Is Tiffany Trump’s Wedding at Risk for a Full Meltdown?
Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Tiffany Trump is so often forgotten among Donald Trump’s adult children. But for one brief Saturday, the former president’s 27-year-old daughter will be the focus of media and family attention as the Trumps gather in Mar-a-Lago for…
Ammon Bundy Led an Armed Standoff With the Government. 100,000 People Still Voted for Him.
Ammon Bundy speaks to a crowd in front of the Ada County Courthouse in downtown Boise. Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman via AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Of all the far-right extremists on the ballot Tuesday, perhaps none had the bona fides of Ammon Bundy.…
Illinois Is Poised to Pass a Huge Win For Workers
Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Illinois workers are on the verge of a historic win: a labor rights amendment to the state constitution that—among other things—would make the state the first to ban so-called “right-to-work laws” throughout its territory. The amendment, on the…
Election Denier Mark Finchem Loses Race for Arizona’s Top Election Post
Mother Jones illustration; Ross D. Franklin/AP; Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Mark Finchem, a Trump-backed “poster child” of election denialism, has lost his bid to become Arizona’s top election official. Even by the current standards of the Republican Party, Finchem is extreme.…
Blake Masters and Peter Thiel Thought They Could Buy an Arizona Senate Seat. They Were Wrong.
Mother Jones illustration; Mario Tama/Getty; Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.During his days as a Stanford libertarian, Blake Masters was nothing if not principled. The 36-year-old Peter Thiel protégé turned Arizona Republican Senate candidate considered voting morally indefensible, taxation theft, and nationalism a…
Republicans Hoped a “Crime Wave” Was Their Ticket to a Red Wave. It Wasn’t.
Mother Jones illustration; Maria Lysenko/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Leading up to the election, Republicans relentlessly blasted voters with campaign ads about crime, offering them brutal images of shootings and assaults and suggesting that if progressives got their way, murderers would run rampant…