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August 20, 2025

The Five Wildest Things Fox News Hosts Said in Smartmatic Case Texts

Newly revealed messages reveal Fox News hosts knew they were spreading lies about the 2020 election—but did so anyway to help Donald Trump.

December 20, 2022

Melissa Gira Grant

Failed Coup Leader of the Year: Kari Lake

The Arizona Republican echoed all of Trump’s election denial strategies from 2020. But this time, none of them worked.

November 9, 2022

Melissa Gira Grant

On an Otherwise Normal Election Day, Kari Lake Was the Last MAGA Standing

While she’s not yet tried to claim outright victory, her supporters are readying a “Stop the Steal” redux.

October 20, 2022

Melissa Gira Grant

The MAGA Queen of Election Denial

Arizona was the epicenter of Trump’s “Stop the Steal.” Now Kari Lake is its lead proselytizer for the 2022 midterms.

October 10, 2022

Michael Tomasky

The GOP’s Cult of Election Deniers Is a Growing Threat to the Nation

This year, more than half of GOP candidates are Big Lie cultists. Repeat: more than half. It’s getting harder to see how democracy can survive this.

September 28, 2022

Melissa Gira Grant

Doxxed Doctors, Library Bomb Threats, and Attacks on Pride Centers: A Week in Escalating Anti-LGBTQ Violence

Amid a rising right-wing tide of threats, recent incidents have sadly not been out of the norm.

May 18, 2022

Did Democrats Make a Mistake by Hyping a Trumpy Insurrectionist in Pennsylvania?

The party believed Doug Mastriano would be the easiest candidate to beat in November, so they followed the same risky strategy that backfired tremendously in 2016.

March 25, 2022

The Media Has Yet to Grasp the Full Enormity of Ginni Thomas’s Text Messages

Reports have latched onto the lurid, QAnon-inflected scandal on the surface, but they’ve yet to plumb the depths of the corruption at its heart.