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Racial harassment ignored under Trump

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Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher speaks about her memoir in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump is whitewashing American history

Chauncey DeVega
Pam Bondi's DOJ plans to send election monitors to 6 blue counties. Critics claim it's a partisan intimidation tactic. (Alex Wong / Getty Images)

DOJ to send election monitors to NJ, CA

CK Smith
Demonstrators protest against conversion therapy outside Supreme Court on Oct. 7, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

How SCOTUS erased abuse of LGBTQ kids

Amanda Marcotte
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and President Donald Trump speak to reporters before touring a migrant detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz." (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Florida is MAGA's autocracy laboratory

Chauncey DeVega
Federal immigration agents near MacArthur Park in Los Angeles on July 7, 2025. (Carlin Steihl/Los Angeles Times)

Trump tightens his authoritarian grip

Chauncey DeVega
Mavis Staples performs during the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024 (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

Mavis Staples' gospel of resistance

Chauncey DeVega
Pam Bondi, former Florida Attorney General, speaks during a press conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump will target all Americans' rights

Chauncey DeVega
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A protester holds a placard with the colours of the trans pride flag in support of a trans rights during the demonstration. (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Dems' shameful retreat on trans rights

David Masciotra
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Decades of civil rights advancement gone

Peter Phillips
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press after signing two executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump's opening assault on diversity

Tatyana Tandanpolie
US President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

No one in MAGA cares about "merit"

Amanda Marcotte
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Kamala Harris | US Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Kamala can fight SCOTUS — and win

Paul Rosenberg
Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Antonin Scalia within a John Trumbell painting of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

"Originalism": White supremacy in robes

Paul Rosenberg
André Holland in "The Big Cigar" (Apple TV+)

Hollywood, a fake film & Huey P. Newton

Nardos Haile
Beyoncé accepts the Innovator Award onstage during the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre on April 01, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

What Beyoncé's "Blackbird" cover means

Nardos Haile
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Killer Mike on "The View" (ABC/Lou Rocco)

"All my heroes have been in handcuffs"

Nardos Haile
Joy-Ann Reid (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Joy Reid on Trump and the "two Americas"

Dean Obeidallah
District Attorney of Fulton County, Georgia, Fani Willis (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why this is happening in Atlanta

Christopher Sellers
Schoolchildren and students demonstrated in the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, on May, 02, 1963, during a civil disobedience campaign to protest against racial segregation. (AFP via Getty Images)

America's racial history: Truth matters

Caleb Elfenbein
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Participants march and chant slogans at a rally protesting the Supreme Court's ruling against affirmative action on Harvard University Campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the United States, on July 1, 2023. (Ziyu Julian Zhu/Xinhua via Getty Images)

The next campus battle: Legacy admission

Chauncey DeVega
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to a crowd during a campaign event on July 1, 2023 in Pickens, South Carolina. The former president faces a growing list of primary challengers in the Republican Party. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

Trump's "Agenda 47" is no joke

Chauncey DeVega
Clarence Thomas and John Roberts (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

SCOTUS mission: Make US in GOP's image

Chauncey DeVega
Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump's terrifying emails offer a clue

Chauncey DeVega
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