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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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David Sirota; Bernie Sanders (Getty/Robin Marchant/Sean Rayford)

Democrats can’t afford another ugly primary campaign in 2020. Is that where we’re heading?

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Al Franken; Kirsten Gillibrand (AP/Salon)

In defense of Kirsten Gillibrand: Liberals can quit harassing her over Al Franken now

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Zina Bash listens during the hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the US Supreme Court September 4, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Brendan Smialowski)

After New Zealand, we can’t view white supremacist hate as “just trolling”

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Beto O'Rourke (AP/Kathy Willens)

Beto launches his campaign: And it’s clear that white men still have unfair advantages

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA (AP/Frank Franklin II)

Elizabeth Warren’s war on Big Tech puts her ahead as the candidate to take on corporate power

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"Tucker Carlson Tonight" (Fox News)

Tucker Carlson is probably safe: He’s too valuable to the GOP for Fox to cut him loose

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(Fox News)

Tucker Carlson says his grotesque sexist comments were just jokes. Don’t buy it

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Mitch McConnell; Kevin McCarthy; Donald Trump (AP)

Republicans freak out over HR1: They don’t want America to have fair elections

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Howard Kurtz; Sean Hannity (AP/Evan Agostini/Getty/Saul Loeb)

Trump defenders reach concern-troll phase: Democrats are just acting too mean!

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(Getty/Michael Cizek)

Religious right reveals true agenda in Alabama case: Give men veto power over abortions

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John Kerry; Joe Biden; Al Gore (AP/Getty/Salon)

Do Democrats need to play it safe to win in 2020? History says otherwise

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Donald Trump hugs the U.S. flag during CPAC 2019 on March 02, 2019 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Getty/Tasos Katopodis)

Donald Trump’s CPAC speech was completely unhinged. Why didn’t media cover it that way?

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Michael Jackson; R. Kelly (Getty/Kevork Djansezian/Michael Loccisano)

Can we still listen to Michael Jackson? We wouldn’t need “cancel culture” if we had justice culture

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(Getty/Christof Stache)

After Cohen’s testimony, how much longer can Ivanka Trump play dumb?

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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, reads an opening statement as he testifies before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2019. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Michael Cohen issues a gripping, sobering warning on Trump’s corruption: But will it matter?

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Donald Trump; Ben Sasse (AP/Getty)

Republican “witch hunt”: Trump and the GOP need a scapegoat. Naturally, they attack women

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Robert Kraft; Donald Trump; Jeffrey Epstein (AP/Raymond Hagans/Carolyn Kaster/Palm Beach Sheriff's Office)

Are we breeding depraved billionaires? Economic inequality, sex trafficking and Trump’s America

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Jussie Smollett; Firearms and ammunition that were in the motion for detention pending trial in the case against Christopher Paul Hasson. (Getty/Angela Weiss/U.S. District Court via AP)

Conservatives will use Jussie Smollett to hide the truth about hate crimes: They can’t

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Jussie Smollett; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

If Jussie Smollett is a hoaxster, what do we call Donald Trump?

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(Getty/Nicholas Kamm)

Numb to corruption: How Republicans trained their base to ignore Trump’s criminality

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(AP/Michael Dwyer)

Democrats need to make childcare funding the 2020 priority

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Donald Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House to declare a national emergency in order to build a wall along the southern border, Friday, Feb. 15, 2019 in Washington. (AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

For Donald Trump, there’s an emergency: Democrats are winning and he’s in trouble

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(AP/Getty/Salon)

Fox News will finally let Trump surrender on the wall — as long as he pretends he won

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Kirsten Gillibrand; Kamala Harris; Elizabeth Warren; Amy Klobuchar (AP/Getty)

Are female candidates “authentic”? The sexist trope that’s attacking the 2020 field

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