The Most Radical Republicans Aren’t in Congress, They’re in the State Houses
Joel Marklund/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Erika Geiss felt a tinge of déjà vu on January 6. She watched in horror and disbelief as thousands of rioters—driven by Trump’s big lie that the 2020 election…
Roger Stone’s Latest Mess: His Oath Keeper Bodyguards Arrested in Capitol Attack
Roger StoneCaroline Brehman/Congressional Quarterly/Zuma Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Roger Stone has an Oath Keeper problem. In recent days the FBI arrested two men, Joshua James, the owner of a cleaning services company in Alabama, and…
Gab’s CEO Courted Prominent Anti-Semites for His Site
Jaap Arriens /Sipa via AP Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Since 2016, when Andrew Torba founded Gab, a Twitter clone that boasts that it “champions free speech,” it has served as a haven for alt-righters,…
Deb Haaland’s First Big Challenge at Interior: Homegrown Extremists
Rep. Deb Haaland, a New Mexico Democrat, is poised to become Secretary of the Interior.Illustration: Deandria Mackey/HuffPost; Photos:Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.This story was originally published by HuffPost and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.…
Republicans Keep Pretending Antifa Is Equivalent to Violent White Supremacists
John Minchillo/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Senators investigating the lack of police preparation that contributed to the January 6 Capitol ransacking by right-wing extremists grilled FBI Director Christopher Wray on Tuesday about the intelligence the…
Oath Keepers Who Guarded Roger Stone Stormed the Capitol
Roger Stone walks through the crowd after he spoke on the steps of the Supreme Court with a man in an “Oath Keepers” hat on January 5, 2021.Ken Cedeno/Sipa USA via AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news…