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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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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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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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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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Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 8
In this episode, Koki sits down with Shane Burley to discuss some of the most peculiar, and—at times, most influential—corners of the Far Right.
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Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 7
In this episode, Koki reads “ Total Life Reform: The Real Consequences of the Far Right’s Self-Help Grift” by Shane Burley, the second in our new From the Archives series.
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Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 6
Koki is joined by Aidan Orly to talk about Christian Zionism: the right-wing domestic and international movements that use a Christian biblical interpretation to promote and endorse Jewish nationalism.
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Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 5
In this episode, Koki reads “Why Are Gen Z Girls Attracted to the Tradwife Lifestyle?” by Marielle Cooksey, the first in our new From the Archives series.
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Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 4
Host Koki Mendis talks to Peter Montgomery about Project 2025 the Right’s playbook to remake the U.S. government as we currently know it toward authoritarianism.
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Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 3
Alex DiBranco talks to host, Koki Mendis, about male supremacism: what is it and how is it part of a broader anti-democratic political strategy?
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Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 2
Prachi Patankar talks to host, Koki Mendis, about the Hindu Nationalist movement, and the influence it has in the United States.
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