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Heather Digby Parton

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

Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

MAGA has consigned the Reagan Revolution to “the ash-heap of history”

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President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on Aug. 22, 2025. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump is still ranting about 2020 — but it’s really about 2026

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

Look out, Donald: Inflation and economic fears are coming for you

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio attends a Cabinet meeting, July 8, 2025. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

“Little Marco” goes big MAGA — with his eyes on the White House

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The USS Sampson (DDG 102), a U.S. Navy destroyer, docks at the Amador International Cruise Terminal in Panama City, Panama, on Sept. 2, 2025, amid a broader U.S. naval buildup targeting Latin American drug cartels. (Daniel Gonzalez/Anadolu via Getty Images)

History shows that Trump’s Venezuela campaign will be disastrous

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President Donald Trump in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Oct. 17, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Democrats are finally exposing Donald Trump’s weakness

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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is filmed observing Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests in Portland, Oregon. (Mathieu Lewis-Rolland/Getty Images)

How Kristi Noem became the face of Donald Trump’s police state

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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)

Thanks to Trump and the Supreme Court, we’re facing a legal emergency

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., speaks during a press conference on Oct. 10, 2025. (nna Rose Layden/Getty Images)

Mike Johnson’s support may be eroding

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., attends a news conference on the government shutdown on Oct. 8, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Democrats are winning the health care shutdown war

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The dangerous symbolism of the Trump coins

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President Donald Trump arrives to speak to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on Sept. 30, 2025. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Donald Trump believes he has a license to kill

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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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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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