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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.

Arizona Republican Senate Candidate Kari Lake speaks with reporters after leaving the office of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Capitol Hill on March, 6 2024 in Washington, DC. Sen. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

“You can go three hours that way”: Kari Lake and Arizona GOP can’t decide if abortion is bad or not

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Former US President Donald Trump attends the second day of his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments linked to extramarital affairs, at Manhattan Criminal Court in New York City on April 16, 2024. (MARK PETERSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Sleepy Don’s dilemma: Napping in court could help Trump win the case, but it hurts him with his base

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump appears ahead of the start of jury selection at Manhattan Criminal Court on April 15, 2024 in New York City. (Jabin Botsford-Pool/Getty Images)

Donald Trump was already a mess — now he’s falling asleep during his own trial

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Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s right to fear Stormy Daniels — she could be a devastating witness

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MAGA Alpha Male (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Latest “masculinity influencer”: Another dudebro guiding followers into deeper loneliness

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Kari Lake, Republican Senate candidate from Arizona, leaves the U.S. Capitol after a meeting with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., on Wednesday, March 6, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Kari Lake and her fellow Republicans can’t run from Arizona’s draconian abortion ban

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Former President Donald Trump speaks at the New York Young Republican Club Gala at Cipriani Wall Street on December 09, 2023 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Trump busts the myth behind the MAGA rich

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Trump supporters pray as they await the arrival of President Donald Trump at Latrobe Airport on September 3, 2020 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Evangelicals won’t be bothered by Trump’s abortion gambit — they know he’s lying

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People eat in a restaurant sidewalk shed on Mott Street in Little Italy in New York City. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

Men punching random women in NYC: A desperate last gasp of the male rage fueling MAGA

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Charlie Kirk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Screws up female brains”: MAGA leaders are conditioning Republicans to back birth control bans

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Mike Lindell, Kari Lake and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Evicted, arrested and being sued by the boss: When will MAGA learn loyalty to Trump ends in sorrow?

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Donald Trump | Empty jury booth (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Donald Trump acts terrified to face a jury. He should be scared

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump and Mike Johnson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Fake right-wing panic about “trans” Easter is part of Trump’s push for Christian nationalism

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Senator Katie Britt (R-AL) speaks during the Senate Appropriations Committee hearing on the Special Diabetes Program on July 11, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images for JDRF)

“Stand where he tells you to stand”: Why the GOP is doubling down on misogyny in 2024

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Lara Trump speaks at the NCGOP state convention as former U.S. President Donald Trump on June 5, 2021 in Greenville, North Carolina. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)

Lara Trump’s Big Lie hiring: Republicans stick with loser strategy that failed them in 2020 and 2022

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

Trump Bibles make a mockery of Christianity — and that’s exactly why MAGA will eat them up

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Erin Hawley, a Missouri attorney representing the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, speaks to the media as she departs the Supreme Court following oral arguments in the case of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine on March 26, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Rose Layden/Getty Images)

Of course the lawyer trying to ban abortion pills is married to Josh “Run For Your Life” Hawley

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Former President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at 40 Wall Street after a pre-trial hearing on March 25, 2024 in New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Trump loves to play the victim — NY appeals court bailout shows he’s the most coddled person alive

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Micki Witthoeft, mother of Ashli Babbitt, holds a photograph of her late daughter who was killed in the January 6 insurrection, while talking on Capitol Hill on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Newly released transcripts reveal a MAGA betrayal: Donald Trump never cared about Ashli Babbitt

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Donald Trump | Trump Tower (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s criminal cases are his campaign

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Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Supreme Court grants Gov. Greg Abbott’s wish to turn Texas into a far-right dictatorship

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Girl in the kitchen reading recipe book (Getty Images/Kladyk)

White evangelicals embrace raunchy photos — yet they hate sex as much as ever

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Dayton International Airport on March 16, 2024 in Vandalia, Ohio. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Trump’s call for a “bloodbath” was literal — let’s not waste time pretending it was ambiguous

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Chaya Raichik speaking with attendees at the 2023 Young Women's Leadership Summit hosted by Turning Point USA at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas (Flickr / Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 2.0 )

Adult MAGA rage is making schools more dangerous for students

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