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Tatyana Tandanpolie

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Tatyana Tandanpolie is a staff reporter at Salon. Born and raised in central Ohio, she moved to New York City in 2018 to pursue degrees in Journalism and Africana Studies at New York University. She is currently based in her home state and has previously written for local Columbus publications, including Columbus Monthly, CityScene Magazine and The Columbus Dispatch.

People line up for early voting at a polling station at the Black Mountain Public Library in Black Mountain, North Carolina on October 21, 2024. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

“Who’s to say anybody’s vote is safe?”: Trump DOJ targets North Carolina’s voter rolls

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This photograph taken on Independence Square in Kyiv on June 23, 2022 shows U.S. citizen Ryan Wesley Routh sticking up national flags of the countries helping Ukraine. (SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

“This evil man”: The guy accused of trying to kill Trump is about to face Aileen Cannon

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U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy after addressing a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

“We can’t be indifferent”: Former Supreme Court justice warns Americans’ “freedom is at risk”

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Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears speaks during a campaign rally for Donald Trump at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia, on November 2, 2024. (ALLISON JOYCE/AFP via Getty Images)

Fear of “gay blood” and “confused minds”: Virginia Republican touts support from anti-gay preachers

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A makeshift memorial for DFL State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman is seen at the Minnesota State Capitol building on June 16, 2025 in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Steven Garcia/Getty Images)

How Trump and the age of “crass, brutal politics” make extremist violence more likely

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Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on October 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

“The real wild card is Amy Coney Barrett”: The Supreme Court case that could eviscerate trans rights

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during the South Carolina Democratic Party State Convention on Saturday, May 31, 2025 in Columbia, SC. (Sam Wolfe/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“The road to authoritarianism”: Tim Walz says the time for “sternly worded letters” is over

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A member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus holds a picture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a news conference to discuss Abrego Garcia's arrest and deportation at the Cannon House Office Building on April 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

“What American justice looks like”: New federal charges keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia behind bars

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Protesters gather around the William McKinley Monument at the Ohio Capitol building on May 1 during a May Day action focused on public education. (Tatyana Tandanpolie)

“Just three people” took on Ohio education law — and sparked a movement

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, joins DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta (D-PA) and hosts Clay Cane and Reecie Colbert for a SiriusXM Town Hall on May 08, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

“People saw the money being spent”: Jasmine Crockett says wealthy elites bought the Trump presidency

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A child playing at school (Getty Images / Manu Vega)

Hungrier kids, missed check-ups: Trump’s cuts to childcare make it a lot harder to be a parent

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Rachel Cohen, a third-year law associate who resigned over a deal she says her high-powered law firm Skadden Law reached with the Trump administration, speaks during a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Building on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

“This is an existential threat”: Legal experts warn that the rule of law is on the ropes

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Immigrant rights supporters stand after marching to an ICE detention center on International Migrants Day on December 18, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

“Alone and feeling isolated”: The Trump administration is keeping immigrant families apart

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Alina Habba, then-senior advisor to President Donald J. Trump, places a MAGA jacket on the podium as she speaks at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2024 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

“Not with a bang, but a whimper”: Experts say charging NJ Democrat will backfire on Trump DOJ

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Police tape is seen outside the Capital Jewish Museum following a shooting that left two people dead, in Washington, DC, in the early hours of May 22, 2025. (ALEX WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Israeli embassy staffers were likely “targeted” by alleged shooter who yelled “free Palestine”

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An American Airlines plane prepares to land at the Miami International Airport on May 02, 2023 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

“I feel like I’ve lost my country”: Americans who oppose Trump are now looking for the exits

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A man sits outside of Precinct 13 near uptown before the polls open on Election Day 2024 in Charlotte, North Carolina on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. (Logan Cyrus for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“Still angry”: Voters say they won’t forget that the North Carolina GOP tried to trash their ballots

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Deja Foxx attends Global Citizen Festival 2023 at Central Park on September 23, 2023 in New York City. (Kim/Getty Images for Global Citizen)

“Deficit of representation”: How money — and the lack of it — discourages working-class Democrats

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A protestor holds up a sign saying "I Dissent" alongside approximately 3,000 other protestors showing their displeasure for President Trump's policies outside of Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan on April 29, 2025. (Adam J. Dewey/Anadolu via Getty Images)

“Come and join us”: The new resistance welcomes apologetic Trump voters

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A demonstrator helps carry an American flag as immigrants rights supporters march downtown during a 'March for Dignity' on March 01, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

“I ain’t got nothing to say to Donald Trump”: May Day organizers say their message is for Americans

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Attorney Allison Riggs, with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, speaks to the press in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC, on December 7, 2022, after presenting her argument before the court in Moore v. Harper. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

“We will bring this home”: North Carolina Democrats confident they’ll defeat GOP election denial

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Signage for the US government's humanitarian agency USAID is seen on a cargo container beside a tricycle in Manila on February 4, 2025. (JAM STA ROSA/AFP via Getty Images)

From dread to action: Tracking the Trump-Musk death toll from cuts to USAID

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A crest of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seen inside the J. Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington, DC. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

FBI arrests Wisconsin judge for allegedly obstructing ICE arrest at her courthouse

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Abortion-rights supporters face anti-abortion protesters at a rally for reproductive rights at the Texas Capitol on May 14, 2022 in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Montinique Monroe/Getty Images)

Can Texas’ abortion ban be fixed? Skeptics say an effort to “clarify” the law could make it worse

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