How Brazil’s Far-Right Extremists Learned From Trump Insurrectionists on Parler
Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro during a protest in favor of the government and against the lockdownAndre Borges/NurPhoto/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.The day after Twitter permanently suspended Donald Trump’s official account following the US Capitol…
How a Feud Between 2 Tea Party Leaders Helped Lay the Groundwork for the Capitol Insurrection
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.“Hello, deplorables!” That’s how Amy Kremer greeted the thousands of Trump supporters she had helped gather at the Ellipse in Washington, DC, on January 6 to “stop the steal.” Resplendent onstage…
A “Superhero Pirate” Radio Host Is Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat
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.Randy Economy feels “blessed.” The conservative radio broadcaster and ex-Trump campaign volunteer says he’s spending up to 17 hours per day on what he calls his life’s greatest work: the drive…
Trump Put a Right-Wing Radio Host in Charge of a National Park. Emails Show the Chaos That Ensued.
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.Click the highlighted text for more. Last December 7, Michael Savage kicked off his radio program by railing yet again against the “demonic” and “fascist” governors who had locked down their…
Exclusive Video: Watch Roger Stone’s Oath Keeper Bodyguards Practice Headshots to “#Stopantifa”
Federal prosecutors have charged 10 members of the far-right Oath Keepers with conspiring to storm the US Capitol on January 6 and allege that militia members prepared for the “operation” by “attending or scheduling trainings to learn paramilitary combat tactics.” Video and images reviewed by Mother Jones show that three of the indicted Oath Keepers…
America’s Right-Wing “Patriots” Are Fawning Over the British Monarchy to Own the Libs
Patrick van Katwijk/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.I’m not American. I’m still learning things about this great country. That America fought a big war of independence, however, is not one of them. It’s in the…