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Why Did Trump Really Win? It’s Simple, Actually. In the coming ...

2024-11-07T19:33:40Z

Why Did Trump Really Win? It’s Simple, Actually.

In the coming days, you will hear every imaginable take on why Americans voted to put Donald Trump back in office. Pundits will say toxic masculinity was to blame—and men feeling usurped by women. They’ll say it was the Christian nationalism movement. A surprising shift in Latino voting patterns. Sexism. Racism. Transphobia.... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/why-donald-trump-won-election-white-house/?utm_source=press.coop

Biden and Harris Do What Trump Refused: Support a Peaceful ...

2024-11-07T19:33:40Z

Biden and Harris Do What Trump Refused: Support a Peaceful Transfer of Power

Since Donald Trump won reelection, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have both done what the now-president-elect and his fellow Republicans refused to do in 2020: publicly accept loss and advocate for a peaceful transition of power. In a Thursday morning speech outside the White... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/biden-harris-peaceful-transfer-of-power/?utm_source=press.coop

How Trump Plans to Upend Immigration In January, former President ...

2024-11-07T17:55:21Z

How Trump Plans to Upend Immigration

In January, former President Donald Trump will reclaim the White House after years of vowing to unleash an unprecedented overhaul of the immigration system in the United States. With mass deportation as a central promise of his campaign, Trump will undoubtedly build on the sweeping crackdown that... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/how-trump-will-change-immigration-migration-mass-deportation-muslim-ban-tps-daca/?utm_source=press.coop

Donald Trump “Will Take a Wrecking Ball to Global Climate ...

2024-11-07T11:48:27Z

Donald Trump “Will Take a Wrecking Ball to Global Climate Diplomacy”

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump’s new term as US president poses a grave threat to the planet if it blows up the international effort to curb dangerous global heating, stunned climate... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/donald-trump-victory-global-climate-diplomacy-paris-agreement/?utm_source=press.coop

How Donald Trump Won the White House, Again Donald Trump’s ...

2024-11-07T02:23:48Z

How Donald Trump Won the White House, Again

Donald Trump’s return to the White House follows one of the most tumultuous election years in modern U.S. history: one that included an incumbent president dropping his reelection bid, Vice President Kamala Harris thrust into contention a few short months before Election Day, and two attempts on Trump’s life. Harris was unable to... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/how-donald-trump-won-the-white-house-again/?utm_source=press.coop

Insurrectionists Are Lining Up for the Pardons Trump Has Promised ...

2024-11-06T23:58:26Z

Insurrectionists Are Lining Up for the Pardons Trump Has Promised to Dispense

More than 1,500 people charged with or convicted of crimes related to the January 6, 2021, attack on Congress are now presumably hoping to win pardons and commutations that the now president-elect has repeatedly, if vaguely, promised to give many of them. And they... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/insurrectionists-are-lining-up-for-the-pardons-trump-has-promised-to-dispense/?utm_source=press.coop

Florida’s Abortion Rights Amendment Just Failed Florida’s ...

2024-11-06T03:53:10Z

Florida’s Abortion Rights Amendment Just Failed

Florida’s six-week abortion ban will remain the law of the land, as an abortion rights constitutional amendment failed Tuesday night. With 91 percent of the vote tallied as of 9:20 p.m., support for Florida’s Amendment 4 hovered around 57 percent, according to Associated Press projections—shy of the 60 percent threshold... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/floridas-abortion-rights-amendment-just-failed/?utm_source=press.coop

New Yorkers Just Created the Most Extensive Anti-Discrimination ...

2024-11-06T03:53:10Z

New Yorkers Just Created the Most Extensive Anti-Discrimination Protections in the US

In a victory for abortion rights advocates, New Yorkers just voted to enshrine extensive anti-discrimination protections into their state constitution—permanently insulating the rights of pregnant people, abortion seekers, and the LGBTQ community,... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/new-yorkers-just-created-the-most-extensive-anti-discrimination-protections-in-the-us/?utm_source=press.coop

Why the New York Times Needle Might Break Tonight As the sun set ...

2024-11-06T03:53:10Z

Why the New York Times Needle Might Break Tonight

As the sun set over the New York Times building on election night, the Times Tech Guild—the union of workers that power the infrastructure for the company’s news, games, and cooking—closed out their second day on the picket line. Their strike, an attempt to push for a deal they’ve negotiated for over two years, might […] #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/why-the-new-york-times-needle-might-break-tonight/?utm_source=press.coop

Long Lines, Closed Polls, and Water Bans—But Disabled Voters ...

2024-11-06T03:53:10Z

Long Lines, Closed Polls, and Water Bans—But Disabled Voters Are Turning Out

In the days and weeks after the 2020 election, more than 65,000 mail-in ballots were rejected for arriving too late—and given how much is at stake in 2024’s races, nationally and at the state level, it makes sense that American voters would do just about anything to make sure their vote gets counted. For... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/disabled-voter-lines-polls-election/?utm_source=press.coop

The Front Row Joes Ponder What May Be Their Last Trump Rally No ...

2024-11-06T03:53:10Z

The Front Row Joes Ponder What May Be Their Last Trump Rally

No matter the outcome, Election Night this year is bittersweet for one particular group of former President Donald Trump’s supporters: The most dedicated of Trump superfans known as the Front Row Joes. There are about 1,500 of them from all across the country, and they got their start with Trump... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/the-front-row-joes-ponder-what-may-be-their-last-trump-rally/?utm_source=press.coop

Questionable Signature Matching Could Disqualify Thousands of ...

2024-11-06T01:44:49Z

Questionable Signature Matching Could Disqualify Thousands of Nevada Voters

Nevada’s secretary of state, the New York Times’ Danny Hakim reports, is concerned about the large numbers of absentee ballots getting rejected in the state’s most populous counties because of signature mismatches—potentially enough ballots to change election results. From the Times: More... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/nevada-voter-signature-matching-election-forensics/?utm_source=press.coop

In Scathing Call, Trump-Appointed Judge Rejects Georgia GOP’s ...

2024-11-06T01:44:49Z

In Scathing Call, Trump-Appointed Judge Rejects Georgia GOP’s Bogus Election Lawsuit

A Trump-appointed federal judge on Tuesday harshly rejected an eleventh-hour bid from the Republican National Committee and the Georgia Republican Party that sought to force seven historically Democratic counties in the swing state to stop accepting absentee ballots returned after... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/georgia-republicans-lawsuit-rejected-absentee-ballots/?utm_source=press.coop

Abortion Foes Are Routing Millions of Dollars Through Obscure ...

2024-11-05T18:53:42Z

Abortion Foes Are Routing Millions of Dollars Through Obscure Local Candidates

This story was produced in partnership with the National Catholic Reporter. Millions of dollars in last-minute money is pouring into the battle over a pair of abortion-related ballot measures in Nebraska, and it is coming through an unusual and circuitous route. Much of that cash is being spent... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/nebraska-abortion-ballot-initiative-spending/?utm_source=press.coop

He Won Asylum in the United States. He Fears Trump Will Send Him ...

2024-11-05T18:53:42Z

He Won Asylum in the United States. He Fears Trump Will Send Him Back.

In 2016, Andrés García fled anti-LGBQT+ violence in his native El Salvador. Until a few years ago, he lived in Virginia without papers. Then, he got flagged by the police over a minor infraction and transferred to the custody of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement. He spent a year in ICE detention. In July... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/trump-wins-asylum-send-him-back-garcia/?utm_source=press.coop

The Men Who Swallowed Everything Something unusual happened the ...

2024-11-05T18:53:42Z

The Men Who Swallowed Everything

Something unusual happened the other week, when podcasting megastar Joe Rogan sat down with Ohio Senator and Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance. In the midst of a conversation about abortion, Vance claimed that liberal women publicly celebrate terminating their pregnancies with elaborate displays on social media: “They’re baking birthday... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/the-men-who-swallowed-everything/?utm_source=press.coop

What the “Most Anti-LGBTQ” Election in Decades Means for ...

2024-11-05T12:22:39Z

What the “Most Anti-LGBTQ” Election in Decades Means for Trans People

In the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election, GOP consultants were fighting over strategy: Would going all-in on anti-trans messaging deliver then-President Donald Trump the suburbs in his race against former Vice President Joe Biden? Or should his campaign stay away from the issue, given widespread... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/harris-trump-trans-rights-election-lgbtq/?utm_source=press.coop

Watch: Trump’s Most Loyal Fans Say They’ll Refuse to Accept a ...

2024-11-05T05:08:29Z

Watch: Trump’s Most Loyal Fans Say They’ll Refuse to Accept a Loss—No Matter What

On the eve of Election Day, our DC bureau chief, David Corn, traveled to Reading, Pennsylvania, to speak with diehard Donald Trump supporters at what might be one of the final campaign rallies of his political career. Held in a half-filled Santander Arena, this rally marked one of... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/trump-rally-pittsburgh-pennsylvania-big-lie-jan-6/?utm_source=press.coop

The Activist Who Accused Pennsylvania Nuns of Voter Fraud Adds a ...

2024-11-04T23:26:29Z

The Activist Who Accused Pennsylvania Nuns of Voter Fraud Adds a New Allegation

Cliff Maloney is the founder of Pennsylvania Chase, a door-knocking, “ballot chasing” operation meant to encourage conservative voters in that crucial swing state to return mail-in ballots. The 32-year-old is also, of late, the face of a particularly bumbling public attempt to root out supposed illegal... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/erie-nuns-voter-fraud-cliff-maloney/?utm_source=press.coop

Justice Alito Has Already Set the Stage for a Supreme Court ...

2024-11-04T23:26:29Z

Justice Alito Has Already Set the Stage for a Supreme Court Election Showdown

On Friday evening, just as reporters were logging off, the Supreme Court let slip a clue about whether it would take up cases that could determine the outcome of a close election in the coming weeks. Specifically, the hint came in a statement from Justice Samuel... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/justice-alito-has-already-set-the-stage-for-a-supreme-court-election-showdown/?utm_source=press.coop

Why an Alaskan Talking a Lot About Fish Could Win Democrats Back ...

2024-11-04T23:26:29Z

Why an Alaskan Talking a Lot About Fish Could Win Democrats Back the House

This year, America’s largest state is primed to play a key role in deciding who controls the House of Representatives. Incumbent Mary Peltola (D-Alaska)—the state’s first Native woman elected to Congress and the first Democratic representative in 50 years—will defend her seat in... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/peltola-alaska-house-democrats-2024-election-fish-family-freedom/?utm_source=press.coop

Iowa’s Surprising Poll Is About Abortion—But Also the ...

2024-11-04T23:26:29Z

Iowa’s Surprising Poll Is About Abortion—But Also the State’s GOP Power Grab

J. Ann Selzer has earned several nicknames throughout her 37-year-long stint leading the Des Moines Register’s Iowa Poll. She’s called the “Outlier Queen” when she breaks from what appears to be the consensus of political polls. And when her final pre-election polls... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/iowas-surprising-poll-is-about-abortion-but-also-the-states-gop-power-grab/?utm_source=press.coop

How a Drastic Drop in Latino Support in California Could Cost ...

2024-11-04T21:32:12Z

How a Drastic Drop in Latino Support in California Could Cost Democrats the House

Keyes, California, is not the typical town in which a Republican spends the precious final days of a close campaign. It is a working-class community of less than 6,000 between Merced and Modesto where about two-thirds of people are Latino and six percent of residents have a... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/california-house-races-democrat-flip-duarte-gray-latino-vote/?utm_source=press.coop

Elon Musk’s $1 Million Voter Sweepstakes Is Already in Legal ...

2024-11-04T21:32:12Z

Elon Musk’s $1 Million Voter Sweepstakes Is Already in Legal Peril

Voters in swing states who received notice of a $1 million check from Elon Musk should know two things: Simple luck is not how this happened—and you are now on the hook to be an official spokesperson for Musk’s America super PAC. That’s according to a lawyer for the tech billionaire, who acknowledged in court […] #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/elon-musk-1-million-giveaway-not-random/?utm_source=press.coop

Trump Says He’d Be OK With Someone Shooting Through a Crowd of ...

2024-11-03T21:44:48Z

Trump Says He’d Be OK With Someone Shooting Through a Crowd of Journalists

Yes, you read that headline right. At a rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday, Donald Trump said he would be OK with someone trying to assassinate him by firing through a group of journalists. “To get me, somebody would have to shoot through the fake news. And I don’t mind... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/trump-says-hed-be-ok-with-someone-shooting-through-a-crowd-of-journalists/?utm_source=press.coop

Trump Is Preparing to Give RFK Jr. a Starring Role in His ...

2024-11-03T19:33:25Z

Trump Is Preparing to Give RFK Jr. a Starring Role in His Administration

On Sunday morning, Donald Trump made something crystal clear: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is “going to have a big role in the administration” if he wins. And some of RFK Jr.’s wildest ideas—including banning certain vaccines and removing fluoride from drinking water—could be on... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/trump-is-preparing-to-give-rfk-jr-a-starring-role-in-his-administration/?utm_source=press.coop

New York Times Tech Workers Threaten Election Day Strike With two ...

2024-11-03T19:33:25Z

New York Times Tech Workers Threaten Election Day Strike

With two days until Election Day, the New York Times is confronting a potential crisis: The army of tech workers who keep its digital platforms running is threatening to go on strike. Nearly 700 members of the newspaper’s Tech Guild—which represents the workers who power the famous election needle, mobile... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/new-york-times-tech-workers-threaten-election-day-strike/?utm_source=press.coop

How Ken Paxton Built the Foundation for the New Big Lie It ...

2024-11-03T12:14:16Z

How Ken Paxton Built the Foundation for the New Big Lie

It started, according to court filings, with a tweet. On August 18, Maria Bartiromo, the Fox News Host, alerted her 1.4 million followers on X to a development that might not, at first glance, seem like news: She was hearing troubling reports of lines at the DMV. The information had... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/ken-paxton-texas-attorney-general-built-the-foundation-for-the-new-big-lie-trump/?utm_source=press.coop

Trump’s Long Legacy of Inciting Violence It was no surprise. ...

2024-11-03T12:14:16Z

Trump’s Long Legacy of Inciting Violence

It was no surprise. Instead, call it the October reveal. In the final days of the 2024 election, ugly rhetoric from Donald Trump’s campaign drew major national attention when a speaker made a racist joke about Puerto Rico as part of the ex-president’s Oct. 27 rally at Madison Square Garden. The event was an... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/trump-incitement-violence-great-replacement-puerto-rico-migrants/?utm_source=press.coop

Private Calls and Campaign Cash: Louisiana Regulators’ Ties to ...

2024-11-03T12:14:15Z

Private Calls and Campaign Cash: Louisiana Regulators’ Ties to the Utilities They Oversee

This story was reported by Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powerful interests stalling climate action. This past April, days before a Louisiana Public Service Commission (PSC) meeting at a remote lakefront resort, the... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/louisiana-public-service-commission-campaign-contributions-utility-fossil-fuel-influence/?utm_source=press.coop

Did Donald Trump Just Thank God for a Hurricane Costing Americans ...

2024-11-02T22:26:52Z

Did Donald Trump Just Thank God for a Hurricane Costing Americans Jobs?

At a rally Saturday in Gastonia, North Carolina, Donald Trump thanked God for an October jobs report that showed a slow-down in job growth due in part to the recent hurricane that decimated the western part of the state. “How good was that?” Trump asked the crowd. “To get those numbers four days before the […] #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/trump-job-report-hurricane-helene-doom/?utm_source=press.coop

The 2024 Election: A Contest Between Reality TV and Reality After ...

2024-11-02T14:25:37Z

The 2024 Election: A Contest Between Reality TV and Reality

After all shouting and debating, all the billions in ads, and all the fury, the 2024 election will determine whether this nation remains committed to its imperfect democracy or slides toward fascism, whether the politics of hate, grievance, paranoia, fear, and racism triumphs or those of community and inclusion,... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/2024-election-trump-harris-reality-tv-contest/?utm_source=press.coop

Watch Fox News Melt Down Over Wives Voting Independently The idea ...

2024-11-02T14:25:37Z

Watch Fox News Melt Down Over Wives Voting Independently

The idea that women might vote differently from their husbands made Fox News star Jesse Watters’ brain melt live on air this week. Referring to his current wife, Watters, with his trademark smirk, told his colleagues on The Five, “If I found out Emma was going into the voting booth and pulling the lever for […] #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/fox-news-jesse-watters-kat-abughazaleh-video/?utm_source=press.coop

I’ve Served Time in “Club Fed.” Here’s Some Advice for ...

2024-11-02T11:27:07Z

I’ve Served Time in “Club Fed.” Here’s Some Advice for Trump If He Loses.

I never paid much attention to America’s criminal justice system until I, unexpectedly, got into serious trouble. Being labeled a criminal felt to me as unlikely as someone finding Kool-Aid on Jupiter. I was the rarest of things, an honest dealer among the myriad elegant sharks... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/ive-served-time-in-club-fed-heres-some-advice-for-trump-if-he-loses/?utm_source=press.coop

Trump Promises to Prosecute His Enemies if Elected. The Media Is ...

2024-11-01T19:23:30Z

Trump Promises to Prosecute His Enemies if Elected. The Media Is Already Getting a Taste.

Donald Trump has promised to prosecute his political opponents should he retake the White House. He’s planned to remove the firewall that has traditionally existed between the White House and the Justice Department, and harness federal prosecutors into political dirty work. But Trump isn’t waiting... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/donald-trump-media-lawsuit-cbs/?utm_source=press.coop

Video Showing “Haitian Immigrants” Illegally Voting Was Faked ...

2024-11-01T19:23:30Z

Video Showing “Haitian Immigrants” Illegally Voting Was Faked By Russian Disinformation Unit, US Says

A video purporting to show recently arrived Haitian immigrants illegally voting in Georgia for Kamala Harris was produced by a Russian government-backed disinformation unit, according to US authorities. Three agencies—the FBI, the Cybersecurity and... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/russian-disinformation-haitian-immigrants-illegal-voting/?utm_source=press.coop

How Harris Could Go Beyond Roe The contrast between the ...

2024-11-01T19:23:30Z

How Harris Could Go Beyond Roe

The contrast between the intentions of former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris on reproductive rights could not be clearer—no matter how much Trump tries to suggest otherwise. Trump appointed three of the five Supreme Court justices who overruled Roe v. Wade and has famously flip-flopped on his stances on abortion. Back in... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/harris-roe-dobbs-congress-scotus-abortion/?utm_source=press.coop

Climate Chaos Will Define the Next Presidency If Kamala Harris is ...

2024-11-01T19:23:30Z

Climate Chaos Will Define the Next Presidency

If Kamala Harris is elected, we’re in for a climate catastrophe. As she swears the oath of office, we’ll find ourselves facing a magnitude of climate chaos and ecological unraveling never before experienced by humanity. We can say that with confidence, because we’re in that crisis now, already. We just don’t talk about it all […] #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/climate-change-trump-harris-election-2024/?utm_source=press.coop

Musk Gave $1 Million to the PAC of QAnon Promoter Who Allegedly ...

2024-11-01T17:49:16Z

Musk Gave $1 Million to the PAC of QAnon Promoter Who Allegedly Photographed Sex in GOP Office

In August, former President Donald Trump called the billionaire Elon Musk “a super genius guy.” That “super genius” and his new America PAC have now taken over much of the Trump campaign’s swing-state ground game in the final weeks before the election. Since... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/elon-musk-scott-pressler-1-million-pennsylvania-gotv-effort/?utm_source=press.coop

The Energy Culture War Is on the Ballot in One of America’s ...

2024-11-01T10:43:11Z

The Energy Culture War Is on the Ballot in One of America’s Greenest States

In the last five years, as the movement to ditch gas-fueled stoves and heaters has spread across the country—it’s also ignited a backlash. In 2019, Berkeley, California, became the first American city to ban gas hookups in new buildings, a rule intended to reduce carbon... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/washington-ballot-initiative-2066-energy-gas-building-electrification/?utm_source=press.coop

When Trump Told the Russians He Didn’t Care That They’d ...

2024-11-01T10:43:11Z

When Trump Told the Russians He Didn’t Care That They’d Attacked a US Election

On May 10, 2017, President Donald Trump hosted two special guests in the Oval Office: Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. The meeting was curious. It was closed to American media. No American journalists were... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/when-trump-told-the-russians-he-didnt-care-that-theyd-attacked-a-us-election/?utm_source=press.coop

Noncitizen Voting Is Illegal. Here Are the States Trying to Ban ...

2024-11-01T10:43:11Z

Noncitizen Voting Is Illegal. Here Are the States Trying to Ban It Anyway.

This election cycle, voters in some states will be presented with a confusing question when they cast their ballot: whether to make noncitizen voting—which is already illegal—illegal. As many as eight states have a ballot measure to amend their constitution to make voting for citizens only:... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/11/noncitizen-voting-ballot-measures-list-election-2024/?utm_source=press.coop

Louisiana Sued Over Law Classifying Abortion Pills as ...

2024-11-01T01:53:46Z

Louisiana Sued Over Law Classifying Abortion Pills as “Controlled Substances”

Earlier this month, Louisiana became the first state in the country to classify the two most common drugs used in medication abortions, mifepristone and misoprostol, as Schedule IV controlled substances, creating stiff penalties for their unauthorized use. Medical providers sounded alarms when the... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/louisiana-sued-abortion-pills-drugs/?utm_source=press.coop

What Would the Future of Birth Control Be Under Trump? Ask Texas. ...

2024-10-31T16:58:20Z

What Would the Future of Birth Control Be Under Trump? Ask Texas.

When Wendy Davis wanted to get birth control as a teenager in the 1980s, she went to her local Planned Parenthood in Fort Worth, Texas, with a friend. “There is absolutely no way I would have asked my mother for her permission to do that,” says Davis, the former Texas state senator who... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/what-would-the-future-of-birth-control-be-under-trump-ask-texas/?utm_source=press.coop

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” Draws ...

2024-10-30T13:44:57Z

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “Make America Healthy Again” Draws Wellness Influencers to MAGA

“Don’t you want a president who’s going to make America healthy again?” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked a roaring crowd, during Sunday’s triumphal rally in support of Trump at Madison Square Garden. When Kennedy, the country’s most famous anti-vaccine activist, suspended his... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/robert-kennedy-donald-trump-make-america-healthy-again/?utm_source=press.coop

Colorado Voters Could Help Victims of Domestic and Sexual ...

2024-10-29T19:26:01Z

Colorado Voters Could Help Victims of Domestic and Sexual Violence

When Monica Duran, the Democratic majority leader in Colorado’s House of Representatives, was 19 years old, she escaped domestic abuse with her young son and did what many survivors try to do: She fled to a shelter and sought counseling. “For so long, you hear that you are worthless,”... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/colorado-voters-could-help-victims-of-domestic-and-sexual-violence/?utm_source=press.coop

My Warning to Black Voters Who Want to Stay Home This Election ...

2024-10-29T19:26:01Z

My Warning to Black Voters Who Want to Stay Home This Election

Genuine question: Do influential white people routinely tell members of the white community to not vote? Every four years, it seems like noteworthy figures within the Black community repeat a familiar refrain: Black voters should withhold their vote to prove a point. In 2020, it was musician Ice Cube, and in 2024,... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/black-voters-project-2025-trump-kamala/?utm_source=press.coop

Voting Can Be Hard for College Students. It’s Even Harder After ...

2024-10-28T10:22:46Z

Voting Can Be Hard for College Students. It’s Even Harder After a Hurricane.

In August, political science professor Ashley Moraguez started the fall semester at the University of North Carolina Asheville with “grand plans” for engaging students on electoral politics. As the director of UNC Asheville Votes, a nonpartisan student-run group, Moraguez planned... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/north-carolina-asheville-votes-college-gotv-hurricane-helene/?utm_source=press.coop

Arizona’s Future Hinges on Water, so Why Isn’t It a Big ...

2024-10-28T10:22:46Z

Arizona’s Future Hinges on Water, so Why Isn’t It a Big Campaign Issue?

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The morning temperature is nearing 100 degrees Fahrenheit as Keith Seaman sweats beneath his bucket hat, walking door to door through the cookie-cutter blocks of a subdivision in... #press

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Virginia’s Obviously Illegal Voter Purge Was Illegal, Court ...

2024-10-26T01:44:34Z

Virginia’s Obviously Illegal Voter Purge Was Illegal, Court Rules

On Friday, a Virginia judge ruled that Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s recent purge of close to two thousand voters from state rolls—within 90 days of November’s election—was illegal. Now, with that election less than two weeks away, the state must reinstate all 1,600 revoked registrations. Fourth Circuit... #press

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Flashback: Trump Didn’t Care About Immigration Rules When He ...

2024-10-25T21:31:55Z

Flashback: Trump Didn’t Care About Immigration Rules When He Ran a Top Modeling Firm

This week, The Guardian published a pre-election bombshell alleging that Donald Trump sexually assaulted a model in 1993—the latest in a string of dozens of similar accusations dating back decades. Stacey Williams, now 56, claims that Trump groped her during a visit to Trump Tower, in... #press

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Nevada Canvassers Grapple With Extreme Heat as They Work to ...

2024-10-25T10:43:07Z

Nevada Canvassers Grapple With Extreme Heat as They Work to Mobilize Voters

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. By now, the canvassers at Make the Road Nevada know how to prepare themselves for the record-breaking heat. Members of the progressive group—which focuses on... #press

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Elon Musk’s New “Election Integrity Community” Is Already ...

2024-10-22T22:31:43Z

Elon Musk’s New “Election Integrity Community” Is Already Full of Lies

Over the past few months, Elon Musk has seemingly done everything in his power to get former President Donald Trump reelected. On Monday, he debuted another effort: X added a purported “Election Integrity Community”—a feed where users of the site can add instances “of voter fraud or irregularities you... #press

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Donald Trump Abused His Pardon Power. He’s Promising to Do It ...

2024-10-22T10:52:56Z

Donald Trump Abused His Pardon Power. He’s Promising to Do It Again.

Steve Bannon was indicted in 2020 for allegedly helping defraud Donald Trump fans who donated to a nonprofit that promised to privately fund a border wall. The other defendants in the plot went to prison. But in the final hours of his presidency, Trump pardoned Bannon, reportedly over the objections of... #press

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I’m Fed Up With the Obsession Over Polls The below article ...

2024-10-22T10:52:56Z

I’m Fed Up With the Obsession Over Polls

The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. Walking my dog. On the Metro. In... #press

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Candidates’ Support for Fracking Infuriates These Rural ...

2024-10-22T10:52:56Z

Candidates’ Support for Fracking Infuriates These Rural Pennsylvanians

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Fracking has burst back on to the national stage in the presidential election contest for the must-win swing state of Pennsylvania. But... #press

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This Climate Author Wrote a Hurricane Into His New Novel. Then He ...

2024-10-22T10:52:56Z

This Climate Author Wrote a Hurricane Into His New Novel. Then He Had to Flee From One.

Jeff VanderMeer insists that he does not predict the future. Yet mere weeks before his new novel, Absolution, hit shelves, Hurricane Helene tore through the part of Florida where he lives, sharing an uncanny likeness to the fictional hurricane in his book.... #press

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Hundreds of Doctors Are Demanding Trump’s Health Records After ...

2024-10-22T00:00:12Z

Hundreds of Doctors Are Demanding Trump’s Health Records

After former President Donald Trump’s very weird week, more than 400 doctors and health professionals are questioning his mental and physical fitness to serve, and calling for him to release his medical records. The development—which Mother Jones is the first to report—comes about a week after the group Doctors for... #press

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The GOP Is Recruiting An “Army” to Monitor the Vote Two weeks ...

2024-10-21T19:57:33Z

The GOP Is Recruiting An “Army” to Monitor the Vote

Two weeks from Tuesday, millions of voters across the country will fan out to polling places. And when they do, there will reportedly be a GOP-backed, 200,000-strong army of volunteers watching them. Their task? “Establish the battlefield” to challenge the results of the election, should former president Donald Trump... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/gop-rnc-poll-watchers-republican-election-army/?utm_source=press.coop

Pro-Trump Ad Touting American Workers Uses Photos of Workers ...

2024-10-19T10:55:11Z

Pro-Trump Ad Touting American Workers Uses Photos of Workers Overseas

Right for America, a super PAC financed by a handful of billionaires that supports Donald Trump, recently released an ad that promotes Trump’s various tax proposals and celebrates American workers, particularly those who put in overtime. It’s full of photos and videos supposedly... #press

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“Hello, I’m Don Barlett and I Liked Your Story.” For more ...

2024-10-19T10:55:11Z

“Hello, I’m Don Barlett and I Liked Your Story.”

For more on Don Barlett’s impact on journalism—and on our work—read “What’s Missing From Investigative Reporting” from our CEO, Monika Bauerlein. I met Don Barlett, who died last week at 88, in early January 1980. I had recently joined The Philadelphia Inquirer as a general assignment reporter, and my first big assignment was to write about the... #press

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What’s Missing From Investigative Reporting For a personal ...

2024-10-19T10:55:11Z

What’s Missing From Investigative Reporting

For a personal tribute to Don Barlett, read “‘Hello, I’m Don Barlett and I Liked Your Story’” from our CEO emeritus, Robert Rosenthal. It’s not often that an obituary truly surprises you, but the other day it happened to me in the best possible way. The person who passed wasn’t a relative, friend, or close […] #press

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The Most Important Arizona Election You’ve Never Heard Of This ...

2024-10-19T10:55:11Z

The Most Important Arizona Election You’ve Never Heard Of

This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Approval of the construction of two gas power plants without public comment. Another’s expansion approved without an environmental review. New fees for homeowners with rooftop solar... #press

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Will the US Withhold Weapon Shipments Over “Policy of ...

2024-10-17T18:32:32Z

Will the US Withhold Weapon Shipments Over “Policy of Starvation” in Gaza?

Yesterday, Axios reporter Barak Ravid published a copy of a letter from Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to Israel urging the country to allow more humanitarian aid into Gaza—and, in a rare move for the Biden administration, backing that request up... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/us-aid-nsm20-israel-gaza-threat-state-department-blinken/?utm_source=press.coop

Trump Now Says He’s the “Father of IVF” Former President ...

2024-10-17T18:32:19Z

Trump Now Says He’s the “Father of IVF”

Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday greeted what may have been his dream audience: a roomful of seemingly adoring women. The squeals and claps seem confounding when you consider Trump’s history with—and impacts on—women: He has been found liable of sexual assault against a woman; he was found guilty of 34 felony counts related to […] #press

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“Love Is Blind” Broke Reality TV’s Politics Bubble ...

2024-10-17T18:32:07Z

“Love Is Blind” Broke Reality TV’s Politics Bubble

Typically, I don’t watch reality television for the politics. After a day spent covering topics like climate misinformation, our crumbling democracy, and the literal death of nature, I watch reality TV to escape politics. Which is why, last week, I was eager to throw on a pair of sweatpants, pop some... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/media/2024/10/love-is-blind-reality-tv-politics-bubble-the-bachelorette-love-island/?utm_source=press.coop

A Georgia Judge Just Blocked 7 Rules Passed by MAGA Election ...

2024-10-17T18:31:48Z

A Georgia Judge Just Blocked 7 Rules Passed by MAGA Election Officials

A state judge on Wednesday blocked seven rule changes passed in recent months by the pro-Trump majority on the Georgia State Election Board, finding the board “lacked constitutional authority” to enact them. It was the third ruling in two days that dealt a blow to election... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/a-georgia-judge-just-blocked-7-rules-passed-by-maga-election-officials/?utm_source=press.coop

As President, Trump Claimed Wind Turbines Cause Cancer As Donald ...

2024-10-17T18:31:32Z

As President, Trump Claimed Wind Turbines Cause Cancer

As Donald Trump campaigns to be a dictator for one day, he’s asking: “Are you better off now than you were when I was president?” Great question! To help answer it, our Trump Files series is delving into consequential events from the 45th president’s time in office that Americans might have forgotten—or wish they had.... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/donald-trump-wind-turnbines-energy-cancer/?utm_source=press.coop

How a Compromised Search and Rescue System Leaves Migrants in ...

2024-10-17T18:31:30Z

How a Compromised Search and Rescue System Leaves Migrants in Peril

For six days, a man we’ll call Martín walked across a remote stretch of the Sonoran Desert between Mexico and southern Arizona with a guide and six other migrants. It was February 2023, and the nights were frighteningly cold. One morning, he awoke to the desert painted white—the first time he had seen snow. They […] #press

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Trump’s Proposed Mass Deportations Could “Decimate” ...

2024-10-17T18:31:10Z

Trump’s Proposed Mass Deportations Could “Decimate” America’s Food Supply

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump campaigns for a second term in the White House, the former president has repeatedly promised to enact the largest... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/donald-trump-mass-deportations-us-food-supply-problems-immigrant-labor/?utm_source=press.coop

Is It Racist and Misogynist to Demean Kamala Harris? The below ...

2024-10-17T18:30:33Z

Is It Racist and Misogynist to Demean Kamala Harris?

The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just $5 a month—but you can sign up for a free 30-day trial. Is it racist,... #press

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Texas Democrats Are Trying the “Throw Ted Cruz in a Locker” ...

2024-10-17T18:29:43Z

Texas Democrats Are Trying the “Throw Ted Cruz in a Locker” Strategy

One of the biggest moments from Tuesday’s US Senate debate in Texas was about high school sports. For months Sen. Ted Cruz and other Republicans have charged that Democratic Rep. Colin Allred wants to allow “boys in girls’ sports”—citing, among other things, a vote he cast last year... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/texas-democrats-are-trying-the-throw-ted-cruz-in-a-locker-strategy/?utm_source=press.coop

Ron DeSantis Is Trying Everything to Sabotage Florida’s ...

2024-10-17T18:29:26Z

Ron DeSantis Is Trying Everything to Sabotage Florida’s Abortion Referendum

When the US Supreme Court overturned the federal right to an abortion in its 2022 Dobbs decision, one argument the justices made was that it was not banning abortion across the country, but rather granting states, and their voters, the opportunity to regulate the... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/ron-desantis-is-trying-everything-to-sabotage-floridas-abortion-referendum/?utm_source=press.coop

Obama’s Advice to Black Men Ignores a Deeper Problem for ...

2024-10-17T18:01:17Z

Obama’s Advice to Black Men Ignores a Deeper Problem for Democrats

With less than a month to go until Election Day, Democrats are scrambling to persuade Black men to cast their ballots for Kamala Harris amid polls showing Donald Trump gaining momentum among Black voters. This week alone, the vice president’s campaign introduced the “Opportunity Agenda for Black Men,” a set of... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/obama-black-men-voters-harris-democrats/?utm_source=press.coop

Meet the Conspiracy-Peddling Gossip Blogger Who’s Cast Herself ...

2024-10-17T16:44:40Z

Meet the Conspiracy-Peddling Gossip Blogger Who’s Cast Herself as a Trump-RFK Player

In 2020, as for so many people, things shifted for Jessica Reed Kraus. A Southern California–based lifestyle blogger who got her start writing about motherhood, Kraus felt dubious about Covid safety measures and vaccines, and disaffected from mainstream liberal politics. With her photogenic world... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/jessica-reed-kraus-houseinhabit/?utm_source=press.coop

Has San Francisco Gotten Too Tough on Teen Crime? In early ...

2024-10-17T16:44:35Z

Has San Francisco Gotten Too Tough on Teen Crime?

In early September, Peterson Harter was working the lunchtime rush in his sandwich shop on San Francisco’s Haight Street when in walked prosecutor Ryan Khojasteh, sporting slicked-back hair and circular glasses. The year before, Harter had been punched in the face by a man who’d been urinating... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/san-francisco-da-race-brooke-jenkins-ryan-khojasteh-recall-prosecutors/?utm_source=press.coop

In Major Blow to Trump’s Election Denial Efforts, Georgia Judge ...

2024-10-17T16:44:27Z

In Major Blow to Trump’s Election Denial Efforts, Georgia Judge Says Results Must Be Certified

A Georgia judge ruled on Tuesday that county election boards are required to certify election results—a major victory for democratic norms and a big loss for election deniers seeking to subvert the 2024 election. “No election superintendent (or member of a board of elections and... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/georgia-election-judge-certified-results-win/?utm_source=press.coop

Trump’s Reverse Robin Hood Tax Cuts of 2017 As Donald Trump ...

2024-10-17T16:44:21Z

Trump’s Reverse Robin Hood Tax Cuts of 2017

As Donald Trump campaigns to be a dictator for one day, he’s asking: “Are you better off now than you were when I was president?” Great question! To help answer it, our Trump Files series is delving into consequential events from the 45th president’s time in office that Americans might have... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/donald-trump-tax-cuts-economic-growth-work-reform-supply-side-trickle-down/?utm_source=press.coop

What Happens to Absentee Ballots if You Die Before Election Day? ...

2024-10-17T16:44:20Z

What Happens to Absentee Ballots if You Die Before Election Day?

Jimmy Carter turned 100 on October 1, making him the oldest former president. According to his family, Carter, also a former Georgia governor who has been in hospice care since February 2023, wanted to live long enough to cast his ballot for Kamala Harris. He passed that milestone on Tuesday, as early voting commenced in […] #press

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Georgia Judge Blocks MAGA Election Subversion Rule A Georgia ...

2024-10-17T16:44:18Z

Georgia Judge Blocks MAGA Election Subversion Rule

A Georgia judge on Monday blocked a controversial rule passed by the Trump-allied majority on the Georgia State Election Board requiring the hand count of ballots on Election Night. Fulton County Judge Robert McBurney declared that the new ruled had been enacted too close to the election. McBurney invoked the January... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/georgia-judge-blocks-maga-election-subversion-rule/?utm_source=press.coop

Trump Withheld Disaster Aid in the Past. His Old Subordinates Say ...

2024-10-17T16:44:07Z

Trump Withheld Disaster Aid in the Past. His Old Subordinates Say He’ll Do It Again.

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Donald Trump deliberately withheld disaster aid to states he deemed politically hostile to him as president and will do so... #press

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Obama’s Advice to Black Men Ignores a Deeper Problem for ...

2024-10-17T16:44:07Z

California’s Rent Control Ban Hits Disabled Tenants Hardest ...

2024-10-17T16:44:03Z

California’s Rent Control Ban Hits Disabled Tenants Hardest

California’s statewide rent control law, the Costa-Hawkins Act, has been contentious since it was signed into law in 1995. California politicians saw Costa-Hawkins, which made it illegal for localities to impose rent control on homes, condominiums, and new apartment housing, as a way to appease the... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/california-proposition-33-34-rent-control-landlords/?utm_source=press.coop

Trump Super-PAC Sent Out Bogus Medicare Cancellation Notice to ...

2024-10-17T16:43:42Z

Trump Super-PAC Sent Out Bogus Medicare Cancellation Notice to Scare Voters About Kamala Harris

In Arizona, older people recently received a mailer declaring Medicare had been cancelled. It had a big red stamp that proclaimed, “Medicare Cancellation Notice.” Also emblazoned on its front was this: “Warning: Rates are going up & plans are... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/trump-super-pac-maga-inc-sent-out-bogus-medicare-cancellation-notices-arizona/?utm_source=press.coop

Meet the Conspiracy-Peddling Gossip Blogger Who’s Cast Herself ...

2024-10-17T16:34:31Z

Has San Francisco Gotten Too Tough on Teen Crime? In early ...

2024-10-17T16:34:28Z

In Major Blow to Trump’s Election Denial Efforts, Georgia Judge ...

2024-10-17T16:34:26Z

Trump’s Reverse Robin Hood Tax Cuts of 2017 As Donald Trump ...

2024-10-17T16:34:15Z

What Happens to Absentee Ballots if You Die Before Election Day? ...

2024-10-17T16:34:13Z

Georgia Judge Blocks MAGA Election Subversion Rule A Georgia ...

2024-10-17T16:34:12Z

Obama’s Advice to Black Men Ignores a Deeper Problem for ...

2024-10-17T16:34:07Z

Trump Withheld Disaster Aid in the Past. His Old Subordinates Say ...

2024-10-17T16:34:05Z

California’s Rent Control Ban Hits Disabled Tenants Hardest ...

2024-10-17T16:34:03Z

Trump Super-PAC Sent Out Bogus Medicare Cancellation Notice to ...

2024-10-17T16:33:57Z

Obama’s Advice to Black Men Ignores a Deeper Problem for ...

2024-10-17T15:52:18Z

Trump Withheld Disaster Aid in the Past. His Old Subordinates Say ...

2024-10-17T15:52:05Z

California’s Rent Control Ban Hits Disabled Tenants Hardest ...

2024-10-17T15:52:03Z

Trump Super-PAC Sent Out Bogus Medicare Cancellation Notice to ...

2024-10-17T15:52:00Z

What if Jimmy Carter Casts a Vote for Harris, but Dies Before ...

2024-10-17T15:44:56Z

What if Jimmy Carter Casts a Vote for Harris, but Dies Before Election Day?

Jimmy Carter turned 100 on October 1, making him the oldest former president. According to his family, Carter, also a former Georgia governor, who has been in hospice care since February 2023, wanted to live long enough to cast his ballot for Kamala Harris. He passed... #press

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/jimmy-carter-cast-early-vote-kamala-harris-georgia-dies-before-election-day/?utm_source=press.coop

Suit Over Gender Dysphoria Could Dismantle New Disability Rules ...

2024-10-17T15:22:58Z

Suit Over Gender Dysphoria Could Dismantle New Disability Rules

When the US Department of Health and Human Services finalized a rule in May asserting that gender dysphoria can be considered a disability under federal anti-discrimination laws, it codified what the overwhelming majority of courts have found for nearly a decade. The new rule put states on... #press

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