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Chauncey DeVega

Chauncey DeVega is a senior politics writer for Salon. His essays can also be found at Chaunceydevega.com. He also hosts two weekly podcasts, The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report. Chauncey can be followed on Twitter and Facebook.

A protester stands outside of the White House the day after President Donald Trump ordered U.S. military strikes on nuclear sites in Iran. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Despite “No Kings,” the Trump resistance is still “muscle-building”

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U.S. Marines stand guard outside the Federal Building during a protest against the Trump administration in Los Angeles, June 14, 2025. (Ringo Chiu/AFP via Getty Images)

Be prepared for “further escalation” from Trump

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Members of the U.S. Army and armored vehicles move across the Memorial Bridge during the Army 250th Anniversary Parade in Washington, D.C., on June 14, 2025. President Donald Trump reveled in a long dreamt-of military parade on his 79th birthday Saturday, as demonstrators across the country branded him a dictator in the biggest protests since his return to power. (ANNABELLE GORDON/AFP via Getty Images)

As his support drops, Trump will “lash out in dangerous, unimaginable ways”

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Mavis Staples performs during the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024 (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)

What Mavis Staples can teach us about resisting Trumpism

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump greets Elon Musk as he arrives to attend a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

The Trump-Musk feud that wasn’t: Media distracted by another MAGA spectacle

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President Joe Biden shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office, Nov. 13, 2024. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Democrats, disillusioned, clear the path for Trump’s rampage

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Donald Trump and Mike Johnson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump is using every weapon at his disposal for revenge

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Former US President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media during the third day of his civil fraud trial in New York on October 4, 2023. (KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images)

Historian Federico Finchelstein: Trump’s “abuse of the law fits an old autocratic pattern”

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Donald Trump watching democracy burn (Getty Images/Salon)

PRRI’s Robert P. Jones: “Donald Trump sees himself as the king of kings”

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Pam Bondi, former Florida Attorney General, speaks during a press conference at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Civil rights attorney Damon Hewitt on how Trump’s DOJ created “an invitation to discrimination”

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This illustration photo created May 20, 2024 in Los Angeles shows a frame from a video posted on Donald Trump's Truth Social account displayed on a smartphone in front of a photo of the former US president. (CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s distraction machine is working

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Donald Trump on a Twenty Dollar Bill (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans expand “Trump bucks” scheme with “MAGA savings accounts”

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US President Donald Trump speaks about the mid-air crash between American Airlines flight 5342 and a military helicopter in Washington, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House on January 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

The next stage of our democracy crisis: competitive authoritarianism

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Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is greeted by David Hogg while leaving an event at the Gun Violence Memorial in front of the Washington Monument on Tuesday, June 7, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Democratic Party consultant Mark Mellman: “The Democrats definitely have a branding problem”

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Protesters holding banners and signs at a rally (Getty Images/Vanessa Nunes)

Young people can’t save democracy by themselves: A new vision is required

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A protester holds a sign reading "Democracy Not Trumpocracy" during a rally in front of the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington, D.C., on February 4, 2025. (HOSSEIN FATEMI/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Conspiracy theories: “Warning lights on the dashboard of democracy”

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Donald Trump Burning Money (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“A free fall not seen in modern history”: 100 days of destruction

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U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on February 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Resistance to Trump’s shock and awe takes root

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media during a press conference at the Mar-a-Lago Club on January 07, 2025 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Trump’s first 100 days will require a second Reconstruction

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Donald Trump reacts at the 2024 Bitcoin Conference in Nashville, TN. (Johnnie Izquierdo for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Donald Trump is more popular than the public opinion polls suggest

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Game show politics: Donald Trump’s DOGE “dividends” checks buy time with MAGA

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Donald Trump signs a document reinstating sanctions against Iran after announcing the US withdrawal from the Iran Nuclear deal. (Getty/Saul Loeb)

“Turning the presidency into performance art”: Sanctions expert on what Trump confuses about tariffs

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American actor Peter Weller on the set of "RoboCop," directed by Paul Verhoeven. (Orion Pictures Corporation/Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images)

“RoboCop” actor Peter Weller on the crooked line leading from Ronald Reagan to Donald Trump

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President Donald Trump duiring a Cabinet meeting at the White House on February 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump held the first Cabinet meeting of his second term with Elon Musk in attendance. (Jabin Botsford /The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump’s shock and awe strategy: Chaos secures more power

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