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Racism & Anti-Immigrant

Racial inequality remains deeply embedded within U.S. social and economic structures and although the U.S. has long been considered “a nation of immigrants,” the question of who those immigrants are and where they come from, has provided fertile ground for exclusionary and bigoted policies for over 200 years. The projection that the U.S. will no longer be a majority White country sometime in the mid-21st century has reinvigorated White supremacist anxieties present in the U.S. since its founding. A well-funded and organized constellation of organizations with direct ties to racist eugenics and White nationalism are now at the forefront of efforts to slow this demographic trend.

Public Eye
Q&A with On the Side of ICE author Peter Mancina
PRA speaks with author Peter Mancina about his new book, police cooperation with ICE, and the misconceptions about sanctuary city policies and enforcement.
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Public Eye
The Case of the Prairieland Defendants
The case of the Prairieland 19 is the first to test Trump’s Executive Order designating antifa as a terrorist organization, playing out a show of top-down political repression in real time.
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Religion Dispatches
An interview with Emmaia Gelman, author of "The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State."
Writer-activist-teacher Emmaia Gelman ’s fascinating history of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a more than 100-year-old organization founded by German Jewish immigrants to the United States…
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Religion Dispatches
Since Kirk's death elements of the Right have targeted TPUSA leading many to wonder what comes next.
Between one speaker’s defense of burning witches and another (visibly pregnant) speaker’s declaration that hell should be afraid because she’s “bringing forth a threat to his kingdom,” this past…
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Religion Dispatches
It may feel like a technical doctrine of little relevance, but a disturbing thought exercise reveals what, exactly, we would lose.
The question is no longer purely hypothetical. The Supreme Court heard arguments this spring in Trump v. Barbara on whether the executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of…
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Religion Dispatches
Can we build a better world through superheroes who pummel the bad guys... in the name of multi-racial democracy?
Please note: The following includes spoilers for the series finale of The Boys . “Jesus… as we all know was tortured, stripped of his dignity, and killed. And that’s all well and good,” says…
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Religion Dispatches
We can make something new, but only by facing what has come before.
Another mass shooting. This is America . More dead Muslims. This is America. These are stories I have written about for a quarter of a century. The only reason it hasn’t been longer is because I’m…
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Religion Dispatches
Last Thursday, the federal government’s “Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias” released a massive 500-page report , which allegedly “details the Biden Administration’s radical efforts to punish…
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Religion Dispatches
The absence of some old friends suggests growing MAGA divide.
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…
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Public Eye
Lessons from Minneapolis on Resisting Authoritarianism
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.
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