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Political Research Associates and Staff Agree to Voluntary Recognition - February 7, 2020

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February 7, 2020 SOMERVILLE, Ma. – Dedicated Staff at Political Research Associates—a vital social justice think tank and strategy center with nearly four decades of fighting antisemitism, misogyny…
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Yes Magazine: A Year After the Tree of Life Shooting, Anti-Semitism and Anti-Immigrant Racism Thrive

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“One year ago this Sunday, a White nationalist stepped into a Pittsburgh synagogue and killed 11 Jewish worshippers. Before his shooting, Robert Bowers made clear in a social media post that he…
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The Nation: How Do the Trumpists Mobilize? Around White Nationalism and Anti-Semitism

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A new report by Political Research Associates lays out the connections and the key role played by the media. “As Trump rants about “ human scum” who oppose him, Political Research Associates, a Boston…
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Vox: The rise of anti-trans “radical” feminists, explained

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Known as TERFs, trans-exclusionary radical feminist groups are working with conservatives to push their anti-trans agenda. Read here. “According to Heron Greenesmith, who studies the modern gender…
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New Times BPB: Broward Sheriff's Office Expresses Interest in New ICE Deputization Program

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ICE’s new initiative — the Warrant Service Officer (WSO) program — was launched in May and claims to cloak local sheriffs and deputies with federal authority and legal protection to execute ICE’s…
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The Progressive: Eyes on the Prize

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Teddy Wilson, a research analyst at Political Research Associates, a group that investigates the right wing, notes that much has happened to beat back abortion rights over the past year. “But if [anti…
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The Progressive: Sheriffs Collude with Anti-Immigrant Group

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Emails obtained by Political Research Associates, and shared exclusively with The Progressive, show extensive contacts and cooperation between the National Sheriffs’ Association (NSA) and an anti…
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Best Practice & Research Clinical Obstetrics & Gynaecology Journal: The Moral Imperative of Reproductive Rights, Health, and Justice

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Further, in a 2009 report published by Political Research Associates entitled, Colonizing African Values: How the U.S. Christian Right is Transforming Sexual Politics in Africa, investigators show…
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Truthout: Anti-Semitism and Zionism Have Formed a Brutal Alliance

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Ironically, this definition of the “new anti-Semitism” reinforces anti-Semitism by conflating the Jewish people with a nation-state. Political Research Associates, a group monitoring right-wing…
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SPLC Hatewatch: John Tanton's Legacy

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These groups still are able to thrive thanks to grantmakers including the Colcom Foundation and the Sarah Scaife Foundation. Political Research Associates published a report this year detailing more…
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