Politics

Chris Hood, the founder of the thuggish neo-Nazi group NSC-131, has endorsed the MAGA candidate for president, calling on fellow fascists in the swing states “to vote for Donald Trump.” In a long statement on Telegram, Hood described Trump as providing a small step forward to his goal of “ultimate …

After nearly four years of interminable rallies, 34 felonies, one last-minute candidate switch, two assassination attempts, and several months of crippling anxiety, the national fever dream of the 2024 campaign season has reached its end. Election Day is upon us. Voters across the nation are lining up at their polling …

A Trump-appointed federal judge in Georgia slapped down a lawsuit filed by the Republican National Committee on Tuesday, and gave the lawyers responsible a brutal dressing down while he did it. Judge R. Stan Baker, who was nominated to the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia …

On Tuesday, Elon Musk and America PAC — a Super PAC the billionaire founded to support Donald Trump‘s 2024 presidential run — were hit with a second lawsuit over allegedly deceptive advertising practices related to its daily $1 million lottery. From Oct. 19 through Election Day, America PAC awarded $1 …

Donald Trump appeared to be running out of steam and memory on Sunday during his fifth rally out of six that he planned over the weekend ahead of Tuesday’s election. The event was held in Kinston, North Carolina. After arriving late to his second rally of the day, he gave …

This article was copublished with The Lever, an investigative newsroom. If you like this story, sign up for The Lever’s free newsletter. At 5:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 19, with the sky still pitch black, the parking lot of the Executive Education Academy in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was unusually active. The …

Early voting has brought with it a wave of harassment and violence against poll workers. As local officials and volunteers attempt to carry out the nation’s quadrennial exercise in democracy with as little disruptions as possible, extremist groups are once again preparing to challenge election results — and are prepared …

“A Katy Perry marching band? This is going to be the gayest day ever,” says the curly-haired woman watching as a 17-piece group works their way through “Firework,” and then follows it up with a jaunty rendition of Kesha’s “Timber.” She chuckles. “I must be in the right place.” It’s …

Timothy Snyder is a Yale history professor whose pamphlet, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century, provided progressives a historical road map for resisting the abuses of the first Trump administration. (First lesson: “Do not obey in advance.”) Snyder predicted that Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss could lead to …

Elon Musk, the most important mega-donor of the 2024 presidential election, has spent the final stretch of the campaign awarding $1 million from his Super PAC to a different swing state voters daily in order to boost his favored candidate, Donald Trump. Such a giveaway is unprecedented in American politics, …