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Amanda Marcotte is a senior politics writer at Salon and the author of "Troll Nation: How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself." Follow her on Bluesky @AmandaMarcotte and sign up for her biweekly politics newsletter, Standing Room Only.

WATCH: Scared to Death! The mystique of horror films

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WATCH: From virgin vegetarian to sexual cannibal

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Jason Chaffetz; Donald Trump (Getty/Chip Somodevilla/Mandel Ngan/Mladen Antonov)

Public land debate, without the public: GOP Congress votes to shut out citizens from discussion of federal land use

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Good luck, women! Under the GOP health care bill, it’ll be tougher to have a baby — and tougher not to

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Lois Kolkhorst, backed by Dan Patrick and other legislators, talks to the media during a news conference to discuss Senate Bill 6 at the Texas Capitol, Monday, March 6, 2017, in Austin, Texas. (AP/Eric Gay)

In Texas bathroom battle, defensive right-wingers try to steal progressive language

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Child-free and OK with it — but still dealing with moral scolding and social disapproval

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Here’s the key to Trump’s outrageous lies: He sells them with conviction

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Trump’s racist hypocrisy: Sessions scandal exposes double standard behind dog-whistle calls for “law and order”

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WATCH: Economist Dean Baker warns about the financial dangers posed by the Trump administration

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Conservatives are willing to combat climate change — when it’s not called “climate change”

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WATCH: Musician Will Boyajian turns to subway busking to help the homeless

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Wayne LaPierre (AP/Evan Vucci/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/Photo montage by Salon)

The NRA’s new gun-sales pitch: America is a war zone and the “violent left” is coming for you

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WATCH: Gay Talese advises young journalists to get out of the I-95 corridor

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Mitch McConnell; Donald Trump; Paul Ryan (AP/Alex Brandon/Reuters/Rick Wilking/AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Photo montage by Salon)

Donald Trump tells a lot of lies — but he’s just building on a long Republican tradition

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U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a sign supporting his plan to build a wall between the United States and Mexico that he borrowed from a member of the audience at his campaign rally in Fayetteville, North Carolina March 9, 2016. Trump was interrupted repeatedly by demonstrators during his rally. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake - RTSA418 (Reuters)

West Texas says no: For many people along the border, Trump’s wall fantasy is a nightmare

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Myth of the “unbortion”: Anti-choice legislators push the lie that “abortion reversal” is possible

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Western land war heats up: Major outdoor-industry trade show bails on Utah to protest GOP assault on public land

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Is $4.68 the key to saving the Democratic Party?

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WATCH: “Bitter Harvest” sheds light on Stalin’s forced starvation of Ukrainians that killed millions

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Michael Flynn, right-wing hero: Will conservatives embrace him the way they did Ollie North?

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WATCH: Discovering a lost city buried underneath the rainforest

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Scott Pruitt may sound reasonable on TV — but Trump’s EPA nominee is essentially a climate change denier

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Airbnb has permanently changed the way people travel

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WATCH: Economist Dean Baker explains why immigration is good for the economy

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