Four Years After the Tree of Life Massacre, Trump Continues to Stoke Anti-Immigrant Hate
After the shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue, muslims from Hydrabad place a memorial for one of the victims.Aaron Jackendoff/SOPA/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Four years ago today, a heavily armed man went into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,…
5 Candidates Who Could Help Trump Steal the Presidency
Daniel Zender Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.National elections in the United States are administered by local and state officials. Here are a few candidates sympathetic to Trump’s election fraud claims, who, if they win in November, could help him or another Republican steal…
A Disturbing Number of Americans Endorse Violence to “Stop Voter Fraud” and Return Trump to Power
Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Minden, Nevada, on Oct. 8.Justin Sullivan/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the final weeks before the 2022 midterms, faced with multiple government investigations, Donald Trump has tripled down on a disturbing pattern of incitement. He continues…
The Right-Wing Attack on Public Education Began in One Elite Illinois High School
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One day leading up to winter break, administrators of the predominantly white New Trier Township High School in the wealthy northern Chicago suburbs announced that “Understanding Today’s Struggle for Racial Civil Rights” would be the theme for a school-wide…
7 Ways Roger Stone Was Connected to the January 6 Attack
Mother Jones illustration; Ken Cedeno/Sipa USA/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The night before the January 6 attack on Congress, Roger Stone danced on a stage in Washington’s Freedom Plaza to a rap song featuring his own money-raising slogan: “Roger Stone did nothing wrong.”…
“My Only Regret Is That They Should Have Brought Rifles”
Oath Keepers’s founder Stewart Rhodes at a 2017 event. Susan Walsh/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Justice Department’s case against five members of the Oath Keepers militia group is so extensive that it is expected to take a month lay out. But it is…