The GOP’s Plan for Attracting Young Voters Is the Same As Its Plan for Attracting Old Voters
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Senior Pastor Steve Riggle had some advice for the hundreds of young conservatives who had gathered at Grace Woodlands Church outside of Houston in September, as part of the fourth annual Texas Youth Summit: “You…
5 Candidates Who Could Help Trump Steal the Presidency
Daniel Zender Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.National elections in the United States are administered by local and state officials. Here are a few candidates sympathetic to Trump’s election fraud claims, who, if they win in November, could help him or another Republican steal…
“I Don’t Care If It Costs Me the Next Election. I’m Going to Do What’s Right.”
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Because it is a Tuesday, Gisele Fetterman is working her usual shift at the Free Store she established 10 years ago in a repurposed and festively painted shipping container, where residents of Braddock, Pennsylvania can pick up no-cost food,…
“There Should Be Consequences for People Who Undermine Our Democracy and Peddle the Big Lie”
Nevada Republican Senate candidate Adam Laxalt and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto. John Locher; Jacquelyn Martin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The day before early voting started in the battleground state of Nevada, Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto surrounded herself with Republicans and called out her…
An Appeals Court Has Temporarily Paused Biden’s Student Debt Relief Plan
President Joe Biden speaks about student loan debt relief at Delaware State. Evan Vucci/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday, a federal appeals court issued a stay temporarily pausing the sweeping student debt relief plan President Joe Biden announced in August. The Eighth…
A Group of Former Trump Aides Is Behind Racist and False Anti-Immigrant Ads
Former adviser to former President Donald Trump, Stephen Miller. Joel Martinez/The Monitor/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Baseball fans in California and Pennsylvania watching the playoffs last Saturday had to sit through commercial breaks that included racist, xenophobic ads filled with misleading and false…