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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 student holds up a sign against banning CRT as members of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School Board meet in Placentia, California, on March 23, 2022. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

How our public schools are tied to the health of our democracy

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Donald Trump and a school classroom full of kids (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“No future election is going to fix the problem”: Trump’s war on education is worse than it looks

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Former US president Donald Trump speaks during a press conference following his court appearance over an alleged 'hush-money' payment, at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 4, 2023. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s takeover depends on creating this alternate reality

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U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell, Minority leader U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters and civil rights leaders Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson lead marchers during the Bloody Sunday 60th anniversary march at Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama on Sunday, March 09, 2025. (Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Democrats should forget about having a united message

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U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The end of MAGA’s dominance: “The American people see the Democrats take down Trump themselves”

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U.S. President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

“Just getting started”: We have yet to see the worst of Trump’s “spectocracy”

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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)

How Trump’s “bad manners undermine his geopolitics”

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Shadows of "Little Men" against a world map (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“We are seeing the backlash to globalization”: Robert Kaplan says Trump was “inevitable”

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Tesla Founder Elon Musk walks on stage with his son, X, beside President-elect Donald Trump during a rally at Capital One Arena in Washington, on January 19, 2025. (Tom Brenner for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Saving democracy takes practice: Practical skills you need to survive Trump’s second term

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks Vice President JD Vance, President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris look on during his inauguration in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images)

Americans left dizzy by Trump’s “shock and awe” spectacle

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U.S. Republican Presidential Candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks at the U.S.-Mexico border on August 22, 2024 south of Sierra Vista, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

The draw of Trump’s spectacle: inhumanity

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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. (OLIVER CONTRERAS/AFP via Getty Images)

“The media are aware of the manipulation”: Countering Trump’s spectacle begins with a press strategy

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Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump takes part in a town hall moderated by Fox News broadcaster Sean Hannity at the New Holland Arena in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on September 4, 2024. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

MAGA’s not-so-secret weapon: “Major media are a key tool for Trump’s destruction of the government”

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Donald Trump | The U.S. Supreme Court Building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s plan to avert a constitutional crisis: “Put pressure on the courts to make some concessions”

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on February 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump’s shock and awe campaign rocks the courts

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Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde delivers a sermon during the National Prayer Service at Washington National Cathedral on January 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Tuesday marks Trump's first full day of his second term in the White House. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The path of best resistance: “Faith-rooted messaging would help build broader political support”

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People protest against the administration of US President Donald Trump's decision to virtually shut down the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 5, 2025. (DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)

How to resist Elon Musk’s hostile takeover and avoid Donald Trump’s “broken status quo” trap

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US President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. (JIM WATSON/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s chaos strategy: Why Americans continue to fall for his game of distraction

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President Donald Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

New rules for radical resistance in the accelerated Age of Trump

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President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19, 2024 in Brownsville, Texas. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

“Americans were sleep-marched into fascism”: Signs of creeping authoritarianism we can’t miss again

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President Donald J Trump arrives to speak about infrastructure and artificial intelligence to reporters in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on Tuesday, Jan 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“They will fail through incompetence”: Trump’s bumpy return to office should worry MAGA

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US President Donald Trump speaks before signing the Laken Riley Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, January 29, 2025. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s first week: “Designed to destroy the United States from within”

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U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 2025 Republican Issues Conference at the Trump National Doral Miami on January 27, 2025 in Doral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

“Just as bad as we feared”: Experts on the chaos and carnage of Trump’s first week

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A supporter reacts to election results during an election night event for US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris at Howard University in Washington, DC, on November 5, 2024. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

Surviving “political grief”: You’re not alone, and there is a path forward

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