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HAF Way to Supremacy: Rebranding Hindu Supremacy as Minority Rights, a Conversation with Safa Ahmed and Pranay Somayajula

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 5

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This interview with Savera Coalition partners dives into an expose on the immensely influential HAF, as a Hindu supremacist institution masquerading as a civil rights organization.

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A network of Hindu supremacists known as the American Sangh first positioned its leaders as representatives of a U.S. religious minority while concealing their exclusionary politics. In recent years, Hindu supremacists’ alignment with White…

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For decades, the Republican Party has cultivated a strong White voter base by demonizing people of color. But as the party becomes more open to a multiracial coalition, larger numbers of people of color are being drawn to the U.S. Right.

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HAF Way to Supremacy

How the Hindu American Foundation Rebrands Bigotry As Minority Rights

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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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Old Problems, New Tricks

The AI-Enabled Far Right Hits the Elections Cycle

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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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Conspiracy / Theory

Author Q&A with Lisa Wedeen and Joseph Masco

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PRA’s Annie Wilkinson interview authors Lisa Wedeen and Joseph Masco about their new book, Conspiracy / Theory, which asks its readers to critically consider the stigma around conspiracy theories and conspiratorial thinking in a world of growing…

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From the Archives: Why Are Gen Z Girls Attracted to the Tradwife Lifestyle?

Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 5

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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. From the Archives features those must read and, now, must listen to pieces from PRA’s more…

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Project 2025: The Plan of the Century with Peter Montgomery

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. They discuss the architects of this plan, the people and movements who have signed on…

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An excerpt from Andrea Ritchie’s new book Practicing New Worlds. This book examines the role of practicing emergent strategies toward abolition, or a just future without punishment, prisons, or violence in any form. Arguing that emergent…

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Project 2025

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 second Trump term by concentrating power in the executive branch—the President and political appointees. The project seeks to pursue long…

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When the Sheriff Is Above the Law

The Rise of the Far Right in Western New York

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Demographic shifts in Erie county have led to increased far-right activity. Local sheriffs and government officials have ties to a small but active Far Right in Erie County, leading to the legitimizing of these far-right, sometimes violent …

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Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies

Author Q&A with Andrea J. Ritchie

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PRA talks to Andrea J. Ritchie about her new book Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies, and what lessons we can learn from organizers and experts working to fight the Right.

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Shane Burley reviews David Neiwert’s 2023 book, The Age of Insurrection, where Neiwert explores how the January 6th 2021 insurrection was a culmination of hundreds of small insurrections. Neiwert breaks down the various Far Right groups…

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Worker Power in the Fight Against Authoritarianism, a conversation with PowerSwitch Action's Lauren Jacobs

Inform Your Resistance Season 1: Episode 7

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In this conversation with Lauren Jacobs from PowerSwitch Action, the discussion focuses on the role of worker power in combating authoritarianism. Lauren and host Koki Mendis explore the allure of reactionary anti-state narratives in explaining…

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Forty years of Antifascism with Daryle Lamont Jenkins

Inform Your Resistance Season 1: Episode 6

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In this interview host Koki Mendis and Daryle discuss the change in how the Far Right has shown up both historically and today, the importance of pushback, and the work of One People’s Project in documenting and exposing far-right movements.…

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Distorting the Climate Crisis: Far Right Environmentalism with Alex Amend

Inform Your Resistance Season 1: Episode 5

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Host Koki Mendis and guest Alex Amend discuss the rise of far-right environmentalism. It is more than just a reactionary response to the climate crisis. It is an ideological framework weaponizing environmental concerns to propagate nativist and…

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Inside the National Conservatism Movement to Reshape the Right with Ben Lorber

Inform Your Resistance Season 1: Episode 3

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Host Koki Mendis and guest PRA Senior Research Analyst, Ben Lorber, pull back the curtain on the National Conservatism Conference 2022 (NatCon 3), a gathering of far-right politicians, intellectuals, and influencers in Miami, FL. Listen in as Ben…

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On August 17, 2019, the Proud Boys staged a rally against “domestic terrorism” in Portland, Oregon, allegedly in response to a prior scuffle between far-right media personality Andy Ngo and counter-demonstrators who were opposing the Proud Boys and…

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The Fight Ahead

How the Electoral Far Right Fared in the 2022 Midterm Elections

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In October 2022, PRA published a map tracking the Electoral Far Right in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections. Of the 276 candidates tracked by PRA, 155 appeared on the general election ballot. 107 of these candidates won their races. In addition to…

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A Bid For Power

Mapping The Electoral Far Right in the 2022 Elections

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The purpose of this resource is to help understand and visualize how ideas, policies, and factions that have long been associated with the Far Right in the United States have become an ordinary part of U.S. politics. PRA has identified 274 far-right…

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Who These are the sectors of the Right setting the cultural context and/or organizing right-wing sheriffs. Anti-immigrant Right Anti-immigrant organizations like the…

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On Friday, July 22, Florida State Representative Anthony Sabatini introduced himself as a “Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon conservative” to a boisterous crowd assembled in a conference hall in Tampa for the launch event of American Virtue, the group…

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Reconsidering Reparations

Author Q&A with Dr. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

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There has been a recent resurgence of interest in reparations, with cities including Detroit, MI; St. Paul, MN; and Berkeley, CA either considering or endorsing institutional compensation and redress for the country’s legacy of slavery and racism.…

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Transformation: Toward a People's Democracy

Author Q&A with Suzanne Pharr

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In Arkansas in 1981, inspired by The Combahee River Collective Statement released in the 1970s, activist Suzanne Pharr founded The Women’s Project, an organization that worked across rural and urban communities to bring about social change.…

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A Conspiratorial Life

Author Q&A with Edward H. Miller

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A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism, by Northeastern University professor Edward H. Miller is an engaging and penetrating…

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Executive Summary In the United States, the Internal Revenue Service confers tax-exempt status to charitable organizations, allowing them to receive tax-deductible donations. Most donors would assume that an organization that targets…

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Coverage of the Far Right is often shortsighted, particularly in the U.S. When the Alt Right emerged into public view in 2015, there was a sense of shock as few understood how it had seemed to metastasize so quickly and without precedent. The Unite…

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Understanding the State of the Right One Year After the January 6th Insurrection

Watch Now: A PRA Briefing

One year after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, PRA hosted a briefing where we provided an overview of convergent forces, how we got to where we are, where we might be headed, and what we can do to defend democracy and promote justice. We…

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Capitol Offenses: January 6th 2021 & The Ongoing Insurrection

PRA State of the Right Report

Introduction: The Insurrection Isn’t Over; Neither is the Attempted Coup The January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol provided the bloody final chapter to Donald Trump’s term as president, as “stop the steal” loyalists from all over the…

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More of the Same, but More of It

The Conspiratorial Legacy of 9/11

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One of the lasting legacies of 9/11 is the growth and mainstreaming of conspiracy theories, across the U.S. and the world. Within hours of the attacks, theories cropped up online to identify culprits, explain their motives, and uncover their…

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What If 9/11 Had Never Taken Place?

No Department of Homeland Security. No Paramilitarized Border Enforcement. No War on Terror. No Trump.

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On this 20^th anniversary of September 11, 2001, the attacks and their political aftermath have receded into the distance: an important historical event at the start of the 2000s, long before Obama, the Tea Party, Trump, and the pandemic.…

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“Hitler Youth, Without the Hitler”

At Gen-Z Camping Retreat 76Fest, Conservative Influencers Network with White Nationalists

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On August 20, 2021, a network of paleoconservative and White nationalist youth activists will gather at F.D. Roosevelt State Park outside of Atlanta, Georgia for a weekend camping retreat called 76Fest. Arielle Early, an 18-year-old White…

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At first glance, Sarah (not her real name) is your average, social-media-savvy, Generation Z girl.^[1] Her Instagram account is typical of a “Zoomer” feminine aesthetic: inspired by the alternative, colorful style of…

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The Israeli Far Right

A Q&A with Scholar Cas Mudde

As the conflict over the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah escalated into a massive Israeli military action against Gaza this May, the role of the Settler Movement and the Israeli Far Right became a primary topic of conversation worldwide…

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Red Pill, Blue Pill

Q&A with author David Neiwert

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Conspiracy theories can be many things to different people. For some, it’s fun: the entertainment value of outlandish “alternative facts,” the promise of secrets revealed, the thrill of envisioning oneself a detective, scouring the internet for…

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Technologies of the Right: Disinformation, Mobilization, and Surveillance

Watch Now: A PRA Roundtable Discussion

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There is no question that social media has been a meteoric tool of the Right: propelling Donald Trump to office in 2016, mobilizing his supporters to mount a nationwide resistance to the outcome of the 2020 election, and fueling the growth of far-…

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Pulling Up the Ladder

The Anti-Immigrant Backlash

“Many persons who have spoken and written in favor of restriction of immigration, have laid great stress upon the evils to society arising from immigration. They have claimed that disease, pauperism, crime and vice have been greatly increased…

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The January 6 Insurrection

A Snapshot

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Supporters of President Trump storm the United States Capitol building in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images) While “Back the Blue” sentiment reigned supreme in the MAGA…

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Conspiracy for the Masses

Mapping a QAnon Lockdown Network

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In late April 2020, Jessica Prim left her home in Peoria, Illinois, and headed east to New York Harbor, where the U.S. Navy Hospital Ship Comfort was docked. She arrived at midday on April 29. Although the Comfort was serving as a field hospital for…

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Watch Now - Insurrection: Past, Present, and Future

A Briefing and Strategy Session

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On January 17th, PRA convened a panel of organizers and experts to reflect on the January 6th insurrection, far-right mobilizing throughout the 2020 election season and into 2021, and the implications of an emboldened Far Right for racial…

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Culture Warlords

Author Q&A with Tal Lavin

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This fall, anti-fascist journalist Tal Lavin published his first book, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. The book—reported in a “gonzo” style that at times involved undercover infiltration of online White supremacist…

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Alt-Right Gangs

A Q&A with Shannon Reid, co-author of Alt-Right Gangs: A Hazy Shade of White

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On Saturday, December 12, dozens of members of the far-right street gang the Proud Boys joined a pro-Trump demonstration in Washington, D.C. After listening for hours to speakers spreading conspiracy theories, as has happened at far-right rallies…

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"King Trump"

In Wake of Biden Victory, White Nationalists and MAGA Mobs March in DC

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What appeared to be several thousand hardcore Trump supporters, including sizable White nationalist, militia and street-fighting contingents,…

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In July 2020, retired Green Beret and military special forces operator Mike Glover began sharing videos on YouTube and Instagram…

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Paramilitaries at the Polls

What to Expect Around the 2020 Elections

As we draft this memo in the days immediately prior to Election Day 2020, there are dozens of articles and opinion pieces pointing out possible “chaos” or “nightmare” scenarios related to the 2020 elections and what could happen in their wake.…

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Armed militia members march next to a WWG1WGA flag, a common identifier of QAnon believers, at the United We Stand & Patriots March for America, St. Paul, Minnesota, September 12, 2020 (Credit: Fibonacci Blue/Flickr).

Recent developments in activity and rhetoric raise the possibility that some anti-government factions could morph into pro-Trump paramilitaries; a phenomenon we may see during this interregnum period.

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Executive Summary With presidential elections just weeks away, Nevada faces a visible and growing threat of violence from White supremacists and far-right militias. The FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have both recently…

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Standing By for Violence

Ahead of November Election, Trump Inflames His Vigilante Base

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During the September 29, 2020 presidential debate, President Donald Trump gave his White nationalist and militia base a jolt of inspiration, refusing to condemn White supremacy and recent acts of violence and intimidation against widespread Black…

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The Right in the Streets

The Past and Present of the Polish March of Independence

In the early afternoon on November 11, 2019, in central Warsaw, tens of thousands of people came together at the Roman Dmowski roundabout, for an event known as one of the biggest right-wing gatherings in the world. The location itself was telling:…

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Paramilitaries at Your Protest

An Activist Field Guide to the Far Right

Why this Guide Since the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, PRA has documented more than 150 incidents of armed far-right actors showing up at racial justice protests. They have threatened and harassed racial justice…

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The murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by Minneapolis police on May 25, 2020 marked the beginning of a dramatic surge in racial justice and politics accountability protests. The Black Lives Matter movement that was at the heart of those…

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Nothing is Untouched

The Aftermath in Chemnitz

The sun was high and the air thick with a weighted August heat as we sat down for lunch at Schmetterling, a Persian restaurant in the heart of Chemnitz, Germany. Anne Gersch, a staff member of Courage, a project that facilitates anti-discrimination…

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In response to the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by Minneapolis police, racial justice groups have mobilized tens of thousands of protestors to take to the streets and demand justice nationwide. Local and State officials have…

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On February 19, a 43-year-old man shot and killed eleven people, including himself, in Hanau, Germany, a small city some 15 miles east of Frankfurt. The victims are Ferhat Unvar, Gökhan Gültekin, Hamza Kurtović, Said Nessar El Hashemi, Mercedes…

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In Search of the Russian Soul

How Russia Became the U.S. Far Right’s Mirror

Long before White nationalists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting “Russia is our friend!,” the post-war fascist writer Francis Parker Yockey took to the pages of a U.S. neonazi, White nationalist organization’s newsletter to praise an…

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“All You Have to Do Is Show Up”

How White Nationalists Are Infiltrating the GOP

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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…

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The Proud Boys

A Republican Party Street Gang

The Proud Boys became a national focus in October 2018 when independent journalist Sandi Bachom posted video of a violent confrontation in New York City.

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The U.S. Far Right’s 2018 Election Results

A Blind-Alley for the Alt Right

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.

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Insurgent Supremacists

Author Q&A with Matthew N. Lyons

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This September, Lyons spoke to David Neiwert, researcher and author of Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, about his new book.

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Standoffs and the Far Right

What Changed After Oklahoma City?

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Twenty-three years ago, on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a powerful homemade truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The death toll reached 168, and about 850 were injured.

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White Revolution and the Legacy of the Vietnam War

Drawing on government documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests and multiple archives of White Power publications, Kathleen Belew has written a comprehensive history of White Power vigilantism, paramilitary training, and…

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Jake Laskey and the American Front

In the small Oregon town of Cottage Grove, just south of Eugene, a sign on an empty storefront that used to house a local museum announces a new business: Wolfclan Armory. While most towns would welcome the new blood, instead protests have already…

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Vanguard America banner removed from State House lawn by Women’s March 2.0 participants in Providence, RI

In the year of the #MeToo movement, Women’s Marches took place in every state on January 20 and 21, drawing crowds of a little over a thousand to half a million. But, from Knoxville, Tennesee to Seattle, Washington, Far Right and White nationalist…

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Olympics Row Reveals White Supremacist Pagan Foothold

This week The New York Times reported that the uniforms of this year’s Norwegian Olympic Alpine ski team have caused a stir among those concerned about neonazi co-optation of Viking symbols. The Viking-themed uniforms include the runic Tyr symbol,…

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White Supremacy’s Old Gods

The Far Right and Neopaganism

In 2014, a White supremacist leader, Frazier Glenn Cross, Jr. (also known as F. Glenn Miller), killed three people outside Jewish organizations in Overland Park, Kansas. Although all three were actually Christian, Cross’s intended target was clear,…

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Steve Bannon speaking at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland. Photo: Gage Skidmore via Flickr.

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. Between the two periods he took a leave of absence to be Donald Trump’s campaign adviser…

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Memorial for Heather Heyer in downtown Charlottesville. Photo: Courtesy of Bob Mical via Flickr.

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. A main…

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Three Pillars of the Alt Right

White Nationalism, Antisemitism, and Misogyny

The new wave of avowed White nationalists who have been energized by Donald Trump—most prominently the Alt Right—have held demonstrations across the United States, most famously in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017. Progressive activists have…

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Rumors of Civil War

How Anti-Communist Conspiracies Imagine an Antifa Civil War on November 4

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. The date is supposed to precede the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution,…

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Hiding in Plain Sight: An American Renaissance of White Nationalism

AmRen, one of only two U.S. White-supremacist conferences open to the press, does all it can to project an image palatable to the unconverted, who might be turned off by people wearing Nazi regalia, issuing openly antisemitic rants, or flaunting…

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Disunite the Right

The Growing Divides in the Pepe Coalition

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. And maintaining this coalition has not been easy, requiring compromises on language…

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Joey Gibson and Patriot Prayer

The Westboro Baptist Church of the Alt Right

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. Based in Vancouver, Washington (located…

Profile on the Right

Among the groups leading the recent Unite the Right march in Charlottesville, Virginia was the League of the South – an Alabama-based theocratic, neo-confederate group that has long advocated for southern secession. League leader Michael Hill was…

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Press Release: From the Streets of Charlottesville to the Corridors of the Capitol, White Nationalism is On the March

Contact: Greeley O’Connor, g.oconnor@politicalresearch.org, 617.666.5300 (BOSTON) The U.S. Far Right has killed nearly 450 people since 1990. Heather Heyer of Charlottesville, Virginia…

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A Guide to Who’s Coming to the Largest White Nationalist Rally in a Decade

The Unite the Right rally, which will take place in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 12, 2017, looks like it will be the largest White Nationalist rally in the United States in more than a decade. Between 500 and 1,000 people are expected to…

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An Alt Right Update

My January report, “Ctrl-Alt-Delete,” was published at the beginning of Donald Trump’s administration. It dealt with the Alt Right’s ideological roots, major players, multiple internal currents, and complex relationships with both conservatives and…

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Peas in an Oregon Pod: Right-Wing Paramilitaries & The GOP

The Republican Party of Multnomah County, Oregon (which includes Portland) disregarded public outcry when it passed a resolution last week to allow private, paramilitary groups to provide security functions at GOP events. Chairman James Buchal said…

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Skin in the Game

How Antisemitism Animates White Nationalism

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Antisemitism forms the theoretical core of White nationalism. First, it allows us to identify the fuel that White nationalist ideology uses to power its anti-Black racism, its contempt for other people of color, and its xenophobia—as well as the…

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“Become part of the fraternity”: Screenshot from the Identity Evropa website.

The media often portrays clean-cut individuals such as Alt Right leader Richard Spencer or members of Identity Evropa as proof of a re-branding of White nationalism and indeed, there is a long history of White supremacist groups re-inventing their…

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Resisting White Supremacy in Kentucky

An online video call discussion on anti-racist resistance with Kentuckians For The Commonwealth, Political Research Associates, and Rural Organizing Project.

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Profile on the Right: Milo Yiannopoulos

Milo Yiannopoulos is the technology co-editor for Breitbart News Network, the right-wing media operation that former CEO Steve Bannon—now chief strategist for President Donald Trump—proudly called the platform for the Alt Right. But that title does…

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Trump’s “Second Amendment People”?

The U.S. Patriot Movement Today

Judging from his recent statements, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump seems to be making plans for post-election violence if he’s defeated. At the beginning of August he warned, “I’m afraid the election’s going to be rigged.”^1)…

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Right Woos Left: When Patriot Movement Groups Try to Recruit Progressive Activists

Sometimes Patriot movement groups reach out to progressive activists in an attempt to recruit them to their cause. As you would expect, they typically downplay their reactionary social views and stress the more libertarian parts of their …

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Coordination: How the Patriot Movement Re-imagines Governmental Ties

“Coordination” is a process which allows state, county, and other lower-level governments to give input to federal agencies’ land use plans, in an attempt to achieve consistency. While this process is mentioned in a number of federal acts, the Hard…

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Press Release: Verdict in Bundy Militia Occupation Sends Dangerous Signal

Today Political Research Associates, a Massachusetts think tank that monitors right-wing movements, warned that the surprise acquittal yesterday of seven militia members on conspiracy and weapons charges in connection with their armed occupation of…

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Taking on Patriot Movement Talking Points

Responding to Patriot Movement claims on militias and gun rights, rural economics, the Constitution, public lands, and conspiracy theories.

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Oregon III%

Oregon Three Percenters are very active and seems to have eclipsed the Oath Keepers as the locus of Patriot movement organizing in the state.

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Press Release: Major Investigation & Toolkit to Aid Oregon Communities Facing Militia Movements

Today Political Research Associates in partnership with Rural Organizing Project released Up in Arms: A Guide to Oregon’s Patriot Movement, a groundbreaking report and toolkit designed to support public officials and community activists under siege…

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The Oath Keepers in Oregon

Oath Keepers chapters have been active in Oregon since the national organization was founded in 2009. However, most chapters seem to have been established since 2014 in the wake of the events at Bundy Ranch.

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Gunning for Office: Oregon’s Patriot Movement and the May 2016 Primary

In the wake of the armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January and February 2016, a slew of candidates linked to the so-called Patriot movement are running for office in Oregon, including in the upcoming May primary.

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What Happens When Terroristic Threats Come From Someone Wealthy & White?

The case of David Lenio is opening up many questions about the criminal justice system and White supremacy. Specifically, questions about how terroristic threats are treated when the person making them comes from a wealthy White background versus…

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What Is ‘Lone Wolf’ Terrorism in the Digital Age?

The concept of autonomous “Lone Wolf” terrorism as a dominant strategy for U.S. political extremists has been widely discussed recently, especially after the horrific mass shooting in Charleston earlier this year, which was allegedly planned and…

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Neo-Confederate Group Forms Paramilitary Unit—While Claiming It Isn't

Michael Hill, president of the theocratic, White nationalist League of the South, has been escalating his threats of violence in recent months. As PRA has previously reported, Hill has gone so far as to call for the formation of death squads to…

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Let's Not Ignore the Overt Calls for Violence from the League of the South

The League of the South is involved not in an eccentric nostalgia for retrograde racial politics and wishful thinking about secession of the Southern states so much as a revolutionary vision of theocratic, white nationalist violence.

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From Europe to the United States: Ultra Right Ideology Continues to Gain Ground

Parties of the Right with strong anti-immigrant and anti-Europe policies have flourished across Europe. Some of these parties have direct ties to the Nazi party, and many more use the same imagery. This mainstreaming has parallels in the U.S., with…

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PRA Interview: Right-Wing Anti-Government Violence, a Growing Threat to Democracy

PRA fellow Rachel Tabachnik joined Between These Lines host Scott Harris to discuss the rising tide of violence and violent rhetoric among the Religious Right.

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Frazier Glenn Miller & The Ongoing Trend of Former-Military Neo-Nazi Murders

Military Veterans and the White Separatist Underground’s Cult of Violence

All three perpetrators fit a very specific pattern: military veterans; involved in White nationalist politics for years; felt (apparently) their lives were at an end; decided to go out and murder unsuspecting civilians at the very public…

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The Right Hand of Occupy Wall Street

From Libertarians to Nazis, the Fact and Fiction of Right-Wing Involvement

The most successful mobilization on the Left in recent years—the Occupy movement—had ambiguously defined enemies and used an organizing model that was easily replicated. These strategies were key elements of its success, but they also enabled a…

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White Supremacist “Analyst” on Cable News’ Coverage of Zimmerman & Dunn Trials

Media coverage of the trials has become enormous boon for certain white supremacists, who have managed to use mainstream news outlets as a platform for bigotry. Nowhere is this more evident—and disturbing—than in the case of Frank Taaffe.

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A group of people in suits walking, holding signs saying "We demand decent housing now!"

Founded in 1958, the John Birch Society (JBS) fiercely opposed the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s and 1970s. Decades later, the rise of the Tea Party and the ongoing “Ron Paul Revolution” have helped the JBS make a comeback as it attracts…

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