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December 20, 2022
Failed Coup Leader of the Year: Kari Lake
The Arizona Republican echoed all of Trump’s election denial strategies from 2020. But this time, none of them worked.
November 9, 2022
On an Otherwise Normal Election Day, Kari Lake Was the Last MAGA Standing
While she’s not yet tried to claim outright victory, her supporters are readying a “Stop the Steal” redux.
October 20, 2022
The MAGA Queen of Election Denial
Arizona was the epicenter of Trump’s “Stop the Steal.” Now Kari Lake is its lead proselytizer for the 2022 midterms.
October 10, 2022
The GOP’s Cult of Election Deniers Is a Growing Threat to the Nation
This year, more than half of GOP candidates are Big Lie cultists. Repeat: more than half. It’s getting harder to see how democracy can survive this.
September 28, 2022
Doxxed Doctors, Library Bomb Threats, and Attacks on Pride Centers: A Week in Escalating Anti-LGBTQ Violence
Amid a rising right-wing tide of threats, recent incidents have sadly not been out of the norm.
May 18, 2022
Did Democrats Make a Mistake by Hyping a Trumpy Insurrectionist in Pennsylvania?
The party believed Doug Mastriano would be the easiest candidate to beat in November, so they followed the same risky strategy that backfired tremendously in 2016.
March 25, 2022
The Media Has Yet to Grasp the Full Enormity of Ginni Thomas’s Text Messages
Reports have latched onto the lurid, QAnon-inflected scandal on the surface, but they’ve yet to plumb the depths of the corruption at its heart.

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