Trump Is Finally Admitting He Lost the 2020 Election
Trump has taken to saying he lost the 2020 election “by a whisker”…even though it was a lot more than that.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It only took four years, but former President Donald Trump appears to be finally admitting that…
Project 2025 Backers Push Propaganda About the Trump Shooting
Mother Jones; Heritage Foundation; Rebecca Droke/AFP/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Just hours after the assassination attempt against Donald Trump on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania, high-profile allies of the ex-president began promoting unfounded conspiracy theories and blaming President Joe Biden and Democrats,…
How the Right Explains Trump’s Authoritarian Logic to Themselves
Steven Wilson Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Last year, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg unsealed a criminal indictment against former President Donald Trump for 34 counts of falsifying business records. To right-wing pundits, this amounted to a declaration of war—a “legal jihad,” in…
Northwest Coastal Tribes Threatened by Rising Seas Are Drowning—in Paperwork
A storm barrier, the result of an emergency federal project, will prevent winter storms from thrashing the coastal lowlands of the Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe’s lands near Tokeland, Washington. Courtesy of Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe via High Country News This story was originally published by High Country News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Coastal…
How Elon Musk Is Tying His Love for Trump to His Fight in Brazil
Mother Jones illustration; Jordan Strauss∕AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In an alternate universe where you had no access to any source of information beyond Elon Musk’s tweets, it might appear that the owner of Twitter/X is currently fighting a pitched and heroic…
JD Vance Has Yet Another Connection to Project 2025
Turns out Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) has yet another connection to the group behind Project 2025.Maxppp/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Bad news for the Trump campaign: Despite their candidate’s desperation to distance himself from Project 2025, connections keep emerging between Trump, his…