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Tricia Crimmins is a former Senior Reporter on the politics and tech team covering discrimination, identity, and the 2024 election. She can be found on Twitter at @TriciaCrimmins.

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‘$250 million wasted’: MAGA voters rail against Trump’s primary opponents’ spending—claim race is over after easy  Iowa win

‘Go away now’: Trump supporters declare DeSantis campaign dead before Iowa finishes voting

Marlon Ettinger writes about politics, crime, and culture.

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Originally from Texas, Douglas Lucas is based in Seattle. When not substitute teaching in public education, and not toiling away in marketing, he&#8217;s a freelance writer/journalist published at Foreign Policy, Vice, Salon, WhoWhatWhy, the Texas Observer, and several others.

Douglas Lucas

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EXCLUSIVE: A missing laptop could be key to prosecuting Trump. This rural Georgia county only recently admitted that it exists

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Trump denies claim he wasn’t eating after 2020 election loss: ‘I was eating too much’

Phil West is a veteran professional writer and editor, and his works include two nonfiction books and articles in myriad print and online publications.

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‘$250 million wasted’: MAGA voters rail against Trump’s primary opponents’ spending—claim race is over after easy Iowa win