Lauren Boebert’s Path to Reelection May Be Getting Harder
Rep. Lauren Boebert, right, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene during a press conference in June.Rod Lamkey/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.The path to reelection for Lauren Boebert, the far-right Republican congresswoman from Colorado, could soon become a lot harder. A new…
Armed Picnics and Snipers at Family Dollar: Life in a Town With a Government-Approved Militia
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On a dry, bright afternoon in late June, members of the Bedford Militia lined up on a grassy lot on the property of Bryan Buchanan Auto Auction, right off the county highway in Montvale, Virginia. The group…
Proud Boys Leader Now Says He’s Not Proud of His Crimes
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio during a rally in Portland, Oregon, on September 26, 2020Allison Dinner/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Enrique Tarrio, the swaggering “chairman” of the violent far-right group known as the Proud Boys, says he’s no longer proud of…
We’ve Unmasked the Oath Keepers’ January 6 “Operations Leader”
Oath Keeper leader Michael Simmons, “Person Ten” in a January 6 conspiracy caseMother Jones illustration; Wave 3 News/Facebook; Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.When members of the far-right militia network known as the Oath Keepers stormed the US Capitol on…
Armed Standoffs With the Government, “Uber Militias,” and Ammon Bundy’s Run to Be Idaho’s Next Governor
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.For six years now, Josh Thayer has been at war with his next-door neighbor over the location of their property lines in Salem, a small town in Utah. Thayer has been prosecuted for trespassing and cited for…
Donald Trump’s Parting Gift to Washington Was a Party of Shitposters
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.I’ve seen many things at the Conservative Political Action Conference over the years, including many things I wish I hadn’t. But until Ted Cruz spoke to a ballroom of activists from the…