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It wouldn't be spooky season without a GOP gubernatorial candidate accusing his opponent of witchcraft...🙄

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This election cycle, the quid pro quo of campaign money for preferential government treatment is more brazen than ever before. It's no wonder people's belief that the government is corrupt is at an all-time high. This week on Stress Test:

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Voter ID laws. Redistricting. “Cleaning” voter rolls. Equal access to the ballot is under assault around the US. LaTosha Brown is leading grassroots efforts to fight back against voter suppression. The latest from our friends at @revealnews.org: tinyurl.com/bdr547d5

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From battleground candidates to Elon Musk, Republicans can’t stop posting wistfully about Rhodesia, the defunct white supremacist state in southern Africa. History repeats. Sometimes as tragedy…sometimes as LARP.

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America is hopelessly divided along party lines. But in these midterms, the left and the right have found something so commonly loathed that politicians across the country are flip-flopping in real time. This week on Stress Test: How data centers have ripped up the partisan playbook.

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Pentagon officials confirmed that for the first time in US history, a public execution will be livestreamed. Yesterday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said he wanted the public to witness a firing squad execute Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter convicted of killing 32 people in 2009.

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Since the start of the second Trump administration, doctors and policy experts across the country have increasingly warned that immigrants are avoiding medical care as deportation fears weigh heavily on their day-to-day lives. Editorial fellow Mariana Duran reports: tinyurl.com/tsej38da

Line chart showing Medi‑Cal enrollment in immigrant-focused expansion programs (predominantly used by undocumented immigrants) rising from about 1.5M in Apr 2024 to ~1.72M by mid‑2025, then sharply falling to roughly 1.25M by mid‑2026.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/10/2026

Megyn Kelly has been criticizing the Cornell Jane Doe for how she responded after she was allegedly sexually assaulted by multiple men in one night. But Kelly seems to have forgotten what it feels like to be blamed after coming forward with allegations:

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Here's some history the US Supreme Court doesn't want you to think about. In April 2026, SCOTUS effectively ended the Voting Rights Act. The decision has startling parallels with Plessy v. Ferguson, the decision that established “separate but equal" and cemented Jim Crow.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/10/2026

WATCH: Trump loves Big Tech leaders. But when the American public distrusts the surveillance state Big Tech has created, his buddy-buddy relationships with them don't exactly make the president more likable. On this episode of Stress Test:

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 08/10/2026

Data centers are ENORMOUS. They're being measured out in multiples of Manhattan, national correspondent Tim Murphy tells us on the latest episode of Stress Test. On today's episode, Tim and Garrison Hayes break down why hatred of data centers is uniting voters, no matter their political party.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026

“Bye-bye!” When host Al Letson challenged conservative activist J. Christian Adams’ claims of widespread voter fraud across the US, Adams abruptly ended the interview. Hear their contentious conversation on this week’s “More To The Story.” bit.ly/4rRJJid

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/10/2026

In 2024, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed one of the country’s most extreme book-banning laws...a decision that’s now coming back to haunt him as he tries to get people to buy his own book. @smencimer.bsky.social reports: bit.ly/3TEJcnd

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/10/2026

Where does the Supreme Court draw the line on Trump's attempts to delegitimize the midterm elections? Do they have a line at all? National voting rights correspondent Ari Berman joined us on Stress Test to discuss. New episodes drop every Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe at youtube.com/motherjones.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/10/2026

Phew guys, we're in safe hands. 🙄 After reports from Russia’s Irkutsk region revealed a potential public health crisis, Donald Trump gave his thoughts on a seeming outbreak of the rare and often deadly pneumonic plague. Given his handling of COVID, some fear his approach to public health concerns.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/10/2026

Last month, Rep. María Elvira Salazar—a Miami Republican endorsed by Trump—launched an ad criticizing the president's mass-deportation campaign. It was a public sign of the brewing anger in Florida over Trump's draconian deportation policies.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026

Trump is already claiming the midterm elections are going to be rigged. Listen to Stress Test, our new video podcast with David Corn and Garrison Hayes, to find out. New episodes drop every Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe at youtube.com/motherjones.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026

They might be woke, but don't call them weak. After a historic setback in 2024, the Democratic rebrand appears to be working out. No, seriously—the rebrand is that they’re all filming themselves working out. But turning around the party's national reputation will be a heavy lift.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 05/10/2026

With the help of Republican officials, ICE has quietly arrested hundreds of people in Florida per day. Watch the latest dispatch from journalist Amanda Moore (@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social) out of southwest Florida:

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/10/2026

America’s relationship with Israel is becoming an electoral fault line, dividing both parties and major Jewish political groups. This week, our friends at @revealnews.org ask: If the old consensus around Israel is breaking, what comes next? Listen: bit.ly/4y5oMSm

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/10/2026

The midterm elections have officially entered their looming phase. Enter "Stress Test," a new video podcast from Mother Jones, hosted by @davidcorn.bsky.social and @garrisonhayes.bsky.social. Don't miss an episode: Subscribe now to our YouTube channel at Youtube.com/MotherJones!

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/10/2026

ICE just spent $16.7 million arming agents with shock gloves—wearable devices that deliver a painful electric shock. Human rights organizations like Amnesty International say the gloves “could be readily misused for torture.” Mother Jones' @hurwitz.bsky.social investigates: bit.ly/472ZbhV

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026

“This is not the time to sort of gripe about all the little things,” said Vice President JD Vance on Thursday about the coming mid-term election season, despite the fact that a recent AP-NORC Center poll from late September found 73% of Americans think the country is on the wrong track.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 03/10/2026

This week, our friends at Reveal explore how America’s relationship with one of its closest allies became a political fault line that’s increasingly showing up at the ballot box.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026

Utah Governor Spencer Cox is touring national TV, preaching political depolarization to sell his new book. But back home, his approval ratings have plunged 23 points since April. Turns out, enacting one of the country’s most extreme book-banning measures doesn't exactly make you a unifier.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026

The Roberts Supreme Court doesn't want you to know it killed the Voting Rights Act. But it did. New episodes of Stress Test drop every Wednesday and Friday. Subscribe at youtube.com/motherjones.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/10/2026

Soon you could buy a gun online and have it shipped to your door without ever setting foot in a gun store—if a Trump administration proposal is finalized. Donald Trump Jr. is a shareholder and board member of a company that says it’s “uniquely positioned” to capitalize on the opportunity.

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/10/2026

Introducing Stress Test from Mother Jones, our brand-new video podcast tracking the fight, the money, and the lies—and hunting hard for hope—all the way through Election Day. Subscribe today: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcoW_kXY…

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President of Students for Life Kristan Hawkins wants to make abortion “unthinkable and unavailable.” Part of her strategy is talking to young people. But she has a problem. Most young people disagree with her completely.

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Can a Democratic Socialist win in deep-red Florida? @angieforfl.bsky.social thinks so. The candidate for US Senate joins our friends at @revealnews.org this week to talk about her grassroots campaign for Congress and how the DSA is reshaping the midterms. Listen here: tinyurl.com/2dtcnstt

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Perhaps Senator Eric Schmitt was a little too hawkish during his questioning of Jack Smith today. After accusing the former special counsel of perjury over whether he’d been at a Hawks basketball game, Schmitt was hit with an awkward moment of live fact-checking.

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