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Tatyana Tandanpolie

Email: ttandanpolie@salon.com

Tatyana Tandanpolie is a staff reporter at Salon. Born and raised in central Ohio, she moved to New York City in 2018 to pursue degrees in Journalism and Africana Studies at New York University. She is currently based in her home state and has previously written for local Columbus publications, including Columbus Monthly, CityScene Magazine and The Columbus Dispatch.

A person holds a "Protesting Is Not A Crime!" sign as people demonstrate before marching downtown as protests against ICE immigration raids continue in the city on June 11, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

“I thought people were going to die”: Anti-ICE protesters say they were attacked by police

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Vilés Dorsainvil, executive director of the Haitian Community Help and Support Center, holds hands with pastors during a prayer at the end of a press conference where religious leaders called for calm and support for the Haitian population in Springfield, Ohio, Sept. 12, 2024. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)

Haitians in Ohio, mocked by Trump, get a reprieve — but face uncertain future

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(Getty Images/Charday Penn)

“It was frightening”: Federal judges speak out on vicious threats from MAGA fans

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People line up for early voting at a polling station at the Black Mountain Public Library in Black Mountain, North Carolina on October 21, 2024. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Democrats sound alarm on Trump administration’s attacks on voting rights

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A court building is seen behind a crowd control barrier ahead of then-former President Donald Trump's arrival to answer charges of conspiring to overturn the 2020 election, in Washington, United States on August 3, 2023. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

In 2020, a man killed this judge’s son. He was coming for her

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People rally for immigrant rights on July 17, 2025 in Glendale, California. (David McNew/Getty Images)

Hospital warns staff not to defend chaplain detained by ICE

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The Minnesota Immigrant Rights Action Committee protests outside ICE's regional headquarters in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on July 14, 2025. (Christopher Mark Juhn/Anadolu via Getty Images)

He was a chaplain at a children’s hospital. Now he’s detained by ICE

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A grocery store with sign in the window accepting Electronic Benefit Transfer cards and food stamps in St. Paul, Minnessotta. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Aid groups prepare for a “big beautiful” spike in poverty

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Aileen Cannon (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/US District Court for the Southern District of Florida)

Aileen Cannon is doing a good job, actually

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US Supreme Court Associate Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. (Photo illustration by Salon/Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)

SCOTUS backs “executive lawlessness”

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Protesters gather around the William McKinley Monument at the Ohio Capitol building on May 1 during a May Day action focused on public education. (Tatyana Tandanpolie)

Activists failed to repeal Ohio’s GOP education overhaul — but the fight isn’t over

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People participate in a Juneteenth celebration in Fort Greene park on June 18, 2023 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

No, Black people may not be joining all of your protests. But they are still resisting

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People line up for early voting at a polling station at the Black Mountain Public Library in Black Mountain, North Carolina on October 21, 2024. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

“Who’s to say anybody’s vote is safe?”: Trump DOJ targets North Carolina’s voter rolls

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This photograph taken on Independence Square in Kyiv on June 23, 2022 shows U.S. citizen Ryan Wesley Routh sticking up national flags of the countries helping Ukraine. (SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

“This evil man”: The guy accused of trying to kill Trump is about to face Aileen Cannon

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U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with retired Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy after addressing a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 04, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

“We can’t be indifferent”: Former Supreme Court justice warns Americans’ “freedom is at risk”

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Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears speaks during a campaign rally for Donald Trump at the Salem Civic Center in Salem, Virginia, on November 2, 2024. (ALLISON JOYCE/AFP via Getty Images)

Fear of “gay blood” and “confused minds”: Virginia Republican touts support from anti-gay preachers

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A makeshift memorial for DFL State Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark Hortman is seen at the Minnesota State Capitol building on June 16, 2025 in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Steven Garcia/Getty Images)

How Trump and the age of “crass, brutal politics” make extremist violence more likely

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Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Coney Barrett testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the third day of her confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on October 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)

“The real wild card is Amy Coney Barrett”: The Supreme Court case that could eviscerate trans rights

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during the South Carolina Democratic Party State Convention on Saturday, May 31, 2025 in Columbia, SC. (Sam Wolfe/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“The road to authoritarianism”: Tim Walz says the time for “sternly worded letters” is over

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A member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus holds a picture of Kilmar Abrego Garcia during a news conference to discuss Abrego Garcia's arrest and deportation at the Cannon House Office Building on April 9, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

“What American justice looks like”: New federal charges keep Kilmar Abrego Garcia behind bars

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Protesters gather around the William McKinley Monument at the Ohio Capitol building on May 1 during a May Day action focused on public education. (Tatyana Tandanpolie)

“Just three people” took on Ohio education law — and sparked a movement

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, joins DNC Vice Chair Malcolm Kenyatta (D-PA) and hosts Clay Cane and Reecie Colbert for a SiriusXM Town Hall on May 08, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for SiriusXM)

“People saw the money being spent”: Jasmine Crockett says wealthy elites bought the Trump presidency

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A child playing at school (Getty Images / Manu Vega)

Hungrier kids, missed check-ups: Trump’s cuts to childcare make it a lot harder to be a parent

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Rachel Cohen, a third-year law associate who resigned over a deal she says her high-powered law firm Skadden Law reached with the Trump administration, speaks during a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Building on April 7, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

“This is an existential threat”: Legal experts warn that the rule of law is on the ropes

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