This Organization Backed Kamala Harris in 2003. Now It’s Trying to Change the Face of Politics.
Kamala Harris meets with supporters in front of the 24th street BART station while on the campaign trail running for District Attorney in San Francisco in 2003. Mother Jones; Mike Kepka/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Back in 2003, when Kamala…
One of This Year’s Biggest Abortion Votes Is at Risk
Abortion rights supporters celebrated turning in more than 380,000 signatures to overturn the state’s ban on the procedure in May.Kacen Bayless/The Kansas City Star/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. On Friday night, a Missouri judge handed down a ruling that could threaten voters’…
Kamala Harris Is Winning the Fundraising Race by a Mile
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Vice President Kamala Harris raised $361 million in August—a stunning number on its own, but particularly impressive as it nearly tripled the mere $130 million that Donald Trump raised for the…
Trump and Vance Have No Plan to Fix One of America’s Biggest Crises
Matt York/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Conservative opposition to social safety nets is nothing new. But, as daycare costs continue to soar and the US Surgeon General warns that parents are dangerously overwhelmed, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle appear to…
Trump Asked to Appeal His Defamation Verdict, Then Spent 40 Minutes Insulting His Victims
AP Photo/Stefan Jeremiah Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. I’m no legal expert, but I’ve got a sneaky suspicion that if you’ve just asked a judge to reconsider the verdict in your defamation case, you probably shouldn’t repeat similarly defamatory statements during a press…
Trump Won’t Be Sentenced Until After the Election
Trump at a news conference on September 6, 2024.Stefan Jeremiah/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. The judge in Donald Trump’s New York criminal trial ruled on Friday that he won’t sentence the former president until November 26. Juan Merchan, who Trump has relentlessly…