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Pat Buchanan made white Republicans fear becoming a racial minority. Now Trump is reaping the benefits. In May 1995, Pat Buchanan appeared at the...
Donald Trump at a 2020 campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin Alex Brandon/AP Two big pieces of news emerged from the world of Wisconsin politics...
Voters line at a polling station at noon in Moscow. AP Vladimir Putin’s fifth term as Russian president is guaranteed. Opposition leaders have been...
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers raises a bill which re-defines the state's legislative maps after signing it at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison,...
People gather during a get out the vote rally Nov. 27, 2022, in Atlanta, during early voting for the Senate runoff election. Ben Gray/AP A federal...
A yard sign urges Kansas voters to protect abortion access in the November elections. John Hanna/AP In August 2022, Kansans decisively voted to...
Mother Jones; Carolyn Kaster/AP; Unsplash On November 20, a three-judge panel on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that private plaintiffs could...
Four Republican Georgia state senators vote in favor of their party's plan to draw new voting districts, Nov. 30, 2023, at the Georgia Capitol in...
Former President Donald Trump waits to take the witness stand during his civil fraud trial at the New York Supreme Court, Nov. 6, 2023, in New York....
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at the COP28 U.N. Climate Summit, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Kamran Jebreili/AP The...
Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Janet Protasiewicz attends her first hearing as a justice, Sept. 7, 2023, in Madison, Wis. Morry Gash/AP On Tuesday,...
A voter carries her ballot to the counting machine after voting at a polling station Nov. 7, 2023, in Richmond, Va. (Steve Helber/AP) Democratic...
Mother Jones illustration; Zuma On November 8, 2020, the day after the major news networks called the election for Joe Biden, 350 supporters of...
Mother Jones illustration; Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Zuma; Tim Mossholder/Unsplash The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Wednesday in Alexander...
Alabama state Sen. Rodger Smitherman discusses a redistricting proposal during debate at the Statehouse in Montgomery, Ala., on July 19, 2023. Kim...
Emory Jones walks past a sign for a polling place on November 8, 2022 in Winston Salem, North Carolina, United States. Sean Rayford/Getty North...
Courtesy NBC “It may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS,” then–CBS chairman Les Moonves famously said about Donald Trump...
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images The 2022 midterm elections were in many ways a referendum on the future of American democracy, and in key states...
Meagan Wolfe, left, and Janet Protasiewicz Mother Jones illustration; AP On Thursday, Republicans in the Wisconsin state senate will vote to oust the...