We Need to Talk About Herschel Walker’s Controversial Mental Health Diagnosis
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In his 2008 book, Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder, Herschel Walker described 12 alters, or separate identities that used to take over his psyche. There was the “Consoler,” who soothed Walker as he was mocked for…
How Voter Suppression and Gerrymandering by the Texas GOP Derails Environmental Justice
Robin Rayne/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This piece was published originally by Capital & Main. They say everything is bigger in Texas—and that includes the scale and brazenness of voter suppression efforts. The 2020 election saw record turnout in the Lone Star State, an…
The GOP Is Trying to Throw Out Thousands of Votes in Detroit—Again
Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Absentee ballot processing is kicking off today in Michigan, and the Trump-backed candidate running to become the state’s top election official is already trying to throw out tens of thousands votes—specifically in the Democratic stronghold…
Russia Revives Its Botnet to Hit Swing-State Democrats
Contributor/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Russian trolls and bots are coming back online ahead of the midterms—this time, amplifying right-wing vitriol on Gab, Parler, Gettr, and other minor social media platforms serving far-right audiences. Cybersecurity researchers have identified the reactivation of inflammatory accounts linked…
New York City Ballot Measures Promise to “Attack” Institutional Racism. What Does That Actually Mean?
The Racial Justice Commission gathered outside the Office of the City Clerk on December 28, 2021.Photo by Jermaine Clark Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the final days of former mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration, he honored a pledge made in his 2021 State…
NAACP Sues Over Pennsylvania Ballot Issue
Mehmet Oz, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania, speaks at a campaign stop, Friday, Nov. 4, 2022, in Wexford, Pa. AP Photo/Keith Srakocic Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.An already messy battle in Pennsylvania over mail-in ballots stepped up on Friday, with the…