https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Alt Right en https://politicalresearch.org/2025/04/15/trolling-trump In this excerpt from Coming Out Republican, author Neil J. Young explores far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos’ role in the launching of Donald Trump’s political career. Tue, 15 Apr 2025 10:15:03 EDT Neil J. Young 71ca594a-8f11-4ada-a7e1-a1e1d3ee823e https://religiondispatches.org/2024/01/05/age-insurrection-radical-rights-assault-american-democracy-explains-how-we-got-here-and “As far as I’m concerned, I’m done with this,” investigative reporter David Neiwert told us, followed by a tremendous sigh, as if setting down an enormous weight that someone else would be obliged to pick up. “Next, I’m writing a… Fri, 05 Jan 2024 04:00:48 EST Shane Burley 1d2477b9-47a8-4f3f-aa3b-7c08ff170d3d https://politicalresearch.org/2023/10/04/review-we-are-proud-boys Shane Burley reviews Andy Campbell’s new book, We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism. Wed, 04 Oct 2023 01:32:45 EDT Shane Burley 68ca718a-b5b0-4094-9813-a1fe569494b9 https://politicalresearch.org/2021/01/15/america-first-inevitable Reinventing the White nationalist project from the ashes of the Alt Right, Nick Fuentes has propelled the far-right Groyper movement to the center of post-Trump conservatism. Fri, 15 Jan 2021 10:22:19 EST Ben Lorber 03760a70-59f2-4b86-812e-990ed493883f https://politicalresearch.org/2019/06/20/all-you-have-do-show In recent years, the most adept attempts at entryism have come from those trying to embed in the Republican Party a far-right ideology that calls for a rebirth of a nation’s mythic past in order to create a populist movement founded on ultranationalism Thu, 20 Jun 2019 03:42:11 EDT Shane Burley, Alexander Reid Ross 61277e1c-0d82-4a7d-b711-8803a0da6490 https://politicalresearch.org/2019/02/28/proud-boys Compared to the White supremacists they sometimes marched alongside, the Proud Boys enjoy comfortable proximity to the conservative mainstream. Thu, 28 Feb 2019 02:33:58 EST Emily Gorcenski de4755d0-bcaf-4449-a017-c450c75c4bba https://politicalresearch.org/2019/02/14/whats-matter-secularism Over the last few years, incidents like these have created a deep rift that’s split the atheist community. Thu, 14 Feb 2019 12:03:57 EST Adam Lee 2149b8f3-a6b4-4779-9da5-33e1b5d62cc1 https://politicalresearch.org/2019/01/10/us-far-rights-2018-election-results 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. Thu, 10 Jan 2019 04:26:15 EST Spencer Sunshine e6408fe2-4db6-4fbe-9b2f-e0b348963f87 https://politicalresearch.org/2019/01/10/alt-right-and-far-right-mobilization-2018 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. Thu, 10 Jan 2019 01:04:49 EST Spencer Sunshine b0ec67ab-cdab-44b8-8e44-e180c78d7edb https://politicalresearch.org/2018/11/28/classicists-guide-misappropriated-history Ancient Greece and Rome are an origin point of sorts for the Alt Right: an imagined golden age of White supremacist patriarchy they can idealize and aspire to recreate. Wed, 28 Nov 2018 04:54:56 EST Donna Zuckerberg a48d789d-37d2-4765-a685-849b4c45705b https://politicalresearch.org/2018/11/08/shooting-tallahassee-illustrates-increasing-misogynist-violence When the news broke on November 2, that a male shooter had killed two women at a yoga studio in Tallahassee, Florida, George Sodini immediately came to my mind. Thu, 08 Nov 2018 11:17:39 EST Alex DiBranco 43773451-eadb-4730-8cfb-7eef3a46be96 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/08/14/neo-nazis-call-white-christians-oppose-satanic-temple-rally The convergence of conservative Christian and White Supremacist groups suggests this is really a struggle over who is a “real” American and who is not. Tue, 14 Aug 2018 04:30:57 EDT Joseph Laycock afb3ad3d-84b0-4190-b85a-7c72f0324f86 https://politicalresearch.org/2018/08/13/alt-right Today, #MeToo, a Twitter hashtag now synonymous with the campaign to call attention to the widespread problem of sexual harassment and often name perpetrators, picks up on Hill’s legacy in bringing this issue into the national spotlight. Mon, 13 Aug 2018 03:27:48 EDT Alex DiBranco 6bd20517-7fef-4f5e-8924-0b01f61e027f https://politicalresearch.org/2018/08/10/white-nationalism-march Introduction The “Unite the Right” rally was designed, over months, to be the largest gathering of its kind in at least a decade, and was successful in bringing together disparate elements of the Far Right on August 12, 2017 in… Fri, 10 Aug 2018 03:56:04 EDT 6d8fc8ba-69a0-4e6d-8951-7a7bdd1e4bf8 https://politicalresearch.org/2018/05/17/war-ivory-tower In an effort to silence academics, right-wing activists, including many from the Alt Right, have doxed, threatened, and smeared professors across the country, without regard for academic hierarchy, type of institution, or discipline. Thu, 17 May 2018 04:07:52 EDT Carolyn Gallaher 5886129b-4ba6-4a60-8729-f865837ce033 https://religiondispatches.org/2018/02/01/how-mens-rights-activists-are-finding-unlikely-allies-new-atheism-metoo-manosphere-and Anyone familiar with the Internet’s “Manosphere” will be unsurprised to learn that ” Red Pillers” and Men’s Rights Activists are fed up with the #MeToo movement. What is, perhaps, more surprising is the number of New Atheist figureheads in which… Thu, 01 Feb 2018 03:58:35 EST Caroline Matas db424a35-e0e4-4396-a50a-cc3aa08ee926 https://politicalresearch.org/2018/01/12/steve-bannons-washed-out-antisemitism Stephen K. Bannon was the Executive Chairman of the Far Right media website Breitbart from March 2012 to August 2016, and from August 2017 to January 9, 2018. Fri, 12 Jan 2018 05:56:55 EST Spencer Sunshine f812f4cc-f020-4c61-b53a-8e0bdd927688 https://politicalresearch.org/2018/01/10/big-picture-far-right-mobilization-2017 In the United States, 2017 was a banner year for fascist and related far right activism. There were arguably the highest levels of public demonstrations by the Right since the last wave of Klan and neonazi activity in the 1980s and ‘90s. Wed, 10 Jan 2018 05:22:44 EST Spencer Sunshine fd1bc8f2-5c50-4cfe-a752-61e88426dd38 https://politicalresearch.org/2017/12/04/three-pillars-alt-right A new wave of avowed White nationalists energized by Donald Trump—most prominently the Alt Right—held demonstrations across the United States in 2017, most famously in Charlottesville, Virginia in August. Mon, 04 Dec 2017 07:12:39 EST Spencer Sunshine c0fe6ab4-688b-4af3-a027-5f66cac1111b https://politicalresearch.org/2017/10/31/rumors-civil-war A conspiracy theory has spread like wildfire through the Far Right claiming that on November 4, “antifa” will start a civil war and attempt to overthrow Donald Trump. Tue, 31 Oct 2017 02:59:16 EDT Spencer Sunshine 124b8b3b-3602-4370-a201-6389914161ec https://religiondispatches.org/2017/09/29/rise-catholic-cyber-bullies There was a time in the Catholic Church when supporters of doctrinal orthodoxy could count on the Vatican to do their policing for them. But the advent of a pope who sees his role as less about policing orthodoxy and… Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:23:07 EDT Patricia Miller b8a36bcd-6f1b-44d4-989d-cad2a40b5e2c https://politicalresearch.org/2017/09/18/disunite-right The relationship between the Alt Right and the Alt Light, as well as “patriot” organizations like the Oath Keepers, has often been more pragmatic than comfortable. Mon, 18 Sep 2017 11:33:23 EDT Shane Burley 6e3ea93c-d665-4262-86e0-d3d98d03635d https://politicalresearch.org/2017/09/06/joey-gibson-and-patriot-prayer Joey Gibson is a Far Right activist who, since March 2017, has made a name for himself by organizing confrontational rallies in liberal enclaves on the West Coast that have frequently descended into violence. Wed, 06 Sep 2017 08:58:05 EDT Spencer Sunshine 67b694e2-d09e-45da-9e1b-851222eaec37 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/08/24/feeding-faithful-how-supernatural-thinking-empowered-third-reich Author Eric Kurlander answers RD’s 10 Questions Thu, 24 Aug 2017 09:00:00 EDT Eric Kurlander 99f43cee-6abf-4d17-b926-e0faee0bf0ca https://religiondispatches.org/2017/08/14/public-shrines-treason-charlottesville-and-cult-confederate-memorialization Just as no American, after Charlottesville, can doubt that the current US president remains deferential to an extremist white supremacist base that rallies in his name, so too no American can pretend Confederate memorials don’t serve as public shrines to a treasonous worldview Mon, 14 Aug 2017 10:19:15 EDT Spencer Dew 132fa9b4-8b29-4517-97c0-ddac163c19bc