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Chip Berlet

Chip Berlet was an investigative journalist and photographer, and dedicated his life to documenting social and political movements that undermine human rights. He was key to the founding of PRA and an original staff member and senior analyst, later serving as Senior Advisor to PRA from 2017-2018. 

Chip’s byline appeared in scores of publications, including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Progressive, and Amnesty Now. He was a guest expert on ABC’s Nightline, The Today Show, NPR’s All Things Considered, Fresh Air with Terry Gross, Democracy Now with Amy Goodman, among other radio and television programs. He authored Eyes Right! and Right-Wing A style of politics that involves an effort to mobilize “the people” into a social or political movement around some form of anti-elitism. Such movements can be egalitarian or authoritarian, inclusive or exclusionary, forward-looking or fixated on a romanticized image of the past. Learn more in America: Too Close for Comfort (with Matthew N. Lyons) and was a frequent contributor to Talk2Action and Huffington Post.

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Political Research Associates
A Guide to Oregon’s Patriot Movement
Video produced by the Resist.TV Collective highlighting the work of Political Research Associates and Rural Organizing Project. Up in Arms: A Guide to Oregon’s Patriot Movement is a groundbreaking…
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Public Eye
Right-Wing Populism, Fascism, and the Case for Action
Debate over what we should call Trump’s vicious political movement should not stop us from organizing now to protect the people being demonized and scapegoated as targets of White rage.
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Political Research Associates
Trump is a Right-Wing Nativist Populist
The demonization and scapegoating that accompanies right-wing populism in the United States is breeding a backlash movement that will take creative and bold approaches as we organize to defend democracy and diversity in the public square.
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