https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to surveillance en 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/2025/07/02/deep-state-affair Faith Lazar details the history of the U.S. Right’s relationship to the FBI and the security state, from the early days of the Red Scare and pro-government conservatives to the anti-state militias that arose in the aftermath of Waco. Wed, 02 Jul 2025 12:38:54 EDT Faith Lazar 2f6a471a-1724-47a4-ae5f-33a330500f90 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/09/04/old-problems-new-tricks Artificial Intelligence is exacerbating a problem that marginalized communities have been warning us about since the dawn of social media: far-right disinformation. Wed, 04 Sep 2024 10:17:30 EDT Bunny McKensie Mack bc946a48-de95-4c1a-93ad-38cd068f1b47 https://politicalresearch.org/2024/02/14/innocent-until-proven-muslim Dr. Maha Hilal discusses the pervasive and ongoing effects of the War on Terror, and the dehumanization of Muslims across the globe. Wed, 14 Feb 2024 10:53:02 EST Habiba Farh 12ab9ec4-5aea-4fae-8356-3ae66981f69f https://politicalresearch.org/2021/09/15/big-tech-anti-muslim-racism-surveillance-and-violence-20-years-911 Since 9/11, anti-Muslim racism and state violence enacted on Muslims has been a core component of the U.S. security state and altered the very nature of surveillance and policing at home and abroad. And through it all, Big Tech has profited. Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:11:24 EDT Political Research Associates db34f10e-866e-455b-93aa-0cfb9f752731 https://politicalresearch.org/2021/09/09/21st-century-white-nationalism The anti-immigrant movement mobilized before 9/11 but used the fuel of the anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric post 9/11 to become the movement they are today. Thu, 09 Sep 2021 08:40:34 EDT Ethan Fauré 99cbac63-efb8-4eef-80ca-c0e0b42094b4 https://politicalresearch.org/2021/02/27/its-not-over-yet In the wake of four years of far-right populist governance culminating in a violent insurrection, PRA is holding steady in the knowledge that it’s not over yet. Join PRA for a five-part webinar series as we evaluate the state of the Right. Sat, 27 Feb 2021 12:06:28 EST Political Research Associates fb199bc5-1102-4b83-a24e-a04132a1a992 https://politicalresearch.org/2020/08/27/multi-racial-democracy-or-authoritarianism Right now, we are living in a global period of democratic decline and the rise of authoritarianism. From Moscow to Manila, from Brasilia to Budapest, from Warsaw to Washington, D.C., authoritarian leaders, parties, and movements are on the rise. Fueled… Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:00:00 EDT Political Research Associates 321e0b25-3f2c-4c5d-89f9-15d10a0d40db https://politicalresearch.org/2016/06/07/tracking-blackness-qa-dark-matters-author-simone-browne Simone Browne, an associate professor of African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, describes her new book, Dark Matters: On The Surveillance of Blackness, as a conversation between Black Studies and Surveillance Studies—the latter a young discipline devoted to investigating the technological and social dimensions of surveillance. Tue, 07 Jun 2016 12:16:53 EDT Lindsay Beyerstein 4f8a1958-dad5-4001-89d5-75ae584215f8 https://politicalresearch.org/2012/04/01/when-secure-communities-meet-border-security The new Fusion Center in Michigan coordinated the national security intelligence efforts for law enforcement departments, threatening marginalized communities. Sun, 01 Apr 2012 02:30:22 EDT Eartha Melzer cf51161f-b70f-45a4-9acf-b796d5943374 https://politicalresearch.org/2006/10/01/cruising-military-drive Homeland Security and its rhetoric of national security target Latinos, wedging their racial and political identities into “good” and “bad” to create a larger fight against the “global war on terror.” Sun, 01 Oct 2006 02:30:50 EDT Roberto Lovato 0601c649-a64c-4ade-ba6a-357457dc4414 https://politicalresearch.org/2003/04/01/homeland-security Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the so-called war on terror has provided the U.S. government with a rationale for dramatically increasing state repression. Tue, 01 Apr 2003 01:30:27 EST Matthew N. Lyons 892b75ef-15d0-4152-95ad-8cfe8fd40cd3