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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.

Anti-vaccine activists protest and hold signs in front of the Massachusetts State House against Governor Charlie Baker's mandate that all Massachusetts school students enrolled in child care, pre-school, K-12, and post-secondary institutions must receive the flu vaccine this year on August 30, 2020 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Vaccine refusal is child abuse

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Sean Hannity, Donald Trump and demonstrators during a protest by truck drivers over pandemic health rules and the Trudeau government, outside the parliament of Canada in Ottawa on February 15, 2022. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s anti-vaccine hysteria has a mission: violence

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Dan Olson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Dan Olson)

NFTs aren’t art — they’re just the Cult of Crypto’s latest scam

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Hillary Clinton, John Durham and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/United States Attorney's Office, District of Connecticut)

Trump’s new “spying” Clinton conspiracy theory is a success as cowardly mainstream media confounded

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Ron DeSantis | People demonstrate with placards at an emergency meeting of the Brevard County, Florida School Board in Viera to discuss whether face masks in local schools should be mandatory. An executive order signed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis banning mask mandates in schools was thrown out by a Florida judge on Friday. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The secret plan behind Florida’s “don’t say gay” bill: Bankrupting public education

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Ammon Bundy, the Ottawa Trucker Convoy and the January 6th, 2021 US Capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The Bundy takeover is now complete: How the GOP has embraced pro-terrorist politics

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Marco Rubio, Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

From “crack pipes” to “critical race theory”: GOP’s 2022 midterm strategy is overt racism

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Marjorie Taylor Greene | Gazpacho (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “Gazpacho police” is very dumb — but we underestimate her at our peril

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Joe Rogan (Dylan Buell/Getty Images)

Why Joe Rogan’s vaccine misinformation is so dangerous — and dangerously appealing to his audience

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Brett Kavanaugh | Opponents to teaching Critical Race Theory are in attendance as the Placentia Yorba Linda School Board discusses a proposed resolution to ban it from being taught in schools. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

From SCOTUS to “critical race theory”: There’s no law or fact the GOP feels bound to respect now

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Demonstrators gather in Lafayette Square during a demonstration organized by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) protesting President Donald Trump's declaration of emergency powers on February 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Biden can’t save us from Trump’s Big Lie: Why the fight for democracy has to be a grassroots effort

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Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan and the Proud Boys (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Stop feeding Joe Rogan’s trolls: Progressives must reclaim the politics of pleasure

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Donald Trump is done pretending. He is now openly celebrating the Capitol riot

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Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump and Bill Barr (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s lackeys failed him — and saved democracy

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Former President Donald Trump speaks during the 'Save America' rally at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds on January 29, 2022 in Conroe, Texas. Trump's visit was his first Texas MAGA rally since 2019. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Trump takes control of the Jan. 6 story — while the media and Congress sleep on it

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Glenn Youngkin, Ron DeSantis, Martin Luther King Jr. and Maus by Art Spiegelman (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The critics were right: “Critical race theory” panic is just a cover for silencing educators

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Tucker Carlson, Greg Gutfeld, Sean Hannity and the US Supreme Court Building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why the right sees Biden’s promise of a Black woman on the Supreme Court as an attack

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Man wearing animal mask and blue business suit getting in car (Getty Images/Westend61)

The crypto crash isn’t just tulip-trading — it’s a result of the toxic entitlement that led to Trump

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Ted Cruz, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Ron DeSantis (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Extremist politicians aren’t a “both sides” issue — it’s strictly a GOP phenomenon

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Demonstrators participate in a Defeat the Mandates march in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2022. - Demonstrators are protesting mask and Covid-19 vaccination mandates. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Insurrection by other means: The far right is using anti-vax sentiment to radicalize Republicans

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Pro-life demonstrators march during the "Right To Life" rally on January 15, 2022 in Dallas, Texas. The Catholic Pro-Life Community, Texans for Life Coalition, the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, and the Diocese of Fort Worth North hosted the Texas March for Life rally where people gathered to instigate the overturning of Roe v. Wade, a Supreme Court decision that permitted states throughout the country in legalizing abortion under certain regulations. The 49th anniversary of the decision to legalize abortion falls on January 22. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

“March for Life” is a misnomer — GOP’s pro-COVID stance makes clear

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U.S. President Joe Biden answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on January 19, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Media messes up coverage of voting rights, blames Biden for GOP’s racism

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U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) speaks during a United States Senate Committee on Finance hearing to consider Chris Magnus's nomination to be Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on October 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Rod Lamkey-Pool/Getty Images)

Kyrsten Sinema, a traitor to the cause of women’s rights, loses support of feminists

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US President Donald Trump speaks at "Save America March" rally in Washington D.C., United States on January 06, 2021. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Why voters don’t blame Republicans for the Capitol riot — no GOP leaders have been arrested yet

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