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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
Nick Fuentes, the Groyper Army, and the Mainstreaming of White Nationalism
Reinventing the White nationalist project from the ashes of the Alt Right, Nick Fuentes has propelled the far-right Groyper movement to the center of post-Trump conservatism.
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Public Eye
Author Q&A with Tal Lavin
A Q&A with author of Culture Warlords, Tal Lavin, who takes readers with him into the corners of online ecosystems inhabited by antisemites, movement misogynists, White nationalists and more.
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Political Research Associates
Why the Far Right Flourishes in German Police and Military
There are significant connections between racism and policing to the revolving door between law enforcement, military and the Far Right in Germany.
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Religion Dispatches
A month ago, I argued here on RD that America’s national conversation about Christianity is “fundamentally unserious.” Not because, as conservative Christian commentator Bonnie Kristian would have it…
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Religion Dispatches
In the next few weeks, Virginia’s General Assembly will be asked to consider a bill to end the death penalty. A decade ago, this pursuit would have been seen as impossible given Virginia’s status as…
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Religion Dispatches
“Be there, will be wild!” Trump tweeted at his supporters on December 19, thousands of whom showed up in Washington, DC, several weeks later at their leader’s urging. They climbed walls, waved Trump…
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Religion Dispatches
By now we’ve all seen the pictures, saturating our social media landscapes with their grotesque glee. The becostumed horde, thronging through the windows, up the stairways, politely abiding by the…
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Religion Dispatches
Within hours of the storming of the Capitol on January 6, the Republican House Rep and Trump ally Matt Gaetz gave a speech in the House chamber. This is the same chamber that had been under siege by a…
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Religion Dispatches
LOS ANGELES, CA—To the average passerby, Azusa Street is little more than a brick-lined pedestrian alley in downtown Los Angeles, across the street from a bank and a cell phone store and a block away…
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Religion Dispatches
Especially for people deemed “too political” (a label I’ve worn proudly for decades), this has been one Hell of a year. It’s the pandemic effect, obviously, but it’s more than that. While 2020 may be…
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