https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to Racism & Anti-Immigrant en https://religiondispatches.org/2026/04/06/new-project-2025-inspired-playbook-urges-trump-double-down-mass-deportation After its policy recommendations contributed to record levels of disapproval for the Trump administration, the anti-immigrant movement has a message: Double down, Mr. President. Last week the Mass Deportation Coalition (MDC)—a collection of national and state-level groups and individuals of… Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:39:46 EDT Ethan Fauré 8bbdac18-9fd6-428e-b67f-e70719351d0b https://politicalresearch.org/2026/03/31/were-all-together With ICE agents kidnapping thousands and executing people in broad daylight, the Trump administration’s authoritarianism is on full display for all to see. But so is the power of everyday people. Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:00:00 EDT Political Research Associates, Ben Lorber, Ethan Fauré, Steven Gardiner, Annie Wilkinson 2b590605-47e6-4779-b7cc-7fc3027aaf67 https://religiondispatches.org/2026/03/17/flowing-against-fascism I watched federal agents disappear three people last week. I watched federal agents abduct three of my neighbors last Wednesday in South Burlington, VT, while members of our community surrounded and shielded them as best we could for as long… Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:10:02 EDT Ilyse R. Morgenstein Fuerst 755919d6-4d7b-47ed-9e75-fa4910d48f8f https://politicalresearch.org/2026/03/12/fracturing-maga-base-conversation-war-iran-and-its-reverberations-home-steven-gardiner In this season 4 bonus episode, Koki sits down with PRA’s Principal Research Advisor Steven Gardiner to discuss the outset of the U.S. and Israeli war on Iran, how the war compares to a history of U.S. imperial violence, and… Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:00:00 EDT Political Research Associates, Steven Gardiner a270b31a-f322-4f72-9a82-8a0ed68abd0c https://religiondispatches.org/2026/03/06/trumps-war-iran-isnt-about-armageddon-its-first-meme-war On Monday, two days after the U.S. and Israel carried out a series of attacks on Iran—dubbed “Operation Epic Fury” by the U.S. and “Operation Roaring Lion” by Israel—reports began circulating of commanders telling U.S. troops that the war is… Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:18:06 EST Lauren Horn Griffin 38467a10-686c-4be6-b148-733e83cfccd6 https://religiondispatches.org/2026/02/18/blaming-paganism-trumps-violence-fails-reckon-christian-history In a recent New York Times op-ed called “Donald Trump, Pagan King,” journalist and filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse highlights the apparent contradiction between the Trump administration’s violent “might makes right” mentality and Christian ethics that prioritize protecting the weak and oppressed… Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:55:21 EST Chance Bonar efb5659a-7f40-4077-84f7-94b2ed0a014f https://religiondispatches.org/2026/01/20/our-lady-upside-down Note: The following piece contains major spoilers for the final episode of Stranger Things . Stranger Things, Netflix’s critically acclaimed sci-fi/horror/fantasy series, is a love letter to 1980s pop cinema—including Steven Spielberg’s arguably Orientalist -est film. A prequel to Raiders… Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:38:56 EST Sohini Sarah Pillai 67ce9460-373f-40ad-8565-cfc8f4ff8a76 https://politicalresearch.org/2026/01/20/belligerence-abroad-repression-home In this season 4 bonus episode, Koki talks to PRA Principal Research Advisor Steven Gardiner about the Trump administration’s early-January attack on Venezuela and escalating domestic confrontations around ICE enforcement, including the Minneapolis protests around the murder of Renee Good… Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:00:00 EST Political Research Associates, Steven Gardiner b214e445-93b3-45cd-9365-5e901a467342 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://politicalresearch.org/2025/12/11/how-287g-expansion-fuels-mass-deportations In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads “Florida Is the ‘Tip of the Spear:’ How 287(g) Expansion Fuels Mass Deportations” by Jessica Pishko, as part of our ongoing From the Archives series. From the Archives features those must read and, now, must listen to pieces from PRA’s more than 40 years of publishing. This article was published in the Fall 2025 issue of The Public Eye magazine. Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:00:00 EST Political Research Associates 9c66985e-a084-47e3-9792-f1cde35fa3a7 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/11/21/antisemitism-nationalists-second-nature On November 20, Israeli nationalist Yoram Hazony sat down for an interview with conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to offer an explanation for the rise of antisemitism on the MAGA Right. After Tucker Carlson’s controversial interview with neo-Nazi… Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:00:00 EST Ben Lorber f909552e-e9a6-4d44-9fb1-2e4d9f2cfe6a https://politicalresearch.org/2025/11/20/new-frontlines-trumps-immigration-crackdown How is ICE mobilizing on our streets today? What role does local law enforcement play in Trump’s immigration crackdown? And what are local organizers doing about it? Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:00:00 EST Political Research Associates 415b80dd-4386-492b-a52e-69562deee1f7 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/11/12/new-era-israel Two events happened in the past two weeks which seem, on the surface, to have little to do with one another. Yet they may come to be seen as a similar turning point in American Jewish life. First, Zohran Mamdani… Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:00:00 EST Joel Swanson 665d9b6b-f9ea-4906-8790-8b56434faa35 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/11/06/bad-muslim-good-mayor The name is Mamdani, M-A-M-D-A-N-I. You should learn how to say it. Because he won . On November 4, 2025, New York City elected Zohran Kwame Mamdani as its first Muslim mayor. Throughout his campaign—from polling at 1% of the… Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:00:00 EST Ambereen Dadabhoy b93533ab-1b14-4610-bcc1-6517449a1931 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/31/right-memes-while-millions-face-food-insecurity Last Friday, October 24, the Department of Agriculture announced that there would be no emergency plan to provide for the 42 million Americans who rely on food stamps and, due to the government shutdown, will no longer receive them as… Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Carmen Celestini a220fa85-0d6f-432b-ac4c-ee627705265f https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/28/swords-plowshares L os Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art and the Brick opened MONUMENTS last week, an exhibit that reflects on the removal and recontextualization of decommissioned monuments. Two of the installations—the exhibit’s centerpiece, Kara Walker’s “Unmanned Drone;” and a two-ton pile… Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Megan Goodwin d6bac4a5-a250-4157-ae77-e8a024a41215 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/27/neomedievalist-memes-are-doing-white-christofascist-work G iven that the white supremacist running the account churns out offensive content like the hatemonger he is, it might seem silly to focus on just one DHS Instagram post. But as a trained medievalist, the DHS’s October 22nd Instagram… Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Thomas Lecaque 320e83f4-0c2e-4b11-aa01-cf374cad1f7d https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/22/trump-dangerous-dictator After months of data collection and analysis, PRRI ( in partnership with E.J. Dionne Jr. and Bill Galston at the Brookings Institution) has just released its 16th annual American Values Survey . Amid all the bad news, the new survey… Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Robert P. Jones 2c80663f-f71c-482b-a50b-c0a6d22a8621 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/21/senate-candidate-graham-platner-claims-ignorance-nazi-tattoo Graham Platner, a candidate in the Democratic senate primary in Maine, has been making headlines for a couple of weeks over his old Reddit posts containing racist and sexist remarks (like blaming women for their sexual assault and downplaying sexual assault in the military). Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 0bf52068-467f-4d8f-9f5f-edf5358c79e4 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/14/how-far-right-capitalizes-neoliberal-ideas-and-race-science What is behind the contemporary Far Right’s recent ascent? This deceptively simple question animates historian Quinn Slobodian’s latest book, completing a trilogy in his intellectual history of neoliberalism. The first book, Globalists, examined how global neoliberal institutions were designed to… Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Kitana Ananda 875b0a54-dda4-4ec4-b7df-72069925282e https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/10/dhss-immigrant-tracking-tech-lays-ground-authoritarian-surveillance 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. Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Anita Say Chan eaf65178-7246-4cbe-b830-4cd827ede213 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/10/afrikaner-refugees-and-white-nationalist-myth-wont-die The Trump administration has adopted draconian immigration policies limiting new arrivals and increasing deportations across the board in the U.S., with one notable exception: White Afrikaner refugees claiming to be victims of a “White genocide.” Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Sophie Bjork-James d4ef221c-929e-400a-9ebf-fbf44d2495ee https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/06/florida-tip-spear The proliferation of 287(g) agreements under Trump has expanded the deportation machine exponentially. There’s no better case study for what this future of anti-immigrant crusading looks like than the state of immigration & deportation in Ron DeSantis’ Florida. Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Jessica Pishko 34eaa5e5-4750-4bab-b6f6-6751fe8a7f8a https://religiondispatches.org/2025/09/30/charlie-kirk-memorial-seoul On September 13, 2025, echoes of “We are Charlie Kirk” could be heard across Seoul. From Jamsil to Gangnam, thousands of young Koreans commemorated American political activist Charlie Kirk’s death by dressing in black, raising US flags and photographs of… Tue, 30 Sep 2025 12:00:00 EDT Chanhee Heo 99580078-c280-4d6f-b1df-9cb33665f392 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/09/23/hindu-nationalism-explained WHAT IN THE WHAT?? This is the first installment in RD’s latest series, “What in the What??,” in which our experts offer insight into religious political movements currently shaping our world. Our inaugural expert, Dr. Audrey Truschke, is the author… Tue, 23 Sep 2025 03:59:54 EDT Audrey Truschke b716212e-d8a4-4baf-9be7-fe7173d795bc