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Sabrina Haake

<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/brihaake/" target="_blank">Sabrina Haake</a> has 20-plus years of experience as a federal trial attorney specializing in First and 14th Amendment defense. Her legal and political essays have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Reader, OutSFL, the Howey Political Report, South Florida Gay News, the Windy City Times and numerous law journals. Follow her on <a href="https://sabrinahaake.substack.com/" target="_blank">Substack</a>.

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One on Nov. 16, 2025.

Under Trump, a Hong Kong-style fire is waiting to happen

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth delivers remarks on Dec. 8, 2025. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Hegseth’s press purge is now complete

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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters before boarding Air Force One on Nov. 16, 2025.

Trump’s threats against Dems show he is unfit to lead

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Protesters in Chicago march against ICE and the National Guard on Oct. 25, 2025. ( KAMIL KRZACZYNSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump claims unchecked power — and challenges the Constitution

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The USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest aircraft carrier, is now on its way to the Caribbean. (JONATHAN KLEIN/AFP via Getty Images)

In Latin America, Trump signals war in all but name

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Lisa DeNell Cook, during a hearing ahead of her appointment to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Image)

Fired Fed governor sues Trump — and she just might win

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Members of the National Guard patrol near the Capitol and Union Station on Aug. 14, 2025. (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Trump’s DC occupation scratches an old itch

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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Ahead of the Trump-Putin summit, don’t forget what we owe Ukraine

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President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney at the G7 Leaders Summit on June 15, 2025 in Kananaskis, Canada. (Stefan Rousseau - Pool/Getty Images)

America’s heartbreaking divorce from Canada

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President Donald Trump speaks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Fired Labor commissioner should sue Trump for defamation

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Protestors gather in Boston, Massachusetts during hearings for Harvard University's lawsuit against the Trump administration. (Scott Eisen/Getty Images)

Democracy is at stake in Harvard’s lawsuit against Trump

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Donald Trump | US Supreme Court (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump and SCOTUS are weakening the separation of powers

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Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi is sworn in to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee during her confirmation hearing for U.S. Attorney General in the Hart Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on January 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

 Pam Bondi’s “shocking” strategy should cost her

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport after being booked at the Fulton County jail on August 24, 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Signalgate resets the standard of scrutiny for Team Trump

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President Donald J. Trump greets Associate Justice of the Supreme Court Samuel Alito as he departs from a ceremony to swear in Secretary of Defense Mark Esper in the Oval Office at the White House on Tuesday, July 23, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Justice Alito’s USAID dissent is a map for Trump

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JD Vance and Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

JD Vance’s bombast tells us where MAGA is going 

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gives an interview to Turkish media after his visit to Turkey on February 19, 2024 in Ankara, Türkiye. (Mert Gokhankoc/ dia images via Getty Images)

Trump undercuts Zelenskyy — but Americans are not abandoning Ukraine

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U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts stands on the House floor ahead of the annual State of the Union address by U.S. President Joe Biden before a joint session of Congress at the Capital building on March 7, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Shawn Thew-Pool/Getty Images)

John Roberts’ Supreme Court obeyed in advance

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Donald Trump with the Department of Justice in the background (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Donald Trump’s retribution campaign tests the limits of the First Amendment

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Members of the National Guard monitor a blocked off section of the French Quarter, after at least 14 people were killed during an attack early in the morning on January 1, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump is using tragedy to hide his bait and switch

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to members of the press prior to his departure from the White House on September 15, 2020 in Washington, DC. President Trump was traveling to Philadelphia to participate in an ABC News town hall event. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Why ABC settled a case with Donald Trump they knew they would win

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

Unpardonable double standards

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Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Elon Musk (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Elon Musk’s biggest campaign contribution to Trump: weaponizing the First Amendment

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Republican vice presidential nominee U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) introduces U.S. Republican Presidential nominee former President Donald Trump during a rally at Herb Brooks National Hockey Center on July 27, 2024 in St Cloud, Minnesota. (Stephen Maturen/Getty Images)

The intelligent conversation we’re not having on immigration

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