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Topic: Waco

Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump dances onstage after his speech during a campaign rally at the PPL Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on October 29, 2024. (ANGELA WEISS/AFP via Getty Images)

Is Trump's movement a "cult"? Maybe not

Jonathan Hirsch
Michael Shannon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Michael Shannon isn't fooling anybody

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Former President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Waco Regional Airport on March 25, 2023 in Waco, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Waco siege spawned MAGA: I was there

Brian Karem
Police work near the scene of a mass shooting at the Covenant School on March 27, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Brett Carlsen/Getty Images)

The GOP wants you helpless and afraid

Amanda Marcotte
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump dances while exiting after speaking during a rally at the Waco Regional Airport on March 25, 2023 in Waco, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Trump yearns to be an iconic cult leader

Amanda Marcotte
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Waco Regional Airport on March 25, 2023 in Waco, Texas. The day in Waco also marked the 30-year anniversary of the week's deadly standoff involving Branch Davidians and federal law enforcement. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Now Trump threatens Armageddon

Chauncey DeVega
Former President Donald Trump arrives during a rally at the Waco Regional Airport on March 25, 2023. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Trump's road show keeps getting darker

Heather Digby Parton
Supporters of former US President Donald Trump arrive for a 2024 election campaign rally in Waco, Texas, March 25, 2023 (SUZANNE CORDEIRO/AFP via Getty Images)

Ted Nugent opens Trump's Waco rally

Kelly McClure
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The Branch Davidians' Mount Carmel compound outside of Waco, Texas, burns to the ground during the 1993 raid by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF). (Greg Smith/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

Why Donald Trump is going to Waco

Heather Digby Parton
Alex Jones, the founder of right-wing media group Infowars, addresses a crowd of pro-Trump protesters after they storm the grounds of the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Right-wingers still can't get over Waco

Art Jipson, Paul J. Becker - The Conversation
Chris Rock: Tambourine (Netflix)

What's new on Netflix in March

Lily Doton
Taylor Kitsch in "Waco" (Paramount Network)

"Waco" and the humanity behind the story

Melanie McFarland
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Pam Geller (AP/David Karp)

Bikers worship Pam Geller

Heather Digby Parton
Ted Kaczynski, George H.W. Bush (AP/Elaine Thompson/Dennis Cook)

The '90s were absolute hell

Ralph Young
Bill O'Reilly (Fox News)

Your brain on whiteness

Chauncey DeVega
Authorities investigate a shooting in the parking lot of the Twin Peaks restaurant Sunday, May 17, 2015, in Waco, Texas. (AP/Jerry Larson)

White people, meet your thugs

mensah demary
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A McLennan County deputy stands guard near a group of bikers in the parking lot of a Twin Peaks restaurant, May 17, 2015, in Waco, Texas. (AP/Rod Aydelotte)

Good for guns, bad for women

Katie McDonough
(Fox News)

O'Reilly: soft on bike gangs

Joan Walsh
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The other "1 percent"

Joanna Rothkopf
Waco Police Sgt. Patrick Swanton addresses the media as law enforcement continues to investigate the motorcycle gang related shooting at the Twin Peaks restaurant, Monday, May 18, 2015, in Waco, Texas. (AP/Jerry Larson)

Twitter trolls Waco coverage

Joanna Rothkopf
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Authorities investigate a shooting in the parking lot of the Twin Peaks restaurant Sunday, May 17, 2015, in Waco, Texas. Authorities say that the shootout victims were members of rival biker gangs that had gathered for a meeting. (AP/Jerry Larson)

6 things to know about Waco

Joanna Rothkopf
A McLennan County deputy stands guard near a group of bikers in the parking lot of a Twin Peaks restaurant Sunday, May 17, 2015, in Waco, Texas. Waco Police Sgt. W. Patrick Swanton told KWTX-TV there were "multiple victims" after gunfire erupted between rival biker gangs at the restaurant. (Rod Aydelotte/Waco Tribune-Herald via AP) (AP)

Jenny Kutner
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
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, Betsy Blane
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