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Heather Digby Parton

Heather Digby Parton, also known as "Digby," is a contributing writer to Salon.

House Republicans feel the pressure in final vote for President Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill". (Joe Raedle / Getty Images)

House GOP seeks to rewrite Jan. 6 — and absolve Donald Trump

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House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-NY, accompanied by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-NY, speak at the U.S. Capitol on April 8, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

World of wonders: Congressional Democrats seem to have grown a spine

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Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett greet President Donald Trump after his address to a joint session of Congress on March 4, 2025. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

SCOTUS just signaled how its next term will go — and Trump is “ecstatic”

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(Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Leon Neal / Bettman / Cynthia Johnson / The Chronicle Collection)

Always obvious, the Trump-Nixon parallels are now downright uncanny

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media during a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in the Oval Office on May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

How Viktor Orbán inspired Donald Trump’s assault on the media

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Jimmy Kimmel attends the 2025 Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Sept. 7, 2025 in Los Angeles, Calif. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Jimmy Kimmel is the latest casualty in Trump’s war on media

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Democratic Texas State Rep. James Talarico launches his campaign for the U.S. Senate on Sept. 9, 2025, in Round Rock, Texas. ( Brandon Bell/Getty Images))

Texas needs what James Talarico is selling — and so does America

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Gregory Bovino, Chief Patrol Agent of the El Centro Sector and Commander-Operation At Large CA (center), marches with federal agents to the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building on Aug. 14, 2025. (Carlin Stiehl / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

America is in danger of becoming numb to violence

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Supporters attend a primary election night event for J.D. Vance, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, at Duke Energy Convention Center on May 3, 2022 in Cincinnati, Ohio. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

MAGA’s plan for a white Christian America is unfolding before our eyes

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President Donald Trump attends the men's singles final during the U.S. Open on Sept. 7, 2025. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump gets hit with Epstein birthday card boomerang

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President Donald Trump, flanked by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, holds a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Aug. 26, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump’s deadly Venezuela boat attack takes us into dangerous waters

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President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Will Democrats blink once again in a shutdown standoff?

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Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. shakes hands with President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 13, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images))

RFK Jr. tightens his chokehold on the nation’s public health

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President Donald Trump attends a Cabinet Meeting at the White. House on Aug. 26, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Don’t be fooled by Trump’s dictatorship jokes

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President Donald Trump talks to journalists after signing executive orders in the Oval Office on Aug. 25, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Fed governor’s firing shows that Trump is beyond all restraint

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Dr. James Dobson (R), founder of the Family Research Council and Focus on the Family, participates in the National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House on May 3, 2007. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

James Dobson ignited the culture wars — and changed US politics

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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Paging FDR: Democrats need to embrace New Deal-style politics

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People gather in Miami to protest social safety net cuts by the Trump administration. (Jesus Olarte/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Guess what’s back? Privatizing Social Security

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Elected officials gather on stage in Houston, Texas, for a rally against a GOP gerrymandering plan. (Raquel Natalicchio/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)

Desperate Democrats consider using a new — and old — weapon

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ICE continue to arrest those they suspect of being "illegal aliens." Now, online, its supporters call for action, even against U.S. citizens. (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Handout / Getty Images)

Trump’s mass deportations are hurting local economies

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From left, American real estate developer Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Knauss, financier (and future convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, February 12, 2000. (Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)

Will Ghislaine Maxwell come through for Trump in the Epstein scandal?

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The Late Show with Stephen Colbert (Scott Kowalchyk/CBS)

Stephen Colbert’s firing is a test of free expression

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) speaks at a press conference on July 15, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

GOP’s foreign aid vote will cost lives — and they don’t care

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Meera G. Nair, Ph.D., and Declan F. McCole, Ph.D., AGAF, professors of biomedical sciences at the University of California, Riverside, observe intestinal epithelial cells on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (Anjali Sharif-Paul/MediaNewsGroup/The Press-Enterprise via Getty Images)

Donald Trump goes nuclear in the GOP’s war on science

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