https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to White Nationalism en https://politicalresearch.org/2026/04/06/white-nationalism-comes-town When investigative journalist Michael Edison Hayden learned that the influential White nationalist group VDARE had purchased a 19th-century sandstone castle in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia in 2020, he headed to the 700-person town from his home in New York state… Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:00:00 EDT Eleanor J. Bader c0063879-8385-4726-917d-48f3817936cb https://religiondispatches.org/2026/03/06/trumps-war-iran-isnt-about-armageddon-its-first-meme-war On Monday, two days after the U.S. and Israel carried out a series of attacks on Iran—dubbed “Operation Epic Fury” by the U.S. and “Operation Roaring Lion” by Israel—reports began circulating of commanders telling U.S. troops that the war is… Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:18:06 EST Lauren Horn Griffin 38467a10-686c-4be6-b148-733e83cfccd6 https://religiondispatches.org/2026/03/02/nick-fuentes-apologized-assaulting-woman It took over a year and 13 extensions before Nick Fuentes—virulent misogynist, Holocaust denier, White nationalist, Trump supporter, and groyper movement-founder—was required to face the neighbor he attacked and say he was sorry. And even then, he didn’t have to… Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:06:05 EST Annie Wilkinson d7b861af-4596-4538-b4be-5d23f5c51a8e https://religiondispatches.org/2026/02/18/blaming-paganism-trumps-violence-fails-reckon-christian-history In a recent New York Times op-ed called “Donald Trump, Pagan King,” journalist and filmmaker Leighton Woodhouse highlights the apparent contradiction between the Trump administration’s violent “might makes right” mentality and Christian ethics that prioritize protecting the weak and oppressed… Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:55:21 EST Chance Bonar efb5659a-7f40-4077-84f7-94b2ed0a014f https://politicalresearch.org/2026/02/03/all-eyes-minneapolis-lessons-resisting-authoritarianism In this bonus episode, PRA researchers discuss the deadly ICE crackdown in Minneapolis and the powerful resistance we’ve seen on the streets. ICE continues to kidnap thousands with impunity, and the brutal murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti show… Tue, 03 Feb 2026 09:27:25 EST Political Research Associates, Ben Lorber, Ethan Fauré, Steven Gardiner, Annie Wilkinson 0c093f81-a37f-478e-a4eb-a81e988ad657 https://politicalresearch.org/2026/01/15/beyond-ballot-rise-competitive-authoritarianism-steven-gardiner In this season finale episode, Koki talks to Steven Gardiner, PRA Principal Research Advisor, to reflect on the first year of Trump’s second term and its implications for U.S. democracy. While the MAGA base remains about 15% of the U.S… Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:00:00 EST Political Research Associates, Steven Gardiner 91f76dc8-9dd9-4e42-afb2-fa9022b14f3d https://religiondispatches.org/2026/01/09/ugly-religious-history-behind-venezuela-coup Last week, in an attempt to justify his military attack on the sovereign nation of Venezuela and the ensuing arrest of President Nicolás Maduro, Trump stated , “The Monroe Doctrine is a big deal, but we’ve superseded it by a… Fri, 09 Jan 2026 01:13:11 EST Brock Bahler a11e2788-f311-4266-a22c-4b477868daf9 https://religiondispatches.org/2026/01/09/musk-endorsed-white-nationalism On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that: If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while White men hold a collective majority, then they… Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:46:06 EST Ben Lorber 31d7b309-2b2c-4853-b367-6c44b08ffa36 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/12/17/us-militarys-jerusalem-cross-fetish It’s never a good sign when the Jerusalem Cross hits the news in the United States. Which is unfortunate, since the symbol, which features prominently on the flag of Georgia (the country, not the state), has been used to signify… Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:00:00 EST Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque 7988ce0d-e3ef-4012-926a-597ffec7de0c https://religiondispatches.org/2025/12/11/making-white-femininity-americas-moral-center Recent headlines about the denim ad wars —Levi’s tapping Beyoncé, American Eagle turning to Sydney Sweeney, Gap retreating after backlash—have offered a telling glimpse of how American brands still traffic in gendered norms that signal national belonging. The controversy over… Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:00:00 EST Mihee Kim-Kort 088d02ec-4d38-4cdc-8039-e0c81d70724e https://religiondispatches.org/2025/12/05/infected Contrary to the beliefs of some in the anti-vaxx world, infectious diseases spread through bacteria and viruses, microscopic organisms that invade our bodies and make us sick. They seem natural, governed by biological properties. But who gets sick, when… Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:00:00 EST Susannah Crockford 756d5fa1-85a0-4e36-8bea-41749a4f5e45 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/11/21/antisemitism-nationalists-second-nature On November 20, Israeli nationalist Yoram Hazony sat down for an interview with conservative New York Times columnist Ross Douthat to offer an explanation for the rise of antisemitism on the MAGA Right. After Tucker Carlson’s controversial interview with neo-Nazi… Fri, 21 Nov 2025 12:00:00 EST Ben Lorber f909552e-e9a6-4d44-9fb1-2e4d9f2cfe6a https://religiondispatches.org/2025/11/18/purity-culture-and-jeffrey-epstein Editor’s note: This post mentions child sexual assault and underage marriage. Please be advised. International media outlets and even an actual teenager slammed attorney and media personality Megyn Kelly for claiming (31:40) that the late Jeffrey Epstein was not an… Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:00:00 EST Becky Garrison 2029b7f7-5748-47f9-9222-58033083f529 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/11/12/new-era-israel Two events happened in the past two weeks which seem, on the surface, to have little to do with one another. Yet they may come to be seen as a similar turning point in American Jewish life. First, Zohran Mamdani… Wed, 12 Nov 2025 12:00:00 EST Joel Swanson 665d9b6b-f9ea-4906-8790-8b56434faa35 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/11/10/heaven-his-mind America’s 47th president and aspirational dictator seems particularly concerned lately with where he’s headed when he dies. Trump mused about his chances at eternal salvation with the cast of “Fox and Friends” this August. He explained that he wants to… Mon, 10 Nov 2025 12:00:00 EST Brook Wilensky-Lanford 2599005f-261e-41a4-a0e4-e89b9e473ca9 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/11/06/bad-muslim-good-mayor The name is Mamdani, M-A-M-D-A-N-I. You should learn how to say it. Because he won . On November 4, 2025, New York City elected Zohran Kwame Mamdani as its first Muslim mayor. Throughout his campaign—from polling at 1% of the… Thu, 06 Nov 2025 12:00:00 EST Ambereen Dadabhoy b93533ab-1b14-4610-bcc1-6517449a1931 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/31/right-memes-while-millions-face-food-insecurity Last Friday, October 24, the Department of Agriculture announced that there would be no emergency plan to provide for the 42 million Americans who rely on food stamps and, due to the government shutdown, will no longer receive them as… Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Carmen Celestini a220fa85-0d6f-432b-ac4c-ee627705265f https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/28/swords-plowshares L os Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art and the Brick opened MONUMENTS last week, an exhibit that reflects on the removal and recontextualization of decommissioned monuments. Two of the installations—the exhibit’s centerpiece, Kara Walker’s “Unmanned Drone;” and a two-ton pile… Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Megan Goodwin d6bac4a5-a250-4157-ae77-e8a024a41215 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/27/neomedievalist-memes-are-doing-white-christofascist-work G iven that the white supremacist running the account churns out offensive content like the hatemonger he is, it might seem silly to focus on just one DHS Instagram post. But as a trained medievalist, the DHS’s October 22nd Instagram… Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Thomas Lecaque 320e83f4-0c2e-4b11-aa01-cf374cad1f7d https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/22/trump-dangerous-dictator After months of data collection and analysis, PRRI ( in partnership with E.J. Dionne Jr. and Bill Galston at the Brookings Institution) has just released its 16th annual American Values Survey . Amid all the bad news, the new survey… Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Robert P. Jones 2c80663f-f71c-482b-a50b-c0a6d22a8621 https://religiondispatches.org/2025/10/21/senate-candidate-graham-platner-claims-ignorance-nazi-tattoo Graham Platner, a candidate in the Democratic senate primary in Maine, has been making headlines for a couple of weeks over his old Reddit posts containing racist and sexist remarks (like blaming women for their sexual assault and downplaying sexual assault in the military). Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Annika Brockschmidt 0bf52068-467f-4d8f-9f5f-edf5358c79e4 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/14/how-far-right-capitalizes-neoliberal-ideas-and-race-science What is behind the contemporary Far Right’s recent ascent? This deceptively simple question animates historian Quinn Slobodian’s latest book, completing a trilogy in his intellectual history of neoliberalism. The first book, Globalists, examined how global neoliberal institutions were designed to… Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Kitana Ananda 875b0a54-dda4-4ec4-b7df-72069925282e https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/10/afrikaner-refugees-and-white-nationalist-myth-wont-die The Trump administration has adopted draconian immigration policies limiting new arrivals and increasing deportations across the board in the U.S., with one notable exception: White Afrikaner refugees claiming to be victims of a “White genocide.” Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Sophie Bjork-James d4ef221c-929e-400a-9ebf-fbf44d2495ee https://politicalresearch.org/2025/07/08/remigration-american-ethnic-cleansing Steven Gardiner explores how the Trump administration’s “Office of Remigration” is part of a larger White supremacist agenda. Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:07:50 EDT Steven Gardiner 3b5e9077-3652-4856-907b-f3314dea16c4 https://politicalresearch.org/2025/05/15/neoreactionary-movement-defining-authoritarian-rise-steven-gardiner Host Koki Mendis kicks off season 4 with a discussion with Steven Gardiner on the wide-ranging practices, policies, and ideologies underlying the antidemocratic goals of the Neoreactionary Right—and how to resist them. Thu, 15 May 2025 12:05:01 EDT Political Research Associates 7eafccb7-b362-454a-892b-227d58721d8c