JD Vance Keeps Doubling Down on Racist Lies About Springfield
JD Vance keeps insisting the debunked racist claims he has helped spread are not, in fact, false.Gage Skidmore/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. JD Vance loves a Sunday morning media blitz. In his latest round of television interviews, it appears he will not…
“Republicans for Harris” Keeps Expanding With the Help of Ex-Reagan Staffers
The Harris campaign manages to continue successfully courting Republicans.Aimee Dilger/SOPA Images/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Just over a month ago, the Harris-Walz ticket launched what it called “a campaign within a campaign”: an initiative called “Republicans for Harris,” aimed at wooing Trump-skeptical…
How JD Vance Unleashed the Racist Backlash Against Haitian Immigrants in Springfield, Ohio
Justin Sullivan/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Monday morning, a friend texted Vilès Dorsainvil to ask if he’d seen the claims circulating on social media. Dorsainvil, the leader of Springfield, Ohio’s Haitian Community Help and Support Center, had not. He quickly saw…
Lynda Carter’s Sister Is Running in a Key Arizona Race. Wonder Woman Is Sounding the Alarm.
Mother Jones illustration; ABC Photo Archives/Disney General Entertainment Content/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Arizona’s fourth legislative district, located in the suburban heart of Maricopa County, might be the ultimate bellwether in the ultimate bellwether state. And this fall, the stakes are impossibly…
No, Noncitizens Are Not Voting in Droves. Trump and Republicans Know It.
Mother Jones; Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times/Getty; Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. At tonight’s debate, former President Donald Trump repeated baseless claims, increasingly popular among Republicans, that there is mass noncitizen voting in the United States. It has been a persistent theme…
Missouri Officials Tried Everything to Keep Abortion Off the Ballot. They Just Lost.
Emily Curiel/The Kansas City Star/Tribune News Service/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Reproductive rights advocates in Missouri have beaten back a last-ditch effort by Republican officials to stop voters from having their say on abortion in November. On Tuesday afternoon, the Missouri Supreme…