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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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Trump’s Ukraine scheme: Real conspiracies and conspiracy theories are not alike

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Former White House national security aide Fiona Hill, left, and David Holmes, a U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, are sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Impeachment: Trump’s Ukraine extortion scheme comes clear — all roads lead to Putin

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Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Laura Cooper, right, and State Department official David Hale, are sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

The latest GOP defense of Trump evaporates with a whimper

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U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland gives his opening statement as he testifies before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

“We followed the president’s orders”: Sondland gives up Trump — and everyone else

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Ambassador Kurt Volker, left, former special envoy to Ukraine, and Tim Morrison, a former official at the National Security Council are sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. ( (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Even the Republican witnesses make Donald Trump look like a depraved criminal

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Jennifer Williams, an aide to Vice President Mike Pence, left, and National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, are sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Impeachment: There goes Trump’s “hearsay” defense; GOP tries to out whistleblower

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US President Donald Trump delivers remarks in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on November 15, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Democrats are not “censoring” Donald Trump — his increasingly desperate staff is doing that

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Abigail Spanberger and Kendra Horn (Getty Images/Salon)

“See Jane Win”: How Democratic women drove the 2018 blue wave

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Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch testifies during the House Select Intelligence Committee hearing on the impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump on Friday Nov. 15, 2019. (Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Marie Yovanovitch testifies — and kneecaps a central Trump defense

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Donald Trump and Mike Pence (Brendan Smialowski/Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Trump has a Mike Pence insurance policy: The sanctimonious veep is implicated too

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Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs George P. Kent (L) and top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine William B. Taylor Jr. are sworn in before testifying before the House Intelligence Committee in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill November 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. In the first public impeachment hearings in more than two decades, House Democrats are trying to build a case that President Donald Trump committed extortion, bribery or coercion by trying to enlist Ukraine to investigate his political rival in exchange for military aide and a White House meeting that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky sought with Trump. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

First day of impeachment hearings: Once again, all roads lead to Putin

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White House senior adviser Stephen Miller (C) is seen during a congressional picnic on the South Lawn of the White House (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Hard evidence that Stephen Miller is a white nationalist — and why that isn’t “old news”

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Donald Trump (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump’s last line of impeachment defense: Repeating big lies about Joe Biden

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Lindy West (Jenny Jimenez)

Lindy West reclaims the “witch hunt”: On comedy, feminism and why terrible men think they’re victims

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Michael Bloomberg, Bill Gates and Leon Cooperman (Getty Images/CNBC)

Now Mike Bloomberg wants to run: Why are these whiny billionaires all up in our faces?

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Jeff Sessions, Bill Barr, Donald Trump and Joe Biden (Getty Images/AP Photo/Anna Moneymaker/Zach Gibson/Drew Angerer/Andrew Harnik/Nicholas Kamm)

No free pass for Republicans: They don’t get to pretend this nightmare never happened

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Equal Rights Amendment protest (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/Getty Images)

Phyllis Schlafly’s dead, but the Equal Rights Amendment may come back to life

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US President Donald Trump, Rep. Mark Meadows, and Rudy Giuliani (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

If loving conspiracy theories is wrong, Republicans don’t wanna be right

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a Cabinet meeting at The White House on October 21, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump’s new impeachment strategy is familiar: Don’t believe your lying eyes

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, Rep. Matt Gaetz, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais/Susan Walsh/J. Scott Applewhite/Wong Maye-E/Salon)

Sorry, pundits: The problem isn’t “polarization” — Republicans have lost their damn minds

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Matt Gaetz and Nancy Pelosi (Alex Wong/ /Zach Gibson/Getty Images)

Be careful what you wish for, Republicans: Now impeachment starts for real

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Donald Trump (Getty Images)

Is Trump just too dumb to do crimes? Here’s why that defense won’t fly

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Donald Trump (AP Photo/Salon)

Trump talks big on overseas terrorism — but here at home he’s making the problem worse

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Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

Katie Hill and the massive double standard: A Democrat quits over sexual misconduct

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