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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.

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
US President Donald Trump and Supreme Court Justice John Roberts (Getty Images/Salon)

Trump’s re-election plan keeps hitting a major obstacle: Chief Justice John Roberts

Sophia Tesfaye
Joe Biden on a Livestream | Donald Trump at his Tulsa rally (Getty Images/Salon)

Democrats will hold a virtual convention; Republicans won’t: The cruelty is just too obvious

Sophia Tesfaye
Donald Trump, Martha McSally, and the border wall (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Trump’s Arizona trip: Failed wall, failed COVID testing and a failed presidency

Sophia Tesfaye
Denver Riggleman and Steve King (Getty Images/Salon)

GOP purges right-wing members from Congress — to replace them with even more radical candidates

Sophia Tesfaye
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) marches with a crowd singing Little Light of Mine | Members of Congress gather at the Emancipation Hall, kneel as they take moment of silence to honor George Floyd (Getty Images/Salon)

Mitt Romney’s support for black lives matters. But the bar should be higher for Democrats

Sophia Tesfaye
Two police officers take a knee during a demonstration by protesters in Times Square over the death of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer (BRYAN R. SMITH/AFP via Getty Images)

Copaganda: Most major media is still much too eager to embrace police-friendly framing

Sophia Tesfaye
Tom Cotton, Marsha Blackburn and the Chinese flag (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Racism meets warmongering: GOP senators push xenophobic bill to bar Chinese students

Sophia Tesfaye
Michigan State officers return as the Tittabawassee River overflows | Donald Trump in a MAGA hat (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin/Carlos Osorio)

Republican corruption and carelessness led to devastation in Michigan: Does Trump care?

Sophia Tesfaye
National Guard | Donald Trump (AP Photo/Getty Images/Salon)

Another Trump con: Now he’s cheating frontline workers and National Guard troops

Sophia Tesfaye
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