Arizona, are you ok?

The MoJo Daily newsletter, Monday through Friday. [View in browser]( [Support our nonprofit journalism]( [Mother Jones Daily Newsletter](     September 4, 2024 What does it look like when reality has been totally abandoned? The premise might seem abstract, something to ponder over a heady night of weird feelings and beer. But in Arizona, the question flicks at something deeper. My colleague Tim Murphy has a terrific feature on how [years of bad defeats in Arizona]( failed to mute the power of the stolen election narrative. Instead, they’ve reinforced it. Put another way, Arizona is showing what happens when history is written by the losers. I absolutely love how this story starts, with Tim [participating in a bizarre tour]( of Maricopa County's Tabulation and Election Center, a fortress of a building that, by Tim's description, sounds [equally ugly and menacing](. The purpose of these tours, which are hosted several times a week, is to demystify voting processes after Joe Biden's win in the 2020 election turned the center into a target of threats and suspicion. It's the perfect starting point for Tim's reporting on how America's most volatile swing state—where the 2018 election was suspect, 2020 never ended, 2022 is still being contested, and election deniers are now everywhere—offers a harrowing look at what happens when reality is effectively rejected. —Inae Oh Advertisement [House Bookshop Ad]( [Top Story] [Top Story]( [How Elon Musk Is Tying His Love for Trump to His Fight in Brazil](  “Kamala supports what Brazil just did to X." BY ANNA MERLAN MOTHER JONES MEMBERSHIP UPDATE   DONALD TRUMP & DEMOCRACY You’re a Mother Jones Daily reader, so you know the stakes and you know reporting like ours matters so freaking much in these next few months (and beyond). About that: We need [the support of our newsletter readers like never before]( to vigorously fight back against the existential threats American democracy and journalism face. We’re running behind our targets and urgently need all hands on deck. We can’t afford to come up short—we have no cushion; we leave it all on the field. Please help with a donation if you can—even just a few bucks helps. A [monthly gift]( would be incredible. [Donate Now]( [Trending] [Project 2025 backers are pushing dangerous propaganda about the Trump shooting]( BY MARK FOLLMAN   [Arizona Republicans are trapped in a time loop of their own making]( BY TIM MURPHY   [Turns out JD Vance has yet another connection to Project 2025]( BY JULIANNE MCSHANE   ["Our job is to make sure they're safe": America confronts election intimidation]( PEGGY DODD, PIERCE GENTRY, SHELBY RICKERT, AND OLIVIA TALKINGTON Advertisement [House Donations Ad]( [Special Feature] [Special Feature]( [How the right explains Trump’s authoritarian logic to themselves]( The cries of "lawfare" are more than just false. BY TYLER MCBRIEN Did you enjoy this newsletter? Help us out by [forwarding]( it to a friend or sharing it on [Facebook]( and [Twitter](. [Mother Jones]( [Donate]( [Donate Monthly]( [Subscribe]( This message was sent to {EMAIL}. To change the messages you receive from us, you can [edit your email preferences]( or [unsubscribe from all mailings.]( For advertising opportunities see our online [media kit.]( Were you forwarded this email? [Sign up for Mother Jones' newsletters today.]( [www.MotherJones.com]( PO Box 8539, Big Sandy, TX 75755