Con Law: How a Fake Document Could Help the Supreme Court Diminish our Democracy
Grace Molteni/Mother Jones; Bettmann/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Three decades after the Constitution was drafted in Philadelphia, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams set about assembling the government’s official Journal of the Convention. Missing from the records was the proposal submitted by Charles…
How Right-Wing Groups Set the Stage for the Supreme Court to Rig Future Elections
Grace Molteni/Mother Jones; Getty; United States Census Bureau Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Wednesday the Supreme Court will hear a bombshell case, Moore v. Harper, that will have enormous ramifications for future elections. The outcome will determine whether state legislatures—many of which are…
Two Election-Denying Secretary of State Candidates May Still Win Their Races
Mother Jones illustration; Justin Sullivan/Getty, Scott Olson/Getty; John Locher/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Democracy was on the ballot in key swing states on Tuesday—and in two states the results are still too close to call. Three election-denying Republicans seeking to run their states…
Vigilantes Are Intimidating Voters and Election Workers. That’s Nothing New in America.
Mother Jones Illustration; Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Billy Wooten has been running elections in Georgia’s Chatham County for about 25 years. First, as a poll worker; then as a trainer for other poll workers; and now as the county’s board of elections…
How Voter Suppression and Gerrymandering by the Texas GOP Derails Environmental Justice
Robin Rayne/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.This piece was published originally by Capital & Main. They say everything is bigger in Texas—and that includes the scale and brazenness of voter suppression efforts. The 2020 election saw record turnout in the Lone Star State, an…
The GOP Is Trying to Throw Out Thousands of Votes in Detroit—Again
Kent Nishimura/Los Angeles Times/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Absentee ballot processing is kicking off today in Michigan, and the Trump-backed candidate running to become the state’s top election official is already trying to throw out tens of thousands votes—specifically in the Democratic stronghold…