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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.

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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Robert F Kennedy Jr. and Aaron Rodgers (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

RFK Jr. and Aaron Rodgers: How con artists exploit male insecurity for political gain

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U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s MAGA movement is causing Republicans in Congress to hate each other

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Donald Trump, Lara Trump and Ronna McDaniel (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s RNC purge: His obsession with “loyalty” is as dumb as it is evil

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, Katie Britt and Nancy Mace (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republican women don’t care about rape victims

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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)

Biden said Republicans oppose women’s rights — Katie Britt’s “tradwife” response proved him right

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Unveiling the reality of the Tradwife movement (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Tradwives” offer an alluring vision of right-wing Christianity — online warriors are fighting back

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Mark Robinson, Donald Trump and Nikki Haley (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Nikki Haley never had a chance — as Republicans’ bonkers candidate for North Carolina governor shows

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Former president Donald Trump speaks after he was projected to be the New Hampshire primary winner during a watch party on Tuesday, January 23, 2024 at Sheraton Nashua in Nashua, NH. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump is degenerating before our eyes — MAGA voters don’t notice or don’t care

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Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on February 24, 2024 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“They frankly laugh behind the backs of their own voters”: How Republicans bamboozle rural whites

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Republican presidential candidate, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley speaks at a campaign event at Clemson University at Greenville on February 20, 2024 in Greenville, South Carolina. (Allison Joyce/Getty Images)

Alabama’s targeting of IVF is the Christian right’s attempt to control motherhood

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In this pool photograph distributed by Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin gives an interview to US talk show host Tucker Carlson at the Kremlin in Moscow on February 6, 2024. (GAVRIIL GRIGOROV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

James Comer and Tucker Carlson aren’t fooled by Russian lies — they’re complicit

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Donald Trump may not believe in God, but he still plans to turn America into a Christian theocracy

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Woman with small child in her hands doing housekeeping while man sitting in couch and relaxing (Getty Images/grinvalds)

“A man will say he’s a feminist but he doesn’t wipe the counters”: Lyz Lenz on the beauty of divorce

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