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Daily Kos: Right Falls For Russian Imperialism Just Like the Left Did Once

Political Research Associates
[Chrissy] Stroop, who has a doctorate in Russian history from Stanford and who spent a number of years living and teaching in Russia, writes about how both of those roles are just two sides of the…
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Appalachian News-Express: Groups working in attempt to counter nationalist groups set to rally in Pikeville

Political Research Associates
Spencer Sunshine, an associate fellow with Political Research Associates, a Boston-based think tank, gave some information about the group and its leader, Matthew Heimbach. Read here.
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Mail & Guardian: US conservatism funds churches in Africa, stifling queer rights

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The 2009 report Globalising the Culture Wars: US Conservatives, African Churches and Homophobia by the Reverend Dr Kapya Kaoma of Political Research Associates (PRA) shows how, “over the past decade…
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CBC News: 'Friends become enemies': Trump's Syria strike stirs up alt-right outrage as lawmakers praise him

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Matthew Lyons, who has researched the origins of the alt-right and co-authored the book Ctrl-Alt-Delete: An Antifascist Report on the Alternative Right, said far-right groups will see Trump’s Syria…
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Media Matters: How The Hate Group Alliance Defending Freedom Is Infiltrating Public Schools

Political Research Associates
December 18, 2015: Political Research Associates reported that ADF’s model policy is also being disseminated through a project of the anti-LGBTQ group Focus on the Family (FOTF). The project website…
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Salon: Taking it to the states: Anti-Trump resistance goes granular with Our States, a map-based organizing project

Political Research Associates
This kind of networked state-level organizing is long overdue. Conservative state-level organizing networks have around for decades. Best known of those is the American Legislative Exchange Council…
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SPLC: A Chorus of Violence: Jack Donovan and the Organizing Power of Male Supremacy

Political Research Associates
As Alex DiBranco explains in her article, “Mobilizing Misogyny,” published by Political Research Associates, that network has produced vicious harassment campaigns—like Gamergate—and killers like…
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The Progressive: Just How Scary Is Donald Trump?

Political Research Associates
For decades, the watchdog group Political Research Associates has followed the far right. Its researchers warned about the growth of militia groups and the threat of white supremacist terrorism before…
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Truthout: Why College Students Are Challenging Their Own Schools in the Fight Against White Supremacy

Political Research Associates
Spencer Sunshine, a Truthout contributor and associate researcher at Political Research Associates who tracks white supremacist and far right groups, said the right wing in the US has long been…
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Wired: The Internet Protocols of The Elders of Zion

Political Research Associates
“It’s gauche to say ‘the Jews’ now,” says Spencer Sunshine, who researches the far-right for Political Research Associates. “So they pick a person like Soros or the Rothschilds before him, or a Jewish…
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