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Spencer Sunshine

Spencer Sunshine, PhD writes about the U.S. White Nationalist movement (including the Alt Right, neonazis, and esoteric fascists), the Patriot movement and militias, and antisemitic currents. He is the lead author of the 2016 report Up In Arms: A Guide to Oregon’s Patriot Movement, which is a collaboration between PRA and Oregon’s Rural Organizing Project. He was a fellow at PRA from 2013-2019.

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Political Research Associates
A Blind-Alley for the Alt Right
A large number of candidates with ties to the Far Right ran for office in the 2018 midterm elections, mostly as Republicans. They ranged from neonazis to mainstream Republicans who courted the Far Right for support.
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Political Research Associates
A Timeline
While 2018 was not the banner year that 2017 was for the Alt Right and others on the Far Right, it was still a period of intense activity.
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Political Research Associates
What Changed After Oklahoma City?
Twenty-three years ago, on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a powerful homemade truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
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