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Amanda Marcotte is a senior politics writer at Salon and the author of "Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself." Follow her on Bluesky @AmandaMarcotte and sign up for her biweekly politics newsletter, Standing Room Only.

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Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem at a roundtable discussion on Jan. 7, 2026 in Brownsville, Texas.

How Kristi Noem turned ICE into the Proud Boys

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Businesses boarded up in Minneapolis display posters of Renee Nicole Good following her fatal shooting by an ICE agent. (Kerem YUCEL / AFP via Getty Images)

Resistance moms will save us

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Barron Trump waves during an indoor inauguration parade on Jan. 20, 2025. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

MAGA is weirdly thirsty for Barron Trump

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Federal agents stand guard as they are confronted by residents on November 06, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

ICE is not the victim

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

Sorry, GOP. There’s no Christian revival

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MAGA influencer Nick Shirley speaks during a roundtable discussion on antifa at the White House on Oct. 8, 2025. ( Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Minnesota day care hoax is fueled by MAGA psychosexual weirdness

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., at a House committee hearing on Dec. 11, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Marjorie Taylor Greene bets the Republican troll era is over

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Nick Fuentes, an avowed "intel" and white supremacist, speaks to supporters on June 15, 2024.

The right hit peak incel in 2025

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A billboard in Times Square calls for the release of the Epstein files on July 23, 2025 in New York City. (Adam Gray/Getty Images)

In 2025, Epstein showed MAGA who they really are

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Vice President JD Vance speaks at Turning Point USA's annual AmericaFest conference on Dec. 21, 2025. ( Caylo Seals/Getty Images)

JD Vance’s 2028 strategy: Be even worse than Trump

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President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One on Dec. 17, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s favorite excuse in 2025: “I don’t know”

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Construction on Trump's enormous ballroom began this week. Not everyone was pleased about it. Even on Fox News. (Salwan Georges / The Washington Post / Getty Images)

The White House ballroom will never be built

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President Donald Trump prepares to speak at the White House on Dec. 16, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Republicans are quiet quitting on Trump

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Erika Kirk speaks onstage during The New York Times DealBook Summit 2025 on Dec. 3. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images for The New York Times))

The Erika Kirk and Candace Owens feud is tearing MAGA apart

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, takes the stage during a rally featuring California Gov. Gavin Newsom in Houston on Nov. 8, 2025. (Jason Fochtman/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

GOP will regret pushing Jasmine Crockett to run for the Senate

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Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump walks on stage to speak on the fourth day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 18, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump’s reality TV tricks can’t hide the affordability crisis

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“Rage bait” as Word of the Year? It’s a reason for hope

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Pete Hegseth’s “warrior ethos” is plain old cowardice

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

MAGA’s war on empathy was started by a woman

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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 — so why the wedding ring excuse?

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Donald Trump and Charlie Kirk at America Fest 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. (JOSH EDELSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Charlie Kirk’s death is tearing MAGA apart

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The online clip factory that’s radicalizing teen boys

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President Donald Trump rests his eyes during an event in the Oval Office on Nov. 6, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

How Trump’s MRI spurred the Epstein vote

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Don’t blame women for men’s loneliness. Blame capitalism

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