Christian Nationalists Are Closer Than You Think to Running America
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.“You don’t need books!” shouts Pennsylvania state Rep. Stephanie Borowicz, waving a battered Bible. “This is the only book that’s alive and living!” Applause and cries of “amen” float up from the crowd around me.…
JD Vance, Blake Masters, Peter Thiel, and Their Anti-Big Tech Hypocrisy
Senate candidates JD Vance and Blake Masters, and billionaire Peter Thiel.Mother Jones illustration; Drew Angerer/Getty; Christopher Brown/ZUMA; John Lamparski/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.It’s become de rigueur for Republicans—especially Republican candidates—to blast away at Big Tech, assailing it for an assortment of ills,…
Don’t Try Serving Ken Paxton With a Subpoena, Unless You Want to Get Shot
Rod Lamkey/CNP via ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton isn’t just running for a third term while under indictment for securities fraud—he’s running from process servers too. On Monday morning, according to an affidavit filed in federal…
J.D. Vance’s Flip-Flop on the Nazi March in Charlottesville
Joe Maiorana/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The infamous Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017, which was organized by white supremacists and neo-Nazis to celebrate white nationalism and that led to the tragic killing of counter-protester Heather Heyer, became an…
Italy’s New Leader Is a Very Weird, Tolkien-Obsessed Right-Wing Extremist
Italy Photo Press/Zuma Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Early polls out of Italy following its Sunday election suggest that Giorgia Meloni, an ultra-conservative leader known for her opposition to gay rights and immigration, will become its first female prime minister—and the most extreme right-winger…
Ron DeSantis’ Cruel Vineyard Stunt Was Years in the Making
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during a press conference in Miami on September 22. Rebecca Blackwell/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had a problem. For weeks the Republican governors of Texas and Arizona have been bussing and flying asylum-seekers to Democratic-run…