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Under the Cover of COVID

Resisting Disaster Authoritarianism, Building Multiracial Feminist Democracy

The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the inadequacy of our public health and emergency response infrastructure, leaving the heaviest burdens of our distress to fall unevenly, but predictably, along fault lines of race, class, gender, and disability while…

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COVID-19 and Authoritarian Crisis Management in Hungary

On March 30, in response to the COVID-19 crisis, Hungary’s parliament passed a law allowing the nationalist government to rule…

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How Federal and State Governments are Using COVID-19 to Attack Abortion Rights

On March 20, Ohio became the first state to use the COVID-19 crisis as an excuse to ban abortions, with the state’s attorney general calling pregnancy terminations “non-essential” health services.¹ After Ohio opened that door, anti-choice…

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Resistance & Resilience in a Global Pandemic

Political Research Associates has closed its office and staff are working from home to participate in the global social-distancing effort to protect our communities’ most vulnerable members. Balancing the demands of the public and private spheres,…

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Homeschooling During COVID-19?

Be Aware of Outreach by Evangelical Homeschooling Organizations

With so many schools closed across the country and so many parents working from home to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus, families are desperate for resources. In response, homeschool organizations like the conservative evangelical-affiliated…

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The Mission Field Hospital

Samaritan’s Purse Brings Its Dual Agenda to New York

As New York City passes the grim milestone of 1,100 deaths, the city’s battle against the COVID-19…

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Gender Ideology Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

The fight against so-called “gender ideology” has well and truly arrived here in the United States, not only in venues like the United Nation’s Commission on the Status of Women—a common marketplace for anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion ideology—but in…

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Hanau and the Rise of Right-Wing Terrorism in Germany

On February 19, a 43-year-old man shot and killed eleven people, including himself, in Hanau, Germany, a small city some 15 miles east of Frankfurt. The victims are Ferhat Unvar, Gökhan Gültekin, Hamza Kurtović, Said Nessar El Hashemi, Mercedes…

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Republican Representatives Introduce Mississippi Bill that Would Form Second Amendment Sanctuary Interstate Commission Across the South

On February 10, 2020 seven Republican representatives in Mississippi introduced a first-of-its-kind bill that raises the possibility of a so-called Second Amendment Sanctuary region stretching…

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How Michigan’s Conservative Gerrymandering Opened the Door for Abortion Bans

After the 2010 census, Michigan’s Chamber of Commerce worked to gerrymander the state’s districts to ensure a permanent Republican, business-friendly legislative majority. The effort worked so well that, according to the Brennan Center for Justice,…

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The Right Wants to Keep Jewish and Black Non-Jewish Communities Divided

We Can't Let That Happen.

Jews and allies have drawn thousands to demonstrations following separate antisemitic attacks by members of Black communities against orthodox Jews in Jersey City, Crown Heights, and Monsey. The White nationalist movement, meanwhile, has…

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Framing Environmental Activism as “Terrorism”

Calls to treat environmental defenders like terrorists enable more surveillance and violence, putting activists at risk while protecting those profiting from ecological destruction.

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“Born-Alive” Abortion Survivors Will Be the GOP’s Secret Weapon in 2020

Looking at the past year’s congressional votes could make it seem like the most serious threat facing the nation is a rampage of violent and unethical medical professionals pressuring pregnant people into post-viability abortions, mismanaging the…

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The First Anti-Feminist Massacre

A Reckoning with Misogynist Terrorism on the 30th Anniversary of the Montreal Mass Shooting

On December 6, 1989, a 25-year-old man, Marc Lépine, killed 14 women and injured 10 more at the École Polytechnique engineering school in Montreal,…

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A New Tactic is Gaining Momentum on the Right: Declaring Sanctuary for Guns

This wave of Second Amendment sanctuary resolutions and ordinances reflect the contemporary growth of CSPOA’s ideology.

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While Courting Sheriffs, FAIR Flaunts Access to Administration

Targeting local sheriffs and other law enforcement is an effort by FAIR to complement this direct access to the administration and develop support for its agenda outside the Beltway.

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Best Interests: How Child Welfare Serves as a Tool of White Supremacy

The horrifying spectacle of mass detention, family separation, and the forced transfer of non-White children into White homes all recall important parts of U.S. history.

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The New War On The Indian Child Welfare Act

The story on NPR’s website first introduces the Buckley-Becker family with a beautiful portrait of the young, middle-class, White couple and their children. In the photo, the father, Paul Buckley, holds their toddler son Mason, whom he and his wife…

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Project Blitz by Any Other Name

Strategy Call Reveals a Shift to Stealth Mode Amid Escalating Rhetoric

Randy Forbes, the founder of the Christian Right state legislative campaign Project Blitz, recently told affiliates on a recorded conference call that they are “trying to respond to attacks on faith,” which he described as a problem of “geometric…

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Meanings of October 27th

Reflections from Pittsburghers on the Impact of the 2018 Synagogue Shooting

Meanings of October 27th is an oral history project that explores Pittsburghers’ experiences of and reflections on the October 27th, 2018 synagogue shooting that took eleven lives.

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