More Classified Documents Found in a Trump Storage Locker
STRMX2/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Donald Trump is a sordid individual, a man whose free time spans a spectrum of low-brow to debased. So the mere thought of having to rummage through his personal items is downright disgusting to me. But that’s essentially what…
Republicans Want the Supreme Court to “Rewrite History” So They Can Hijack Elections
Mother Jones; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A lawyer for the GOP-controlled North Carolina legislature argued before the Supreme Court on Wednesday that state legislatures should be granted sweeping new powers to pass gerrymandered maps and restrictive voting laws and cannot be constrained…
Raphael Warnock Beats Herschel Walker in Georgia Senate Runoff
Mother Jones illustration; Brynn Anderson/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Democrat Raphael Warnock—the incumbent junior Senator from Georgia, the son of a former sharecropper, and the senior pastor at the church where Martin Luther King Jr. used to preach—has won the runoff election against…
What Musk and Co. Want You To Forget About #TwitterFiles
Elon Musk, shown here in 2020, helped fuel right-wing paranoia with the false claim that the government suppressed an anti-Biden story during the election that year. zz/Wil R/STAR MAX/IPx/APFight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The…
Trump Companies Convicted on All Nine Counts in Criminal Tax Fraud Trial
Mother Jones; Mario Tama/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.A New York City jury has convicted the Trump Organization on criminal tax fraud charges. While former President Donald Trump was not personally on trial, he owned and closely oversaw the two corporate entities at…
Family of Fallen Jan. 6 Officer Snub McCarthy and McConnell at Gold Medal Ceremony
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Tuesday, at a ceremony to commemorate law enforcement officials who responded to the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, several award recipients and their families snubbed the nation’s top Republicans, Kevin McCarthy and Mitch McConnell. Among those…