https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to january 6th insurrection en https://religiondispatches.org/2026/04/02/meet-top-24-leaders-new-apostolic-reformation-us Given the threat to America’s democratic institutions and aspirations posed by the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), it’s alarming that the movement’s leading figures aren’t well or widely known. Many, particularly those involved in creating a revolution against established institutions, would… Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:59:06 EDT Frederick Clarkson, André Gagné a0079a9c-e937-40e8-b5d7-83d9171ec6c3 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/06/20/archives-spirit-january-6 In this episode, Koki reads “The Spirit of January 6th” by Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné, the third in our new From the Archives series. Thu, 20 Jun 2024 12:52:11 EDT Political Research Associates 261822a5-77d2-4d1e-bf41-81ff2fb16dbc 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/2023/11/16/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/2023/01/23/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/2022/12/09/just-january-6-one-most-disturbing-aspects-right-wing-coup-attempt-germany-who-was The US has had to deal with a home-grown attempted coup for the past two years. This week, Germans awoke to headlines that gave them a taste of what their American friends felt on January 6, 2021 as Germany saw… Fri, 09 Dec 2022 10:08:49 EST Annika Brockschmidt 7405294b-e5ec-430c-a18d-5f61d17dda15 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/08/31/link-between-texas-law-requiring-god-we-trust-signs-schools-and-january-6-insurrection A Texas law requiring public schools “to assert the country’s collective trust in God” by displaying signs that declare “ In God We Trust ” in every public school classroom has come under scrutiny over the past couple of weeks… Wed, 31 Aug 2022 05:12:50 EDT Andrew L. Seidel 306b591e-6e01-4b7b-bbce-18ac801aabeb https://religiondispatches.org/2022/08/25/what-salman-rushdies-attacker-shares-insurrectionist-ashli-babbitt Several years ago I happened to sit next to Salman Rushdie at dinner when he was at UC-Santa Barbara to give a talk. I asked him why he didn’t have any security guards around him. “I have to live my… Thu, 25 Aug 2022 01:59:10 EDT Mark Juergensmeyer 8c007160-ba66-4cad-996b-814ed4d07bf5 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/08/10/right-using-fbis-mar-lago-search-martyr-trump-and-maintain-violent-myth-big-lie On Monday, the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s home in Florida, during which, according to the former president, federal officials even “broke into my safe.” While there are reports that the warrant for the search is related to classified documents… Wed, 10 Aug 2022 05:29:56 EDT Bradley Onishi 96f6945e-b89b-4c6f-9b77-4c5c9e920444 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/08/09/new-apostolic-reformation-faces-profound-rift-due-trump-prophecies-and-spiritual Updated 8/16/22: The authors’ response to a correction request follows the article. - eds Four weeks after the January 6th insurrection , two leaders of the revivalist New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) were concerned about the future of their movement. They… Tue, 09 Aug 2022 04:47:29 EDT Frederick Clarkson, André Gagné df1661fe-75bc-48f7-bb71-e56b9cdfc1be https://religiondispatches.org/2022/07/07/when-religious-freedom-means-freedom-religious-violence Religious freedom has long been a rallying cry of the religious and political right. In recent years, it’s been used to provide a rationale for exemptions from a variety of civil right laws. But at least since January 6 th… Thu, 07 Jul 2022 03:51:18 EDT Frederick Clarkson 290d1d1c-03e0-4adb-99f3-0f1ca77df92b https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/24/its-theology-stupid-why-shocking-sbc-report-anything-surprising On Sunday, an investigation firm called Guidepost Solutions released a 300-page report recounting a disturbingly familiar pattern of abuse and cover-up in the Southern Baptist Convention, the mostly white, evangelical Protestant denomination that accounts for over 5% of the adult… Tue, 24 May 2022 05:22:59 EDT Chrissy Stroop, Jessica Johnson 2c4cfa52-e3ce-47fa-aafd-0aeba8705786 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/05/03/end-roe-and-school-prayer-america-not-ready-be-christian-nation Conservative Supreme Court justices are rewriting our Constitution . The leaked draft of Justice Alito’s majority opinion overturning Roe v. Wade radically alters American law and our understanding of constitutional rights . It isn’t the first consequential reversal from this… Tue, 03 May 2022 05:28:49 EDT Andrew L. Seidel 34374164-dbfb-4dd6-8316-24b574b906e4 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/04/11/manufactured-smear-campaign-attempts-intimidate-church-fasting-whiteness-it-didnt-work This Lenten season, when the First United Church of Oak Park, Illinois gathered for Sunday services, the music had all been composed by people of color. They had decided to give up whiteness for Lent. This was consistent with the… Mon, 11 Apr 2022 05:22:02 EDT Frederick Clarkson 8142751c-ab59-423d-a06d-d5ceac9478c9 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/03/31/white-nationalist-fringe-just-took-giant-step-closer-center-gop “White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization—how did that language become offensive? Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?” It was this statement that finally got Steve King, the former Iowa… Thu, 31 Mar 2022 05:30:04 EDT Annika Brockschmidt aed51690-d140-435a-9147-b8fb20056339 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/03/29/gary-north-1942-2022-sought-deny-religious-liberty-enemies-god-he-was-willing-wait If you’ve never heard of Gary North that may be because he wanted it that way. Nevertheless, when North died in Georgia recently at age 80, he’d quietly become one of the notable religious and political architects of our time… Tue, 29 Mar 2022 05:27:33 EDT Frederick Clarkson b9dbb688-b255-45df-88e8-264dfa63f325 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/03/10/gop-candidate-pa-governor-affiliated-far-right-gun-church-rod-iron-ministries-heres Pennsylvania State Senator and retired colonel Doug Mastriano has announced his candidacy for governor. And, in keeping with his participation in the Jericho March movement, the Stop the Steal Rally on January 6 th , and other appearances at Christian… Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:03:28 EST Thomas Lecaque 0de76d50-8907-4ec3-ae08-8871f4b7493e https://politicalresearch.org/2022/03/01/fight-our-lifetime In a briefing conducted on January 6th, panelists discussed the longer trajectory of ongoing insurrection and what we must be doing in this moment to protect our democracy. Tue, 01 Mar 2022 12:45:28 EST Political Research Associates bc20919f-870f-4270-920e-7803af195a6d https://religiondispatches.org/2022/02/17/freedom-convoy-inspired-biblical-account-divine-massacre-welcome-jericho-march When a church announces what’s called a Jericho March (or a Jericho Walk), you might picture congregants praying, walking around a building, trumpets blasting and an odd gospel song. You might forget, however, what comes next. From Joshua 6:20-21: When… Thu, 17 Feb 2022 06:10:40 EST Thomas Lecaque 90fd100f-40cc-412a-a36f-d308db6bafd5 https://religiondispatches.org/2022/02/15/new-report-white-christian-nationalism-and-j6-insurrection-shows-just-how-dire-threat Readers who follow my work will be aware of my conviction that neither the press , nor the American public generally, is taking the serious threat to democracy and human rights posed by the Christian Right seriously enough. It’s a… Tue, 15 Feb 2022 05:16:43 EST Chrissy Stroop f78cc91d-5edd-4e13-8923-8b53fe95f5ed https://religiondispatches.org/2022/02/10/missing-element-conversation-christian-nationalism-and-freedom-whiteness A new report released Wednesday by a trio of groups, both Christian and secular, on the role played by white Christian nationalists in the January 6 storming of the Capitol will open some eyes, and that’s all to the good… Thu, 10 Feb 2022 01:34:42 EST Peter Laarman 2c38c293-8aae-4588-aa81-826c59e2a925 https://politicalresearch.org/2022/01/21/understanding-state-right-one-year-after-january-6th-insurrection One year after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building, PRA hosted a briefing with our partners at Blueprint NC reflecting on how we got here, and where we might be headed. Fri, 21 Jan 2022 12:31:28 EST Political Research Associates c3a80f96-e9f7-409c-a021-d8ce18a02a16 https://politicalresearch.org/2022/01/12/capitol-offenses-january-6th-2021-ongoing-insurrection The first anniversary of the Capitol storming is an occasion to take stock of the robust current state of America’s insurrectionist, anti-democratic factions, those that would sooner dispense with democracy altogether than lose their hold on power. Wed, 12 Jan 2022 08:48:51 EST Steven Gardiner, Tarso Luís Ramos cc4f052d-78e5-4006-ac8c-0ddf6e22460a 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://religiondispatches.org/2022/01/05/if-we-dont-counter-far-right-christianity-16-will-just-be-beginning For years, far-right faith groups have become increasingly intertwined with extreme conservative political beliefs like white supremacy and Christian nationalism —fundamentally changing the Republican Party and creating a fervent support network for former president Trump. Nearly one year ago, on… Wed, 05 Jan 2022 03:09:50 EST Serene Jones 024e7738-75b3-4336-ae4b-3b89a9858e78