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Racism & Anti-Immigrant

Racial inequality remains deeply embedded within U.S. social and economic structures, even as its forms and justifications are in flux. Additionally, 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, along with the government’s massive post-911 campaign of racial profiling, 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. Its current manifestations—workplace abuses, the separation of families, and the further expansion of mass incarceration, among other things—have wide-reaching and adverse effects.

Public Eye
The Real Consequences of the Far Right’s Self-Help Grift
An in-depth report on “Operation Werewolf,” an entrepreneurial lifestyle brand created by the co-founder of the far-right pagan group Wolves of Vinland, which uses a self-help model to radicalize men into White supremacist politics.
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Political Research Associates
A new paramilitary network and intelligence hub that bills itself as an alternative to far-right militias, American Contingency is training Americans to take up arms to defend themselves against violent insurgencies on the eve of the election.
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Public Eye
Recent developments in activity and rhetoric raise the possibility that some anti-government factions could morph into pro-Trump paramilitaries; a phenomenon we may see during this interregnum period.
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Religion Dispatches
This weekend, Oct. 23-25th, marks the end of the 2020 CrossFit Games season, with ten finalists traveling to Aromas, California to test their fitness in a multi-day competition. This has undoubtedly…
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Religion Dispatches
It seems that when Donald Trump and his Republican enablers are able to seat a sixth right wing justice on the Supreme Court, our Lord Jesus will be doing backflips in heaven in pure ecstasy over this…
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Political Research Associates
A detailed guide and history of far-right militias and White supremacy groups in Nevada and toolkit for both citizens and public officials released on the eve of early voting for the 2020 election.
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Public Eye
Anti-Immigrant Conspiracists Traffic Fear in Southern Arizona
An analysis and case study of the conspiracist claims animating vigilante anti-immigrant activists on the U.S. southern border
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Public Eye
How a Massachusetts Sheriff Became the Far Right’s Perfect Ally
A close look at the rise of Massachusetts’s longest serving and most notorious sheriff who has become a close ally of the Trump administration.
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Religion Dispatches
Have white evangelicals been unfairly demonized by scholars and pundits alike in the run-up to November’s election? True, white evangelicals have distinguished themselves by throwing their support…
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Religion Dispatches
America recently witnessed another display of the power of white supremacy in the failure to indict the murderers of Breonna Taylor. This summer of racial reckoning now trails into an election with…
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