J.D. Vance Supported Using the Comstock Act to Criminalize “Mail-Order Abortions”
Sen. J.D. Vance has recently claimed he believes mifepristone should be accessible—but new reporting shows that just a year ago, he was one of more than 40 Republican lawmakers who thought the opposite.Maxppp/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When former President Trump announced…
Why It Took Seven Years to Get One Statistic About Guns
Mother Jones illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. It took seven long years to pry one staggering number from the hands of the federal government: that 52,529 weapons once owned by police were recovered at crime scenes across the country from 2006…
It Doesn’t Take a Conspiracy Theory to Explain Law Enforcement Incompetence
Nate Gowdy/Mother Jones Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. A notable trend over the last few years has been the Republican discovery of jail. I don’t just mean that a lot of Republicans have simply ended up there, although a number of them have.…
Donald Trump Was Peter Thiel’s Most Successful Investment
Carolyn Kaster/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. In 2004, Peter Thiel invested $500,000 in Facebook, money that quickly gave way to an unthinkable fortune for the right-wing billionaire. But it turns out that it was Thiel’s donation to Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign—and his…
Here’s the Latest Example of How Conservatives Have Gamed State Supreme Courts to Restrict Abortion
Abortion-rights protesters wave signs and cheer at a rally in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2022.Charlie Neibergall/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. When the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that abortion was a fundamental right to be protected under the most stringent level…
Megadonors Are Showering Donald Trump & Co With Cash
Mother Jones; Andrew Rice/Unsplash; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. Campaign finance disclosures are made public too ridiculously slowly to be of much use for real-time political analysis, but they do reveal some general trends in terms of who supports whom, and how…