Undocumented Immigrants Can Vote in Some Elections. But ICE Could Keep Them Away.
hermosawave/iStock/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. California has a track record of giving undocumented immigrants certain rights they wouldn’t have in most parts of the country: driver’s licenses, in-state college tuition, and, at least in San Francisco, a chance to vote. But now, that same right to vote, celebrated when…
Trump is Reshaping the Census to Reflect His Vision of America
liveslow/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. President Donald Trump is threatening the 2020 census from every direction: Cutting its budget, scaring immigrants away from answering its questions, and prohibiting the Census Bureau from hiring the best people for the job. While we have to defend this invaluable source of…
“Why the Hell Are We Standing Down?”
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is the second of two excerpts adapted from Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve Books), by Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News, and David Corn, Washington bureau chief of Mother Jones.…
Millions of Americans’ Right to Vote Is at Stake in This Case
Donald Trump meets with Kris Kobach after the 2016 election.Carolyn Kaster/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. In October 2014, Charles Stricker III went to the Department of Motor Vehicles in Wichita, Kansas, to get a new driver’s license and register to vote. Stricker, who’d recently moved back to Wichita from…
Russians Tried to Suppress Minority Turnout, Spread Lies About Voter Fraud
Voters at a polling place in Ellettsville, Indiana, on November 8, 2016. Stringer/Sputnik via AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Russian nationals tried to suppress minority turnout in the 2016 election and spread false claims about voter fraud in an effort to harm Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and help Donald Trump,…
Trump’s Controversial Pick to Run the 2020 Census Withdraws
Mother Jones illustration; Evan Agostini/Invision/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. The Trump administration’s controversial pick to run the 2020 census has withdrawn from consideration to be deputy director of the US Census Bureau, according to sources close to the bureau. In November, Politico reported that the administration planned to put…