Conservative Courts and the Filibuster Are Blocking Heat Protections for Farmworkers
Farm workers clear out hosing which was used to irrigate an okra field on July 13, 2022 near Coachella, California.Mario Tama/Getty In the fertile plains of Washington State’s Yakima Valley, maximum summer temperatures typically approach 90° F, meaning sweaty, potentially dangerous work for the people who harvest the region’s bounty: 77 percent of US-grown hops,…
AIPAC Is Cleaning Up in Democratic Primaries
Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Press Wire Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Michigan Rep. Haley Stevens defeated fellow Democratic Rep. Andy Levin on Tuesday, in a matchup between two incumbents competing in the same district after Michigan lost a seat in redistricting. Levin, the son of former…
Kansas Voters Reject Bid to End Abortion Rights
Calley Malloy, Cassie Woolworth and Dawn Rattan applaud during a primary watch party Tuesday, in Overland Park, Kansas. Kansas voters rejected a ballot measure that would have allowed the Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten restrictions or ban abortion outright.Tammy Ljungblad/The Kansas City Star/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow…
Eric Defeats Eric in a Battle of GOP Election Deniers
On the eve of Missouri’s GOP primary for US Senate, Donald Trump endorsed ‘ERIC’…leaving it to the voter’s imagination which Eric (Eric Greitens, the state’s former governor, left, or Eric Schmitt, the state attorney general) he meant.Mother Jones illustration; Laurie Skrivan/St. Louis Post-Dispatch/ZUMA; Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto/ZUMA; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for…
DOJ Sues Idaho Over Near-Total Abortion Ban
Evelyn Hockstein/Pool/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.The Supreme Court may have upended the right to choose, but the Justice Department is still trying to ensure that women who need abortions in life-threatening emergencies will be able to get them. Today, Attorney General Merrick Garland—who…
A “Poster Child” for Election Deniers Could Run Elections in Arizona
Republican State Rep. Mark FinchemRoss D. Franklin/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Arizona could be gearing up to elect a 2020 election denier to the position responsible for overseeing future elections. Republican State Rep. Mark Finchem is a huge proponent of the lie that former…