GOP Senate Candidate Larry Hogan Says His Democratic Foe Is Awful. He Once Praised Her as “Great.”
Mother Jones; Nathan Howard/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Larry Hogan, the former governor of Maryland, has a tough task. As he now runs for the US Senate, he claims to be a reasonable, non-Trump Republican, hoping to win over Democrats and independents…
The Curious Case of Tim Sheehy’s Gunshot Wound
Mother Jones illustration; Chip Somodevilla/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. There appears to be a bullet lodged in Tim Sheehy’s right forearm. That is not in dispute. But how and when it got there has become the subject of an ongoing mystery that…
Two Dead Women Aren’t Enough for Republicans to Back Lifesaving Abortions
Senate Republicans blocked a resolution to guarantee emergency access to abortion nationwide.John Locher/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Two women who died in Georgia as a result of the state’s post-Dobbs abortion ban are, apparently, not enough to make Republicans agree that all…
GOP Senate Candidate in Nevada Can’t Stop Shifting His Position on Abortion
Mother Jones; Leon Neal/Getty; Ty O’Neil/SOPA/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In June, Sam Brown, the GOP candidate for US Senate in Nevada and longtime abortion opponent, published an op-ed that said that if he were elected and a national abortion ban came…
Bernie Moreno Says He Built His Car Dealer Empire All on His Own. The Reality Is More Complicated.
Mother Jones; Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty; Jean Catuffe/Getty; Wikimedia Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Bernie Moreno’s network of car dealerships is the building block of the Ohio Republican’s campaign for US Senate. Moreno, who is seeking to unseat three-term Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in one…
Climate Deniers Aren’t Mainstream, But Congress Is Rife With Them
From left, Ted Cruz (Texas), Steve Scalise (Louisiana), and August Pfluger (Texas) are all openly hostile to federal climate efforts..Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images This story was originally published by Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. US politics is an outlier bastion of climate denial with nearly one in four members of…