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Heather Digby Parton, also known as "Digby," is a contributing writer to Salon.

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A makeshift memorial for Alex Pretti outside of the Department of Veteran Affairs in Washington, D.C. (Mandel NGAN / AFP via Getty Images)

Even the quilting forums are protesting ICE now

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Former special counsel Jack Smith testifies before the House Judiciary Committee about his investigations into President Donald Trump on Jan. 22, 2026. ( SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images)

Jack Smith lays it out: Trump has shattered the rule of law

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Democrats: It’s more than “just the economy, stupid”

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Greenlanders demonstrate against Donald Trump's threats against their sovereignty on Jan. 17, 2026 in the capital of Nuuk. (Alessandro RAMPAZZO / AFP via Getty Images)

For Trump, Greenland is about legacy — and humiliation

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A banner showing a picture of U.S. President Donald Trump is displayed outside of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) building on June 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Trump is something worse than a fascist

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An "ICE Out for Good" protest in Charlotte, North Carolina, following the killing of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis. (Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images)

ICE’s threat was there from the beginning

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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Dan Caine. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

War has become fashionable again for the GOP

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Overnight, U.S. forces struck multiple targets in Venezuela and captured its president and his wife to face charges in the U.S, leaving a fire at Fuerte Tiuna, Venezuela's largest military complex as the sun rose. (STR / Getty Images)

After Venezuela, who’s next?

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The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, which was recently renamed The Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, in Washington, D.C. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Trump’s cultural coup is doomed to fail

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom talks with President Donald Trump as First Lady Melania Trump looks on after the First Couple's arrival at Los Angeles International Airport on January 24, 2025. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

The year of the blue state governors

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An "ICE out of Home Depot" protest in Oakland, California, on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025. (Yalonda M. James/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Neighbors are standing up for immigrants

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s MAGA coalition is showing cracks over religion

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US President Donald Trump fields a question from a reporter during a roundtable about Antifa in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on October 8, 2025. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)

Trump’s crackdown on the left has decades of precedent

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President Donald Trump delivers an address to the nation on Dec. 17, 2025. (Doug Mills - Pool/Getty Images)

Trump’s primetime speech was a master class in gaslighting

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Former Sen. Doug Jone speaks at the 60th anniversary of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on Sept. 15, 2023. (Butch Dill - Pool/Getty Images)

Will Doug Jones pull off another Alabama miracle in 2026?

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., attends a news conference on the government shutdown on Oct. 8, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Mike Johnson’s speakership is in trouble

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Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in the Oval Office on Aug. 25, 2025. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump could ring in the new year with a Cabinet shake-up

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Donald Trump places the FIFA Peace Prize around his neck after receiving it from FIFA President Gianni Infantino. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

FIFA’s phony “peace prize” can’t redeem Donald Trump

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President Donald Trump attends a Cabinet Meeting at the White. House on Aug. 26, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

A desperate Trump puts his racism on full display

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to the White House on Nov. 2, 2025 after taking off from Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Florida. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Trump’s war on drugs includes some notable exceptions

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President Donald Trump in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Oct. 17, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The Trump train — and its conductor — are losing steam

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Elon Musk during a Cabinet meeting at the White House, March 24, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s beloved DOGE has closed. But its legacy is deadly

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Donald Trump, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The truth about Trump is sinking in for his MAGA followers

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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks on stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

What is up with Marjorie Taylor Greene?

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