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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.

Supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump pray outside the U.S. Capitol January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

“The apocalyptic mindset is Republican orthodoxy at this point:” How paranoia consumed the GOP

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Cigarette butts and an empty pack of Newports sit in an ashtray outside of the Hart Senate Office Building (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images)

Getting lung cancer to own the libs: House Republicans want to make smoking great again

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Donald Trump VS the US Constitution (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

It’s not just Trump: A sobering new report chronicles the extensive GOP war on democracy

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and U.S. President Donald Trump attend a legislation signing rally with local farmers on February 19, 2020 in Bakersfield, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

House GOP sets its top priority: Covering up for Donald Trump’s crime spree

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks to reporters as she leaves the U.S. Capitol. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to be a mainstream Republican now. Sadly, the media will let it happen

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Marjorie Taylor Greene and Jim Jordan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Call it the Conspiracy Theory Congress: Things are about to get dangerously weird on Capitol Hill

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Reps. Lou Correa, D-Calif., left, Susan Wild, D-Pa., and Jason Crow, D-Colo., on phone, take cover as rioters disrupt the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote in the House chamber of U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Two years after January 6, the House Speaker fight may be encouraging more domestic terrorism

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U.S. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) (C) walks among members of the House in between roll call votes for Speaker of the House of the 118th Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol Building on January 03, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

McCarthy debacle comes with a lesson: There’s a downside to being a party of fascist trolls

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Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

The GOP is about to go wild with phony Biden investigations. The media must not take the bait

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Tucker Carlson; Ron DeSantis and Brett Kavanaugh (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The hell with “compassionate conservatism”: In 2023, expect all MAGA sadism, all the time

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Kari Lake (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Kari Lake’s “forever coup” is what the future looks like — until we start to see real consequences

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U.S. Representative-elect George Santos (R-NY) speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition annual leadership meeting on November 19, 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

George Santos is the Republican Party’s future: A shameless con man

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Thumb down or dislike button on keyboard (Getty Images/fongfong2)

A resolution for 2023: Time to say no to the “woke wars”

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the US Congress flanked by US Vice President Kamala Harris (L) and US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on December 21, 2022. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Zelenskyy visit exposes a GOP rift — between actual fascists and everyone else

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Former President Donald Trump (Emily Elconin/Getty Images)

The GOP elite wants to brand Trump a loser — the humiliating release of his tax returns could help

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Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Proud Boys leader may be on trial — but his thugs are still on the street causing trouble

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US Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and US Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA) participate in the final US House Select Committee hearing to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on December 19, 2022. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

The Jan. 6 committee makes their final plea: Prosecuting Trump will be hard, but morally necessary

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Tesla head Elon Musk (Maja Hitij/Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s censorship spree exposes the fundamental flaw in the right’s definition of “free speech”

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Elon Musk, left center, and Wendell P. Weeks, right center, listen to President Donald Trump, right, as he meets with business leaders at the White House on Monday January 23, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

How Trump and Elon build their cults: Exploiting right-wing insecurity

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Salon's Favorite Books of 2022 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Harper Collins/Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster/Stanford University Press)

Salon’s favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction

Erin Keane, Troy Farah, Matthew Rozsa, Ashlie D. Stevens, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Amanda Marcotte, D. Watkins, Kelly McClure, Alison Stine, Hanh Nguyen, Andrew O'Hehir, Chauncey DeVega
Michael Anderson, a survivor of the Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs, listens during a House Oversight Committee hearing titled "The Rise of Anti-LGBTQI+ Extremism and Violence in the United States" at the Rayburn House Office Building on December 14, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Republicans want to blame Club Q shooting and other hate crimes, baselessly, on police defunding

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Terrence A. Duffy, CEO of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Sam Bankman-Fried (in focus), CEO of FTX US Derivatives, Christopher Edmonds, chief development officer of the Intercontinental Exchange, and Christopher Perkins, president of CoinFund, testify during the House Agriculture Committee hearing titled Changing Market Roles: The FTX Proposal and Trends in New Clearinghouse Models, in Longworth Building on Thursday, May 12, 2022 (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Cryptocurrency was always a scam — powered by white male privilege

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US Women National Basketball Association's (WNBA) basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, is escorted to the courtroom to hear the court's final decision in Khimki outside Moscow, on August 4, 2022. (KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/AFP via Getty Images)

Right wing attacks on Brittney Griner are part of a larger — and unhinged — backlash to LGBTQ rights

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Dr. Oz, Herschel Walker, Stewart Rhodes, Donald Trump and Kari Lake (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

2022 was a bad year for MAGA Republicans: Here are the GOP’s 5 biggest faceplants

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