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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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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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Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, campaigns with former President Barack Obama at the James R Hallford Stadium on October 24, 2024 in Clarkston, Georgia. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The path forward for progressives is a return to PR basics: Put personality before policy

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Democratic presidential nominee, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign rally on November 04, 2024 in Allentown, Pennsylvania. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

How Democrats can move past “low-dominance messaging”

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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump attends the America First Policy Institute Gala held at Mar-a-Lago on November 14, 2024 in Palm Beach, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Why MAGA won: Anger, resentment and “a sense of betrayal”

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Faith leaders pray over President Donald Trump during a 'Evangelicals for Trump' campaign event held at the King Jesus International Ministry on January 03, 2020 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The ultimate answer to why Donald Trump won: White Christians

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A supporter of former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump gestures as they gather near his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, on Election Day, November 5, 2024. (GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s win was “an epic failure of every major institution” — especially the media

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Silhouette of Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the Santander Arena on November 04, 2024 in Reading, Pennsylvania. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Fake nostalgia and skillful propaganda got us here — but there’s hope on the other side

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U.S. President Donald Trump removes his mask upon return to the White House from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on October 05, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump spent three days hospitalized for coronavirus. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Readjusting to Trump’s America

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Peter Zay)

The illusion of Donald Trump and the fourth founding of America

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Donald Trump | Voters cast ballots in Georgia's primary election at a polling location on May 21, 2024 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

MAGA’s last stand: A duel between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris in diametrically opposite Americas

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