https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to White Nationalism en https://religiondispatches.org/2026/06/10/dark-horse-candidate-succeed-charlie-kirk-and-turning-point-usa Between one speaker’s defense of burning witches and another (visibly pregnant) speaker’s declaration that hell should be afraid because she’s “bringing forth a threat to his kingdom,” this past weekend’s Turning Point USA women’s summit produced some wild headlines. But… Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:35:22 EDT Keri Ladner 87349d3a-2d7f-4f23-9504-b78a5b64bee4 https://religiondispatches.org/2026/06/08/fake-faiths-our-founders Every Pete Hegseth story somehow becomes a story about Christian nationalism, but few are as on the nose as last week’s. The Pentagon announced the culling of the US military’s list of recognized religions from 211 to 31. Military.com broke… Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:13:05 EDT Thomas Lecaque 96270719-558c-46a6-834a-096c78c2d098 https://religiondispatches.org/2026/05/26/end-times-national-mall Unlike the coverage of so many of its transgressions, reporting on the Trump administration’s “ America-themed prayer rally ,” known officially as Rededicate 250, was largely accurate. Event organizers clearly sought to project an image of broad Christian unity in… Tue, 26 May 2026 11:14:07 EDT Karen E. Park, Emma Cieslik 0d5eae3e-f343-43de-b34d-a53d4d3120f0 https://religiondispatches.org/2026/05/25/maga-and-christian-nationalism-satire-boys-leaves-us-superhero-dilemma Please note: The following includes spoilers for the series finale of The Boys . “Jesus… as we all know was tortured, stripped of his dignity, and killed. And that’s all well and good,” says Homelander, the psychopathic all-powerful superhero in… Mon, 25 May 2026 07:46:32 EDT Noah Berlatsky cf529f9d-bcf2-44d5-b0aa-253049c93394 https://religiondispatches.org/2026/05/20/another-mass-shooting-more-dead-muslims-america Another mass shooting. This is America . More dead Muslims. This is America. These are stories I have written about for a quarter of a century. The only reason it hasn’t been longer is because I’m relatively young. I’m only… Wed, 20 May 2026 02:54:13 EDT Hussein Rashid d4148e72-b2f0-4801-87be-14568a5e5b19 https://religiondispatches.org/2026/04/15/monumental-failures Last month, Trump continued his crusade to celebrate America’s historical white supremacy by adorning the grounds of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building with a statue of Christopher Columbus that protestors toppled, dismantled and dumped into Baltimore’s inner harbor in 2020… Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:07:12 EDT Seth Gaiters 819e5e61-526f-4085-8e50-4ae088dc0620 https://religiondispatches.org/2026/04/09/joe-kent-who-resigned-over-iran-war-not-your-ally After resigning as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joe Kent’s resignation letter made the rounds in an unlikely way. His condemnation of the war on Iran was shared and welcomed across the political spectrum, including some on the Left… Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:32:40 EDT Kate Bitz, Elianna Boskoff, Ben Lorber 80f3226c-ce23-4a45-ab84-ea435e75d192 https://politicalresearch.org/2026/04/06/white-nationalism-comes-town Eleanor Bader speaks with Michael Edison Hayden, author of Strange People on the Hill, about rising White nationalism, community resistance, and the mental toll of researching the Far Right. 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 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 the… 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, Koki Mendis 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