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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.

Religion Dispatches
News outlets like Iowa Starting Line and The Salt Lake Tribune have recently reported on a group called The Heartland Research Group (HRG) which has taken to the cornfields of Montrose, Iowa in search…
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Political Research Associates
A Review of Spencer Ackerman’s Reign of Terror
Gardiner reviews Spencer Ackerman’s Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump, looking at what Ackerman got right, and where he could have gone further in his analysis.
Book Review
Religion Dispatches
“Zionists just want to be happy.” - Hermann Cohen I do not think it’s provocative to state that liberal Zionism is in crisis . By that I mean that the present iteration of liberal Zionism as a…
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Public Eye
How Taylor Caldwell Set the Mood for the Far Right
Taylor Caldwell’s novels, published in the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, breathed life into anti-Communist conspiracy theories and motivated right-wing women to take political action with lasting impact today.
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Religion Dispatches
“Man, as many people as we have in this school here, we ought to take over Woodland Park.” Thus spake theocratic leader Andrew Wommack at a political mobilization conference in April at the Charis…
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Religion Dispatches
Like clockwork, my social media accounts are slowly being populated with posts about the true origins of Thanksgiving or the need to declare the fourth Thursday in November a day of mourning in…
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Religion Dispatches
“January 6 helped argue the case for fascist tendencies in Christian Nationalism,” Annika Brockschmidt tells me. As someone who spends his time on the front lines battling Christian Nationalism and…
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Religion Dispatches
Last Tuesday, author and witch J. Allen Cross tweeted out some advice for white people who want more BIPOC speaking and teaching at their “magical witchy” conferences. One of his pieces of advice was…
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Political Research Associates
Author Q&A with Andreas Malm
A Q&A with Author Andreas Malm on his book Black Skin, White Fuel and the close, historical and contemporary ties between the Far Right, White supremacy, and the fossil fuel industry.
Q&A
Religion Dispatches
God’s Not Dead: We The People is the fourth installment of Pure Flix’s movie series centering on evangelical persecution porn. The movie concerns a group of evangelical homeschooling parents…
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