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Heather Digby Parton

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

US President Donald Trump during a a press conference in the East Room to the White House in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2025. (ROBERTO SCHMIDT/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” runs into a Senate sausage grinder — and it’s messy

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Donald Trump | US Supreme Court building (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Supreme Court bends again to Trump’s will

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Woman holds an upside down US flag to protest against President Donald Trump outside the US Capitol ahead of his joint address to Congress in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025. (ALLISON ROBBERT/AFP via Getty Images)

War with Iran could activate Trump’s darkest impulses

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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)

Facing a decision on Iran, Trump is as befuddled as ever

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US President Donald Trump (R) meets with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump has become an easy mark — and so has America

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President Trump, sitting alongside Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and First Lady Melania Trump, observes U.S. Army tanks traveling down Pennsylvania Avenue, during a celebration of the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary and his birthday on Flag Day, June 14, 2025 in Washington. (Tom Brenner For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump takes aim at states’ rights, and the Constitution

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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)

Worse than Orbán: Trump is trying to bring his opposition to heel

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Donald Trump arrives on Marine One to speak at a rally with U.S. Army troops on June 10, 2025 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. (Melissa Sue Gerrits/Getty Images)

Now Donald Trump is corrupting the military — and perverting its loyalty

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US President Donald Trump followed by First Lady Melania Trump, shakes hands with California Governor Gavin Newsom upon arrival at Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, on January 24, 2025, to visit the region devastated by the Palisades and Eaton fires. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump’s war with California will test MAGA’s limits

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Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump, is flanked by Senate Republicans as he gives remarks to the press at the National Republican Senatorial Committee building on June 13, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Musk turns the GOP’s devotion to billionaire tax cuts into a trap

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Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO Elon Musk (R) arrives to the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump in the Rotunda of the US Capitol on January 20, 2025 in Washington, DC. (SHAWN THEW/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

Elon Musk versus MAGA: Republicans have reached a tipping point

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Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, speaks at a campaign rally at First Horizon Coliseum on November 02, 2024 in Greensboro, North Carolina. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

The ugly truth of Trump’s America first agenda

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Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Donald Trump is becoming disillusioned

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U.S. President Donald Trump inspects the troops during a full honors welcome ceremony on the parade grounds at the Pentagon, on July 25, 2019 in Arlington, Virginia. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Trump diverts military valor to himself

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Former President Donald Trump visits the Versailles restaurant in Little Havana after being arraigned at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Federal Courthouse on June 13, 2023 in Miami, Florida. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

Republicans are forcing Trump to touch the third rail

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CEO of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk wields a chainsaw as he leaves the stage alongside Newsmax anchor Rob Schmitt at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) at the Gaylord National Resort Hotel And Convention Center on February 20, 2025 in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

DOGE deflated: Elon Musk has lost his political power

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US President Donald Trump signed an executive at the Operation Warp Speed Vaccine Summit on December 08, 2020 in Washington, DC. The president signed an executive order stating the US would provide vaccines to Americans before aiding other nations. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Trump is trying to COVID hack the economy

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President Donald J. Trump is greeted by young girls as he arrives for an official arrival ceremony at Qasr al Watan (Palace of the Nation) May 15, 2025, in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

MAGA gets the Middle East treatment — and exposes why Republicans love Trump’s lavish lifestyle

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Brett Kavanaugh (L) takes the podium after US President Trump to speak during his swearing-in ceremony as Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court at the White House in Washington, DC October 8, 2018. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

One major part of Project 2025 is falling apart

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White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller speaks to reporters outside the White House, April 18, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Stephen Miller came prepared for war — and he won’t back down

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U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to sign the "No Men in Women's Sports" executive order in the East Room of the White House on February 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Trump’s massive corruption, Part Deux: So much more bigly this time!

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Edward Martin, interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, March 25, 2025. (The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump’s DC prosecutor now seems doomed — and it couldn’t happen to a nicer fellow

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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)

The world is now reversing course to reject Trumpism

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Stephen Miller and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump-appointed judge foils Stephen Miller’s grand plan

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