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Scot Nakagawa

Scot Nakagawa is a political strategist and organizer with over four decades of experience exploring questions of structural An ideology that assumes a hierarchy of human worth based on the social construction of racial difference. Racism as an ideology claims superiority of the socially constructed category, White, over other racialized categories based on the false idea that race is a fixed and immutable reality. Learn more , Both a system of beliefs that holds that White people are intrinsically superior and a system of institutional arrangements that favors White people as a group. Learn more , and social justice. He is the co-founder and director of the 22nd Century Initiative, a national strategy and action hub building power at the intersection of opposition to 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 and expanding democratic governance in the U.S.

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Political Research Associates
Read, Learn, Act
Nakagawa explores coded rhetoric and scripted violence, concepts outlined by PRA’s Chip Berlet, and offers ways to counter them.
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Political Research Associates
An Issue of the Anti-Authoritarian Playbook Newsletter
Originally published on 22CI ’s Anti-Authoritarian Playbook Substack on May 17, 2025. To receive every new edition of this free newsletter directly in your inbox, subscribe to the Anti-Authoritarian…
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Political Research Associates
Lessons from Duterte's Philippines for the United States
How did President Duterte use social media to further his authoritarian agenda in the Philippines, what are the parallels to the US authoritarian regime, and what lessons can we learn.
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