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…
Funding Fringe Candidates in Republican Primaries Is Still a Terrible Idea
John Gibbs, Doug Mastriano and Don Bolduc.Cory Morse/The Grand Rapids Press/AP; Brian Cahn/Zuma; Reba Saldanha/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Democrats had a plan: Fund the right-wing radicals. For the 2022 midterms, according to numbers compiled by the Washington Post, Democrats spent $19…
DeSantis’ Policies Are Terrible for Moms. He Convinced Them Otherwise.
Mother Jones illustration; Daniel A. Varela/Miami Herald/AP, Ricardo Gomez Angel/Unsplash Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Election Day, the much-hyped red wave didn’t crest quite as high as some polls predicted it would, with Democrats scoring key victories in several states. Yet it was…
The GOP Latina Triple Threat That Wasn’t
Mother Jones illustration; Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AP, Eric Gay/AP; Chris Rusanowsky/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Just a few days before the November midterms, Rep. Mayra Flores (R-Texas) exuded confidence. “If you believe the Dems will hold the House and Senate on Election Tuesday,” tweeted the 34th…