Latest Stories By Bill McCarthy

The latest House hearing on the events of Jan. 6, 2021, painted a picture of former President Donald Trump as a man running out of options. As of mid-December 2020, he had lost 60 out of 61 court challenges to state election results. His top campaign and White House advisers were telling him there was […]

Michael Stenger, the Senate sergeant-at-arms at the time of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol, died June 27, according to reports from Politico and other outlets. He was 71. The cause of Stenger’s death was not yet known as of June 29. NBC News reported that his death was not believed to […]

A former White House staffer on June 28 took center stage in the congressional investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, delivering the most revealing testimony yet about President Donald Trump’s response. Seated before members of the House select committee investigating the insurrection, Cassidy Hutchinson, a former aide to Trump’s chief […]

After brushing off the first hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack in favor of hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, Fox News carried the second and third hearings live.  But the network’s coverage of the June 16 hearing exposed its viewers to several revelations about Fox News’ own hosts, guests, […]

Former Attorney General William Barr denigrated evidence of voter fraud presented in the documentary “2000 Mules” as “singularly unimpressive” during his interview with House committee investigators looking into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack. The film from right-wing filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza tried to make the case that massive fraud took place in the 2020 presidential election. […]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson didn’t just ignore the first primetime House hearing dedicated to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. He spent the show rehashing many of the same falsehoods about the attack he has promoted for months. As other major TV networks carried the June 9 hearing live, Fox News […]

Armed with misinformation about U.S. elections, more than a dozen conspiracy theory-driven secretary of state candidates are working together to completely transform the way Americans vote with a radical platform. Under the umbrella of a coalition that calls itself the “America First Secretary of State Coalition,” candidates in Nevada, Michigan, Arizona, California and other states […]

A coalition of far-right “stop the steal” Republicans is working to put Trump loyalists in charge of elections across the U.S. At its helm is a shadowy QAnon influencer who some segments of the conspiracy theory believe to be the late John F. Kennedy Jr. The America First Secretary of State Coalition includes more than […]

Misinformation after the May 24 shooting that killed at least 19 children and two teachers at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, followed a familiar playbook.  As authorities pieced together what happened, unverified rumors and hoaxes about the attack, the victims and the shooter stood in for confirmed facts.  Almost immediately after the Uvalde attack […]

Fox News host Tucker Carlson falsely claimed he was unfamiliar with the racist and antisemitic “great replacement theory” cited by the mass shooter in Buffalo, New York. “You’ve heard a lot about the ‘great replacement theory’ recently,” Carlson said on his primetime show May 17. “It is everywhere in the last two days, and we […]

An online screed linked to the 18-year-old man arrested for killing 10 people in a Buffalo, New York, supermarket repeatedly referenced the racist and anti-semitic “great replacement theory.”  The theory is white supremacist rhetoric amplified in recent years by some of the loudest voices in conservative media. Several recent shootings have been motivated by belief […]

As protesters gathered outside the homes of conservative-leaning U.S. Supreme Court justices, a rumor took off on social media that Justice Samuel Alito had moved to an “undisclosed location.” Alito authored a leaked draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade and return authority over abortion access to the states. In the days after Politico […]