State Republicans Resisted Trump’s Subversion in 2020. We Got Lucky.
Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger.Mother Jones illustration; Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Donald Trump badgered and bullied Republican state officials, threatened them, lied to them, and lied to others about them. He had his chief…
A Republican Stood Up to Trump. So Right-Wingers Smeared Him as a “Pedophile.”
Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers.Mother Jones illustration; Patrick Semansky/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine. Notions of white innocence and victimhood—which oftentimes but not always concentrate on the idealized child and family—are incredibly potent…Those ideas helped propel the (bipartisan) war on…
“There Is Nowhere I Feel Safe”
Mother Jones illustration; Jacquelyn Martin/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.The January 6 committee heard live testimony today from Wandrea “Shaye” Moss, a Georgia election worker who became the target of a vicious harassment campaign fanned by Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani,…
How a Former Transcendental Meditation Devotee Ended Up Funding America’s Wildest Right-Wing Spy Op
Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Nate Martin always thought there was something a little off about the new couple in town. Beau Maier and Sofia LaRocca had shown up in Wyoming in 2019 with thin resumes and few references and quickly…
US Climate Action Could Save Millions of Lives
A solar energy plant in Borrego Springs, California.Stan Sholik/ZUMA Wire This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The rapidly shrinking window of opportunity for the US to pass significant climate legislation will have mortal, as well as political, stakes. Millions of lives around the world will…
Texas Republican Party Enshrines Anti-LGBTQ Hate in Extreme Right-Wing Party Platform
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick poses for photos with supporters during the first day of the Republican Party of Texas convention.Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle/AP Facts matter: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter. Support our nonprofit reporting. Subscribe to our print magazine.Thousands of the Texas Republican party faithful voted yesterday on a state GOP…