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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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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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A person holding an image of women crying and a sign that says "stop occupations and torture for empire! The world can't wait!"
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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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Anti-Immigration Politics with Ethan Fauré: When the Center Helps the Right Capture State Institutions

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 1
We discuss the origins, unlikely intersections, and influence of the contemporary anti-immigration movement, including an overview of how this movement developed, from its White Nationalist origins, with significant bipartisan and centrist support.
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From the Archives: The Spirit of January 6

Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 10
In this episode, Koki reads “The Spirit of January 6th” by Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné, the third in our new From the Archives series.
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The Entwined Geographies of White Nationalism and Climate Denialism with Laura Pulido

Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 9
Koki interviews Laura Pulido, who studies race, environmental justice, and cultural memory. They discuss the intersection of racial and climate denialism, and how these realms of politics, understanding, and identity buttress one another.
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