https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research published by Political Research Associates en https://politicalresearch.org/2026/04/14/prosecuting-antifa-prairieland-case-and-its-implications-organizers In this episode, Koki sits down with PRA Principal Research Advisor Steven Gardiner to discuss the recent March 2026 verdicts in the federal Prairieland case tried in North Texas. The jury found nine protesters guilty of a variety of charges… Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:52:04 EDT Political Research Associates, Steven Gardiner 9e84071b-81bd-4335-9acc-65d7fb31e98a https://politicalresearch.org/2026/04/06/white-nationalism-comes-town When investigative journalist Michael Edison Hayden learned that the influential White nationalist group VDARE had purchased a 19th-century sandstone castle in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia in 2020, he headed to the 700-person town from his home in New York state… Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:00:00 EDT Eleanor J. Bader c0063879-8385-4726-917d-48f3817936cb https://politicalresearch.org/2026/04/02/mulling-over-mullin-and-theocratic-creep-gop On March 24, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Senator Markwayne Mullin as President Trump’s next Secretary of Homeland Security, following the disastrous tenure of Kristi Noem. Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:00:00 EDT Frederick Clarkson 0aebbfb1-28f5-4e99-8bbf-a5e8a739bc06 https://politicalresearch.org/2026/03/31/were-all-together With ICE agents kidnapping thousands and executing people in broad daylight, the Trump administration’s authoritarianism is on full display for all to see. But so is the power of everyday people. Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:00:00 EDT Political Research Associates, Ben Lorber, Ethan Fauré, Steven Gardiner, Annie Wilkinson 2b590605-47e6-4779-b7cc-7fc3027aaf67 https://politicalresearch.org/2026/03/12/fracturing-maga-base-conversation-war-iran-and-its-reverberations-home-steven-gardiner In this episode, Koki sits down with PRA’s Principal Research Advisor Steven Gardiner to discuss the outset of the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran, how the war compares to a history of U.S. imperial violence, and what it signals… Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:00:00 EDT Political Research Associates, Steven Gardiner a270b31a-f322-4f72-9a82-8a0ed68abd0c https://politicalresearch.org/2026/03/05/magas-imperial-ambitions On January 3, 2026, the Trump administration bombed Venezuela and abducted President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, taking them to New York to face “narcoterrorism” charges. The escalation followed several months of U.S. military strikes on boats in… Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:00:00 EST Political Research Associates, Steven Gardiner fdbceb27-b29b-481d-be0e-2c8aa741e928 https://politicalresearch.org/2026/02/03/all-eyes-minneapolis-lessons-resisting-authoritarianism In this episode, PRA researchers discuss the deadly ICE crackdown in Minneapolis and the powerful resistance we’ve seen on the streets. ICE continues to kidnap thousands with impunity, and the brutal murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti show the… Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:27:25 EST Political Research Associates, Ben Lorber, Ethan Fauré, Steven Gardiner, Annie Wilkinson 0c093f81-a37f-478e-a4eb-a81e988ad657 https://politicalresearch.org/2026/01/20/belligerence-abroad-repression-home In this episode, Koki talks to PRA Principal Research Advisor Steven Gardiner about the Trump administration’s early-January attack on Venezuela and escalating domestic confrontations around ICE enforcement, including the Minneapolis protests around the murder of Renee Good. Gardiner describes how… Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:00:00 EST Political Research Associates, Steven Gardiner b214e445-93b3-45cd-9365-5e901a467342 https://politicalresearch.org/2026/01/15/beyond-ballot-rise-competitive-authoritarianism-steven-gardiner In this season finale episode, Koki talks to Steven Gardiner, PRA Principal Research Advisor, to reflect on the first year of Trump’s second term and its implications for U.S. democracy. While the MAGA base remains about 15% of the U.S… Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:00:00 EST Political Research Associates, Steven Gardiner 91f76dc8-9dd9-4e42-afb2-fa9022b14f3d https://politicalresearch.org/2025/12/11/how-287g-expansion-fuels-mass-deportations In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads “Florida Is the ‘Tip of the Spear:’ How 287(g) Expansion Fuels Mass Deportations” by Jessica Pishko, as part of our ongoing From the Archives series. From the Archives features those must read and, now, must listen to pieces from PRA’s more than 40 years of publishing. This article was published in the Fall 2025 issue of The Public Eye magazine. Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:00:00 EST Political Research Associates 9c66985e-a084-47e3-9792-f1cde35fa3a7 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/11/20/new-frontlines-trumps-immigration-crackdown How is ICE mobilizing on our streets today? What role does local law enforcement play in Trump’s immigration crackdown? And what are local organizers doing about it? Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:00:00 EST Political Research Associates 415b80dd-4386-492b-a52e-69562deee1f7 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/15/its-not-backlash-its-strategy In this roundtable, Chelsea Ebin, Matthew Taylor, and Julie Ingersoll discuss the intersection of today’s New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and the New Christian Right of 1970s and 1980s formed by conservative Catholics and Protestants. Building from Ebin’s The Radical Mind… Wed, 15 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Matthew Taylor, Julie Ingersoll, Chelsea Ebin 6d798d19-9554-49e6-972b-e5e5aff1507a https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/14/how-far-right-capitalizes-neoliberal-ideas-and-race-science What is behind the contemporary Far Right’s recent ascent? This deceptively simple question animates historian Quinn Slobodian’s latest book, completing a trilogy in his intellectual history of neoliberalism. The first book, Globalists, examined how global neoliberal institutions were designed to… Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Kitana Ananda 875b0a54-dda4-4ec4-b7df-72069925282e https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/10/dhss-immigrant-tracking-tech-lays-ground-authoritarian-surveillance Anita Say Chan reveals how new surveillance technologies employed by DHS and ICE to monitor, arrest, and deport immigrants have a long history rooted in eugenics profiling from the 19th and 20th centuries. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Anita Say Chan eaf65178-7246-4cbe-b830-4cd827ede213 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/10/afrikaner-refugees-and-white-nationalist-myth-wont-die The Trump administration has adopted draconian immigration policies limiting new arrivals and increasing deportations across the board in the U.S., with one notable exception: White Afrikaner refugees claiming to be victims of a “White genocide.” Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Sophie Bjork-James d4ef221c-929e-400a-9ebf-fbf44d2495ee https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/10/art-activism-robert-liu-trujillo Artist Robert Liu-Trujillo speaks with PRA about this issue’s cover image, graffiti and political art, and connected global resistance. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Political Research Associates 45dfea51-e29e-47c8-b1c0-2eb8d98100b4 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/09/coalitions-and-contradictions-between-capitalist-and-far-right-agendas-hialy-gutierrez In this episode, Hialy Gutierrez, PRA Deputy Research Director, and Claudia Espinel, discuss the connections and contradictions between prevailing economic systems, political infrastructure and ideology, and rising authoritarianism. We touch on the various ways that corporate power intersects with government… Thu, 09 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Political Research Associates 8b33ae3a-25d2-4096-848a-3d7b28cef271 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/06/florida-tip-spear The proliferation of 287(g) agreements under Trump has expanded the deportation machine exponentially. There’s no better case study for what this future of anti-immigrant crusading looks like than the state of immigration & deportation in Ron DeSantis’ Florida. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Jessica Pishko 34eaa5e5-4750-4bab-b6f6-6751fe8a7f8a https://politicalresearch.org/2025/09/25/its-never-just-about-gender-gender-and-authoritarianism-pra-analyzes-trump-20s-first-100 In this second of a two-part series on analyzing Trump 2.0’s first 100 days in office, we share insights from PRA’s researchers about how MAGA weaponizes gender to entrench authoritarianism. Thu, 25 Sep 2025 05:31:32 EDT Political Research Associates 4e3e970b-c997-4ecd-815d-ff2ef117fa33 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/09/23/we-must-fight-everyone-immigrant-justice PRA Senior Research Analyst Ethan Fauré speaks with Silky Shah, author of Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition, to discuss how abolition is the key to a strategy for combating the Trump administration’s immigration agenda. Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:00:00 EDT Ethan Fauré 497046c7-f1e6-4f73-acf0-699f683a19e9 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/09/03/building-horizontal-alliances-and-fighting-antisemitism-progressives-shanice-mcbean-and In the final episode of Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism, Ben Lorber and Shoshana Brown talk to experts on how the fight against antisemitism is tied to the larger struggle for justice. Wed, 03 Sep 2025 07:01:33 EDT Political Research Associates 12af52d5-1e9a-4502-a9e1-328ce1727313 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/09/03/anti-antisemitism-and-antiracism-leo-ferguson-and-steven-gardiner This episode of Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism breaks down how antisemitism is tied to anti-immigrant movements and anti-Blackness, and how they work together to reinforce systems of oppression. Wed, 03 Sep 2025 07:00:43 EDT Political Research Associates bb9a041d-139e-43fb-9d72-4fcff910d35f https://politicalresearch.org/2025/09/03/antisemitism-far-right-ecosystem-elad-nehorai-and-stefanie-schuler-springorum Experts Stafnie Schüler-Springorum and Elad Nehorai discuss the interconnected right-wing political ecosystem in the U.S and Europe, and how they use antisemitism to gain power. Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:59:03 EDT Political Research Associates 5d71fc4a-ec05-4c96-98ea-9fa58990c5ee https://politicalresearch.org/2025/09/03/weaponizing-antisemitism-advance-authoritarianism-lara-friedman-and-yousef-munayyer This episode discusses ongoing efforts to suppress criticism of the Israeli government’s oppression of Palestinians under the guise of fighting antisemitism—efforts which are fueling authoritarianism and pushing shared safety further from grasp. Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:58:04 EDT Political Research Associates 1eab22de-4475-4389-8af1-1e9aeba8282e https://politicalresearch.org/2025/09/03/conspiracy-theories-antisemitism-and-politics-holocaust-memory-valentina-pisanty-and This episode asks, how do conspiracy theories come about? Why do they so often regurgitate false narratives about Jewish people, power & control? How are they used to discredit movements for justice? And what role do the politics of Holocaust memory play? Wed, 03 Sep 2025 06:56:01 EDT Political Research Associates 2a6d3697-369a-4a9f-970d-1f305b512327