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Russell Payne is a staff reporter for Salon. His reporting has previously appeared in The New York Sun and the Finger Lakes Times.

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The fight for the Epstein files isn’t over

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Why Mitch McConnell helped kill the hemp buzz

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PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - JUNE 14: U.S. Rep. Ruwa Romman attends as people protest in Philadelphia as part of the No Kings Rallies at Love Park on June 14, 2025 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Lisa Lake/Getty Images for No Kings)

Ruwa Romman’s case for economic populism in Georgia

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“Always put the people first”: Progressives get a new candidate in New York City

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U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) speaks at a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Sunrise Movement targets Dem primaries: “Time to clear house”

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ST LOUIS, MISSOURI - AUGUST 6: US Congresswoman Cori Bush (D-MO) makes remarks as she greets voters during a visit at Carondolet Branch Library on August 6, 2024 in St Louis, Missouri. Bush is looking to retain her seat in Congress against challenger Wesley Bell in todays Missouri's primary election. (Photo by Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images)

Cori Bush on midterms: “Woke isn’t dead — woke is fighting”

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The National Guardsman who won’t take orders from Trump

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Mamdani wins: How a democratic socialist toppled the Empire State machine

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Panic in the Hamptons: The fight to stop Zohran Mamdani

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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller speaks at the White House on September 25, 2025. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“It’s a 100% bluff”: Cuts hamper Stephen Miller’s war on the left

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Conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point Action, speaks during a meeting on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson on October 17, 2024. (Photo by Olivier Touron/Getty Images)

Efforts to avenge Charlie Kirk’s death have fallen apart everywhere — except where it counts

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Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Amy McGrath speaks during an Early Vote rally at Lynn Family Stadium on October 27, 2020 in Louisville, Kentucky. (Jon Cherry/Getty Images)

Amy McGrath isn’t sorry for trying again

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Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., during a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee in May 2019. The chicken was a reference to former Attorney General Bill Barr's reluctance to testify. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)

Tennessee’s last House Democrat, facing progressive challenger, vows to fight

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An image of US President Donald Trump hangs on the outside of the Department of Labor headquarters building in Washington, DC on October 7, 2025. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Federal agencies go MAGA amid shutdown

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A resident drops off a vote-by-mail ballot in a secure drop box on October 2, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Why the ACLU is backing a GOP lawmaker at the Supreme Court

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Democratic state Rep. Justin Pearson of Memphis speaks on his phone while being expelled from the state Legislature on April 6, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Seth Herald/Getty Images)

Progressives see an opening in Tennessee

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Former Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap fields a phone call at the Merrill Auditorium Rehearsal Hall voting location in Portland on Tuesday, November 8, 2016. (Carl D. Walsh/Portland Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

Conservative Democrat Jared Golden gets a serious challenger

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Gender rights activists demonstrate outside the US Supreme Court on June 30, 2023, in Washington, DC. The court ruled on June 30 that some private businesses can refuse service to same-sex couples for religious reasons, in a landmark erosion of anti-discrimination laws. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)

Anti-trans activists pray SCOTUS upholds “conversion therapy”

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Judge Aileen Cannon and Special Counsel Jack Smith (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/US District Court for the Southern District of Florida)

Watchdog pushes for release of Jack Smith’s Trump report

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Activists display signs during a press conference inside the rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol Building on September 10, 2025 in Jefferson City, Missouri. (Michael Thomas/Getty Images)

DNC backs drive for Missouri gerrymandering referendum

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Protesters burn a Confederate battle on Aug. 12, 2018. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Republicans keep pushing unconstitutional flag-burning ban

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Zohran Mamdani speaks to supporters during a Democratic primary election night gathering after running on a platform of affordability. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Mamdani campaign vets are starting to help other Democrats

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A group of protestors who gather weekly, demonstrate outside News Corporation headquarters, the parent company of Fox News, in midtown Manhattan on March 18, 2025 in New York City. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Fox News “expert” says Hitler went to heaven

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A banner showing a picture of U.S. President Donald Trump is displayed outside of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) building on June 3, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kevin Carter/Getty Images)

Emails suggest that a Trump-friendly business is getting special treatment from the government

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