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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.

Lone Blue Donkey Among Red Elephants (Salon/Getty Images/Carol Yepes)

Running blue in a red state: Why it’s important

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Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis addresses attendees on day one of the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Why the right is so terrified of “woke”: There are truths it just can’t face

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Supporters of former US President Donald Trump holds a US flag near Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on April 2, 2023. (GIORGIO VIERA/AFP via Getty Images)

Make the American flag great again

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Cool Founding Fathers (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Were the founding fathers “woke”? Well, compared to the modern-day GOP — definitely

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Former President Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene during the 3rd round of the LIV Golf Invitational Series Bedminster on July 31, 2022 at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey. (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Why are Republicans so bad at lying?

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A sign that read "Guns" is on display as House Democrats gather for an event on gun violence at the East Front of the U.S. Capitol on March 29, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

The Second Amendment is a ludicrous historical antique: Time for it to go

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Businessman Donald Trump and his wife Ivana appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show in Chicago, Illinois, April 25, 1988. (Paul Natkin/Getty Images)

The man who saw Trump coming: Wayne Barrett warned us decades ago

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Joe Biden and The New York Times (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Will the New York Times ever give Joe Biden credit for his accomplishments? Chances dim!

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Michael Moore (VALERY HACHE/AFP via Getty Images)

Michael Moore was right about the midterms — now he offers hope for progressives in red zones

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Red card, with the word "gaslighting" written in black, and burnt matches around it (Getty Images/Daniele Mezzadri)

Words of the year 2022: We were gaslit in goblin mode

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Roger Stone speaking during a press conference at Beths Burger Bar, across the street from the Conservative Political Action Conference, on Feb. 25, 2022, in Orlando. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Roger Stone is here to teach us a lesson — and it’s one we should have learned years ago

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Sens. Ted Cruz, R-Texas (R) and Josh Hawley, R-Mo., are seen outside the Senate chamber on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Hang on, Republicans: Who are the real “elites,” anyway?

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Ted Cruz, Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Republicans and the crisis of “manhood”: Who are the real sex-obsessed pervs in America?

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Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Amy Coney Barrett (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How the Supreme Court’s “fauxriginalists” are warping the Constitution

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the Faith & Freedom Coalition June 17, 2022 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Seth Herald/Getty Images)

Donald J. Trump, meanest of mean girls: He so doesn’t want to be our friend anymore

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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)

How many people died because Trump mocked mask-wearing? We’ll never know

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Antonin Scalia and Amy Coney Barrett (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“Originalism” and other Supreme nonsense: How the right-wing justices rationalize mass murder

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Fox News host Tucker Carlson (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Let’s talk about Tucker Carlson’s obsession with “legacy Americans”

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Marjorie Taylor Greene and Josh Hawley (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

No country for insurrectionists: Will the Republican traitors finally face the music?

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Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis addresses attendees on day one of the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Orlando. (Paul Hennessy/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Ron DeSantis’ war on “woke” Disney is really an attack on core American values

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U.S. Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) arrives as Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Shalanda Young is testifying before the Senate Budget Committee at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on March 30, 2022 in Washington, DC. Young is testifying on President Biden's budget request for fiscal Year 2023. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Rick Scott’s loony-tunes 11-point plan: Classic GOP projection, and a roadmap to theocracy

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A student holds up a sign against banning CRT as members of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School Board meet in Placentia, California, on March 23, 2022. (Leonard Ortiz/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)

Stealth school board candidates are everywhere: But “Stop the Steal” isn’t working for them

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A woman looks at a computer screen watching a dissenting Russian Channel One employee entering Ostankino on-air TV studio during Russia's most-watched evening news broadcast, holding up a poster which reads as "No War" and condemning Moscow's military action in Ukraine in Moscow on March 15, 2022. - As a news anchor Yekaterina Andreyeva launched into an item about relations with Belarus, Marina Ovsyannikova, who wore a dark formal suit, burst into view, holding up a hand-written poster saying "No War" in English. (AFP via Getty Images)

Won’t someone, anyone stand up to protest Tucker Carlson, Putin’s biggest fanboy?

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"The People's Convoy" truck headed toward the Kremlin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A “Freedom Convoy” we can all support: Send the truckers to Russia!

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