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The Madness of Robert F. Kennedy. Jr.

The Madness of Robert F. Kennedy. Jr.

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...

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SCOOP: RFK Jr. Secretly Recorded Second Wife During Divorce and Acknowledged Being “Polygamous”

SCOOP: RFK Jr. Secretly Recorded Second Wife During Divorce and Acknowledged Being “Polygamous”

In the early 2010s, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went through a contentious divorce with his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy. It was ugly. Richardson...

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A Brazen Moment of Christian Nationalism at Trump’s Inauguration

A Brazen Moment of Christian Nationalism at Trump’s Inauguration

There were plenty of troubling moments during the string of inauguration events for the second presidency of Donald Trump. These include the multiple...

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From Brownshirts to Billionaires: The Second Trump Inauguration

From Brownshirts to Billionaires: The Second Trump Inauguration

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...

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A Parting Reminder From Jimmy Carter

A Parting Reminder From Jimmy Carter

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...

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Kash Patel Claims He Played a Major Role in the Benghazi Case. Former Colleagues Say He Didn’t.

Mother Jones illustration; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma; Ajay Suresh/Wikimedia In his 2023 book, Government Gangsters, which claims a supposed...

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How Kash Patel Became a Useful Idiot for Vladimir Putin

Kash Patel speaks at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on February 23. The below article first appeared in David Corn’s...

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Here Are the Republicans Kash Patel Wants to Target

Kash Patel speaks at the 2024 Conservative Political Action Conference. Michael Brochstein/AP For years, Kash Patel, the MAGA provocateur,...

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How Kash Patel, Trump’s FBI Pick, Embraced the Unhinged QAnon Movement

Kash Patel speaking at a Trump campaign rally in Prescott Valley, AZ, Oct. 13, 2024 Ross D. Franklin/AP In the middle of the Thanksgiving holiday...

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Tulsi Gabbard Keeps Starting Up PACs. Where Is the Money Going?

Tulsi Gabbard speaks at a rally for Donald Trump in October 2024. Alex Brandon/AP In March 2024, Tulsi Gabbard, the former Democratic congresswoman...

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The Media and Trump: Not Resistance, But Not Acceptance

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...

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Trump Cabinet Picks Rubio and Stefanik Once Confirmed Putin Attacked the 2016 Election to Help Trump

Caroline Brehman/Congressional Quarterly/Zuma; Sadak Souici/Zuma; Drew Angerer/Getty For eight years, an article of faith within Trumpworld and the...

14.11.2024 2

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Can a Democracy Reverse a Slide Toward Authoritarianism?

Donald Trump speaks at an Election Night event on November 5. Lynne Sladky/AP; illustration by Alex Connor The below article first appeared in...

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Elon Musk’s $100 Million-Plus Gift to Trump

Mother Jones illustration; Evan Vucci/AP Billionaire-troll Elon Musk is dumping untold millions of his $240 billion fortune into helping Donald...

26.10.2024 2

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I’m Fed Up With the Obsession Over Polls

George Gallup (sitting), director of the American Institute for Public Opinion, and the institute's chief statistician, Edward G. Benson, working...

22.10.2024 4

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

Left: a screenshot from a pro-Trump ad celebrating American workers. Right: a screenshot from a stock footage clip produced by Azulroto, a Spanish...

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

Mother Jones; Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post/Getty In Arizona, older people recently received a mailer declaring Medicare had been cancelled....

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GOP Senate Candidate Larry Hogan Says His Democratic Foe Is Awful. He Once Praised Her as “Great.”

Mother Jones; Nathan Howard/Getty Larry Hogan, the former governor of Maryland, has a tough task. As he now runs for the US Senate, he claims to be...

04.10.2024 4

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How Harris Trapped Trump

Mother Jones illustration; Win McNamee/Getty; Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Kamala Harris came to the presidential debate to invite voters not yet on her...

11.09.2024 1

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Talking to a Former Madam About Using AI and Big Data to Help RFK Jr.

Kristin Davis after a court appearance in New York City in 2013. Louis Lanzano/AP Last week, a mini-scoop on Radar triggered titters within the...

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JD Vance’s Racist Populism

Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance at a campaign rally in St. Cloud, Minnesota, on July 27. Adam Bettcher/AP The below article first...

09.08.2024 2

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How Paul Wellstone Helped Give Us Tim Walz

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz applauds as President Joe Biden speaks at Dutch Creek Farms in Northfield, Minnesota. AP/Andrew Harnik It was damn cold in...

08.08.2024 2

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The Court Case That Could Sink RFK Jr.’s Campaign

Lev Radin/AP This week in an Albany, New York courtroom, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is fighting a legal challenge that has the potential to sink much of...

06.08.2024 2

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JD Vance Attacked AOC for Promoting a “Sociopathic Attitude” About Children

Screenshot/Napa Institute/YouTube When JD Vance appeared as a special guest at the 2021 summer conference of the Napa Institute, a Catholic...

01.08.2024 3

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JD Vance Once Said “Some People Who Voted for Trump Were Racists”

Screenshot/UChicago IoP/YouTube In early February 2017, just as Donald Trump was settling into the White House, the University of Chicago’s...

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J.D. Vance Says He Gets Bad Press Because Most Journalists Are “Childless Adults”

Intercollegiate Studies Institute/screenshot/YouTube GOP vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance was slammed this week when a video of a 2021 Fox...

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J.D. Vance Endorsed Book That Calls Progressives “Unhumans” and Praises Jan. 6 Rioters

Julia Nikhinson/AP During his acceptance speech at the Republican convention last week, Sen. J.D. Vance, the GOP vice presidential candidate,...

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Attempted Trump Assassination Triggers a Flood of MAGA BS

Donald Trump is helped off the stage by Secret Service agents at a campaign event in Butler, Pennsylvania, following an assassination attempt on...

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