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Fighting 21st Century Fascism

Mary Reynolds

Mary Reynolds, co-founder of the Gender & A form of top-down political system that concentrates state power in the hands of a single leader and/or group of close allies. Learn more Research Collective, has a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale. A labor organizer in higher education and hospitality for more than fifteen years, she currently consults for the Reflective Democracy Campaign.

Articles

Political Research Associates

“It's Never Just About Gender”: Gender and Authoritarianism: PRA Analyzes Trump 2.0’s First 100 Days, Part 2

Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 5
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.
Political Research Associates
Chancie Calliham
Nourbese Flint
Mary Reynolds
Annie Wilkinson
Podcast
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Religion Dispatches

The Fight Against Right-Wing Appalachian 'School Choice' Politics Is a Fight for Democracy and the Future of American Education

This article first appeared in the Winter/Spring 2025 issue of our sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the US and Global Right. In October 2024, a…
Mary Reynolds
Carol Mason
Article
Public Eye

Canaries in the Classroom

Public Education and Authoritarian Politics in West Virginia and Kentucky
In Kentucky and West Virginia, attacks on public education by the state and federal governments foreshadow the authoritarian future promised by Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation on a national scale.
Mary Reynolds
Carol Mason
Article
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