https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to great replacement theory en https://religiondispatches.org/2026/01/09/musk-endorsed-white-nationalism On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while White men hold a collective majority, then they… Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:46:06 EST Ben Lorber 31d7b309-2b2c-4853-b367-6c44b08ffa36 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/11/24/trumps-cabinet-and-other-picks-paint-picture-christian-nationalist-kakistocracy Benjamin Franklin’s hope and warning, “A republic, if you can keep it,” resonates with too many of us these days. This has especially been the case watching the president-elect nominate his Cabinet, a wishlist of personnel that perfectly embodies Trumpism’s… Sun, 24 Nov 2024 01:01:51 EST Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque c83347ce-8675-4bc3-8a9a-31b4ddc6e168 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/11/03/adl-correct-antisemitism-rising-main-and-most-dangerous-source-isnt-left-its-always-been When the Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) annual Antisemitism Audit was released in April, its claim of a 140% rise in antisemitic incidents in 2023 seemed like old news. Following the October 7th Hamas attack that killed nearly 1,200 Israelis, news reports… Sun, 03 Nov 2024 06:50:39 EST Shane Burley 830c7cf5-e91f-4de9-a064-765c921e7f0e https://religiondispatches.org/2024/02/12/meet-bronze-age-zionists-far-right-jews-embracing-fascism-wake-october-7 The US online hard-right isn’t exactly known as the friendliest place for Jews. It’s the place where antisemitic conspiracies thrive and cries of ‘Jews will not replace us’ resound. It’s where the Pittsburgh and Poway synagogue shooters (and many more… Mon, 12 Feb 2024 04:47:08 EST Ben Lorber 5e2d253c-8c97-43ba-9cba-d801317b3a91 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/02/06/why-antisemitism-insufficient-and-risky-explanation-hamass-october-7-attack-israel Find all of RD’s coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, here. — eds Amidst a recent layover, my phone pinged to indicate I’d been “mentioned” on Twitter, which is never a good sign. Right-wing provocateur Andy Ngo had tweeted a… Tue, 06 Feb 2024 02:21:36 EST Shane Burley 727db342-3192-4521-85ec-2e2f245b7ca2 https://religiondispatches.org/2024/01/16/dispelling-zombie-myth-white-evangelical-support-trump Yesterday’s inaugural Republican primary event gave us our first official glimpse into the 2024 election-year love affair between Trump and White evangelicals —and judging from the results they haven’t lost that loving feeling. White evangelicals are highly influential in the… Tue, 16 Jan 2024 04:23:34 EST Robert P. Jones 6aecee6c-5227-4dac-94b5-872f35b53e9b 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/2023/11/16/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/2023/05/12/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/2023/04/21/hamburg-shooters-manifesto-reveals-complexity-influence-far-right-ideologies When a mass shooting happens, and the perpetrator has left a manifesto or text that could give insight into his motive, worldview and state of mind, one of the first go-to rules for the media is: do not circulate the… Fri, 21 Apr 2023 05:29:50 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 13790100-f2e3-4824-b1bf-382720fbc57c https://religiondispatches.org/2023/03/14/ar-15-lapel-pins-are-more-political-provocation-theyre-symbols-violence-heart-white Violence has always been at the center of White Christian nationalism: the vow to impose order on those perceived as un-American, if need be with force, either by the police or by wielding a gun themselves. And while the absolute… Tue, 14 Mar 2023 06:25:02 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 34acd5de-b272-4725-8a29-8fd931ece5bd https://religiondispatches.org/2022/11/22/tale-two-fascisms-douchey-jd-vance-vs-creepy-blake-masters Peter Thiel’s bid to win two seats in Congress didn’t quite succeed. One of his protégées, J.D. Vance , won his race in Ohio after trailing his Democratic opponent for weeks, while the other, Blake Masters, lost his Arizona senate… Tue, 22 Nov 2022 09:49:37 EST Annika Brockschmidt 50a1e04f-ea7d-4554-b6fc-f013535442dd https://religiondispatches.org/2022/10/18/midterms-approach-white-christian-nationalism-mainstream-gop-and-its-only-getting-worse As one might imagine, Yale University’s recent conference on White Christian nationalism and the midterm elections was full of sobering information. And yet, two conclusions managed to stand apart from the rest. First, that the phenomenon is firmly anchored within… Tue, 18 Oct 2022 02:07:54 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 5abda3cf-c269-4995-9ab0-0de8255d981b 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/2022/09/23/inspired-anti-abortion-movement-and-qanon-anti-trans-rhetoric-blatant-call-violence They care for trans children and teenagers—and they’re getting death threats. On August 30th, Boston Children’s Hospital was shut down due to a bomb threat , and shut down a second time on September 9th, the latest in a series… Fri, 23 Sep 2022 03:01:47 EDT Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque b8fa6819-5726-427a-a0cf-bebf925256fd https://religiondispatches.org/2022/09/06/failure-focus-and-yes-cancel-right-wing-antisemitism-problem Earlier this month, amid increasing death threats, the synagogue of the judge who signed the FBI’s Mar-a-Lago search warrant was forced to cancel its Shabbat service . And this is hardly an isolated incident. Antisemitism is becoming more and more… Tue, 06 Sep 2022 03:56:34 EDT Elad Nehorai 614f301e-c234-49d5-ad18-ba1afe9a1a97 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/27/embryo-men-decades-conspiracy-christian-nationalism-and-fear-led-us-end-roe-v-wade This morning as we again awaken to the realization that American women have lost their bodily autonomy , that five individuals can decide that States’ rights can’t control guns, but that they do have the power to control women’s bodies… Mon, 27 Jun 2022 02:18:42 EDT Carmen Celestini 4decb173-6927-4006-b0fb-cf236d4a5747 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/06/18/world-refugee-day-rising-white-nationalism-meets-largest-refugee-population-history World Refugee Day on June 20, 2022 recognizes the more than 100 million asylum seekers, internally displaced people, stateless people, and refugees who’ve been forcibly displaced from their homes as a result of human rights violations — many in t… Sat, 18 Jun 2022 10:04:44 EDT Sara Kamali 6d736c1e-9f93-46fe-bc4c-5c6a842ceefe https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/20/if-media-are-reluctant-properly-label-gops-racist-christian-nationalist-ideologies-well On Saturday, 18-year-old white supremacist P.G. drove to the “Tops” supermarket with the intention to kill people of color. He murdered ten people and wounded three others before he was arrested. All ten who were killed were Black. The racism… Fri, 20 May 2022 11:52:48 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 7baf028e-84e2-4d11-8a95-a7f4bb884b17 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/2022/02/28/russia-and-us-have-more-common-you-might-think As I write, Russia has invaded Ukraine, thousands of people have reportedly died, and hundreds of thousands of refugees have fled the country. It’s a more comprehensive version of the invasion carried out in 2014, when president Vladimir Putin invoked… Mon, 28 Feb 2022 03:51:02 EST Chrissy Stroop f7289e90-a78b-4335-a162-1f59a54784a1 https://religiondispatches.org/2021/02/23/why-were-not-prepared-prosecute-white-nationalist-violence In the wake of the devastating January 6 th attack on the Capitol, White nationalist domestic terrorism, once relegated to the political extreme, is now mainstream . Under the guise of stopping the spurious ‘ steal ’ of the 2020… Tue, 23 Feb 2021 02:44:44 EST Sara Kamali dbc774c0-83ff-4ed9-a265-73af70c54127 https://religiondispatches.org/2019/03/29/white-nationalist-fantasy-ancient-christian-muslim-conflict-would-get-f-history-class When I first heard the tragic news of the shootings at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, I was preparing a lecture for my Introduction to Western Religions course on Jesus in the Qur’an. This lecture asks a deceptively simple question… Fri, 29 Mar 2019 12:49:20 EDT Tony Keddie 2885c006-1b09-4e6f-8f33-cb234b5bf729