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Vice President JD Vance (Oliver Contreras / AFP via Getty Images)

The strategy behind Vance’s demon talk

Amanda Marcotte
President Donald Trump addresses the nation on Dec. 17, 2025. (Doug Mills / POOL / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s dangerous moral crusade

Chauncey DeVega
Sen. John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will advance to a May 26 run-off to determine the Lone Star State's GOP Senate nominee (Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Danielle Villasana / Richard Rodriguez)

Texas primary shows MAGA loves a villain

Amanda Marcotte
Faith leaders pray over President Donald Trump during a 'Evangelicals for Trump' campaign event held at the King Jesus International Ministry on Jan. 3, 2020 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Evangelicals won't dump Trump over race

Amanda Marcotte
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A United States and Christian flag are sandwiched together (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Sorry, GOP. There's no Christian revival

Amanda Marcotte
Allie Beth Stuckey on the set of Candace Owens' show on Dec. 6, 2021. (Jason Davis/Getty Images)

MAGA's war on empathy began with a woman

Amanda Marcotte
Second Lady Usha Vance delivers remarks to military personnel and their families in Jacksonville, North Carolina, on Nov. 19, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Usha Vance doesn't do dishes

Amanda Marcotte
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Taxing churches is a bad idea

Katherine Kelaidis
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Erika Kirk and Vice President JD Vance share an embrace at a Turning Point USA event in Oxford, Mississippi, on Oct. 29, 2025. (Brad Vest/Getty Images)

Why JD and Erika's hug made tongues wag

Amanda Marcotte
President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth are greeted by 18th Airborne Corps Commander Lt. Gen. Gregory Anderson on June 10, 2025 at Fort Bragg, N.C. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Next in Trump's crosshairs? Nigeria

Heather Digby Parton
Vice President JD Vance and his wife Usha (front row, left) have been raising their family with interfaith values - her Hindu background and his recent Catholic faith. They appear at many events together, even a public mass, but now, Vance expresses his desire for Usha to convert to Christianity. But did he mean Catholic Christianity or Christian evangelicalism? Hindus and Catholics are left questioning his comment. (Alessandra Benedetti - Corbis / Corbis via Getty Images)

Vance wishes Usha becomes a Christian

CK Smith
Riley Gaines speaks during the 10X Ladies Conference on Aug. 15, 2025 in Aventura, Florida. (Ivan Apfel/Getty Images)

Riley Gaines and the demonic trans panic

Amanda Marcotte
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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a press conference on Oct. 10, 2025. (nna Rose Layden/Getty Images)

Mike Johnson's support may be eroding

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

Trump’s new role: Prosperity preacher

Chauncey DeVega
An attendee prays at the memorial service for political activist Charlie Kirk at State Farm Stadium on Sept. 21, 2025 in Glendale, Ariz. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Christian music shows MAGA's limitations

Amanda Marcotte
Erika Kirk speaks during the memorial service for her husband, right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, on Sept. 21, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Erika Kirk can’t keep Charlie’s audience

Amanda Marcotte
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Secretary of Defense of Pete Hegseth and his wife Jennifer in Warsaw, Poland on Feb. 14, 2025. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto) (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Pete Hegseth's wife plays his babysitter

Amanda Marcotte
Donald Trump holding a bible (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump would rather talk about his soul

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump | A supporter of President Donald Trump prays outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Trump keeps talking about heaven

Chauncey DeVega
Dr. James Dobson (R), founder of the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family, participates in the National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House on May 3, 2007. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

James Dobson left behind a cruel legacy

Heather Digby Parton
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Kim Davis (AP/Timothy D. Easley)

How the GOP plans to end gay marriage

Amanda Marcotte
American Flag And Bible (Getty Images/ehrlif)

The battle for the Bible — and America

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Praise event in a local Church (Getty Images/middelveld)

IRS payola will backfire on evangelicals

Amanda Marcotte
Supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump gather outside the courthouse where former U.S. President Donald Trump will arrive later in the day for his arraignment on April 4, 2023 in New York City. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Trump as Jesus: MAGA jumps the shark

Chauncey DeVega
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