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Fighting 21st Century Fascism

Inform Your Resistance

Every month, experts join Political Research Associates to discuss the most significant contemporary threats to democracy from the mainstream and Far Right. Listen now so that you can inform your resistance in the fight for a just and inclusive democratic society. After all, resisting is just better with friends.

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The Neoreactionary Movement Defining the Authoritarian Rise with Steven Gardiner

Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 1
Host Koki Mendis kicks off season 4 with a discussion with Steven Gardiner on the wide-ranging practices, policies, and ideologies underlying the antidemocratic goals of the Neoreactionary Right—and how to resist them.
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Leading in Resistance: Three Decades of Fighting Authoritarian and Supremacist Forces, A Conversation with Tarso Luís Ramos

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 10
PRA’s former Executive Director Tarso Luís Ramos about the ways that the terrain of contestation between Left and Right has shifted over three decades, and where he looks to for inspiration in an era of growing authoritarianism.
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Right-Wing Grievances in Progressive Clothing: Canada's Far Right, with Mariel Cooksey and Amy Mack

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 9
Koki speaks with researchers Mariel Cooksey and Amy Mack about the Far Right in Canada today. They discuss the evolution of the Far Right and its disparate movements and the current rise to prominence of the Far Right in provincial politics.
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How Solidarity Provides the Path of Resistance: A Conversation with Naomi Washington-Leapheart

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 8
In this episode, Naomi Washington-Leapheart explores the role of community and solidarity in creating responsive and durable strategies of contestation—of resistance—in our contemporary political moment.
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Strategizing for the 2025 Trump Regime Change with Steven Gardiner

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 7
PRA Principal Research Advisor Steven Gardiner provides astute analysis on what has led us to this moment in history—when Donald Trump and the Republican Party have so decisively won the presidency and both houses of congress.
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From the Archives: From Palestine to Atlanta, The Institutional Policing of Dissent by Habiba Farh

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 6
In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads “From Palestine to Atlanta, Outside and Foreign: The Institutional Policing of Dissent” by Habiba Farh, as part of our ongoing From the Archives series.
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HAF Way to Supremacy: Rebranding Hindu Supremacy as Minority Rights, a Conversation with Safa Ahmed and Pranay Somayajula

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 5
This interview with Savera Coalition partners dives into an expose on the influential HAF, as a Hindu supremacist institution masquerading as a civil rights organization.
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U.S. Imperialism Comes Home to Roost: A Conversation with Ramah Kudaimi

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 4
We talk with Ramah Kudaimi about imperialism & state violence. From the global war on terror, to genocide in Palestine, we discuss how imperial power, capitalist interests, and far-right organizing work together to entrench systems of oppression.
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You Might Think They're Absurd but They're Quite Serious: Frederick Clarkson on The New Apostolic Reformation

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 3
This episode discusses the broad and far-reaching implications the New Apostolic Reformation has for democracy and religious freedom.
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From the Archives: Nativist Bedfellows by Tarso Luís Ramos and Pam Chamberlin

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 2
In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads Nativist Bedfellows: The Christian Right Embraces Anti-Immigrant Politics by Tarso Luís Ramos and Pam Chamberlain, the fourth in our new From the Archives series.
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