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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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“We must save ourselves”: America’s crippling cynicism helps Donald Trump

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Elon Musk VS. Mark Zuckerberg (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

It’s time to ditch toxic social media platforms

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U.S. President Joe Biden meets with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House on November 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Hope is at the heart of “healthy mourning”: Finding positivity while grieving Donald Trump’s return

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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)

Democrats’ defeat leads to “demobilization and surrender” ahead of Trump’s inauguration

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Former President Donald Trump boards his airplane, known as "Trump Force One," as he heads to speak at campaign events in GA and NC, at Newark Liberty International Airport on Saturday, June 10, 2023, in Newark, NJ. (Photo edit by Salon/Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“Small acts of resistance”: Retooling “what protecting democracy looks like” in a second Trump term

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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump holds a town hall campaign event with former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (I-HI) on August 29, 2024 in La Crosse, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

“There will be no rebuilding”: Bracing America for the implementation of Project 2025

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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at a Turning Point Action campaign rally at the Thomas & Mack Center on October 24, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

The week Donald Trump became a great man of history

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Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump greets U.S. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene at the Georgia Republican Party's state convention on Saturday, June 10, 2023 in Columbus, GA. (Cheney Orr for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“The entertainment of MAGA infighting” is a trap

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Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (L) and US Senator from Ohio and Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance attend a remembrance ceremony on the 23rd anniversary of the September 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center at Ground Zero, in New York City on September 11, 2024. (ADAM GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)

Hard lessons the opposition has learned in defeat

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US President Donald Trump walks by supporters outside the White House on January 12, 2021 in Washington,DC. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

“I refuse to be trolled”: How to resist Trump and maintain peace

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Former President Donald Trump walks out to speak at a news conference from the lobby of Trump Tower the day after being found guilty on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the first degree at Manhattan Criminal Court, in New York, NY on Friday, May 31, 2024. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

A glossary for a second Trump term

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President Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama walk out prior to Obama's departure during the 2017 presidential inauguration at the U.S. Capitol January 20, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Jack Gruber-Pool/Getty Images)

Why Democrats can’t get over the grief of losing to Donald Trump

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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks at Trump Force 47 campaign headquarters on August 26, 2024 in Roseville, Michigan. (Emily Elconin/Getty Images)

“Trump has no real mandate for what he is planning”: The push for Christian nationalism may backfire

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US President Donald Trump holds up a Bible outside of St John's Episcopal church across Lafayette Park in Washington, DC on June 1, 2020. (Getty Images)

Reversing the “weaponization of Christianity”: How “religous freedom” can be used to fight Trumpism

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Joe Rogan and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Democrats face America’s new self-evident truths

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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Democrats’ grief is Donald Trump’s best tool of distraction

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A President Donald Trump supporter (R) places her hand in the face of a counter protester during an argument after the election results after President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris were declared winners outside Minnesota Governor Tim Walz's mansion on November 7, 2020 in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

When facts no longer matter: 3 key steps to return to civil dialogue

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A President Donald Trump supporter waves a MAGA hat at a MAGA Rally in the Toyota Center, Monday, Oct. 22, 2018, in Houston. (Marie D. De Jesus/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

America’s addicted to the “destruction narrative”

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President-elect Donald Trump holds the UFC heavyweight championship belt after the UFC heavyweight championship fight between Jon Jones and Stipe Miocic during the UFC 309 event at Madison Square Garden on November 16, 2024 in New York City. (Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC/Getty Images)

Where is the fierce urgency of now?

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U.S. President Joe Biden (L) speaks next to former US President Barack Obama onstage during a campaign fundraiser at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles on June 15, 2024. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Democrats need to take the working class seriously and literally

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U.S. Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris waves as she leaves the stage on the fourth and last day of the Democratic National Convention (DNC) at the United Center in Chicago, Illinois, on August 22, 2024. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Democrats seem so disconnected from what voters want

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U.S. President Joe Biden and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris listen as Second gentleman Doug Emhoff speaks at an event celebrating Jewish American Heritage Month in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 20, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Picking through the debris of the 2024 election, Democrats are left soul searching

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Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at the Bayfront Convention Center on September 29, 2024 in Erie, Pennsylvania. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

A “roadmap” for “hope, resistance and reconstruction” in a second Trump presidency

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President Donald Trump hugs the flag of the United States of America at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center February 29, 2020 in National Harbor, Maryland. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Before Donald Trump destroys it, Democrats must “re-envision what democracy needs to be”

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