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  • Mechanisms of Social Control

    The Insurgence: Sheriffs—Season 1, Episode 5
    Former Sheriff Tim Howard of Erie County, New York.

    Sheriffs wield immense power over jails, controlling the lives of a third of the nation’s incarcerated population. What happens when that power goes unchecked, & sheriffs ignore a pandemic’s threat or dozens die from medical neglect?

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  • What is FAIR?

    The Insurgence: Sheriffs—Season 1, Episode 4
    A person's back wearing a vest that says "Police ICE"

    What happens when the Constitutional Sheriffs network finds an ally in the White House? In this episode, we uncover how far-right networks leveraged the power of local sheriffs to collaborate with ICE in a nationwide crackdown on immigrants.

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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
    A man in a suit talking with his hand raised.

    This episode discusses the broad and far-reaching implications the New Apostolic Reformation has for democracy and religious freedom.

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  • The Takeover and The Rebellion

    The Insurgence: Sheriffs—Season 1, Episode 3
    Ammon and Cliven Bundy speaking on microphones

    This episode examines a turning point in the growing alliance between far-right activists and local sheriffs in their resistance to federal authority.

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  • The Network

    The Insurgence: Sheriffs—Season 1, Episode 2
    Former Sheriff Richard Mack speaks at a podium

    Why are sheriffs aligning with right-wing insurgents? We go back to 2012 in Las Vegas, where a new far-right network of sheriffs held its first-ever gathering. Their mission? To combat what they saw as the “socialist” agenda under former President…

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  • HAF Way to Supremacy

    How the Hindu American Foundation Rebrands Bigotry As Minority Rights
    Group of people cheering with their arms in the air

    The Hindu American Foundation has been influential for 20 years, masquerading as an advocacy group for minority rights, but is better understood as a key actor in a global Hindu supremacist movement and an emerging player in the U.S. Far Right.

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  • The Sundown Siren

    The Insurgence: Sheriffs—Season 1, Episode 1
    Minden Flour Milling Co Warehouse

    Through firsthand accounts, this episode traces the chilling reality faced by racial justice protesters in 2020—who were violently run out of town by militias in coordination with their local sheriff.

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  • Political Research Associates Welcomes New Executive Director Sylvia Broude!

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    Political Research Associates (PRA) is thrilled to announce that our year-long, nationwide search for a new Executive Director is complete!  Sylvia Broude brings 20 years of experience leading grassroots campaigns and non-profits to build…

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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. From the Archives features those…

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  • The Case for Open Borders

    Author Q&A with John Washington
    A woman holding a sign that says "open the borders"

    Reece Jones discusses the book “The Case for Open Borders” with author John Washington, and the idea of open borders and the way the Left and the Right react to the idea.

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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
    Protestors with signs saying "Immigrants are not criminals" and "No I.C.E. raids"

    In this episode, we discuss the origins, unlikely intersections, and influence of the contemporary anti-immigration movement. Ethan provides us with a fascinating overview of how this movement developed, from its White Nationalist origins, with…

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  • The Anti-DEI Movement and the Jewish Right

    Weaponizing Antisemitism to Defend White Supremacy

    Right-wing groups collaborate with Jewish groups to use the claim of antisemitism to suppress Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs on college campuses. The tactics used by the Right reflect the tactics used by the state of Israel to suppress any…

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  • The New Antisemitism and Neo-McCarthyism

    A student encampment in solidarity with Gaza at Brown university in April 2024 (Credit: Colonel Glenn/Flickr.com)

    Unsurprisingly, authoritarian forces in the U.S. are desperate to quell the grassroots upsurge in Palestine solidarity protests by responding with neo-McCarthyist repression tactics, recalling a period of extreme anti-Left repression driven by the U…

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  • Old Problems, New Tricks

    The AI-Enabled Far Right Hits the Elections Cycle
    a person dropping an envelope into a ballot box.

    While artificial intelligence (AI) itself might not be a problem, the way it’s being used by the Right is exacerbating a problem that marginalized communities have been warning us about since the inception of social media: disinformation.

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  • Taiwan’s 2024 Elections

    Disinformation in the Struggle Between Democracy and Authoritarianism
    people standing in a row holding sunflowers. A sign says "Taiwan is not for sale."

    Taiwan is often described as Asia’s freest country. Kayo Chang Black details Taiwan’s political history and how the 2024 election cycle resurfaced the authoritarian threat that lurks within Taiwan’s democracy.

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  • On Political Violence

    The Assassination Attempt on Former President Donald J. Trump
    Abstract painting featuring orange and blue

    As federal law enforcement agencies investigate the apparent attempted assassination of presidential candidate Donald J. Trump during a campaign appearance Saturday in Butler County, Pennsylvania, PRA encourages our supporters to speak out against…

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  • Big Oil Wants to Exploit the Legal System to Crush Protest & Dissent. We Cannot Let It Win

    A sign at a protest saying "planet over profit"

    The political stakes are high for the oil and gas industry, which is desperate to preserve its dominance amid cascading environmental policy shifts, broadening support for the renewable energy revolution, and ever more visible, sensed, social, and…

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  • From the Archives: The Spirit of January 6

    Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 10

    In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads “The Spirit of January 6th” by Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné, the third in our new From the Archives series. From the Archives features those must read and, now, must listen to pieces from…

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  • How the Right “Sets the Mood”

    Carol Mason on Sentimentalism and Resentment
    A group of women in red hats hold flags reading "Women for Trump," "Filipinos for Trump," and "Trump pence"

    Carol Mason talks with Mary Reynolds and PRA’s Annie Wilkinson about how her 2021 article “Sentimentalizing Resentment” still holds true—and the ways that the culture of sentimentalism and resentment on the Right has shifted in just the past three…

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  • The Entwined Geographies of White Nationalism and Climate Denialism with Laura Pulido

    Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 9
    An protest sign that says "climate justice now!"

    In this episode, Koki interviews Laura Pulido, Collins Chair and Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Geography at the University of Oregon, who studies race, environmental justice, and cultural memory. They discuss the intersection…

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