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U.S. President Donald Trump salutes as he prepares to board Marine One for Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on the South Lawn of the White House on October 2, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump have both tested positive for coronavirus. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

History of white nationalism in military

Jennifer Spindel, Matt Motta, Robert Ralston - The Conversation
Voters in Virginia's 7th district wait in line to vote at the Henrico County Registrar’s office September 18, 2020 in Henrico, Virginia. Today marks the beginning of Virginia’s early voting program that continues through October 31. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

GOP's war on drop boxes continues

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
A woman places her ballot paper in the box during early voting (Getty Images/Mark Ralston)

Fake GOP ballot boxes may be illegal

Igor Derysh
U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) (Alex Edelman-Pool/Getty Images)

Collins' reforms helped husband's firm

Roger Sollenberger
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Alex Henderson
Donald Trump and Republican States (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump losing ground in red states

Brad Reed - Raw Story
President Donald Trump speaks to supporters at a campaign rally at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport on September 3, 2020 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Trump won Pennsylvania in the 2016 election by a narrow margin. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Critics horrified at drug discount stunt

Alex Henderson - Alternet
A budtender (right) shows cannabis buds to a customer at the Green Pearl Organics dispensary on the first day of legal recreational marijuana sales in Desert Hot Springs, California. (Getty/Robyn Beck)

NJ may be the next state to legalize pot

Phillip Smith - Independent Media Institute
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Pence, COVID & the Christian Right

Amy Littlefield - Truthout
Debate moderator and Fox News anchor Chris Wallace directs the first presidential debate between U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University on September 29, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)

"I’m not making this up"

David Edwards - Raw Story
Sean Conley, Physician to US President Donald Trump, gives an update on the President's health as he is treated for a COVID-19 infection at Walter Reed Medical Center October 4, 2020, in Bethesda, Maryland. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's health and the war on reality

Jared Yates Sexton
Donald Trump | Trump supporters and a man with an assault rifle join demonstrators outside the Pennsylvania Capitol Building to protest the continued closure of businesses due to the coronavirus pandemic on May 15, 2020 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Taking the next knee

Robert Lipsyte - TomDispatch.com
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edics work with a COVID-19 patient at the isolation ward of Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan near the coastal city of Tel Aviv, on July 29, 2020. (JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images)

COVID kills more Americans than 5 wars

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport
Armed members of the far-right Proud Boys groups stand guard during a memorial for Patriot Prayer member Aaron Jay Danielson on September 5, 2020 in Vancouver, Washington. Danielson was shot and killed on Saturday, August 29 during a pro-Trump rally in Portland, Oregon. (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

"A threat to a fair election"

Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams
US President Donald Trump signs an executive order regarding Medicare at Sharon L. Morse Performing Arts Center October 3, 2019, in The Villages, Florida. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)

MAGA retirees finally afraid of COVID

Alex Henderson - Alternet
Over 800 corten-steel monuments, one for each county in the United States where a racial terror lynching took place with the names of the lynching victims engraved on the columns are on display at The National Memorial For Peace And Justice, the nations first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people and people terrorized by lynching in Montgomery, Alabama on July 6, 2018. (Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

Building new monuments for a new America

Elizabeth Alexander
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The Glass Fire burns behind Merus Wines vineyards in Napa Valley, California on September 27, 2020. - The Glass fire grew to 2,500 Acres on the evening of September 27. A heat wave and dry winds create critical weather conditions and mandatory evacuations are in order. (SAMUEL CORUM/AFP via Getty Images)

California's housing policy problem

Elizabeth Weil, Mollie Simon - ProPublica
U.S. President Donald Trump reacts to a question during a news conference in the Briefing Room of the White House on September 27, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Joshua Roberts/Getty Images)

"People have a right to be upset"

Kenny Stancil - Common Dreams
Kamala Harris and Mike Pence (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Veeps played better than their bosses

Terry H. Schwadron - DCReport
Donald Trump | Close-up of mail-in-ballots (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dems: Vote early in battleground states

Steven Hill - The Globalist
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A 67-person Sumpreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"Pack" the Supreme Court? Absolutely

Paul Rosenberg
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence participates in the vice presidential debate against Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) at the University of Utah on October 7, 2020 in Salt Lake City, Utah. The vice presidential candidates only meet once to debate before the general election on November 3. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Pence’s politeness masks ruthlessness

Nicholas Powers - Truthout
Barack Obama and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump DOJ pulls back on policing police

Robert Faturechi - ProPublica
In this handout provided by The White House, President Donald Trump participates in a phone call with Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley in his conference room at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 4, 2020 in Bethesda, Maryland. (Photo edit by Salon/The White House/Getty Images)

The week Trump lost the election

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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