https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Anti-Government en https://politicalresearch.org/2025/06/17/libertarian-history-lgbtq-movement PRA sat down with author Neil J. Young to discuss the gay Right’s political history. The conversation offers vital context for understanding the stakes of the second Trump regime’s attacks on LGBTQ+ rights. Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:06:10 EDT J. Gieseking a7f0513d-5f4a-4874-b089-12c12c56fe00 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/05/15/pro-family-politics An excerpt from The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building that explores how The Family Policy Advisory Board moved forward Christian organizing for “traditional” families in the 80s. Thu, 15 May 2025 03:02:32 EDT Chelsea Ebin 89ae7f14-4067-4dbb-b074-6978b7d8021c https://politicalresearch.org/2025/04/16/exposing-and-resisting-coordinated-attacks-higher-education Isaac Kamola discusses the findings from his report Manufacturing Backlash: Right-Wing Think Tanks and Legislative Attacks on Higher Education, and how anticolonial theory and organizing lessons can guide strategies to block far-right forces. Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:56:54 EDT Hialy Gutierrez 6c36f658-fb36-4d0d-a541-3d2821216282 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/02/06/freedom-q-shaman-and-justice-leonard-peltier-are-mutually-exclusive One of President Biden’s final acts as US president was to grant clemency to American Indian Movement (AIM) activist Leonard Peltier (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe), who will be released into home arrest sometime this month. The 80-year-old Peltier, who suffers from… Thu, 06 Feb 2025 11:49:12 EST Dana Lloyd cfcb7737-89eb-41fa-ab90-c249ad957b18 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/04/04/virginians-may-vote-elections-counties-militias-democracy-hangs-balance Religion Dispatches’s sibling publication, The Public Eye—a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the U.S. and Global Right—is back! To celebrate The Public Eye’s return, Religion Dispatches will present a series of articles from the magazine’s Fall 2023/Winter 2024… Thu, 04 Apr 2024 05:00:56 EDT Carolyn Gallaher, Priya Dixit 88a085e0-ca20-4589-bb69-2fd520c76c29 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/03/15/project-2025-how-trump-loyalists-and-right-wing-leaders-are-paving-fast-road-fascism Religion Dispatches ’s sibling publication, The Public Eye— a quarterly magazine for analysis and commentary on the U.S. and Global Right — is back! To celebrate The Public Eye’s return, Religion Dispatches will present a series of articles from the… Fri, 15 Mar 2024 07:00:16 EDT Peter Montgomery 9dcb6eb8-09f3-4fc3-89d4-60f5c7caed5a https://religiondispatches.org/2024/03/05/alabamas-ivf-ruling-reveals-deep-ties-increasingly-influential-christian-right-movement In the Alabama Supreme Court’s IVF ruling that sent shockwaves through the country, the word “God” appears 41 times—and that’s no coincidence. Embryos, according to Alabama’s highest court, are in fact “extrauterine children”—a phrase so dystopian it would make Margaret… Tue, 05 Mar 2024 05:29:17 EST Annika Brockschmidt e4a60f3b-6173-4b0b-ab29-7719222b2f20 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/01/08/nikki-haleys-slavery-omission-typifies-gops-tragic-pact-white-supremacy Nikki Haley’s headline-generating incident at a town hall in New Hampshire is the perfect metaphor for the current Republican Party and its continued slide into open authoritarianism and White supremacy. At a recent town hall in New Hampshire , the… Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:08:59 EST Annika Brockschmidt 7da44205-3497-46c7-ab61-2d604a0f004e 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://religiondispatches.org/2023/12/24/2023-review-year-one-without-roe-gop-code-red-scotus-gone-wild-and-ray-hope As the New Year approaches and gift guides (and pleas for support) litter our inboxes, let’s take some time to reflect upon 2023. As I’ve previously stated , this is rarely a joyous occasion in my line of work, but… Sun, 24 Dec 2023 10:02:43 EST Annika Brockschmidt b379a8b7-7e53-4222-afea-e932631f30ad https://religiondispatches.org/2023/12/21/roundup-conspiracies-and-bad-ideas-caught-or-gained-momentum-2023 In 2023, the landscape of conspiracy theories witnessed a significant evolution, with some older conspiratorial ideas surviving into the new year and others moving from the fringe to become influential narratives shaping public discourse and political agendas. QAnon , the… Thu, 21 Dec 2023 02:42:39 EST Carmen Celestini, Amarnath Amarasingam 6e4679f3-e515-4063-92fe-063b4da3227e https://religiondispatches.org/2023/12/18/pure-white-examines-white-supremacist-origins-evangelical-purity-culture Over the past few years purity culture has become a hot topic in the secular press. The harm it inflicts on White women has been explored by a number of scholars and survivors in books (both popular and scholarly), on… Mon, 18 Dec 2023 05:05:25 EST Emma Cieslik f0274a50-d4a7-4ef4-b579-c34dd5ef9974 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/11/16/vermin-remark-trump-crosses-fully-nazi-territory One of the most dangerous things about Donald Trump is the way he has normalized hate speech. The venom and vitriol come so often that even when it is reported, its extremism fails to register with a fatigued and desensitized… Thu, 16 Nov 2023 01:27:55 EST Robert P. Jones 433dce33-00c7-4824-be02-2478656a71d4 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/10/26/mitt-romney-public-face-mormonism-reckons-his-alienation-radicalized-gop-and-his-role Riding high from his tenure as the moderate governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney was anxious to accomplish what his father could not: jump from state’s top job to the nation’s. But to move from the governor’s mansion into the White… Thu, 26 Oct 2023 06:51:40 EDT Benjamin E. Park 4804157d-6080-4c0e-a39b-e37f3e7f9e77 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/10/04/its-not-name-its-theocratic-vision-new-apostolic-reformations-pr-problem The rifts in the New Apostolic Reformation that emerged last year have erupted into a full-blown identity crisis. This is a crisis born, in part, of the movement’s desire to project a benign Christian image to distract from public scrutiny… Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:29:02 EDT Frederick Clarkson 1d542cc2-4477-49af-b6d4-c787ccd0d3b1 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/09/27/america-appears-be-heading-religious-civil-war Civil war is coming to America. At least that’s the view sizable numbers of Americans have expressed to pollsters in recent years. A 2022 Economist/YouGov poll found that 43% of respondents think it’s likely a civil war will break out… Wed, 27 Sep 2023 04:02:13 EDT Nilay Saiya e8ff7500-f053-4cb7-a716-93dae679a053 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/07/24/christian-nationalism-hurts-children-it-claims-protect-author-lillian-smith-understood Recently, an Indiana Moms for Liberty chapter included — and attributed — a quote from Adolf Hitler in their newsletter: “He alone, who OWNS the youth, GAINS the future.” After backlash, the chapter went into damage control and chapter chair… Mon, 24 Jul 2023 03:18:51 EDT Matthew Teutsch, Emma Williams 5f140ad7-6fe2-4cda-b015-b5e7833e0076 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/07/07/apocalyptic-rhetoric-moms-liberty-summit-illustrates-political-challenge-2024 As Annika Brockschmidt has already detailed for readers of RD, the June 30 – July 2 Moms for Liberty summit in Philadelphia was, among other things, a Christian nationalist gathering. At one of its main events, which took place at… Fri, 07 Jul 2023 04:43:53 EDT Chrissy Stroop 2f4f5ba1-6e10-4395-9607-ee20c7d7d1b8 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/07/06/moms-liberty-summit-mama-bears-declare-spiritual-war-radical-left “Mamas are the key political force in 2024 and we need to harness that energy!” Ron DeSantis called down from the stage in the Franklin Ballroom of the Marriott Hotel in Philadelphia, where 650 “joyful warriors” had gathered for the… Thu, 06 Jul 2023 05:17:05 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 05c2af7f-1129-4f98-bdc8-5b2821f0da3e https://religiondispatches.org/2023/06/08/top-five-less-sensational-more-dangerous-things-remember-about-pat-robertson-1930-2023 Sure, it’s easy to poke fun at Pat Robertson for his 2,000-pound leg press claims or to scold him for his vile Haiti comments, but Robertson thrives on the ‘persecution.’ Our list spins the Robertson moral differently and shows just why he’s been a truly dangerous figure. Thu, 08 Jun 2023 05:27:59 EDT Mark Hulsether 1fafedef-45b2-4e43-b38e-9022ff5e97e4 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/05/25/what-we-need-understand-fascism-intersectional-and-erotic-thy-rod-thy-gun-hip-thrust In The Family (now also a Netflix series), journalist and author Jeff Sharlet wrote about his experience of going undercover as a young man in a secret, elitist organization of the American Christian Right. It was, in many ways, the… Thu, 25 May 2023 03:23:58 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 301f7139-e774-4da0-b27a-83fa6559b10d https://religiondispatches.org/2023/05/12/cnns-disastrous-town-hall-trump-put-country-risk “CNN’s New Hampshire town hall with DONALD TRUMP last night may have done more to boost his chances of winning the GOP presidential nomination than anything that’s happened since the 2020 election.” That was Politico Playbook’s substantive conclusion the following… Fri, 12 May 2023 05:30:58 EDT Robert P. Jones 1239421b-81b5-443f-8026-4cd301947776 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/04/18/dragged-through-mud-little-church-backed-support-group-lgbtq-teens-suffered-bomb-threats “Twenty years ago I thought now would be better. And it’s not.” That’s how Tiffany Vasquez, a longtime resident of Roseville, California, feels after weeks of vicious right-wing attacks on the local LGBTQ community—attacks that are part of an increasingly… Tue, 18 Apr 2023 05:29:15 EDT Chrissy Stroop 1d99a2ef-0f38-442f-ba14-429adebdcf74 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/03/27/launch-rally-waco-former-president-sets-stakes-trump-24-campaign-apocalyptic-violent Donald Trump ’s Waco rally this past weekend was, in the end, filled with echoes of the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian compound —just not the kind we like to talk about. And, despite the New York Times profile… Mon, 27 Mar 2023 05:05:09 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque 6a5cc7ee-f0b1-40de-9e97-cf95edff5466 https://religiondispatches.org/2023/03/21/trumps-arrest-prediction-inflames-holy-war-narrative-and-sanctifies-violence-welcome This coming Saturday, March 25 th—one week after a hysterical all-caps social media post in which he declared that he “will be arrested on Tuesday” and called on supporters to “protest, take our nation back!”— Trump will host his first… Tue, 21 Mar 2023 04:20:27 EDT Thomas Lecaque c4b85ca0-0967-4720-88c5-7797bcadeca3