Evangelicals Have a Plan to Flip 19 Key Counties
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last Saturday, vice presidential candidate JD Vance appeared at an event in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, hosted by Lance Wallnau, a self-proclaimed “apostle,” which means he’s a leader in a rapidly growing religious movement called the…
How Republicans Could Block a Democratic Victory in Georgia
An election worker examines a ballot during vote counting in the 2020 election at State Farm Arena, in Atlanta. Brynn Anderson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Former Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is no stranger to voter suppression in Georgia and she sees…
No, Noncitizens Are Not Voting in Droves. Trump and Republicans Know It.
Mother Jones; Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/Getty; Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. At tonight’s debate, former President Donald Trump repeated baseless claims, increasingly popular among Republicans, that there is mass noncitizen voting in the United States. It has been a persistent theme…
How Democrats Are Staving Off the Big Lie 2.0
Mother Jones; Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call/Getty; Brent Stirton/Getty (2) Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. At a Tuesday panel dedicated to “Protecting the Vote” at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, an expert speaker sounded as if he was holding back tears as he explained…
Election Deniers Just Scored a Major Win in Arizona’s Biggest County
Mother Jones; Michael Brochstein/Zuma; Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Earlier this month, Maricopa County Recorder Stephen Richer, a Republican who oversees mail-in voting, voter registration, and property records in America’s fourth-largest county, reached out to Elon Musk with an invitation. “Can I…
The GOP’s Secret Weapon for 2024? Bogus Lawsuits.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On March 19, Staci Lindberg, the elected clerk of Nevada’s Lyon County, was hit with some unsettling news: She was being sued for the first time in her life. The plaintiff? Her own political party. The Republican National Committee had…