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Amanda Marcotte is a senior politics writer at Salon and the author of "Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself." Follow her on Bluesky @AmandaMarcotte and sign up for her biweekly politics newsletter, Standing Room Only.

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Vice President JD Vance speaks at Turning Point USA's annual AmericaFest conference on Dec. 21, 2025. ( Caylo Seals/Getty Images)

JD Vance’s 2028 strategy: Be even worse than Trump

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President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One on Dec. 17, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s favorite excuse in 2025: “I don’t know”

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Construction on Trump's enormous ballroom began this week. Not everyone was pleased about it. Even on Fox News. (Salwan Georges / The Washington Post / Getty Images)

The White House ballroom will never be built

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President Donald Trump prepares to speak at the White House on Dec. 16, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Republicans are quiet quitting on Trump

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Erika Kirk speaks onstage during The New York Times DealBook Summit 2025 on Dec. 3. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images for The New York Times))

The Erika Kirk and Candace Owens feud is tearing MAGA apart

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, takes the stage during a rally featuring California Gov. Gavin Newsom in Houston on Nov. 8, 2025. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

GOP will regret pushing Jasmine Crockett to run for the Senate

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Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump walks on stage to speak on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 18, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump’s reality TV tricks can’t hide the affordability crisis

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“Rage bait” as Word of the Year? It’s a reason for hope

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Pete Hegseth’s “warrior ethos” is plain old cowardice

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Allie Beth Stuckey on the set of Candace Owens' show on Dec. 6, 2021. (Jason Davis/Getty Images)

MAGA’s war on empathy was started by a woman

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Second Lady Usha Vance delivers remarks to military personnel and their families in Jacksonville, North Carolina, on Nov. 19, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Usha Vance doesn’t do dishes — so why the wedding ring excuse?

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Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk at America Fest 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Charlie Kirk’s death is tearing MAGA apart

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The online clip factory that’s radicalizing teen boys

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President Donald Trump rests his eyes during an event in the Oval Office on Nov. 6, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

How Trump’s MRI spurred the Epstein vote

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Don’t blame women for men’s loneliness. Blame capitalism

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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., after addressing a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Sorry, Nancy Mace. Donald Trump hasn’t “protected women”

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Erika Kirk and Vice President JD Vance share an embrace at a Turning Point USA event in Oxford, Mississippi, on Oct. 29, 2025. (Brad Vest/Getty Images)

Why JD Vance and Erika Kirk’s hug made tongues wag

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New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani visits a cultural center for the elderly on Oct. 31, 2025. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Zohran Mamdani knows how to win

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Texas sues Tylenol for the dumbest reason

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Riley Gaines speaks during the 10X Ladies Conference on Aug. 15, 2025 in Aventura, Florida. (Ivan Apfel/Getty Images)

How Riley Gaines and the trans panic steal from horror films

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Proud Boys members Stewart Rhodes, Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs and Zachary Rehl at the Capitol on Feb. 21, 2025. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

How the Proud Boys invented antifa

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Mike Johnson exploits the shutdown to hide the Epstein files

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A Turning Point USA event at Virginia Tech University on Sept. 24, 2025 (ALEX WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

MAGA’s fake Super Bowl halftime show reveals their real failures

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Attorney General Pam Bondi testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Oct. 7, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Pam Bondi is Trump’s mean girl

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