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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.

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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Large group of students at university lecture hall (Getty Images/skynesher)

America’s happiness crisis is a generational divide

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Former President Donald Trump attends the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) 287 mixed martial arts event at the Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida, on April 8, 2023. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

The winners of Trump’s tariff “game show” are in for a rude surprise

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U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), flanked by Rep. Jeff Hurd (R-CO), Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI), Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on January 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

“Just the first set of cuts”: Expert warns GOP budget is designed to collapse the social safety net

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Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) dances as he leaves the stage after speaking alongside former US Representative Tulsi Gabbard during a town hall meeting in La Crosse, Wisconsin, on August 29, 2024. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

America has a bad case of TDS

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Donald Trump, with Sean Duffy (L), speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House on January 24, 2019. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

The Trump-MAGA experience machine goes into overdrive

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U.S. President Donald Trump takes a question from a reporter during a news conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The media learned all the wrong lessons from 2024

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Supporters of US President Donald Trump gather outside of the DC Central Detention Facility, where some defendants from the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol are being held.

Sadopolitics: Why MAGA clings tighter to Trump the more his policies hurt them

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A sign in a yard supports Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump on October 01, 2024 in Waunakee, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

How moving can help beat MAGA: “We need to revive mobility”

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President Donald Trump winks during a meeting with Finnish President Sauli Niinisto in the Oval Office of the White House on October 02, 2019 in Washington, DC. The two leaders will reportedly discuss 5G wireless technology and European and Arctic security during bilateral meetings and later hold a joint news conference in the East Room. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The danger of Trump’s “shock therapy” for America

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