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WIRED Politics Lab
JD Vance Takes a Hard Stance on Drugs. What Does His Adviser's Past Mean for His Campaign?
Leah Feiger
election 2024
DHS Warns Law Enforcement Election Deniers May Attempt to Bomb Drop Boxes
Dell Cameron and Tess Owen
WIRED Politics Lab
Why It Matters That JD Vance's Financial Adviser Posted About Drug Use on Reddit for Years
Makena Kelly
Election 2024
JD Vance Adviser Posted on Reddit for Years About Use of Cocaine, ‘Gas Station Heroin,’ Other Drugs
Makena Kelly
extreme weather
Right-Wing Influencers Claim ‘They’ Defeated Physics, Geoengineered Hurricane Milton
Tess Owen
Project 2025
Tucker Carlson Promotes the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 in Elon Musk Interview
Vittoria Elliott
election 2024
Elon Musk Spoke at a Trump Rally, Referenced ‘Dark MAGA,’ and Urged Supporters to Vote
Vittoria Elliott and Tess Owen
Election 2024
Trump Supporters Are Boosting a Clip of a Voting Machine Being Hacked. It's Not What It Seems
Tess Owen and David Gilbert
AI Spy
License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars
Matt Burgess and Dhruv Mehrotra
WIRED Politics Lab
VP Debate Night: Vance Sanitized Trumpism, Walz Called Himself a Knucklehead
Leah Feiger
The Big Interview
Trae Stephens Has Built AI Weapons and Worked for Donald Trump. As He Sees It, Jesus Would Approve
Steven Levy
Election 2024
Teens Say Trump’s Former Personal Aide and Project 2025 Higher-Up Made Them Uncomfortable in Chats
Vittoria Elliott
election 2024
Anti-Immigrant Election Deniers Have Turned Their Online Following Into an Army of Activists
David Gilbert
Stage Right
Laura Loomer Is MAGA at Its Most Extreme—and She’s Closer to Donald Trump Than Ever
David Gilbert
case history
Suspected Trump Gunman Was Once Charged With Possession of a Weapon of Mass Destruction
Leah Feiger and Tim Marchman
Browser History
He Worked for a Law Firm Consulting on an Anti-Trans Supreme Court Case. Then We Asked About These Racist Posts
David Gilbert
election 2024
What to Expect in the Trump-Harris Presidential Debate and How to Watch It
David Gilbert
Influencer Operations
What Right-Wing Influencers Actually Said in Those Tenet Media Videos
Tim Marchman and Dhruv Mehrotra
Radio Free America
Right-Wing Influencer Network Tenet Media Allegedly Spread Russian Disinformation
Andrew Couts and Tim Marchman
revisionist history
Trump’s New Silicon Valley Supporters Really Want You to Forget He Called Nazis ‘Fine People’
David Gilbert
Bipartisan Phish
A Single Iranian Hacker Group Targeted Both Presidential Campaigns, Google Says
Andy Greenberg
Election 2024
Black Sororities and Fraternities Are Mobilizing Online and in Secret Chats for Voter Turnout
Alana Yzola
Election 2024
Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s X Conversation Took Forever to Start, Then Never Ended
Makena Kelly
UK Riots
X Is Boosting the Far Right’s UK Riots as Telegram Scrambles for Control
David Gilbert and Isabel Fraser
Trust Issues
Sensitive Illinois Voter Data Exposed by Contractor’s Unsecured Databases
Lily Hay Newman
technocracy
How a Secret BJP War Room Mobilized Female Voters to Win the Indian Elections
Nilesh Christopher and Varsha Bansal
To the Moon
Donald Trump Backs ‘Strategic Bitcoin Stockpile’ in Speech to Crypto Faithful
Jessica Klein
Election 2024
Silicon Valley Donors Bailed on Biden. Kamala Harris Is Winning Them Back
Makena Kelly and Lauren Goode
Paper Trail
J.D. Vance Left His Venmo Public. Here’s What It Shows
Dhruv Mehrotra, Tim Marchman, and Andrew Couts
Computer says no
Elon Musk Is All In on Endorsing Trump. His AI Chatbot, Grok, Is Not
Isabel Fraser and David Gilbert