Watch Barack Obama Attack a GOP Senator for Eyeing Social Security Cuts
Former President Barack Obama campaigns for Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and U.S. Senate candidate Mandela Barnes Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, in Milwaukee.Morry Gash/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Barack Obama is campaigning in key battleground states for Democrats ahead of the midterm election. And in…
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s District Is Bluer Than You’d Think
Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene greets supporters at a Bikers for Trump rally in north Georgia, in the state’s 14th District. Robin Rayne/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Deep in northwest Georgia, in what was once a patchwork of forest and farms, sits Paulding…
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…
How Wisconsin Became the GOP’s Laboratory for Dismantling Democracy
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In his snug campaign office in suburban Milwaukee, located in a shopping plaza next to a dentist and an acupuncturist, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers scans the brightly colored maps that hang on the walls. They depict the tortuously shaped…
It’s Nearly Halloween, So Of Course Republicans Are Freaking Out About Drug-Laced Skittles
Conservatives are erroneously warning of fentanyl in Halloween candy.Angela Watts/Getty Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Friday, the Heritage Foundation tweeted a warning to parents: “The cartels are stuffing Skittles bags with deadly fentanyl,” the conservative thinktank wrote. “Happy Halloween from the Biden…
“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…