Mystery Group Announces $5 Million Fund to Pay for Reports of Election Fraud. What Could Go Wrong?
David Goldman/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Saturday, Fox News reported the launch of the Fair Election Fund, an apparently right-wing nonprofit that says it has a $5 million budget aimed at exposing election fraud. The project promises to pay election workers, organizers,…
California Police Are Using a Controversial Tactic After Someone Dies in Their Custody
Mourners stand near a memorial for 34-year-old Brandon Lopez on Santa Ana Boulevard during a vigil in Santa Ana, Calif., in 2021. Anaheim police fatally shot Lopez after an hourslong standoff.Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Bruce…
Oil and Gas Production Is Booming. So Are Its GOP Donations.
Representative August Pfluger (R-TX) enters a door at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, March 6, 2024.Graeme Sloan / APFight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. August Pfluger, an Air Force veteran and member of the House, representing a small district in West…
The Weird Story of Ohio Senate Candidate Bernie Moreno’s $3.4 Million Car
Mother Jones; Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP; Maxppp/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.To say the Aston Martin Vulcan is a luxury vehicle would be like saying Jeff Bezos is well-off. In other words, a vast understatement. The two-door, two-seater with a cherry-red carbon-fiber body…
How the Right Turned Protest Into A Criminal Enterprise
A pro Palestinian protester is taken into custody by University of South Florida Police officers during a protest on campus in Tampa. Chris Urso/Tampa Bay Times/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.America’s police forces are at war with college students. Inspired by students who…
I Read Everything Elon Musk Posted for a Week. Send Help.
Mother Jones illustration; Michel Euler/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Last January, not long after agreeing with an actual Nazi that western Jews have brought antisemitism upon themselves by welcoming “hordes of minorities” to their countries, Elon Musk took a quick trip to Poland.…