The Far-Right Pushes a New Conspiracy Theory to Discredit Jack Smith
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We’re in an Epidemic of Right-Wing Terror. Won’t Someone Tell the Press?
In These Times/Shutterstock Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This article first appeared in InTheseTimes magazine’s special issue on the spread of the far Right. “Violence is a part of America’s culture,” the Black Power militant H. Rap Brown once said. ”It is as American…
To Make a Documentary About Abortion, They Had to Fight the Right’s War on Information
Mother Jones; Photos courtesy of Tracy Droz Tragos Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In 2019, when Tracy Droz Tragos started filming Plan C, her new documentary about a network of activists and medical providers helping Americans access abortion pills—which are approved by the FDA…
Mike Johnson’s Long Flirtation With Christian Nationalism
J. Scott Applewhite/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Bruce Parker remembers a time when he used to talk to the new Republican Speaker of the House, Rep. Mike Johnson, several times a week. It was the spring of 2015, just weeks before the Supreme…
How Kevin McCarthy Set Up His Big Fail 14 Years Ago
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On April 15, 2009, Rep. Kevin McCarthy, the California Republican, brought Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, the leader of the House GOP caucus, to a rally in his home town of Bakersfield. It was Tax Day, and in 200…
Wisconsin Republicans Are Taking Desperate Steps to Subvert Fair Elections in 2024
Meagan Wolfe, left, and Janet ProtasiewiczMother Jones illustration; AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Thursday, Republicans in the Wisconsin state senate voted to oust the nonpartisan administrator of the state’s election commission, Meagan Wolfe, in a bid to give election deniers and conspiracy…