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Sophia Tesfaye is a senior writer (and former senior politics editor) for Salon. She resides in Washington, D.C.
You can find her on Twitter at @SophiaTesfaye.

Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Amy Coney Barrett, Trump’s controversial final Supreme Court pick, votes to uphold Obamacare

Sophia Tesfaye
Paul Ryan, Liz Cheney, Donald Trump, Mitt Romney and Kevin McCarthy (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Paul Ryan can’t save the GOP — he is still a huge part of the problem

Sophia Tesfaye
Neera Tanden and Joe Manchin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Joe Manchin, who voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh, to vote against Neera Tanden over mean tweets

Sophia Tesfaye
(Getty/Fabrice Coffrini)

Senate Republicans vote to acquit Trump in second impeachment trial; GOP downplays Capitol riot

Sophia Tesfaye
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez | Capitol Riot on January 6th, 2021 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Mocking Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s trauma is really about covering for Trump’s violent coup

Sophia Tesfaye
A cute baby wearing a red hat (Getty Images)

TakingCaraMAGA: What to do when your favorite mommy influencer is outed as a Trump supporter

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Rep. Lou Correa, D-Calif., and other members take cover as protesters attempt to disrupt the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote on Wednesday, January 6, 2021. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Republican lawmakers caught helping pro-Trump mobs at U.S. Capitol, Oregon statehouse

Jon Skolnik, Sophia Tesfaye
Joe Biden and Antony Blinken (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Has consummate insider Tony Blinken, Biden’s nominee for State, learned from his mistakes?

Sophia Tesfaye
Ned Staebler, Chris Krebs and Brad Raffensperger (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

A new #Resistance hero emerges amid the Trump endgame: The dutiful civil servant

Sophia Tesfaye
Kelly Loeffler, David Perdue and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s false voter-fraud claims could blow GOP’s chances of holding Senate

Sophia Tesfaye
Tom Cotton, Josh Hawley, Marco Rubio and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

What “reasonable” Republicans? GOP leaders are boosting Trump’s attack on democracy

Sophia Tesfaye
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks on election night in the East Room of the White House in the early morning hours of November 04, 2020 in Washington, DC. Trump spoke shortly after 2am with the presidential race against Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden still too close to call. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Trump snaps the tether: He calls for end to vote count, threatens appeal to the Supreme Court

Sophia Tesfaye, Andrew O'Hehir
Judge Amy Coney Barrett (Anna Moneymaker/Pool/Getty Images)

Are Democrats open to expanding the Supreme Court? After Barrett, it looks that way

Sophia Tesfaye
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden debates U.S. President Donald Trump at Belmont University on October 22, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee. This is the last debate between the two candidates before the November 3 election. (Jim Bourg-Pool/Getty Images)

That should make him president: Joe Biden shows up — and shows he’s learned the lesson of 2016

Sophia Tesfaye
President Donald Trump greets supporters following a Fox News Town Hall event with moderators Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum on March 05, 2020 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Among other topics, President Trump discussed his administration's response to the Coronavirus and the economy. (Photo by (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Trump’s town hall stunt backfires: NBC’s Savannah Guthrie gives him the grilling voters wouldn’t

Sophia Tesfaye
Mike Pence and Kamala Harris (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Just cancel the remaining debates: Pence and Harris were polite, but utterly useless

Sophia Tesfaye
Debate moderator and Fox News anchor Chris Wallace directs the first presidential debate between U.S. President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at the Health Education Campus of Case Western Reserve University on September 29, 2020 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)

Why Chris Wallace blew it: Even at its best, Fox News is a right-wing noise machine

Sophia Tesfaye
Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Michael Bennet and Dianne Feinstein (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Democrats have no plan: Trump is bulldozing democracy — and nobody’s ready to stop him

Sophia Tesfaye
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (Drew Angerer/Alex Edelman/Getty Images/Salon)

Will Democrats fight? After RBG, how far will they go to stop Mitch McConnell’s power grab?

Sophia Tesfaye
Donald Trump and Kristi Noem | People walk along Main Street during the 80th Annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in Sturgis, South Dakota on August 8, 2020. (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Is South Dakota’s Kristi Noem, a Trump superfan, the nation’s worst COVID governor?

Sophia Tesfaye
Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) speaks at a primary election night event at Malden Public Library on September 1, 2020 in Malden, Massachusetts. Sen. Markey won the primary race over challenger Rep. Joe Kennedy III (D-MA) for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate seat. (Allison Dinner/Getty Images)

Ed Markey beats Joe Kennedy in Massachusetts primary — a race that never should have happened

Sophia Tesfaye
Vice President Mike Pence speaks on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Charlotte Convention Center on August 24, 2020 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The four-day event is themed "Honoring the Great American Story." (Chris Carlson-Pool/Getty Images)

Mike Pence’s contemptible convention speech: A fable of failure, culture war and corruption

Sophia Tesfaye
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y) and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

As a strange DNC kicks off, are Bernie Sanders and the Squad being left out?

Sophia Tesfaye
Eviction notice on door of house (Getty Images)

Trump has promised to stop evictions — but the GOP has a powerful incentive not to

Sophia Tesfaye
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