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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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Ted Cruz, Tucker Carlson and Josh Hawley (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans take trolling to “trigger the libs” to the next level

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Donald Trump, Andrew Cuomo and Matt Gaetz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s lasting legacy: Scandals don’t hurt politicians like Matt Gaetz and Andrew Cuomo

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Protesters, demanding justice for George Floyd, gather in front of the Hennepin County Government Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota United States on April 9, 2021. (Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Derek Chauvin’s trial is a test of whether facts matter

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

Republicans got the Supreme Court they wanted: That will change America forever

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John Boehner, Donald Trump and Ted Cruz (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

John Boehner doesn’t deserve a rehabilitation tour: Mayor of GOP’s “Crazytown” sparked rise of Trump

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Students walking in corridor (Getty Images)

Republicans are waging war against US children: Anti-trans bills part of longstanding GOP campaign

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Matt Gaetz and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s defense of Matt Gaetz is a major problem for the GOP

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Protesters gather outside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 06, 2021 in Washington, DC. Pro-Trump protesters entered the U.S. Capitol building after mass demonstrations in the nation's capital during a joint session Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden's 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Republican delusion — not disinformation — is the bigger danger to American democracy

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Brian Kemp (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

GOP cancel culture targets Georgia: Republicans want to silence critics of their war on voting

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Service at Lakewood Church in Houston, where Pastor Joel Osteen preaches to some 25,000 people each week. There are currently 842 mega churches that host an excess of three million people on any given Sunday. Mega churches are loosely defined as non-Catholic churches with at least 2,000 weekly attendants. (Timothy Fadek/Corbis via Getty Images)

Church membership is in a freefall, and the Christian right has only themselves to blame

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Joe Biden (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Biden’s infrastructure bill is popular — so Republicans are trying to make it a culture war fight

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Matt Gaetz and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Fox News made Matt Gaetz a GOP star. Now he’s trying to take Fox News’ Tucker Carlson down with him

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

Republicans have become more fascist since Jan. 6 — and they blame liberals for it

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Female high school students bullying classmate (Getty Images)

The GOP’s war on trans students hurts all kids: The right is coming for cis girls, too

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Donald Trump (Getty Images/Salon)

Republicans openly embrace their racism in Trump’s absence

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Cindy Hyde-Smith (Getty/Drew Angerer)

Republicans know their war on voting is racist — so they’re barely bothering to defend it

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View of demonstrators, many with signs, as they participate in the March For Our Lives rally against gun violence, near Columbus Circle, New York, New York, March 24, 2018. Among the visible signs are ones that read 'Who Would Have to Die from Gun Violence Before You Would Support Gun Control?' and 'No More Silence End Gun Violence.' (Barbara Alper/Getty Images)

Can electoral politics save us? On guns and voting, our democracy is broken

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Police respond at a King Sooper's grocery store where a gunman opened fire on March 22, 2021 in Boulder, Colorado. Ten people, including a police officer, were killed in the attack. (Chet Strange/Getty Images)

The NRA way of life is ruining our nation

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Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ron Johnson and Rand Paul (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty images)

Republicans have perfected the troll two-step: The art of being a jerk and then playing the victim

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

Republicans are in disarray without Donald Trump – but that doesn’t mean they aren’t still a threat

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Hundreds of people gathered at a peaceful vigil for Sarah Everard on Clapham Common in South London on the 13th of March 2021, London, United Kingdom. The vigil was not sanctioned by police because of Covid restrictions and the police decided to arrest a number of people in an attempt to end the peaceful and highly emotional vigil. | Captain Jay Baker, of the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office, speaks at a press conference on March 17, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Sarah Everard and the Atlanta spa shootings show how victim blaming continues even after #MeToo

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Capitol Riot on January 6, 2021 | Robert Aaron Long, 21, was arrested in connection with eight fatal shootings at three spas in the Atlanta area. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Crisp County Sheriff's Office)

Atlanta spa shootings and the Capitol riot: Gun control is the best tool to fight terrorism

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Laura Ingraham, Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump can’t save vaccine hesitant Republicans: Fox News has turned the GOP into a death cult

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The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Joe Biden is boring — and it’s driving the media crazy

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