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In addition to stories from the print magazine, MotherJones.com offers original reported content seven days a week. During the race In the 2008 election campaign, MotherJones.com was the first to report John McCain's "100 years in Iraq" comments. Also in 2008, MotherJones.com was the first outlet to report on Beckett Brown International, a security firm that spied on environmental groups for corporations.

Winner of the 2005 and 2006 "People’s Choice" Webby Award for politics, MotherJones.com has provided extensive coverage of both Gulf wars, presidential election campaigns, and other key events of the last decade. Mother Jones began posting its magazine content on the Internet in November 1993, the first general interest magazine in the country to do so. A number of innovative uses of this new medium would follow. In the March/April 1996 issue, the magazine published the first Mother Jones 400, a listing of the largest individual donors to federal political campaigns. In the print magazine, the 400 donors were listed in order with thumbnail profiles and the amount they contributed. On MotherJones.com (then known as the MoJo Wire) the donors were listed in a searchable database.

In the 2006 election, MotherJones.com was the first to break stories on the use of robocalling, a story that was then picked up by TPM Muckraker and The New York Times. The Iraq War Timeline interactive database, a continually updated interactive online project, was nominated for a National Magazine Award in 2006. The site has also produced extensive special reports on the U.S. prison system and the state of the planet’s coral reefs.