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<title><![CDATA[Sophia Tesfaye - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/35253.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Sophia Tesfaye]]></description><category domain="35253">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Sen. Schmitt's Failed Jack Smith Gotcha]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2026/10/01/eric-schmitts-failed-jack-smith-gotcha-exposes-gop-propaganda/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[MAGA media was ready to amplify the Missouri senator's conspiracy theory. It turned out to be laughably false]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Fired WaPo Writer Nets Free Speech Win]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2026/08/25/fired-columnist-rehired-as-rights-charlie-kirk-campaign-collapses/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Karen Attiah's firing by the Washington Post sparked a backlash the newspaper has paid for ever since]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Imagining the 250th If Harris Were President]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2026/07/04/a-fourth-of-july-in-kamala-harris-usa/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A celebration of what could have been if the 2024 election had gone differently]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Return to Reality TV Is a Bad Sign for Republicans]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2026/05/18/return-to-reality-tv-is-a-bad-sign-for-maga/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt are chasing cameras to bypass scrutiny]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Lindsey Graham Is a Happy Man. MAGA Is Wondering: How?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2026/03/14/lindsey-graham-just-triggered-a-maga-revolt-over-iran/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Pro-Trump media figures warn the president is trapped in a hawkish echo chamber around the senator]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's America First Movement Is Fracturing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2025/11/15/donald-trumps-america-first-movement-seems-to-be-fracturing/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Conservative criticism of the president is escalating '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';''&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' in potentially damaging ways]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Hegseth's Press Crackdown Is Backfiring]]></title>
							<link>https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/pete-hegseth-press-crackdown-backfiring-130520557.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Secretary of Defense'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Pete Hegseth'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' has managed to ignite'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' cross-ideological media solidarity'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' with his unprecedented attempt to silence journalists.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[MAGA Melts Down, Dems Exult as 'Epstein Files' Evaporate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2025/07/08/maga-melts-down-dems-exult-as-epstein-files-evaporate/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Alex Jones weeps, Laura Loomer rages as Pam Bondi slams the door on MAGA-world's long-running Epstein grift]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Too Corporate To Fight for a Free Press]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2025/07/04/too-corporate-to-fight-for-a-free-press/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why Trump's shameless shakedown of American media is so successful]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Knives Out for McConnell]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2023/09/08/knives-out-for-mitch-target-a-weakened-mcconnell-after-he-freezes-up-for-a-second-time/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 09 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Sen. Josh Hawley and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene call McConnell unfit for office]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[A New #Resistance Hero: The Dutiful Civil Servant]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2020/11/19/a-new-resistance-hero-emerges-amid-the-trump-endgame-the-dutiful-civil-servant/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We hadn't heard of Brad Raffensperger or Chris Krebs a week ago. Now they're heroes standing tall for democracy]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Not So Scary: Climate Town Halls Better Than the Debates]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2019/09/05/cnns-climate-town-halls-were-better-than-the-debates-what-was-the-dnc-afraid-of/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Several hours of substantive conversation; only one dopey question about light bulbs. More like this, please!]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Are a National Security Threat]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2019/07/26/mueller-made-one-thing-clear-republicans-are-a-national-security-threat/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How did Republicans react to Robert Mueller's testimony? By lying, deflecting and blocking election security bills]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[2020 Democrats, Don't Just Concede the Senate to the GOP]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2019/07/11/can-amy-mcgrath-take-down-mitch-mcconnell-maybe-not-but-democrats-still-could/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Why are most national Democrats, including the 2020 candidates, already conceding the Senate to Republicans?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Use Black Woman to Gaslight Congress]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2019/04/10/republicans-use-black-woman-jewish-man-to-gaslight-congress-on-threat-of-white-nationalism/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Republicans turned a serious hearing on a national security threat into another episode of "triggering the libs"]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[AZ Case Shows How Far the Right Will Go to Stifle Dissent]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2019/04/07/what-campus-free-speech-arizona-case-shows-how-far-the-right-will-go-to-stifle-dissent/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Three students arrested for Border Patrol protest as conservative crusade against free speech hits critical mass]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mike Pence Just Proved Ilhan Omar's Point]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2019/03/26/mike-pence-smears-ilhan-omar-in-aipac-speech-did-he-just-prove-her-point/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Vice president plays for Jewish votes, attacks Democrats for not supporting pro-Israel, anti-BDS legislation]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Paul Ryan's Parting Gift for the Rich]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2018/04/17/paul-ryans-parting-gift-to-the-rich-yet-another-republican-tax-cut/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It is yet another Tax Day in America. Eager to deliver another so-called win ahead of the midterm elections, Republicans are using the occasion to roll out even more tax cuts for the rich.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[President Trump's Trade War Hits His Voters]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2018/04/03/trumps-trade-war-will-punish-trump-country-worst-of-all/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Donald Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s new tariffs have already grabbed his rural, red-state supporters by their pocketbooks.Taking a page out of the president'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' vengeful politics'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' playbook, China launched its first round of retaliatory tariffs in response to the import duties the president imposed...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Making Climate Denial Great Again]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2018/03/30/in-the-trump-era-republicans-get-even-dumber-on-climate-change/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Guy Who Wrecked Kansas Is the GOP's Role Model]]></title>
							<link>https://www.salon.com/2017/11/30/sam-brownback-trolls-america-the-guy-who-wrecked-kansas-is-the-gops-role-model/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Sophia Tesfaye</author>
							<description><![CDATA[What is the most brazen political lie ever told? I submit that it is the big lie Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback spread across Capitol Hill on Wednesday, hours before every single Republican senator voted to rush a massive tax cut crafted in secrecy and without public input from experts to a...]]></description>
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