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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.

Pro-choice and anti-abortion demonstrators rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court on November 01, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Even if the U.S. did support mothers — and it doesn’t — there will always be a need for abortion

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Kindergarten class recite the Pledge of Allegiance | American civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr (1929 - 1968) and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a march down the center of a street, 1960s (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans’ war on education is the most crucial part of their push for fascism

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Amy Coney Barrett, Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Will Supreme Court conservatives overturn Roe? Their casual contempt for women is not a good sign

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Ghislaine Maxwell and Elizabeth Holmes (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Image)

Ghislaine Maxwell’s and Elizabeth Holmes’ fake feminist defenses are an insult to #MeToo

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

With new Omicron variant looming, Republicans are now bribing people to avoid vaccination

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Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump and Kyle Rittenhouse (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Donald Trump exalts Kyle Rittenhouse: Nothing gets the base going like violence

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A makeshift memorial dedicated to missing woman Gabby Petito is located near City Hall on September 20, 2021 in North Port, Florida. A body has been found by authorities in Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming that fits the description of Petito, who went missing while on a cross-country trip with her boyfriend Brian Laundrie. | A makeshift memorial is pictured along the route of the parade on W Main Street in Waukesha, Wisconsin on November 22, 2021, the day after a vehicle drove through a Christmas parade killing five people. - US authorities identified the driver suspected of plowing into a Christmas parade in the Midwestern city of Waukesha, killing at least five and wounding dozens, as media reported he was fleeing a knife fight. (Photo illustration by Salon/Octavio Jones/Mustafa Hussain/AFP/Getty Images)

The Wisconsin parade and Gabby Petito: People keep dying because the law blows off domestic violence

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, Matt Gaetz, Kyle Rittenhouse and Madison Cawthorn (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The line between right-wing trolling and violence is collapsing

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

All Republicans care about these days is trolling — and Kevin McCarthy is hilariously bad at it

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Kyle Rittenhouse, center, waits for the judge before the jury is relieved for the day during his trial at the Kenosha County Courthouse on November 18, 2021 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. (Sean Krajacic - Pool/Getty Images)

Kyle Rittenhouse verdict: Just what the right needs to create a thousand more like him

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Kyle Rittenhouse and Travis McMichael (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The NRA gave us Kyle Rittenhouse

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Joe Biden and Joe Manchin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Inflation is accelerated by our addiction to fossil fuels — Biden’s agenda can break that dependency

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Pro-life demonstrators protest outside of the US Supreme Court in Washington, DC on November 1, 2021. | Kyle Rittenhouse enters the courtroom after a break at the Kenosha County Courthouse on November 11, 2021 in Kenosha, Wisconsin. | People display signs during the Kentucky Freedom Rally at the capitol building on August 28, 2021 in Frankfort, Kentucky. Demonstrators gathered on the grounds of the capitol to speak out against a litany of issues, including Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear's management of the coronavirus pandemic, abortion laws, and the teaching of critical race theory. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The Rittenhouse effect: Republicans want a Stasi of their own

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Kyle Rittenhouse, Donald Trump and Steven Bannon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

From Kyle Rittenhouse to Steve Bannon, Republicans now openly embrace violent fascism

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Josh Hawley, Eric Greitens, J.D. Vance, Herschel Walker and Sean Parnell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

2022 Republican primaries: Who will take gold in the Misogyny Olympics?

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Kevin McCarthy, Donald Trump and Paul Gosar (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Sorry, there is no “post-Trump” GOP — his tiny fingers have Republicans in a death grip

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Protesters hold placards during the demonstration. Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers gathered at Indiana University's Sample Gates to protest against mandatory Covid vaccinations IU is requiring for students, staff and faculty during the upcoming fall semester. (Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Insurrection by other means: Republicans are ready to die of COVID to spite Biden, Democrats

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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) asks a follow-up question to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland as he testifies before a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on October 27, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Tom Brenner-Pool/Getty Images)

Sorry, Josh Hawley, the left doesn’t hate masculinity — women just don’t want to make you a sandwich

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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. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Democrats can win the culture wars — but they have to take on the fight early and often

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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. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

How Democrats can win the critical race theory war: Call out the Christian right behind the movement

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George Orwell and Rebecca Solnit (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Viking Publishing)

George Orwell stopped and smelled the roses, and Rebecca Solnit wants modern people to do the same

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Terry McAuliffe, Joe Biden, Glenn Youngkin and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Virginia election: Democrats left listless without Donald Trump

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Reproductive Rights Protest Outside The Supreme Court Hearing On Texas Abortion Law Arguments In Washington D.C., Nov. 1, 2021 (Jeff Malet Photography)

Republicans simplify their defense of Texas abortion ban: Women are too stupid to have rights

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Glenn Youngkin and Ron DeSantis (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Surge in GOP’s war on free speech should sound alarms

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