GOP Secretary of State Candidates Scheduled to Appear with a White Nationalist and Conspiracy Theorists
Mark Finchem, GOP candidate for Arizona secretary of state, attends a conference on conspiracy theories about voting machines and discredited claims about the 2020 presidential election in West Palm Beach, Florida, September 10, 2022. The event featured Republicans running for statewide offices that oversee elections in some of the most important battleground states. Jim Rassol/AP…
US Culture Wars Have Stormed the Hyper-Polarized Brazilian Elections
A supporter of President Jair Bolsonaro confronts a supporter of former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Eraldo Peres/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The first time many Brazilians heard of Nikolas Ferreira was the day the newly elected federal lawmaker received the highest…
JFK Jr.’s Iconic Magazine Is Back From the Dead. You Can Thank QAnon.
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Virtually every one of the 70 or so speakers at Michael Flynn’s ReAwaken America tour last weekend in Manheim, Pennsylvania, had something to sell, and Gene Ho was no exception. There was his book, TRUMPography: How…
How a Big Lie Activist Could Win a Deep Blue Seat in 2022’s Biggest Battleground
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In a deep blue Arizona district, a conservative group is spending big bucks to boost the write-in campaign of a Republican activist who led the push for Arizona’s notorious 2021 election “audit”—without telling voters which…
Paul Pelosi, Husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, “Violently Assaulted” During Break-In
Rod Lamkey/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Paul Pelosi, the husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, was “violently assaulted” during a break-in at the couple’s San Francisco home early Friday morning, according to a statement from the top Democrat’s office. “The assailant is in…
“We Don’t Need a Celebrity”: Herschel Walker Isn’t Everybody’s Hero in His Hometown
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.One hundred and seventeen miles Northwest of Savannah, nestled between fields of cotton and grazing livestock, sits the majority-Black town of Wrightsville, Georgia (population: 3,638). The sleepy southern hamlet is where Curtis Dixon, now 67, taught GOP Senate nominee…