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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.

Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kevin McCarthy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Don’t let the leaks fool you: Marjorie Taylor Greene — not Kevin McCarthy — leads the House GOP

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Mark Meadows and Jason Miller (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Brainstorming a coup: Meadows’ text reveal the anatomy of Trump’s Big Lie

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Elon Musk's Tweet displayed on a screen and Twitter logo displayed on a phone screen are seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on April 14, 2022. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Twitter should have died long ago — let Elon Musk take it out back and shoot it

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Donald Trump | Children in a classroom (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans want kids to be bullies like Trump: The hidden agenda of the right’s attack on SEL

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Kevin McCarthy’s anti-democratic demise: How Donald Trump successfully sabotaged the modern GOP

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Donald Trump (Getty Images/Saul Loeb/Salon)

Sorry, New York Times: Republicans aren’t “concerned” about democracy — they want to destroy it

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Donald Trump and the "Libs of TikTok" logo (Photo illustration by Salon/SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images/Twitter/@libsoftiktok)

Libs of TikTok: The Twitter troll who took Trump’s place

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A view of the entrance of Walt Disney World on March 22, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. (Octavio Jones/Getty Images)

Bullying Mickey Mouse: Rejected by the public, Republicans take their anger out on Disney

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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Banning math books and attacking libraries: Republicans ramp up their mission to spread ignorance

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Minx (Photograph by Courtesy of HBO Max)

“Minx” is a breezy good time reminding the left to reclaim the lost politics of pleasure

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Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s threat to take over Twitter: Trolls — not “cancel culture” — are ruining discourse

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Police gather at the scene of a shooting at the 36 St subway station on April 12, 2022 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. According to authorities, at least 29 people were reportedly injured, including 10 with gunshot wounds, during a shooting at the 36th Street and Fourth Avenue station in the Sunset Park neighborhood. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Media blows New York subway shooting story

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Ron DeSantis and Vladimir Putin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans follow Putin’s playbook: Target LGBTQ rights first

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A person holds a banner referring to the Qanon conspiracy theory during a alt-right rally on August 17, 2019 in Portland, Oregon (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

The goal of the GOP’s QAnon-influenced “groomer” troll: More political violence

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U.S. President Donald Trump and American evangelical Christian preacher Andrew Brunson (L) participate in a prayer in the Oval Office a day after Brunson was released from a Turkish jail, at the White House on October 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Hiding in plain sight: How Donald Trump became the most powerful religious leader on the right

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Supporters of President Donald J. Trump before the start of the rally. At the Reading Regional Airport in Bern Township, PA Saturday afternoon October 31, 2020 where United States President Donald J. Trump spoke during a campaign rally for his bid for reelection. (Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images)

Boycotting Disney and Oreos: The red flags that MAGA is a cult

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An American flag and a pride rainbow flag overlap in the crowd during a same-sex marriage support rally in West Hollywood celebrate the Supreme Court’s ruling on June 26, 2015 (Getty Images/Joe Kohen)

Tennessee’s child marriage bill pushes another purpose: Gutting same-sex marriage

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during his address to the nation at the Kremlin in Moscow on February 21, 2022. (ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

Putin’s war crimes — and his military failures — are making his GOP apologists squirm

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Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker and former president Donald J Trump hold a Save America rally in Perry, GA, United States on September 25, 2021 (Peter Zay/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump’s “hole-in-one” and Herschel Walker’s “degree”: Why MAGA loves lies too big to be believed

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Disney employee Nicholas Maldonado holds a sign while protesting outside of Walt Disney World on March 22, 2022 in Orlando, Florida. (Octavio Jones/Getty Images)

Disney hysteria and litter boxes: Republicans’ deeply odd war on LGBTQ people escalates

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Madison Cawthorn and Kevin McCarthy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Madison Cawthorn’s cocaine-and-orgies brouhaha blows up the GOP’s QAnon plan

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U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland | Protesters gather outside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Merrick Garland is ignoring the DOJ’s original mission: Battling seditionists like Donald Trump

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Ron DeSantis and Marjorie Taylor Greene | Demonstrators in favor of LGBT rights rally outside the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Florida’s “don’t say gay” bill is just the beginning: Republicans want to claw back all gay rights

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Virginia and Clarence Thomas | Supporters of the "Peoples Convoy" wave US flags as the truck convoy heads east on Interstate Highway 70, on March 1, 2022, near St. Jacob, Illinois (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ginni Thomas and the truckers’ convoy: Why the right seeks refuge in conspiracy theories

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