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Religious News Service: A campaign to blitz the country with ‘In God We Trust’ laws takes root

Political Research Associates

But the way Project Blitz defines religious freedom is misleading, said Frederick Clarkson, senior research analyst with Political Research Associates, a social justice think tank based in Somerville…

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Salon: Exclusive: Accused Annapolis shooter Jarrod Ramos had dark links to the alt-right

Political Research Associates

Researcher Fred Clarkson agrees. “Ramos and David Lenio seem to have been drawn into the orbit of far-right visions of anti-democratic violence, even as they seem to have ultimately acted on their own…

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Americans United: Uncovering Project Blitz: Fighting A Secret, Coordinated Legislative Strategy To Undermine Religious Freedom In The States

Political Research Associates

Thanks to an important discovery by longtime Americans United ally and veteran researcher of the Religious Right Fred Clarkson, we now know why. Fred shared the Project Blitz playbook: a 116-page…

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The Guardian; Project Blitz: the legislative assault by Christian nationalists to reshape America

Political Research Associates

Frederick Clarkson, senior research analyst at Political Research Associates, a thinktank which studies the political right, was first to write about Project Blitz, which he said had been hiding in…

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The New York Times: A Christian Nationalist Blitz

Political Research Associates

“‘Project Blitz’ Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business,” reads the headline of a recent piece Frederick Clarkson wrote for Religion Dispatches that highlighted the…

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Religion Dispatches: Faith-Baiting in Minnesota and Elsewhere Follows the “Project Blitz” Playbook

Political Research Associates

It’s election year in the United States and an episode from the very recent past may be prologue to an election season like nothing we’ve seen since the McCarthy era. The Christian Right recently…

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Chicago Tribune: The incel mind: As if hating women will get you a girlfriend

Political Research Associates

Since then, we have seen an array of online communities — men’s rights activists, pickup artist (or “seduction”) communities and others — amounting to “male supremacist” movements, according to Alex…

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allAfrica: Swaziland: Secretive Group Attacks Swazi LGBT

Political Research Associates

The Political Research Associates website reported, ‘CitizenGo has a variety of longstanding ties to right-wing organizations and right-wing efforts around the globe.’ It added, it operated primarily…

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ThinkProgress: WATCH: Inside the ‘incel’ movement inspiring mass violence against women

Political Research Associates

Alex DiBranco, a sociology PhD candidate at Yale University, explained to ThinkProgress that “misogyny is more culturally acceptable in Western culture than white supremacy is.” She added that talking…

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Alternet: Evangelical Extremists Mount a Secret Campaign to Re-Create a Christian America That Never Existed

Political Research Associates

But the power of the presidency isn’t the only way Christian nationalism is advancing its agenda in America today. As Frederick Clarkson, senior research analyst at Political Research Associates…

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