is UNHINGED”
Mother Jones illustration; Evan Vucci/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Two of the most important days in Donald Trump’s plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election arguably were December 18 and 19. That’s when Trump sought to take the kooky coup…
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…
SCOTUS May Have Ended Trump’s Cruel Border Policy. It’s Hardly a “Home Run” Victory for Immigrants.
Woman protests against the “Remain in Mexico” policy in front of the Supreme Court.Michael Brochstein/Sipa USA/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.On June 30, the Supreme Court handed down its last and virtually only uplifting decision in an otherwise regressive and chilling term.…