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Topic: Big Lie

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)

The con behind nationalizing elections

Chauncey DeVega
A Fulton county worker moves a stack of absentee ballots at State Farm Arena on November 6, 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia. The 2020 presidential race between incumbent U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden is still too close to call with outstanding ballots in a number of states including Georgia. (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

Conservative researcher tied to Ga. raid

Doug Bock Clark - ProPublica
Voting booths are set up at the Orange County Supervisor of Elections Office on the first day of early voting for the 2022 midterm general election in Orlando. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

A bulwark against nationalized elections

Alexander Shur, Votebeat - Votebeat
Sidney Powell (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

FBI raid gives Sidney Powell an encore

Heather Digby Parton
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President Donald Trump is facing criticism from Republicans over his administration's handling of two shooting deaths by federal agents in Minneapolis. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP via Getty Images)

The GOP wonders what's wrong with Trump

Brian Karem
Attorney General Pam Bondi has demanded sensitive voting information from Minnesota and nearly two dozen other states. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)

Pam Bondi's Minneapolis shakedown

Sophia Tesfaye
Donald Trump takes questions at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 22, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump is causing MAGA collateral damage

Sophia Tesfaye
House Speaker Mike Johnson shakes hands with President Donald Trump. (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

House GOP seeks to rewrite Jan. 6

Heather Digby Parton
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Donald Trump and John Eastman (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

John Eastman's downfall continues

Austin Sarat, Neil Goteiner
U.S. Senator and 2024 Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance speaks during a campaign event at the Milwaukee Police Association in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 16, 2024. (ALEX WROBLEWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

JD's Big Lie is even more fascist

Amanda Marcotte
John Roberts | Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP election chicanery quietly picks up

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump | The U.S. Supreme Court Building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Supreme Court gives Trump dictator power

Amanda Marcotte
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Virginia Thomas, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

If not impeachment, recusal

Sabrina Haake
Former U.S. President Donald Trump attends his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 3, 2024 in New York City. (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

Trump's lawyers treat jury like MAGA

Amanda Marcotte
Brett Kavanaugh; Donald Trump (Getty/Salon)

SCOTUS sounds sold on Trump's Big Lie

Heather Digby Parton
Former US President Donald Trump arrives to attend the wake for New York Police Department (NYPD) Officer Jonathan Diller in Massapequa, Long Island, New York, on March 28, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

The police providing Trump cover

Heather Digby Parton
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Lara Trump speaks at the NCGOP state convention as former U.S. President Donald Trump on June 5, 2021 in Greenville, North Carolina. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)

GOP embraces the failed Big Lie strategy

Amanda Marcotte
Alex Jones outside court in "The Truth vs. Alex Jones" (HBO)

Our loss and "The Truth Vs. Alex Jones"

Melanie McFarland
Donald Trump, a painting of the Confederate army losing and the January 6, 2021 US Capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump the Confederate

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

Trump's up in polls — but he may blow it

Amanda Marcotte
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media during an election night event at Mar-a-Lago on November 08, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump loses bigly on the "Big Lie"

Austin Sarat, Dennis Aftergut
Donald Trump (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's CNN lawsuit dismissed

Kelly McClure
Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel speaks at a campaign rally, Oct. 16, 2022. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

16 charged in Trump fake elector scheme

Ashlie D. Stevens
Former New York City Mayor and former personal lawyer for President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, arrives at the U.S. District Court on May 19, 2023 in Washington, DC. Giuliani is sued by election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss of Fulton County, Georgia, for defamation. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Giuliani's downfall — and why it matters

Austin Sarat
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