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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.

“A damning non-answer”: Walz, Vance clash over abortion, economy, and democracy at debate

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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) talks with journalists in the spin room ahead of the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections between former president Donald Trump and President Joe Biden, at CNN's studios in Atlanta, Ga on Thursday, June 27, 2024. (Kevin D. Liles for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Even Republicans alarmed by new Georgia election rules — but experts worry “nothing will be done”

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People hold up placards with the mugshot of former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump as they wait for him to arrive to speak during the "Turning Point: The People's Convention" on June 15, 2024, at Huntington Place Convention Center in Detroit, Michigan. (JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

“We’ve seen this with the Federalist Society”: Turning Point’s effort to “infiltrate state capitols”

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Jack Smith | US Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

“The evidence will be powerful”: Legal experts say Jack Smith about to drop a bomb in Trump case

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June 1948: Members of the Texas Border Patrol guarding illegal Mexican immigrants captured close to the Mexican border. (Harry Pennington/Keystone Features/Getty Images)

“A climate of fear”: Trump’s mass deportations could bring “human misery” in 2025

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Sen. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., who now faces a tight race against independent candidate Dan Osborn, seen at a Capitol Hill news conference on May 1, 2024. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

Is Nebraska in play? How an unlikely candidate could upend GOP’s Senate hopes

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Trump judge gives the right a big win on labor law, undercutting NLRB

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Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speaks at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Key Republicans’ shrinking leads could give Democrats new path to Senate majority

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Nate Silver (L) and Robert Krulwich speak onstage at Tribeca Talks / ESPN Sports Film Festival: Data Lab for Storytelling during the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival at Spring Studio on April 20, 2015 in New York City. (Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival)

Nate Silver slammed over Trump election model — but forecasters “all saying roughly the same thing”

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US Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris steps off Air Force Two upon arrival at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 9, 2024 (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

“Rife with fraud”: Crypto industry PAC raises $200+ million to fight regulations

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Charlie Kirk, founder and executive director of Turning Point USA, speaks during a Turning Point PAC town hall at Dream City Church on June 06, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Republicans forced to get creative as pro-Trump get-out-the-vote effort falls short

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