A Disturbing Gun Case Further Reveals the Peril of January 6
Capitol Police officers detain protesters outside the House Chamber during a joint session of Congress on January 6, 2021.Drew Angerer/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Last month, the Justice Department unsealed the latest case involving gun charges against an alleged participant in…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Tried to Overturn the Election. Now He’s Going After Roe.
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.It was hardly the keynote slot—before Donald Trump Jr. and Kimberly Guilfoyle, before Eric and Lara Trump, before Rudy Giuliani calling for “trial by combat,” before John Eastman, dressed for some reason like Indiana Jones, and long…
I Compared the New January 6 Texts to Mark Meadows’ Book. It’s Damning.
Patrick Semansky/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Mark Meadows, call your publisher. It seems that Donald Trump’s final White House chief of staff left out some critical information in The Chief’s Chief, his new book chronicling his 10 months as Trump’s number-one…
An Election Conspiracy Theorist Responsible for Circulating Batshit Coup PowerPoint Spoke Several Times with Meadows and the Trump White House: Report
Mark MeadowsTom Williams/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Perhaps it should surprise no one that former President Donald Trump’s scrambling henchmen reviewed a literal, honest-to-god PowerPoint presentation with plans for a coup attempt in early January, as the president’s efforts to retain…
Trump Continues to Glorify the January 6 Insurrection
Still image from a GB News interview with Trump, broadcast December 1, 2021. Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Soon, a year will have passed since thousands of enraged Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol, many of them brutally attacking law enforcement agents,…
Behind the Tweet That Became the Rallying Cry for the Insurrection
Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This article is a collaboration between Mother Jones and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting, which is a nonprofit investigative newsroom. Sign up to get their investigations emailed to you directly. On the evening of Monday, November 2, 2020, the 35-year-old…