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Tatyana Tandanpolie

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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.

ANSON, TEXAS - MAY 12: In an aerial view, inmates are seen in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Center on May 12, 2025 in Anson, Texas. ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has begun transferring illegal immigrant detainees to the Bluebonnet Detention Center after U.S. District Judge Wesley Hendrix readily offered the facility to the Trump administration under the Alien Enemies Act. (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Immigration judge orders removal of beloved Dallas community leader

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(Photos courtesy of Noor Wadi / Illustration by Salon / Getty Images)

ICE upends Dallas Muslim community with detention of local leader

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COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA - MAY 23: Republican state Sen. Katrina Shealy (L) with Sen. Penry Gustafson, stares down Republican Sen. Richard Cash as he speaks with journalists after the Senate passed a ban on abortion after six weeks of pregnancy on May 23, 2023 in Columbia, South Carolina. A bi-partisan group of five women, including Shealy and Gustafson, led a filibuster that failed to block the legislation. (Photo by Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

South Carolina may tighten abortion restrictions. These women are pushing back

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Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva speaks at a primary election-night party at El Casino Ballroom on July 15, 2025 in South Tucson, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)

Adelita Grijalva wants to get to work. The GOP won’t let her

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Protesters hold signs inside the South Carolina Statehouse as lawmakers debate an abortion ban on Aug. 30, 2022. (Sean Rayford/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

South Carolina’s abortion ban could get more extreme

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Protesters wrapped in pride and trans pride flags sit on a wall during a trans rights demonstration. (Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Political violence has nothing to do with gender identity

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Minnesota state senator-elect Omar Fateh at the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., in Dec. 2020 just prior to his first legislative term. (Glen Stubbe/Minnesota Star Tribune via Getty Images)

The “Minneapolis Mamdani” won’t let racist attacks stop him

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Federal law enforcement agents confront demonstrators protesting outside of an immigrant processing center on September 27, 2025 in Broadview, Illinois. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Chicago prepares to resist federal “intimidation”

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Students walk across the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio on November 6, 2023. (MEGAN JELINGER/AFP via Getty Images)

GOP’s “free speech” law leaves students afraid to talk

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The same ICE detention center that for months now has boasted a sign saying "Illegal Aliens here" is the same one that just released Imam Ayman Soliman when the administration suddenly dropped the case against the asylym seeker. His Cincinnati community welcomed him back with open arms. (UCG / Contributor / Getty Images)

“Don’t underestimate your voice”: Cincinnati imam jailed by ICE released, case dropped

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A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent watches as Customs and Border Protection officers hold the line against protestors who responded to a Federal Immigration raid at Glass House Farms in Camarillo, California. (Blake Fagan/Getty Images)

Amid mass deportations, Democrats cling to bipartisan solutions

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A worker sets up signs at the Dallas County Fairgrounds for a rally with Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump on October 16, 2023 in Adel, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

How a Democrat just won in Iowa Trump country

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A protester in Chicago on the second anniversary of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision, June 2024. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

How student abortion rights activists reshaped Illinois state law

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Members of the National Guard patrol Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 26, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Dems strike tougher tone on Trump’s DC takeover: It’s racism

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Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, talks to a reporter during a campaign stop in Cleveland, Oct. 30, 2024. (Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)

Union workers welcome Sherrod Brown’s 2026 Ohio comeback — but can he win?

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Rep. Bryan Steil (R-WI) speaks at a campaign event with Republican JD Vance on October 28, 2024 in Racine, Wisconsin. (Scott Olson/Getty Images))

“Proudly pro-life” Wisconsin Republican scrubs anti-abortion text from campaign site

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The Butler County, Ohio, jail, where Sheriff Richard Jones has posted a sign reading "Illegal Aliens Here." He has begun holding undocumented immigrants under a contract with Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE). (Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Chaplain detained by ICE was not the same after solitary confinement, friends say

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Mayor of Baltimore Brandon Maurice Scott (R) holds a Press Conference on April 2, 2024. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Baltimore mayor suggests Trump’s targeting “Black-led cities” for obviously racist reasons

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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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