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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.

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Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty images)

Republicans are sleeping on the jobs bill. Democrats need to move on before it’s too late

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Donald Trump behind bars (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Lock him up! Prosecuting Trump won’t save democracy, but it sure will make doing so easier

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Capitol rioters | Kevin McCarthy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Time for the cover-up: There’s only one reason why Republicans oppose a bipartisan Jan. 6 commission

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John Cornyn, Dan Crenshaw and Ted Cruz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

No, the media can’t “move on” from Trump’s Big Lie — not until Republicans end their war on voting

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Rioters clash with police trying to enter Capitol building through the front doors. Rioters broke windows and breached the Capitol building in an attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Liz Cheney’s ouster is no isolated incident — Republicans are already back to defending Trump’s coup

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

Democrats refuse to take advantage of the GOP civil war. Do they care about democracy?

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Kevin McCarthy and Liz Cheney | Capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Canceling the anti-insurrectionists in the GOP proves Republicans never cared about “free speech”

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Liz Cheney and Donald Trump | The Maricopa County audit (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s Big Lie is alienating to voters — Republicans just don’t care

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Contractors working for Cyber Ninjas, who was hired by the Arizona State Senate, examine and recount ballots from the 2020 general election at Veterans Memorial Coliseum on May 1, 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona. The Maricopa County ballot recount comes after two election audits found no evidence of widespread fraud. (Courtney Pedroza/Getty Images)

Trump’s Arizona vote “audit” is a mess by design

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

The insurrectionist caucus turns to schoolyard bully tactics to take over the GOP — and it’s working

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Donald Trump and Mark Zuckerberg (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Facebook’s Trump ban stays: Social media giant’s decision shows free speech concerns were overblown

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Nurse giving flu vaccine to a senior patient (Getty Images)

The U.S. never had a shot at herd immunity

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Tucker Carlson, Meghan McCain and Greg Gutfeld (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Whataboutism, the last refuge for Republicans, is on the rise

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President Joe Biden addresses a joint session of Congress, with Vice President Kamala Harris and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on the dais behind him on April 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. On the eve of his 100th day in office, Biden spoke about his plan to revive America’s economy and health as it continues to recover from a devastating pandemic. He delivered his speech before 200 invited lawmakers and other government officials instead of the normal 1600 guests because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. (Melina Mara-Pool/Getty Images)

Joe Biden turns the tables on Republicans

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Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Right-wing lies like Biden’s beef ban and Kamala’s book spread too fast for corrections to counter

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Cow in a clearing in a medical mask (Getty Images)

Fake burger bans and other people’s masks: Republicans crawl deeper into their imaginary victimhood

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Greg Abbott, Ron DeSantis and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The Charlottesville model: Trump’s “fine people” praise of white nationalists is now GOP mainstream

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Clorox bleach bottle with "NEVER FORGET" instead of logo (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Don’t bleach it away: Remembering the day Trump turned the GOP into a death cult

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Tucker Carlson’s immigration bait-and-switch betrays his desperation

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Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The making of a right-wing martyr: Conservatives treat Derek Chauvin’s conviction as an act of war

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Marjorie Taylor-Greene, Maxine Waters and Kevin McCarthy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republican attacks on Maxine Waters prove the GOP is committed to a politics of white whining

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Young pregnant woman being examined during pregnancy while coronavirus pandemic (Getty Images)

The link between America’s rising maternal mortality rates and abortion

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A crime lab technician (L) works in the parking lot of the site of a mass shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 16, 2021. - A gunman has killed at least eight people at the facility before turning the gun on himself in the latest in a string of mass shootings in the country, authorities said. The incident came a week after President Joe Biden branded US gun violence an "epidemic" and an "international embarrassment" as he waded into the tense debate over gun control, a powerful political issue in the US. (JEFF DEAN/AFP via Getty Images)

America’s minority rule problem is deadly

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The Vaccine as Horror Genre (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Republicans are rejecting the COVID vaccine: GOP wants to drag out lockdowns to hurt Biden

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