A Democrat in Farm Country Hopes to Beat One of Congress’ Biggest Racists
Democratic candidate J.D. Scholten meets with the public in the Milwaukee Train Depot in Jefferson, Iowa in the week before the June 5th primary. Scholten is running in Iowa’s 4th congressional district for the Democratic nomination to run against the Republican incumbent, Steve King in November.Dennis Chamberlin/FERN Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our…
A Pro-Scientist Campaign Group is Attacking a Fellow Democrat
Hans Keirstead, left, and Harley Rouda at a candidate forum in Irvine, California, on May 22, 2018Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. As California’s primary nears, a new ad is attacking one of the Democratic frontrunners seeking to unseat Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher. The spot targeting businessman…
Elizabeth Warren’s Protégée Is Running for Congress in Orange County—and Might Actually Win
Bill Clark/Associated Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Katie Porter was a rookie law professor at the University of Iowa in 2006 when she started asking questions about mortgage fraud. Egged on by a $100 million lobbying campaign from the financial services industry, Congress had recently overhauled federal bankruptcy laws,…
What If We Held a Constitutional Convention and the Right-Wingers Prevailed?
Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Nature’s rights, universal basic income, keeping money out of politics: These are some of the principles guiding a coalition of left-wing Californians who want to serve as the “progressive voice” at a convention—which they believe is inevitable—to amend the United States Constitution.…
Russia’s Campaign to Help Trump Win Was Just the Start
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Former FBI special agent Clint Watts was tracking Islamic State terrorists and their propaganda on Twitter in 2014 when he first encountered a different kind of troll. These accounts weren’t trying to recruit fighters for jihad. They were promoting an…
Ugly Feuds, “Drunken Stupidity,” Paul McCartney, and a Race That Could Flip Congress
Hans Keirstead (left) and Harley Rouda (right), Democratic candidates in California’s 48th district. Mother Jones illustration. Damian Dovarganes/AP; Getty; Chris Pizzello/AP; Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The race for veteran Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher’s Southern California seat is getting nastier as the June 5…