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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.

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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Sen. Ted Cruz (lower left) (R-TX), Sen. Josh Hawley (top left) (R-MO) and Sen. Marsha Blackburn (top right) (R-TN) confer during a break in testimony for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson at her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill, March 23, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

With their QAnon circus as cover, Republicans covertly unveil plans to undo decades of settled law

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US Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) looks to a display of a children's book on race while speaking during the confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson before the Senate Judiciary Committee on her nomination to be an Associate Justice on the US Supreme Court, in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on March 22, 2022. (Photo illustration by Salon/SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Racist babies: Republicans reduced to white wailing at first Black woman nominated to Supreme Court

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Brett Kavanaugh, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Ted Cruz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ted Cruz turns Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court hearing into rehabilitation of Brett Kavanaugh

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Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) and a QAnon sign in fron of the U.S. Capitol (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans turn Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings into a QAnon circus

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The New York Times Building is seen in New York City on February 4, 2021. (DANIEL SLIM/AFP via Getty Images)

What the New York Times doesn’t get about free speech and “cancel culture”

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Vladimir Putin, Jeanine Pirro, Tucker Carlson and Dr. Anthony Fauci (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Putin’s invasion of Ukraine exposes the Fox News-QAnon feedback loop

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Rear view of large group of students raising their hands to answer the question on a class at elementary school. (Getty Images)

Lesson in bigotry: Conservatives take over the classroom to pull us closer to a gender-less dystopia

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The U.S. Supreme Court is seen on September 02, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

An army of Republican Karens are fighting to end legal abortion in the U.S.

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Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Steve Bannon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP voters finally buck Trump: Republicans unwilling to be Putin’s puppets — for now

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Amy Coney Barrett, Ben Shapiro and Ron DeSantis (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans aren’t content to just “stop” history — they want to erase decades of progress entirely

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Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Kevin McCarthy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

There is no “Putin wing” of the GOP: Why almost no Republican backs Ukraine over Russia

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Enrique Tarrio, leader of the Proud Boys (L) and Joe Biggs (R) gather outside of Harry's bar during a protest on December 12, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

The DOJ is aggressively prosecuting Capitol insurrectionists — and dismantling GOP lies about Jan. 6

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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis | A huge multi-colored flag flies over Ocean Drive as people participate in the Pride Parade, during the Miami Beach Pride Festival, in Lummus Park, South Beach, Florida on September 19, 2021. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Florida Republicans revive deadly “queers recruit” myth with passage of “don’t say gay” bill

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Donald Trump | A group of truck convoy headed to Washington D.C. to from Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States on February 23, 2022 to protest vaccination mandates and in solidarity for Canada. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The “People’s Convoy,” like Trump’s new social media platform, is another right-wing grift gone bust

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“If I do this, what do I have to lose?”: New documents show Trump feared no consequences for a coup

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US Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito and Amy Coney Barrett | Truck Convoy heading to Washington, D.C. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trucker tantrum fizzles out: How the Supreme Court’s anti-vaccine overreach backfired on the GOP

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Todd Akin, Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott and Josh Mandel (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why aren’t Republicans worried their fanatical culture war will hurt them in the midterms?

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Display of banned books or censored books at Books Inc independent bookstore in Alameda, California, October 16, 2021. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)

First, the book-banners came for CRT and LGBTQ. Now they’re censoring women’s history

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trumpers play fascist peekaboo: Are Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson backpedaling on Putin?

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Ketanji Brown Jackson and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

With his Supreme Court pick, Ketanji Brown Jackson, Biden takes the culture war fight to Republicans

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Steve Bannon, Rick Scott, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans pick Putin over democracy — and Rick Scott’s creepy blueprint for America shows why

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Elon Musk and Joe Rogan (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The problem with the populists “free thinkers” — they are just lazy

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Justin Trudeau, Letitia James, Donald Trump and the Canada Trucker Protest (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trumpers fold like cards — you just have to stand up to them

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