Joe Manchin May Have Just Made Democrats’ Democracy Reform Efforts Impossible
Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin’s unrelenting quest for bipartisanship has claimed its most recent victim: A sweeping voting rights and election reform bill that has…
NAACP Pledges Immediate Lawsuit Over Texas Voter Suppression Bill
Sergio Flores/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Texas already has some of the country’s most restrictive voting laws, and, accordingly, some of the lowest voter turnout. Now, after a dark-of-night political maneuver on the second-to-last day…
Five Ways a Dark Money Group Is Trying to Rig Our Elections
Last week, Mother Jones and the watchdog group Documented broke the story of a top conservative dark money group boasting to donors about writing laws restricting access to the ballot in key battleground states such as Arizona, Georgia, Iowa, and Texas. “In some cases, we actually draft them for them,” Jessica Anderson, the executive director…
Dark Money Group Faces Ethics Probe After Boasting of Drafting Voter Suppression Laws
The conservative dark money group Heritage Action for America is facing a possible ethics investigation in Iowa after Mother Jones reported last week that it had boasted to donors of writing “model legislation” restricting voting access in battleground states across the country, including Iowa. Democrats in the Iowa state House of Representatives filed ethics complaints against…
Newsmax Issues Retraction and Apology for 2020 Election Coverage
Sean Rayford/Getty Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.Newsmax, the far-right news outlet that boosted the Trump campaign’s false claims of 2020 election rigging, admitted on Friday that there was “no evidence” that an executive at Dominion…
Florida Republicans Just Passed a Georgia-Style Voter Suppression Bill
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis appears with Donald Trump at a rally in 2019 in Sunrise, Florida. Brynn Anderson/AP Let our journalists help you make sense of the noise: Subscribe to the Mother Jones Daily newsletter and get a recap of news that matters.In the run-up to the 2020 election, when Donald Trump urged his supporters…