By NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Former President Donald Trump is turning to one of his favorite themes, the specter of immigrants improperly voting in federal elections. House Speaker Mike Johnson on Friday came to the former president’s Florida compound to announce that he would introduce a bill to stop those who are not citizens from
Former President Donald Trump turned to one of his favorite themes on Friday — the specter of immigrants improperly voting in federal elections. House Speaker Mike Johnson came to the former president’s Florida compound to announce that he would introduce a bill to stop those who are not citizens from voting in elections. Trump has […]
The voting tech company Smartmatic entered into a settlement with One America News to resolve its lawsuit against the network for peddling lies about the 2020 election.
As the Great American Eclipse of 2024 on April 8 draws near, the mainstream media has been packed with stories that debunk various "conspiracy theories." Of course in order to have a "conspiracy theory," you have to have more than one individual that is alleged to be involved in some sort of a "conspiracy," so I have no idea how that term can possibly be applied to what is going on in the heavens. In any event, there are certainly a lot of theories about this eclipse that are clearly not...
In Umberto Eco's classic novel "Foucault's Pendulum," a group of friends develop a ridiculous conspiracy theory as a game, only to start believing it themselves, with horrible consequences for everyone involved. Now, many Republicans have stumbled into the same trap, promoting conspiracy theories about the 2020 election that will make it harder for them to win in 2024. The latest example comes from Wisconsin Senate candidate Eric Hovde, the GOP’s likely nominee against Democratic Sen. Tammy...
The Republican frontrunners will hash out their differences April 17.
Keanu Reeves helped to ignite the imaginations of millions with his role in the seminal science fiction movie The Matrix. Stringing together concepts and influences from across the sci-fi genre, The Matrix made us all think twice about our notions of reality at least whenever you see a black cat, or get an instance of déjà vu. Continue reading Keanu Reeves believes this strange conspiracy theory about Shakespeare
New research shows this was true both for people who self-identified as liberal and conservative
Complaint claims officials violated state law by not contacting eligible Republicans nominated by their party to work the pollsWisconsin Republicans have hit the state election commission with complaints alleging that officials in the state’s two largest cities illegally rejected Republican applicants for poll worker positions for the primary election.The complaints, filed by the Milwaukee county Republican party and Dane county Republican party, claim officials in Milwaukee and Madison violated...
Welcome to the online version of From the Politics Desk, an evening newsletter that brings you the NBC News Politics team’s latest reporting and analysis from the campaign trail, the White House and Capitol Hill. In today’s edition, political reporter Allan Smith examines how Donald Trump's new abortion stance takes a page from the GOP's 2022 midterm playbook. Plus, senior political editor Mark Murray asks if policy announcements from Trump and Joe Biden on Monday were blotted out by the total...
Conspiracy theorists get a bad rap in popular culture, yet research has shown that most Americans believe conspiracy theories of some sort. Why then, if most of us believe conspiracies, do we generally think of conspiracy theorists as loony?