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California Secessionists Are Hoping For A Trump Bump

Mother Jones illustration; Viktorcvetkovic/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Adam Ringel felt the stirrings of national pride at an early age. “Ever since was I a kid, I identified as a Californian, not an American,” he recalled as he sat in the back of a café in San Francisco’s Mission…

“I Can’t Wait to Throw Punches at Rohrabacher.”

Democratic candidates challenging Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) at a debate in Irvine last Tuesday.Indivisible OC 48/Jon Barber Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. It was an hour and 40 minutes into a debate between Democratic candidates seeking to unseat Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) last Tuesday night when Harley Rouda laid his…

“Why the Hell Are We Standing Down?”

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is the second of two excerpts adapted from Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve Books), by Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones.…