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…
Maine Voters Have a Chance to Oust Their Profit-Driven Utilities
Seth Berry, left, an author of the Pine Tree Power proposal and a former Democratic state representative, chats with voters at a gathering of climate activists in Winslow, Maine, in August 2023. Annie Ropeik/Inside Climate News This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Maine will vote on…
How “Stop the Steal” Republicans Could Take Over Virginia
Mother Jones illustration; Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On November 8, 2020, the day after the major news networks called the election for Joe Biden, 350 supporters of Donald Trump gathered in Purcellville, Virginia, a town of 9,000 people one hour northwest of Washington,…
Former Trump Lawyer Jenna Ellis Joins Guilty Plea Parade in Georgia
Mother Jones; Fulton County Sheriff’s Office/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Jenna Ellis, a former lawyer for Donald Trump’s campaign, pleaded guilty Tuesday in the sprawling Georgia criminal prosecution surrounding Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Ellis is now the fourth defendant—and third attorney—to…
How the 47-Percent Video Drove Mitt Romney to Depression and Nearly Out of the 2012 Race
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.During the 2012 presidential campaign, when I obtained and posted a secretly recorded video of GOP nominee Mitt Romney deriding 47 percent of Americans as shiftless freeloaders who don’t “take personal responsibility and care for their…
Trump Ally Kenneth Chesebro Pleads Guilty in Georgia Fake Electors Case
Sidney Powell and Kenneth ChesebroFulton County Sheriff’s Office/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Kenneth Chesebro, an architect of the fake electors plot Donald Trump used to try to steal the 2020 election, pleaded guilty in Fulton Country, Georgia, Friday to a felony count of conspiracy…