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Press Release: Major Investigation & Toolkit to Aid Oregon Communities Facing Militia Movements

Political Research Associates

Today Political Research Associates in partnership with Rural Organizing Project released Up in Arms: A Guide to Oregon’s Patriot Movement.

October 3, 2016

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The Daily Beast: Radical Feminists and Conservative Christians Team Up Against Transgender People

Political Research Associates

Cole Parke, LGBTQ & Gender Justice researcher at the left-leaning think tank Political Research Associates, has been tracking what Parke describes as a “symbiotic relationship” between TERFs and the…

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The Guardian: The rise of militias: Patriot candidates are now getting elected in Oregon

Political Research Associates

Taking notice of the trend, progressive watchdog group Political Research Associates even pointed to “a wave of Patriot-affiliated candidates in Oregon”. Read here.

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The Guardian: Letting them die: parents refuse medical help for children in the name of Christ

Political Research Associates

Frederick Clarkson, a senior fellow at Political Research Associates, has long researched the connection between religion and conservatism. He points out that “almost all American politicians are…

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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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The Guardian: Tony Abbott's speaking engagements deserve our scrutiny, and our concern

Political Research Associates

PRA senior fellow Frederick Clarkson explains to The Guardian how groups like the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) have issued handbooks that instruct organizations such as churches, schools…

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Salon: The Very Real Efforts to Create an American Theocracy in Plain Sight

Political Research Associates

Salon praises the new report from PRA senior fellow Frederick Clarkson, When Exemption is the Rule: The Religious Freedom Strategy of the Christian Right, saying the report “highlights a key aspect of…

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Religion Dispatches: Religious Freedom Advocates Warn of “Theocratic Zones of Control”

Political Research Associates

Religion Dispatches covers the new report from PRA senior fellow Frederick Clarkson, When Exemption is the Rule: The Religious Freedom Strategy of the Christian Right, and the “rapidly strengthening…

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Al Jazeera: What will stop the Oregon standoff?

Political Research Associates

PRA communications director Rose Ethington explains Al Jazeera English why the militiamen and paramilitary organizations involved at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge should not be dismissed as mere “nuts…

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The New York Times: The Ideological Roots of the Oregon Standoff

Political Research Associates

PRA executive director Tarso Luís Ramos speaks with NY Times reporter Alan Feuer about the developing armed standoff in rural Oregon, and its roots in the 1980s and 1990s’ Wise Use Movement, founded…

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