Imagine a Country Where a President Peddling Election Lies May Become Ineligible to Run for Office
Donald Trump is seated before a dinner with Jair Bolsonaro. Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Watching the political developments in Brazil from the United States for the past several years has often felt like a kind of Groundhog Day series of parallel…
Disabled Mississippians Now Face Even More Hurdles in Voting
Tiffany Tertipes/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This November, Mississippians will elect the next or reelect the current governor, but new restrictions on absentee ballots may restrict some disabled people from being able to vote. On March 22, incumbent Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican,…
Kyrsten Sinema Says She Won’t Become a Republican
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-AZ, speaks during a hearing to examine nominations of Shalanda D. Young, from Louisiana, to be Director and Nani Coloretti, from California, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on Tuesday, February 1, 2022. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI Fight disinformation: Sign…
Crime Mattered in Chicago’s Mayoral Race—Just Not How Pundits Implied It Would
Mother Jones; Jim Vondruska/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the weeks leading up to Chicago’s mayoral election, polls showed that voters were especially concerned about crime. This led plenty of journalists and political pundits to suggest that the candidate with a tougher, police-centric…
Progressives Win a Majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court
Mother Jones; Morry Gash/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Liberal judge Janet Protasiewicz won a critical seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday, giving progressives their first majority on the court since 2008 and a pathway to challenging the GOP’s decade-plus stranglehold on…
Crucial Supreme Court Race in Wisconsin Shatters Spending Record
Morry Gash/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The race to fill an open seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court—and determine ideological control of the highest court in one of the country’s most important swing states—has more than doubled the national record for judicial election…