“There Should Be Consequences for People Who Undermine Our Democracy and Peddle the Big Lie”
Nevada Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto. John Locher; Jacquelyn Martin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The day before early voting started in the battleground state of Nevada, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto surrounded herself with Republicans and called out her…
Christian Nationalists Are Closer Than You Think to Running America
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.“You don’t need books!” shouts Pennsylvania state Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, waving a battered Bible. “This is the only book that’s alive and living!” Applause and cries of “amen” float up from the crowd around me.…
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…
Brazilians Go the Polls and Democracy Hangs in the Balance
Former president Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva during the closing rally of his presidential campaign in São Paulo. Allison Sales/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.During a vacation earlier this year, a stranger, who later said he was a real estate agent, approached me…
Nearly Three-Quarters of Americans Don’t Want President Biden to Run for Reelection
President Joe Biden speaks to the members of the media on the South Lawn of the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington, D.C., US, on Friday, Aug. 26, 2022.Yuri Gripas/CNP via ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In response to…
It Didn’t Start with Trump: The Decades-Long Saga of How the GOP Went Crazy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In May, during an Aspen Institute conference, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told the audience, “I want the Republican Party to take back the party, take it back to where you were when you cared about a woman’s right to…