Capitol Riot Charges Against an Infowars Host Could Spell Trouble for Alex Jones
Alex Jones is pictured in court documents charging Infowars host Owen Shroyer with entering a restricted area of the Capitol grounds.Jon Elswick/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Watch out, Alex Jones. The Justice Department on Friday evening charged Owen Shroyer, who hosts…
Threat of Subpoenas for Kevin McCarthy and Jim Jordan Mounts
Bill Clark/ZUMA Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.As Republicans move full steam ahead with their disinformation campaign to completely rewrite the events of January 6, over in the real world, the threat of subpoenas for some of the most high-profile Trump loyalists…
Here’s a Long List of Top Republicans the 1/6 Committee Should Question
John Minchillo/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.On Tuesday morning, the House select committee investigating the insurrectionist January 6 assault on the US Capitol launched its hearings. The panel—which the House Republican caucus boycotted—opened with law enforcement officers who were attacked by…
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…
Republicans Can’t Hide From a Bipartisan January 6 Investigation
Trump supporters storm the US Capitol on January 6.Samuel Corum/Getty Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday, Republican Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania offered a now-familiar complaint about efforts to investigate the January 6 attack…
Two Men Were Just Charged With Planning to Bomb a Democratic Party Building to Avenge Trump
Two men were charged with plotting to bomb this Democratic Party building in California.Rich Pedroncelli/AP Fight disinformation. Get a daily recap of the facts that matter. Sign up for the free Mother Jones newsletter.This winter, two men who wrongly believed that Donald Trump won the 2020 presidential election allegedly concocted an elaborate plan to bomb…