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Evan Vucci/AP Photo Some of the nation’s legendary “great men”—leaders like George Marshall and Clark Clifford—have served the country as...
Alex Brandon/AP Former President Donald Trump was poised to return to the White House for a second time, ending Tuesday evening on the brink of...
Supporters arrive at an election night watch party for Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in West...
Mother Jones illustration; Michael Swensen/Getty; Jeff Kowalsky/AFP/Getty; Getty In August, former President Donald Trump called the billionaire...
Mother Jones illustration; Turning Points; Getty Before I could knock on the door of the house in rural, upstate New York, a big, burly man dressed...
Ted Soqui/SIPA/AP/Sipa via AP Images Good news, patriots! American voters have finally found something they can agree about: Their candidate is...
Pulitzer-prize winning author Barbara Kingsolver Evan Kafka/Barbara Kingsolver On Friday, the Pulitzer-prize winning author Barbara Kingsolver is...
Hyung Jin ''Sean'' Moon during the 2023 Rod of Iron Festival Zach Roberts/NurPhoto via AP In July, former President Donald Trump was nearly...
Mother Jones illustration; Anna Moneymaker/Getty; Darin Oswald/Idaho Statesman/AP; Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/Getty During the vice...
JD Vance speaks to supporters during a campaign event at the Northwestern Michigan Fair grounds. Scott Olson/Getty One in every ten pregnancies in...
Democratic vice presidential nominee and Governor TIM WALZ speaks at a debate watch party at the Mesa Convention Center in Mesa, Arizona. Gage...
Conservative activist Brandon Straka who was sentenced to probation after Jan 6th holds a performance at CPAC Texas, wearing an orange jumpsuit and a...
Protesters demand US President Joe Biden drop out in front of the White House at a rally held on July 20, 2024. DANIEL SLIM/Getty While President...
Ivan Raiklin, a prominent election denier and Trump supporter, sits in the audience during a House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the...
Matt Rourke/Associated Press On Tuesday morning, just a few days after a lone 20-year-old climbed a roof in Butler, Pennsylvania, shot former...
Corey Lewandowski walks off stage as preparations take place for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. Carol Guzy/ZUMA Press Wire The...
Gary Roush, of College Park, Md., protests outside of the Supreme Court, Monday, July 1, 2024, after court decisions were announced in Washington. (AP...
Steve Bannon speaks at the Turning Point USA ''People's Convention,'' in Detroit, Michigan Dominic Gwinn/ZUMA Press Wire Donald Trump confidante...
The first presidential debate between US President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump in the CNN studio in Atlanta. Artem Priakhin/SOPA...
Incumbent Gov. Spencer Cox, left, talks with Utah Rep. Phil Lyman after Utah's gubernatorial GOP primary debate. Mother Jones; Issac Hale/The Deseret...
Utah Senate candidate Trent Staggs carries a "Utah For Trump flag" during a rally on June 14, 2024, in Orem, Utah. Rick Bowmer/AP Photo Former...
Turning Point USA, which casts itself as a conservative political youth movement, appears to be aging. Founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk, then 18, TPUSA...
Former Mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani speaks during a news conference outside the federal courthouse in Washington, Dec. 15, 2023. Jose Luis...
Mother Jones; Olivier Douliery/Abaca/Sipa USA/AP To hear Michael Flynn tell it, he belongs in the pantheon of great American martyrs alongside...
West Virginia voters had an unenviable choice of congressional candidates in the GOP primary Tuesday: a guy who stormed the Capitol on January 6,...
January 6 rioter and West Virginia congressional candidate Derrick Evans (left), on stage with former Trump National Security Advisor Michael...
Mother Jones illustration; Will Price/West Virginia Legislative Photography/AP; Courtesy DOJ Derrick Evans had served only 37 days as a freshman West...
Trent Staggs, running for U.S. senate, speaks at the Utah Republican Party state nominating convention on Saturday, April 27, 2024. Megan Nielsen/The...
Brent Orrin Hatch in Salt Lake City in 2008. Douglas C. Pizac/AP Photo It turns out that not even a famous last name, support from the conservative...
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks at CPAC in Dallas, Aug. 4, 2022. LM Otero/AP Photo Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was in...
Laura Trump speaks at the NCGOP state convention as former U.S. President Donald Trump on June 5, 2021 in Greenville, North Carolina. Melissa Sue...
Michael Dwyer/AP GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley just won the Washington, DC, primary, beating former president Donald Trump by almost 30...
Francis Chung/POLITICO/AP I’ve attended the Conservative Political Action Conference almost yearly since 2009, always as a credentialed reporter....
Molly Riley/AP The Conservative Political Action Conference, the largest right-wing convention in the country, kicked off this morning’s show with...
Mother Jones; Alex Brandon/AP On Monday, former President Donald Trump issued a statement endorsing a slate of candidates for leadership at the...
Trump in Nevada, July 2023. John Locher/AP Thanks to a new law, Nevada residents seeking to cast a ballot in the Democratic or Republican...
Mother Jones; Olivier Douliery/ABACA/Sipa/AP; Unsplash The Supreme Court on Thursday heard oral arguments in a case brought by voters in Colorado...
Mother Jones; Andrew Harnik/AP When he ran for president in 2004, Democrats were counting on Sen. John Kerry’s military service to define him as a...
/Meg Kinnard/AP Today is Nevada’s presidential primary. But for Republicans, the vote will be largely meaningless. Even though the state...
GOP presidential contender Nikki Haley responded to former President Donald Trump’s gaffe from Friday night, in which he confused her with Nancy...
Rick Bowmer/AP On Friday, Utah’s state House of Representatives distinguished itself by becoming the country’s first legislative body to pass an...
Haley campaigns in Hollis, New Hampshire. Michael Reynolds/EFE/Zuma Nikki Haley, like most candidates who have sought to deny Donald Trump the 2024...