An “Idiot Running Around”: An Oath Keeper Talked About Her Role On January 6 in Surprise Testimony
Montgomery County Jail via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday, one of five Oath Keepers on trial for charges that include seditious conspiracy related to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol unexpectedly took the stand in her own defense. Jessica…
Trump Casts a Vote for Further Political Violence, Calling Nancy Pelosi “an Animal”
Trump points to supporters after speaking at a campaign rally in support of Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance at Dayton International Airport on Nov. 7, 2022.Michael Conroy/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Two days after a 42-year-old man broke into the San Francisco home…
Arizona GOP Candidate Mark Finchem Nurtures Ties to Extremists Engaged in Voter Intimidation
Mark Finchem at former President Donald Trump’s Save America rally at the Canyon Moon Ranch in Florence, Arizona.Christopher Brown/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.If Mark Finchem, the Republican candidate for secretary of state in Arizona and a QAnon-friendly election denialist who was recently…
GOP Candidate Mark Finchem’s Lawyer Proposed Fake Elector Votes That “Aren’t Legal”
Mark Finchem, Republican candidate for the Secretary of State of Arizona, attends a conference promoting conspiracy theories about voting machines and discredited claims about the 2020 presidential election at a hotel in West Palm Beach, Fla.Jim Rassol / AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that…
Bolsonaro—the “Trump of the Tropics”—Doesn’t Concede But He Doesn’t Contest the Election Results
Jair Bolsonaro speaks from his official residence of Alvorada Palace in Brasilia. Eraldo Peres/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.After almost 48 hours of a deafening silence, Brazil’s defeated President Jair Bolsonaro addressed the nation in a brief speech that only served to cement…
Trump’s Big Liars Urge Brazil’s Bolsonaro to Refuse to Concede
Mother Jones illustration; David Dee Delgado/Getty, Mateus Bonomi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Top purveyors of former President Donald Trump’s election fraud lies are now calling for Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro to follow Trump’s lead and refuse to admit defeat. “Bolsonaro can’t…