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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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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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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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