Matt DePerno Sought to Foreclose on His Clients’ Property. Now He Wants to Be Michigan’s Top Lawyer.
Mother Jones illustration; Jake May/The Flint Journal/AP; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.If Matthew DePerno wins his race to unseat Michigan’s Democratic attorney general in November, he’ll become the state’s top lawyer. He will have a staff of more than 500 people, and…
What Happens When Local Election Administrators Believe Trump’s Big Lie?
Donald Trump and Tina Peters, Colorado’s Mesa County clerk and recorder.Mother Jones illustration; Getty; AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.With a wooden cross towering behind her, Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters took the stage on September 16 at the…
How Trump Cronies Turned New Hampshire Into a Big Lie Battleground
President Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski speaks outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center in 2020.Matt Slocum/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Windham, New Hampshire, has become the latest hotspot in Donald Trump’s ongoing crusade to prove…
Newsmax Issues Retraction and Apology for 2020 Election Coverage
Sean Rayford/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Newsmax, the far-right news outlet that boosted the Trump campaign’s false claims of 2020 election rigging, admitted on Friday that there was “no evidence” that an executive at Dominion…
After a Wave of Violent Threats Against Election Workers, Georgia Sees Few Arrests
The reflection of two voters walking up to a Cobb County voting location on January 5, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia.Megan Varner/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by ProPublica. On Nov. 30,…
Capitol Rioters Planned for Weeks in Plain Sight. The Police Weren’t Ready.
January 6, 2021, Washington, District of Columbia, USA: Trump supporters stand on the U.S. Capitol Police armored vehicle as others take over the steps of the Capitol.Bill Clark/Congressional Quarterly/ZUMA Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story…