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Cloee Cooper

Research Director

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Cloee Cooper is a journalist and researcher with over a decade of experience researching far right movements and their inroads into law enforcement and local government. She was granted the 2021 Soros Justice Media fellowship to develop a podcast on far right sheriffs and holds a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, specializing in social justice and investigative reporting. Before the mainstream knew of A social movement based on a belief in biologically determined racial hierarchies, often with the ultimate goal of establishing an all-White nation state. Learn more , she tracked, monitored, and organized against A term used to describe organizations, movements, ideas, and policies that oppose immigrants and immigration. Learn more organizations with ties to White nationalism with the Center for New Community from 2009-2012. Her work has been cited in Politico, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HuffPo, NPR Nevada, and The Guardian. You can read her analysis at The Progressive, The Center for Right-Wing Studies, PBS Chicago, and The Public Eye. She currently serves on the editorial board of Hard Crackers, a journal documenting the everyday life of those striving to overturn the mess we are in.

Articles

Political Research Associates
A militant wing of the anti-abortion movement has long looked to the 19th century anti-slavery abolitionists for inspiration and guidance, organizing under the banner of “abortion abolitionists”
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Political Research Associates
A Q&A with authors Jarrod Shanahan and Tyler Wall
Jarrod Shanahan and Tyler Wall talk to PRA about the historical origins of today’s Blue Lives Matter movement and its deep roots in structural systems of power.
Q&A
Political Research Associates
Events in New York state shine a spotlight on the growing alignment of the anti-vaccination movement and a constellation of far-right movements, including the anti-abortion and militia movements.
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