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Authoritarianism, Fascism, & State Repression

A form of top-down political system that concentrates state power in the hands of a single leader and/or group of close allies. Learn more is a form of top-down political system that concentrates state power in the hands of a single leader and/or a small group of close allies; A form of far-right populist ultra-nationalism that celebrates the nation or the race as transcending all other loyalties. Learn more is an especially virulent form of Generically used to describe factions of right-wing politics that are outside of and often critical of traditional conservatism. Learn more populist ultra-nationalism that celebrates the nation or the race as an organic community transcending all other loyalties. Repressive governments and systems rely on arrest, physical coercion, or violence to subjugate a specific group. 

Deep Dive

Public Eye
Authoritarian Gains and Consolidation
In this wide-ranging piece covering the first 100 days of the second Trump administration, PRA researchers recap the state’s authoritarian gains and sweeping repressive policies, from LGBTQ rights to immigration and Christian Zionism.
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Religion Dispatches
An expanded version of article was originally published in German at “ Volksverpetzer ”, an independent, crowd-funded online magazine covering the far-right in Germany and abroad. While too many…
Article
Public Eye
Anita Say Chan reveals how new surveillance technologies employed by DHS and ICE to monitor, arrest, and deport immigrants have a long history rooted in eugenics profiling from the 19th and 20th centuries.
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Political Research Associates
Author Q&A with Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons
Ben Lorber interviews authors Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons about their book Three Way Fight, a collection of essays designed to serve as a guide to antifascism and revolution.
Q&A
Public Eye
How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism
Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation coalition launched in 2022, aims to “take the reins of government” during a Republican presidency, and further its authoritarian agenda.
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Political Research Associates
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.
Podcast
Religion Dispatches
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…
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