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A protester holds a sign reading "Democracy Not Trumpocracy" during a rally in front of the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 2025. (HOSSEIN FATEMI/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

How conspiracy theory gave us Trump

Chauncey DeVega
Oklahoma City police officers salute 19 April during a moment of silence at a memorial service held on the first anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building as they face the fence surrounding the bomb site. In the background are buildings destroyed in the blast that killed 168 adults and children. (CHRIS WILKINS/AFP via Getty Images)

Far-right violence and U.S. presidents

William Parkin, Jeff Gruenewald, Colleen Mills
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) asks questions during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to discuss election security and the 2020 election process on December 16, 2020 in Washington, DC. U.S. President Donald Trump continues to push baseless claims of voter fraud during the presidential election, which Chris Krebs called the most secure in American history. (Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)

Hawley's history of picking extremists

David Edwards - Raw Story
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Don't tie immigration reform to El Paso

César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández
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The author's father, Randall Coyne, visiting Timothy McVeigh at the Denver courthouse during the trial. (Courtesy of the author)

Best of 2017: McVeigh, my dad & me

Marley Coyne
The author's father, Randall Coyne, visiting Timothy McVeigh at the Denver courthouse during the trial. (courtesy of the author)

Timothy McVeigh, my dad and me

Marley Coyne
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Post-Bundy, militias thrive

Paul Rosenberg
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Obama's dangerous blind spot

David Sirota
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The author's daughter, Ashley Megan Eckles, and Martin Richard, who died in the Boston bombing. (AP/Bill Richard)

"It wasn't your fault"

Kathleen Aniol Treanor
Firefighters check a destroyed apartment complex near the fertilizer plant that exploded earlier in West, Texas, in this photo made early Thursday, April 18, 2013. (AP/LM Otero)

John L. Mone, Michael Brick
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