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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.

A photo of Tyre Nichols is positioned prior to a press conference on January 27, 2023 in Memphis, Tennessee. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Let Tyre Nichols be the last: Police killings and the public consumption of Black pain

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US President Donald Trump speaks as social media personalities Lynnette Hardaway (L) and Rochelle Richardson (2-L), otherwise known as Diamond and Silk listen (NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP via Getty Images)

The limited usefulness of Black conservatives

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Donald Trump gestures to Kellyanne Conway after addressing his supporters and celebrating his Presidential win at his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City on Nov. 9, 2016. (Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Fascists expertly exploit the free press: Media rush to rehabilitate reputations of Trump’s regime

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Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump dupes the media with DeSantis’ help: Republican race for White House is no real competition

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United States debate (Getty Images)

The vicious cycle of killer news: American democracy is dying — and taking Americans with it

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Dominique Anderson, sister of Keenan Anderson, who died after he was tased and restrained by LAPD, and his cousin and Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors hold a press conference demanding LAPD reforms at LA City Hall on Tuesday, January 17, 2023. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

The promise of the George Floyd uprisings and the persistence of police thuggery

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A mix of proponents and opponents to teaching Critical Race Theory are in attendance as the Placentia Yorba Linda School Board discusses a proposed resolution to ban it from being taught in schools | Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The power of a conspiracy theory — and a 3-step plan to deprogram American idiocracy

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U.S. President Joe Biden (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Biden’s documents: Democrats, media fall into GOP trap one more time

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US President Donald Trump (2L) walks next to US House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) after a meeting at the US Capitol with the House Republican Conference in Washington, DC on June 19, 2018. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Crime and un-punishment: Now Republicans have a roadmap for a better coup

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Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) takes a photo with U.S. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) after being elected Speaker of the House in the House Chamber at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 07, 2023 in Washington, DC. ( Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Heroes and villains: Fascists now control Congress — we can’t afford to pretend otherwise

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Frank Rockstroh/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty)

We need Martin Luther King Jr.’s lessons in resistance — that’s why the right wants to erase them

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Partial view of one of the entrances of Planalto Presidential Palace destroyed by supporters of Brazilian former President Jair Bolsonaro during an invasion, in Brasilia on January 9, 2023. (CARL DE SOUZA/AFP via Getty Images)

Brazil delivers an urgent message: Global democracy crisis isn’t going away

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) transfers the gavel to Speaker-elect Kevin McCarthy after Republicans won the vote for speaker in Washington, DC on January 6th, 2022. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Put the popcorn away, folks: Kevin McCarthy is speaker of the House, and that’s no joke

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A young man who just voted shows his voting sticker in Plano, Texas, the United States, on Nov. 8, 2022. (Xin Jin/Xinhua via Getty Images)

Will young people save American democracy from Republican authoritarians? It’s not that simple

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Twitter)

New research shows that Donald Trump’s fascist attacks on democracy may have backfired

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Migrants from Venezuela, who boarded a bus in Texas, wait to be transported to a local church by volunteers after being dropped off outside the residence of US Vice President Kamala Harris, at the Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, on September 15, 2022. (STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

New Year’s message from Republicans: Yes, the cruelty is still the point

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Torn posters litter the floor following a campaign rally with Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on April 25, 2016 at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania. (Jessica Kourkounis/Getty Images)

America’s epidemic of loneliness: The raw material for fascism

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Abortion supporters Alie Utley and Joe Moyer (R) react to the failed constitutional amendment proposal at the Kansas Constitutional Freedom Primary Election Watch Party in Overland Park, Kansas on August 2, 2022. (DAVE KAUP/AFP via Getty Images)

Year of opportunity: Can America escape from political depression in 2023?

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

We all feel Trump fatigue — and he’s in serious trouble. But don’t look away

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Russian President Vladimir Putin | Destroyed Russian tank in the village of Bohorodychne, eastern Ukraine (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Putin’s brain and the Ukraine disaster: What does the Russian leader really want?

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Former President Donald Trump prepares to leave after speaking during an event at his Mar-a-Lago home on Nov. 15, 2022. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump’s trading cards are stupid: Ha ha. But who gets the last laugh?

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A variety of campaign yard signs are displayed outside the Rydal Elementary School West polling location before Democratic Gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro arrived to cast his ballot on November 8, 2022 in Rydal, Pennsylvania. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

What Democrats should have learned from the midterms: It’s time to fight for justice

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Supporters wait for the arrival of former U.S. President Donald Trump during an event at his Mar-a-Lago home on November 15, 2022 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Trump and his movement are symptoms of America’s profound disorder — but not the cause

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Salon's Favorite Books of 2022 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Harper Collins/Penguin Random House/Simon & Schuster/Stanford University Press)

Salon’s favorite books of 2022 — fiction and nonfiction

Erin Keane, Troy Farah, Matthew Rozsa, Ashlie D. Stevens, Mary Elizabeth Williams, Amanda Marcotte, D. Watkins, Kelly McClure, Alison Stine, Hanh Nguyen, Andrew O'Hehir, Chauncey DeVega
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