https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to fascism en https://politicalresearch.org/2025/07/02/burning-down-house Katherine Stewart traces the rise of the antidemocratic movement fueling Trumpism and the authoritarian Right in this adapted excerpt from her book Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:57:01 EDT Katherine Stewart c749e760-8c09-40c1-a7f7-1c7e5317c54a https://religiondispatches.org/2025/05/08/habemus-papam-new-pope-selection-signals-churchs-concerns-about-spread-us-global White smoke emerged over the Sistine Chapel this afternoon, notifying the world that the College of Cardinals has elected a new pope. While many Catholics are still mourning Francis, among best beloved and most complicated popes in recent history, the… Thu, 08 May 2025 04:45:13 EDT Megan Goodwin 8c9bd9c4-3955-4690-a689-a7ae8d3700ca https://religiondispatches.org/2025/05/01/experts-agree-what-trump-doing-fascism 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 American leaders are content to quibble over definitional particularities, experts are… Thu, 01 May 2025 05:13:04 EDT Annika Brockschmidt aa8ebbd0-93e4-4151-bd96-5fd7ef728872 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/03/28/feminists-against-women In a world of competing feminisms, from anti-trans feminists to liberal feminists, Sophie Lewis makes the case for taking feminism seriously in all its forms in order to make real progress toward a multiracial, feminist democracy. Fri, 28 Mar 2025 02:40:10 EDT Sophie Lewis eff495ab-92b8-44eb-9a79-185bd98a165f https://politicalresearch.org/2024/12/13/review-commune-or-nothing Hialy Gutierrez reviews Chris Gilbert’s book Commune or Nothing!, a story of Venezuela’s communes as a model for liberatory organizing. Fri, 13 Dec 2024 02:42:09 EST Hialy Gutierrez bc128ee7-9958-4bb8-93e2-627a188bfc78 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/12/04/three-way-fight This excerpt from Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism explores a radical framework that can inform sharper and more effective strategies for organizing for human liberation. Wed, 04 Dec 2024 11:27:25 EST Xtn Alexander, Matthew N. Lyons 2549275d-c383-432f-9d0a-43282d92e79a https://religiondispatches.org/2024/01/31/far-right-surges-us-and-germany-debate-rages-over-disqualification-those-who-would “This is what democracy looks like! This is what democracy looks like!” Despite the bitter cold, the solidly frozen ground and black ice, between 100,000 and 350,000 people had assembled on Sunday, the 21st of January, in front of the… Wed, 31 Jan 2024 01:05:14 EST Annika Brockschmidt 88c9d942-9b52-4ca9-8e21-b7f9f997889c 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/2023/12/11/worker-power-fight-against-authoritarianism-conversation-powerswitch-actions-lauren In this conversation with Lauren Jacobs from PowerSwitch Action, the discussion focuses on the role of worker power in combating authoritarianism. Mon, 11 Dec 2023 04:44:48 EST Political Research Associates bae841d8-607f-45b6-ba95-3b12b7850ec5 https://politicalresearch.org/2023/11/30/forty-years-antifascism-daryle-lamont-jenkins In this episode Koki and Daryle discuss what it looks like, on the ground, to fight the Far Right showing up in our communities, and what the day-to-day for antifascists in this work for the long-haul is like. Thu, 30 Nov 2023 09:00:00 EST Political Research Associates b454535e-4ad9-4557-acc3-daa753c2917f 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://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/2023/02/24/marjorie-taylor-greenes-redblue-national-divorce-looks-awful-lot-confederate-flag There is nothing quite like the fresh hell of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Twitter account, wondering on a daily basis what the most erratic far-right member of congress will scream out into the void. And on Presidents’ Day, she tweeted this… Fri, 24 Feb 2023 04:36:26 EST Thomas Lecaque, Joshua Call aac45bef-a78d-4e0e-be97-4cc8d3c9fdeb https://religiondispatches.org/2023/01/23/gop-candidate-allegedly-orchestrating-shooting-democrats-homes-no-accident On December 4th 2022, eight bullets struck the home of Bernalillo County Commissioner Adriann Barboa. On December 11th, 12 bullets followed. On January 3rd this year, three bullets hit the house of Linda Lopez, New Mexico senator representing District 11… Mon, 23 Jan 2023 05:32:56 EST Annika Brockschmidt ac23963a-9772-4ea0-82f6-0a3493f40397 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/11/17/desantis-more-polished-and-less-bombastic-trump-he-less-threat-democracy The midterms proved an abysmal disappointment for the Republican Party. Instead of the promised red tsunami, it was more of what many are calling a red ripple. Instead of winning the House by a large margin, they appear to have… Thu, 17 Nov 2022 03:02:38 EST Annika Brockschmidt 71bc6ead-51fc-4e93-87ce-f77bf6aa8d6f https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/04/white-nationalist-ideology-shines-through-elite-maga-conference-inside-natcon-part-ii Below is the second of a two-part report on the third National Conservatism Conference that took place in Miami, FL from September 11 - September 13, 2022. Read Part I here . “Exercise your dominion, O Lord, over this nation”… Tue, 04 Oct 2022 05:23:09 EDT Ben Lorber 8b40abd3-629f-4727-a893-35feb44bb83d https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/03/elite-movement-laying-foundation-maga-will-outlast-trump-and-remake-america-inside “Most people can’t even articulate a political thought. Like, why do they get to vote? It’s stupid.” It’s the evening of September 11, and I’m sipping whiskey by the bar at a 4-star resort hotel in Miami, as a 29-year-old… Mon, 03 Oct 2022 02:51:03 EDT Ben Lorber 6663c40d-e1d0-4923-8e9c-1df64285ab08 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/16/laugh-tucker-carlsons-tanning-testicles-doc-all-you-want-bulging-muscles-and-potent Sculpted, sweating, bare torsos doing push-ups, bulging muscles, two scantily-clad men locked in a fight—they, too, are ripped. A blond, equally fit man shoots at plastic bottles, a man’s hand grasps a cow’s udder. The music swells dramatically—so far it’s… Mon, 16 May 2022 04:40:12 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 3d15bb00-b87f-47c9-b8ac-3aa6d7e93def https://religiondispatches.org/2022/03/17/russkii-mir-russian-equivalent-blood-soil-ideology-heart-putins-war-explained-and A new statement by Orthodox Christian theologians—some of whom sign from Russia—dramatically illustrates what’s at stake in this war of (mostly) Christians against Christians, and what implications it has for the American scene. The statement sets its organizers in opposition… Thu, 17 Mar 2022 04:52:10 EDT Daniel Schultz 5eb0b277-8f63-4f09-8634-9afb427ff638 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/01/10/us-reaches-1940s-fork-road-which-path-will-we-choose Readers of the Editorial Board are familiar with my obsession with political time—or how one party and its ideas prevail with a majority of Americans for four or five decades before falling into a period of transition, after which the… Mon, 10 Jan 2022 04:45:23 EST John Stoehr 8a7d3c45-9a02-406a-a1ec-09feaf82f7f7 https://politicalresearch.org/2020/12/15/no-fascist-usa An author Q&A with Hillary Moore about her book No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:22:30 EST Shane Burley 85610138-7bdb-49f2-a35d-3273125ac320 https://politicalresearch.org/2020/11/09/book-review-spectres-fascism Lyons highlights compelling analytical takeaways that speak directly to our contemporary global political moment in his review of this compilation of essays exploring right-wing authoritarianism. Mon, 09 Nov 2020 02:28:30 EST Matthew N. Lyons 1fc02014-ab3c-4a5d-8565-2abdcf3686f1 https://politicalresearch.org/2020/07/09/third-millennium-fascism Institutionalization and general acceptance of neofascism in modern Italy is largely thanks to CasaPound Italia, the political movement whose activists define themselves as “fascists of the third millennium”. Thu, 09 Jul 2020 10:53:20 EDT Maddalena Gretel Cammelli e76f9740-2922-4608-94e9-b65dc7ce9916 https://politicalresearch.org/2020/07/09/blood-and-vanishing-topsoil The devaluing of human life—particularly of populations seen as inferior—in order to protect the environment viewed as essential to White identity is at the core of Far Right environmentalism and ecofascist thought. Thu, 09 Jul 2020 12:31:50 EDT Alex Amend c525194d-e63d-4204-a14d-6f23e6101411 https://religiondispatches.org/2017/03/30/trump-out-erase-lgbt-americans-public-life Remember, back in the olden days of late January 2017, when Sean Spicer and a host of other administration cronies promised that Trump was a steadfast ally of LGBT Americans, and that there were no anti-LGBT executive orders imminent? I… Thu, 30 Mar 2017 12:14:05 EDT Sunnivie Brydum ba1f7653-c26a-482d-b68c-0116aab22881