Ohio GOP Senate Candidate Frank LaRose Just Blew Another Deadline to Disclose His Finances
Mother Jones; Lev Radin/Pacific Press/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As Ohio’s Secretary of State, Frank LaRose is responsible for overseeing state election laws. But as he seeks the Republican nomination for a US Senate seat in 2024, LaRose has not complied with a…
Louisiana’s New Governor Is a Major Fossil Fuel Booster
Drew Angerer/Getty Images/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Climate change looms larger in Louisiana than it does almost anywhere else in the United States. The state is facing down monster hurricanes as well as sea-level rise, and it still relies on a fossil fuel industry that…
Pennsylvania Voters Rejected the Culture Wars in School Board Races
A protester holds a placard during a protest against Moms For Liberty in Philadelphia.Matthew Hatcher/Sipa USA via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Is the “parental rights” movement slowing down? In 2021, there was a broad push after the pandemic from the right to…
Ohio Passes Constitutional Right To Abortion
Joe Maiorana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Ohio voters have approved Issue 1, amending their state constitution to enshrine the right to abortion—and proving, ahead of 2024, that support for abortion rights remains a compelling force among voters. The success of the measure, which…
Up for Reelection, Kentucky’s Democratic Governor Avoids Climate Change Talk
Michael Swensen/Getty Images/Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Kentucky’s Democratic governor, Andy Beshear, has been called the state’s “consoler-in-chief.” He’s presided over a period of extreme weather in the state, from tornadoes that leveled entire towns in the farmlands of western Kentucky, to record flooding that washed…
Inside the Knock-Down, Drag-Out Fight Over the Soul of a Pennsylvania School District
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.When Lela Casey decided to speak up at a school board meeting of Pennsylvania’s Central Bucks School District in September, she was still troubled by an incident that had happened at a similar meeting in March. The mother of…