08 Nov January 6 Rioters Think Donald Trump’s Victory Is Their Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card “I am electric. I feel vindicated,” said one January 6 rioter from jail.
08 Nov Dispatch From Maricopa County: Election Deniers, Voting Counts, and More We sent photographer Jamie Lee Taete on a road trip through Maricopa County, Arizona, during the US election.
08 Nov Did Elon Musk Win the Election for Trump? Through his wealth and cultural influence, Elon Musk undoubtedly strengthened the Trump campaign. WIRED unpacks whether it really was his efforts that sealed the deal for the president-elect.
07 Nov Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour On Prediction Markets’ Big Night: ‘We Even Overtook Pornhub’ Prediction markets like Kalshi beat pollsters in forecasting the 2024 US election. Mansour now says financial marketplaces are the future of political prognostication.
07 Nov Trump Won. What Will Happen to Electric Vehicles? Thanks to Elon Musk’s influence, the president-elect has waffled on the future of America’s electric transition.
07 Nov Election Denial Conspiracy Theories Are Exploding on X. This Time They’re Coming From the Left Conspiracy theories about missing votes—which are not, in fact, missing—and something being “not right” are being spread widely on X in the wake of Donald Trump’s election victory.
06 Nov Elon Musk’s America PAC Canvassers Faced Surveillance, Sickness, and Late Pay in Arizona I felt like Big Brother was always watching me,” says a contracted door knocker, one of several who allege to WIRED that they faced poor working conditions while getting out the vote for Donald Trump.
06 Nov Groypers Gave Illegal Hot Dogs and Burgers to Trump Voters At an Arizona polling location, a college GOP group, supporters of an antisemitic influencer, and a Christian nationalist pastor were handing out hot dogs and burgers—but only if you voted for Trump.
06 Nov Will Social Platforms Take Down a Premature Donald Trump Victory Post? In the 2020 presidential race, Donald Trump proclaimed himself the winner long before enough votes were counted. We asked the major platforms if they’d let him do it again.
05 Nov An Oath Keeper Talks Civil War Over Pastrami on Rye “I’m training people to survive a civil war, to get out of the way, to stay home, stay off the grid,” says Oath Keeper Jim Arroyo, in an interview two days before the US presidential election.
