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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..

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A life-and-death morality play is unfolding on the streets of Minneapolis and across the country as the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign intensifies. (Getty Images)

Vice signaling explains Trump’s enduring appeal

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A protester sits on the street with his arms up in front of a gaggle of federal agents and Minneapolis Police on W. 27th St and Nicollet Avenue in south Minneapolis after Alex Pretti was fatally shot by federal agents in the area.

Why GOP voters still love ICE

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Donald Trump at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 21, 2026. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump is right about one thing: Many Americans want a dictator

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President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Dec. 15, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

How Trump intends to hijack the midterms

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MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - JANUARY 08: A portrait of Renee Nicole Good is pasted to a light pole near the site of her shooting on January 08, 2026 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. According to federal officials, an ICE agent shot and killed Good during a confrontation yesterday in south Minneapolis. (Photo by Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

When protesters become the Other

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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s hall of mirrors presidency

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Veterans rally against President Donald Trump in Milan, Michigan, on Nov. 11, 2025. ( Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

America needs a moral reckoning in 2026

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President Donald Trump returns to the White House on Jan. 4, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

An exhausted strongman invades Venezuela

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Tulsa Race Massacre survivor Viola Fletcher speaks about her memoir in Washington, D.C., on June 18, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump is whitewashing American history

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Donald Trump at a Cabinet meeting, Dec. 2, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds / AFP via Getty Images)

Donald Trump is the sleepy president of an exhausted country

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U.S. President Donald Trump attends a meeting of his Cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House on December 02, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Yes, it’s real: Trump is collapsing. Can the MAGA faithful save him?

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President Donald Trump speaks to the press aboard Air Force One on Nov. 30, 2025. (Pete Marovich/Getty Images)

Sorry, Trump isn’t a lame duck (yet)

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Donald Trump | Social Security checks are run through a printer at the U.S. Treasury printing facility (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s $2,000 tariff checks are his latest hustle

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Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks at a press conference on Oct. 15, 2025. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Why Democrats can’t stay united — even in victory

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A banner showing a picture of U.S. President Donald Trump is displayed outside of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) building on June 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s path to authoritarian rule is wide open

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President Donald Trump prepares to speak after watching the 250th birthday parade of the U.S. Army, which also coincides with his own birthday, on June 14, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

After Election Day losses, Trump and MAGA will strike back hard

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Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor of New York City on Nov. 4, 2025. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Democrats keep missing the message. Mamdani didn’t

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Trump’s America is governed by necropolitics

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A grocery store with sign in the window accepting Electronic Benefit Transfer cards and food stamps in St. Paul, Minnessotta. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Stop asking who’s “winning” the shutdown

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President Donald Trump shakes hands with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts before the State of the Union on Feb. 4, 2020. (Leah Millis-Pool/Getty Images)

John Roberts betrayed America for Donald Trump

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The facade of the East Wing of the White House is demolished by work crews on October 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump’s bulldozer is aimed at more than the White House

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Protesters march against Trump's Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago on Oct. 19, 2025. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump’s deportation raids ensnare Chicago’s everyday workers

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President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press aboard Air Force One on Oct. 19, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s “No Kings” sewage video is no joke

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Former President Barack Obama speaks during day two of the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Tuesday, August 20, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Barack Obama tries to rally Americans to defend their democracy

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