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Ken Paxton Is Beating John Cornyn…In a Race to the Bottom

Ken Paxton Is Beating John Cornyn…In a Race to the Bottom

John Cornyn, left, and Ken Paxton Mother Jones illustration; Douglas Christian/Zuma; Bob Daemmrich/Zuma Ken Paxton’s path to becoming one of the...

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Tim Murphy

Tulsi Gabbard Once Blasted Trump for Being a Warmonger and Protecting Al Qaeda

Tulsi Gabbard Once Blasted Trump for Being a Warmonger and Protecting Al Qaeda

Mother Jones illustration; Phelan M. Ebenhack/AP; Mattie Neretin/CNP/Zuma These days, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is a...

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David Corn

Trump Plans Raids on DC’s Homeless Tonight, Sources Say

Trump Plans Raids on DC’s Homeless Tonight, Sources Say

David Beatty, 67, who has been living here for 6 to 8 months, watches as his tent is roped off, at a tent encampment in Washington, DC, on...

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Abby Vesoulis

EXCLUSIVE: These Three Texas Democrats Are “Standing Strong” Amid GOP Redistricting Push

EXCLUSIVE: These Three Texas Democrats Are “Standing Strong” Amid GOP Redistricting Push

Garrison Hayes/Mother Jones Illustration We’re well into the second week of the Texas redistricting showdown. Far from home, these Texas Democrats...

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Garrison Hayes

DC’s Homeless Have Nowhere to Go. Trump Might Send Them to Jail.

DC’s Homeless Have Nowhere to Go. Trump Might Send Them to Jail.

Stephanie W., 28, who is homeless, rests on a foam mattress as a United States Park Police vehicle drives past on Wednesday in northwest Washington...

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Abby Vesoulis

Trump’s Homelessness Crackdown Has Been Tried Before. It Didn’t Work.

Trump’s Homelessness Crackdown Has Been Tried Before. It Didn’t Work.

A homeless man on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call/Getty This week, President Donald Trump announced that his...

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Reveal

Report: Teen With Disabilities Detained by ICE Outside School in Los Angeles

Report: Teen With Disabilities Detained by ICE Outside School in Los Angeles

Aaron M. Sprecher/AP On Monday, a 15-year-old boy with disabilities was detained by the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement outside a...

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Julia Métraux

Republican Gerrymandering Schemes Target Minority Voters and Their Representatives

Republican Gerrymandering Schemes Target Minority Voters and Their Representatives

Veteran Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) could lose his Houston-area seat after GOP redistricting. Aaron Schwartz/Sipa/AP Donald Trump is not particularly...

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Pema Levy And Patrick Caldwell

What Is a Far-Right Ideologue Going to Do With the U.S. Institute of Peace? 

What Is a Far-Right Ideologue Going to Do With the U.S. Institute of Peace? 

Mother Jones illustration; Hu Yousong/Xinhua/ZUMA; US State Dept.; Wikimedia In February, President Trump included the US Institute of Peace in an...

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Anna Merlan

Desperate Towns, Empty Promises: The EV Startup That Left Three Communities Hanging

Desperate Towns, Empty Promises: The EV Startup That Left Three Communities Hanging

This 2022 photo shows an abandoned theater in Pine Bluff, Ark., one of the towns where local officials were told last year that Imola Automotive...

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Ames Alexander

Report: Half of Trump’s Judicial Nominees Have Anti-Abortion Records

Report: Half of Trump’s Judicial Nominees Have Anti-Abortion Records

Whitney Hermandorfer was the first Trump nominee to the federal judiciary to be confirmed in his second term. Like several others, she has an anti-...

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Julianne Mcshane

Trump Taps Project 2025 Architect Who Wants to Do Away With the Jobs Report to Run BLS

Trump Taps Project 2025 Architect Who Wants to Do Away With the Jobs Report to Run BLS

Trump just cannot let the bad jobs data go. Yuri Gripas/Pool/CNP/ZUMA On Monday night, President Donald Trump announced his new pick to run the...

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Julianne Mcshane

Trump’s Ruthless Cuts Have Left Our National Parks in “Survival Mode”

Trump’s Ruthless Cuts Have Left Our National Parks in “Survival Mode”

Protesters at an entrance to Yellowstone National Park in Gardiner, Montana, on March 1, 2025. Natalie Behring/Getty This story was originally...

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Oliver Milman

The National Guard Is Coming to DC

The National Guard Is Coming to DC

Trump in the briefing room. Alex Brandon/AP Residents of Washington, DC, where crime rates have consistently fallen, can soon expect to see the...

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Inae Oh

Israel Has Killed Nearly 200 Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

Israel Has Killed Nearly 200 Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

Mourners gathered around two bodies of the journalists killed Sunday in Gaza at their funeral on Monday. Omar Ashtawy/APA/ZUMA Since the start of...

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Julianne Mcshane

Texas Bill Would Allow Lawsuits Over Shipping Abortion Pills

Texas Bill Would Allow Lawsuits Over Shipping Abortion Pills

Texas state Sen. Bryan Hughes, R-Mineola, the lead sponsor of the new bill, in May 2023. Eric Gay/Associated Press This story was produced in...

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Sheena Samu

The Unlikely Coalition Fighting to Keep Energy Star Labels on Your Appliances

The Unlikely Coalition Fighting to Keep Energy Star Labels on Your Appliances

Lori Van Buren/Getty Via Grist This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the  Climate Desk collaboration. When...

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Sophie Hurwitz

No Showers, Sleeping on Concrete Floors: The “Squalid” Conditions for Immigrants in NYC

No Showers, Sleeping on Concrete Floors: The “Squalid” Conditions for Immigrants in NYC

ICE agents patrol the halls of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza. Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/ZUMA A new class-action lawsuit filed by a...

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Julianne Mcshane

Dr. Phil Opens Up About His Role In Trump’s Police State

Dr. Phil Opens Up About His Role In Trump’s Police State

Trump and Dr. Phil appeared together during the National Day of Prayer at the White House on May 1. Molly Riley/The White House/ZUMA Dr. Phil...

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Julianne Mcshane

She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad. Child Services Took Her Baby.

She Ate a Poppy Seed Salad. Child Services Took Her Baby.

Susan Horton cuts open ice pops for her daughters at home in Cotati, California, in July 2024. Marissa Leshnov for The Marshall Project Pregnant...

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Trump’s Defense Secretary Seems to Admire Men Who Want to Stop Women From Voting

Trump’s Defense Secretary Seems to Admire Men Who Want to Stop Women From Voting

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth Nathan Howard/AP Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is a fan of a Christian nationalist pastor who believes women should...

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Samantha Michaels

Trump’s Energy Chief, a Former Fracking CEO, Aims to Tinker With Key Climate Reports

Trump’s Energy Chief, a Former Fracking CEO, Aims to Tinker With Key Climate Reports

Energy Secretary Chris Wright at a press conference in Poland. Dominika Zarzycka/SOPA Images/ZUMA This story was originally published...

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Mark Oliver

The CDC Shooter Was Obsessed With Vaccine Conspiracy Theories. RFK Jr. Was Predictably Slow to Respond.

The CDC Shooter Was Obsessed With Vaccine Conspiracy Theories. RFK Jr. Was Predictably Slow to Respond.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes his way to the inaugural Great American Farmers Market on the National Mall on August 4. Tom Williams/CQ...

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Samantha Michaels