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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on election night in the East Room of the White House in the early morning hours of November 04, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump spoke shortly after 2am with the presidential race against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden still too close to call. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump's clown coup: Scary! But failing

Amanda Marcotte

Trump had many tools at hand for a coup — SCOTUS, Bill Barr, the GOP Senate — but went with Twitter "declarations"

U.S. Attorney General William Barr testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in the Congressional Auditorium at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center July 28, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

DOJ's “Radical reinterpretation" of law

Igor Derysh

An email sent by an official raises the “specter of the federal government intimidating local election officials"

Rupert Murdoch and Jared Kushner (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Jared wants Murdoch to retract Fox call

Igor Derysh

Trump supporters outside of a Phoenix vote-counting center chanted "Fox News sucks" after it projected Biden to win

Sen. Martha McSally (R-AZ) speaks to the crowd with President Donald Trump at a rally at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum on February 19, 2020 in Phoenix, Arizona. President Trump says he will be visiting Arizona frequently in the lead up to the 2020 election. (Caitlin O'Hara/Getty Images)

How Trump blew his chances in Arizona

Matthew Chapman - Raw Story

Aides also faulted Trump for spending so much time attacking the late Sen. John McCain, a beloved icon in the state

(Getty/Mark Wallheiser)

"Step back!"

Cody Fenwick - Alternet

While Trump is disputing the ballot counting, his supporters are trying to cause chaos at election centers

Trump supporters gather in a Long Island Rail Road parking lot before driving in cars as part of a caravan on October 18, 2020 in Seaford, New York. The group Long Island Loud Majority organized a car caravan ride from Seaford to Montauk to show their support for President Trump and his reelection in November. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

How journalism can tackle this crisis

Dan Froomkin - Press Watch

Even if Donald Trump loses, we must face that journalism has failed once again. What has happened to America?

Milena Abreu, County Judge, and Victoria Ferrer, County Judge, inspect a Vote-by-Mail ballot for a valid signature as Miami-Dade County Canvassing Board convenes ahead of the November 3rd general election at the Miami-Dade County Elections Department on October 15, 2020 in Doral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

GOP tries to prevent ballot "curing"

Dara Lind, Jessica Huseman, Justin Elliott, Isaac Arnsdorf, Lydia DePillis, Ash Ngu, Sally Beauvais - ProPublica

Whether the GOP can stop voters from legally fixing rejected mail-in ballots could decide the election

An election worker accepts mail in ballot from a voter at drive-through mail ballot drop off site at NRG Stadium on October 7, 2020 in Houston, Texas. Gov. Gregg Abbott issued an executive order limiting each Texan county to one mail ballot drop-off site due to the pandemic. (Go Nakamura/Getty Images)

5 things to watch on Nov 3 in Texas

Alex Samuels, Patrick Svitek - The Texas Tribune

Texas played host to a series of high-stakes contests up and down the ballot

Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Joe Biden gestures during a campaign stop outside Johnstown Train Station September 30, 2020 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

US official out of Paris agreement

Angely Mercado - Grist

As of November 4, the U.S. is officially withdrawn from the 2016 Paris climate agreement

Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

An embarrassing failure for pollsters

W. Joseph Campbell - The Conversation

Polls predicted a "blue wave" that didn't materialize

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden along with his wife Jill Biden speaks during election night at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Delaware, early on November 4, 2020. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Americans voted for climate progress

Carl Pope

Joe Biden's administration will immediately move us back into the Paris accords. That's a real accomplishment

A Utah County Election worker picks up mailed ballots from the United States Postal Service office on October 26, 2020 in Provo, Utah. Utah is one of several states that has recently moved to mail-in ballots for presidential elections. (Photo by (George Frey/Getty Images)

USPS missed thousands of ballots: report

Matthew Rozsa

But there may be an innocuous explanation for ballots being delayed or lost

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden speaks the day after Americans voted in the presidential election Day on November 04, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware. Biden spoke as votes are still being counted in his tight race against incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump which remains too close to call. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Biden stands on the edge of victory

Roger Sollenberger

For all his bluster, Trump is out of options: He must win every remaining state to hold the White House

Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and the NYT poll dials (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/NYT)

Why pollsters blew it again

Matthew Rozsa

Salon reached out to top political scientists to get their thoughts on why polls overestimated Biden's support

Warnings on Donald Trump's Facebook and Twitter posts, that label his words as inaccurate or disinformation (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Facebook/Twitter)

Trump's tweets get warning labels

Nicole Karlis

Both major social media platforms are struggling to fight the president's attempts to undermine democracy

Susan Collins / Sara Gideon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Sara Gideon concedes to Susan Collins

Roger Sollenberger

The hotly contested race was widely seen as a referendum on President Trump and Brett Kavanaugh

Trump Rally | Womens' March (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

What does it mean to be "American"?

Amanda Marcotte

Trump voters can't bring back America's past — but they'd rather destroy the nation than embrace its future

Joe Biden and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump seeks recount, sues as Biden leads

Igor Derysh

The Trump campaign demanded a recount in Wisconsin while suing to stop ballot counting in Pennsylvania and Michigan

Woman glaring at laptop (Getty Images)

Surviving election night by not watching

Mary Elizabeth Williams

I took a tip from the Greeks and resisted the sweet media Sirens' song that would've spelled my destruction

Fox News Democracy 2020 logo (Fox News / Twitter)

Fox News' purple haze on election night

Melanie McFarland

In a "Fox News Democracy," authoritarian moves to delegitimize the election aren't condemned so much as mainlined

Rideshare driver Jorge Vargas raises his No on 22 sign in support as app based gig workers held a driving demonstration with 60-70 vehicles blocking Spring Street in front of Los Angeles City Hall urging voters to vote no on Proposition 22, a November ballot measure that would classify app-based drivers as independent contractors and not employees or agents, providing them with an exemption from Californias AB 5. (Al Seib / Los Angeles Times)

In labor setback, Prop 22 wins in Calif.

Nicole Karlis

Labor experts fear Proposition 22 will "lock in a permanent underclass of workers" in the Golden State

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press at General Mitchell International Airport November 2, 2020, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

We will survive the Trump trauma

Heather Digby Parton

This election is an agonizing nail-biter — but not a 2016 rerun. Trump knows that, and he's losing his sh*t

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on election night in the East Room of the White House in the early morning hours of November 04, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump spoke shortly after 2am with the presidential race against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden still too close to call. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

However it ends, racism has already won

Chauncey DeVega

America has shown a fidelity to white supremacy we can't dismiss, regardless of the election's final outcome

(Getty/Brendan Smialowski)

Will nothing stop Trump?

Steven Rosenfeld - Independent Media Institute

Will the election and legal system withstand the coming test?

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