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Kirk Swearingen

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Kirk Swearingen is a poet and independent journalist. He is a graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, and his work has appeared in Delmar, MARGIE, Bloom, the American Journal of Poetry, Riverfront Times, Medium and Salon.

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Bryce Jordan Center on October 26, 2024 in State College, Pennsylvania. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Donald Trump was never qualified to be president — or anything else

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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)

Reject the lies: Trump only wishes he could have the Biden-Harris economy

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Donald Trump, Joe Biden and the Abraham Lincoln Memorial (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Donald Trump, Honest Abe and Joe Biden: Which of these things is not like the others?

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Samuel Alito and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

I’m flying an American flag in protest

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd before delivering the keynote address at the Faith & Freedom Coalition's Road to Majority Policy Conference at the Washington Hilton on June 22, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Sure, let’s drug-test the debates: Is that what Donald Trump really wants?

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Samuel Alito | An Appeal To Heaven Flag (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

An appeal to heaven: Find Sam Alito another job

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A detail of a hat in support of Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump before a rally on May 1, 2024 at Avflight Saginaw in Freeland, Michigan. (Nic Antaya/Getty Images)

Don’t fall for MAGA’s “election integrity” con job

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Joe Biden and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Don’t like this economy? OK, just wait for Trump and the GOP to ruin it

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Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump thanks supporters after speaking at a Get Out The Vote rally at Winthrop University on February 23, 2024 in Rock Hill, South Carolina. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Can’t we get a nationwide gag order against Trump’s violent threats?

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Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks during a Get Out the Vote Rally March 2, 2024 in Richmond, Virginia. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Who brought the crime, the drugs and the rape? It was him

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives for a pre-trial hearing in a hush-money case at Manhattan Criminal Court on February 15, 2024 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

After decades of embarrassment, New York finally dumps Trump

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Former U.S. President and 2024 presidential hopeful Donald Trump speaks during a campaign event in Waterloo, Iowa, on December 19, 2023. (KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Republicans pick up where Trump’s “perfect call” left off

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Donald Trump on a deserted island (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Can we send Trump into exile? It worked (sort of) with Napoleon

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President Biden gives a campaign speech at Montgomery County Community College. (Caroline Gutman for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Biden’s economic troubles aren’t bad vibes – they’re “micro-insults”

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Donald Trump, a painting of the Confederate army losing and the January 6, 2021 US Capitol Riot (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump the Confederate

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The photo of Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., raising his fist on January 6th is shown during the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol hearing in Washington on Thursday, July 21, 2022. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Don’t panic, men: We’re not helpless — and we don’t need the right’s phony masculinity

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Mad Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Trump derangement syndrome” is real — but it’s not what they say it is

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U.S. President Joe Biden arrives to pardon the National Thanksgiving turkeys, Liberty and Bell during a ceremony on the South Lawn of the White House on November 20, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Sure, Joe Biden is pretty old: Listen, could you do what he’s doing?

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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to members of the media as he departs the White House on November 09, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Joe Biden’s economy is, honestly, pretty amazing: How come he doesn’t get credit?

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Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks as Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) and Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) listen during a news conference at the U.S. Capitol May 11, 2022 in Washington, DC. (Photo illustration by Salon/Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The gang that couldn’t shoot straight: Will the GOP’s baffling “ignarrogance” be its undoing?

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Protesters rally outside the state Capitol in support of Rep. Justin Jones of Nashville on April 10, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Seth Herald/Getty Images)

Calm down, everybody: An ugly election is coming — but younger voters will save us

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Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Can’t we all get along? Actually, no — not when the other side behaves like that

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Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Guns, Republicans and “manliness”: We all suffer from the right’s mental health crisis

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at the Steer 27 Steinbar at the Iowa State Fair on August 12, 2023 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s real conspiracy: It’s much larger than even Fani Willis imagines

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