white supremacy

Afrikaner Refugees and the White Nationalist Myth that Won't Die

Sophie Bjork-James — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT

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.”

Sydney Sweeney's American Eagle Ad: Tangled Up in Blue Jeans and White Supremacy

Mary Rambaran-Olm — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:09:04 EDT

In today’s brave new world of fascism rebranded, white nationalism is trading in brown shirts for boot-cut jeans—and the new master race apparently shops at American Eagle. Because nothing says “the future is white” quite like a mall brand that…

Israel Beats American Labor Organizer Chris Smalls (and Only Chris Smalls) in Latest Attempt to Keep Starving Gaza

Mary Rambaran-Olm — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 03:46:19 EDT

Christian Smalls, a Black labor organizer who took on Amazon and won, just risked his life trying to bring aid to Gaza. He was not met with headlines but with fists. https://youtu.be/cS9ppIkPJJI Smalls joined the Freedom Flotilla on the Handala…

Hell? YEAH, BROTHER — Hulk Hogan Dies as He Lived: an Anti-Democratic White Supremacist

Mary Rambaran-Olm — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 01:36:26 EDT

Wrestling icon and longtime racial liability Hulk (Terry Gene Bollea) Hogan has died at the age of 71. Sources close to the situation say he passed from a heart attack amidst being a legendary racist, a union-busting snitch, and a…

Fool of a Took: Palantir’s Fascism on Campus

Annika Brockschmidt, Thomas Lecaque — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 04:50:53 EDT

This week it was revealed that White House deputy chief of staff and avid White nationalist Stephen Miller , the man behind the brutal escalation of ICE raids all over the country, owns between $100,001 and $250,000 worth of stock…

Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South

Kitana Ananda — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:54:55 EST

A discussion with Ash-Lee Woodard Henderson and the authors of Fire Dreams: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South about Black feminist liberatory praxis and resistance strategies to White supremacy.

How the Right “Sets the Mood”

Annie Wilkinson, Mary Reynolds — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 10:47:27 EDT

Annie Wilkinson and Mary Reynolds interview Carol Mason, three years after publishing her article “Sentimentalizing Resentment.”

Nikki Haley's Slavery Omission Typifies the GOP's Tragic Pact with White Supremacy

Annika Brockschmidt — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:08:59 EST

Nikki Haley’s headline-generating incident at a town hall in New Hampshire is the perfect metaphor for the current Republican Party and its continued slide into open authoritarianism and White supremacy. At a recent town hall in New Hampshire , the…

'The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy' Explains How We Got Here — And What Comes Next

Shane Burley — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 04:00:48 EST

“As far as I’m concerned, I’m done with this,” investigative reporter David Neiwert told us, followed by a tremendous sigh, as if setting down an enormous weight that someone else would be obliged to pick up. “Next, I’m writing a…

A Roundup of Conspiracies and Bad Ideas That Caught on or Gained Momentum in 2023

Carmen Celestini, Amarnath Amarasingam — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 02:42:39 EST

In 2023, the landscape of conspiracy theories witnessed a significant evolution, with some older conspiratorial ideas surviving into the new year and others moving from the fringe to become influential narratives shaping public discourse and political agendas. QAnon , the…

'Pure White' Examines the White Supremacist Origins of Evangelical Purity Culture

Emma Cieslik — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 05:05:25 EST

Over the past few years purity culture has become a hot topic in the secular press. The harm it inflicts on White women has been explored by a number of scholars and survivors in books (both popular and scholarly), on…

The Death of a Black Man at the Hands of Black Officers Unveiled Something More Complex Than Whiteness

Willie Dwayne Francois — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 01:18:28 EST

Americans of conscience are exhausted by law-and-order grief—a chronic remorse and lamentation emanating from police violence visited upon unprotected peoples. The storied American tradition of anti-Black policing crudely lengthens the legacy of Black mothers’ tears as yet another unarmed Black…

Nick Fuentes and His America First Movement

Political Research Associates — Fri, 25 Feb 2022 12:00:00 EST

Nick Fuentes has tried to edge his White nationalist movement more into the mainstream GOP without diluting the movement’s White nationalist core. Learn more about Fuentes and his America First movement in the video below.

The Missing Element in the Conversation on Christian Nationalism and Freedom: Whiteness

Peter Laarman — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 01:34:42 EST

A new report released Wednesday by a trio of groups, both Christian and secular, on the role played by white Christian nationalists in the January 6 storming of the Capitol will open some eyes, and that’s all to the good…

Biblical Inerrancy’s Long History as an Evangelical Activist for White Patriarchy

Stephen Young — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 05:46:10 EST

Last week saw another clash about women’s (in)equality play out online between leaders in evangelical Christian culture. In the clamor for the high-ground of evangelical legitimacy, something happened that outsiders may not fully appreciate the implications of: the participants contested…

The Gutting of 'Roe' isn't About Religion, it's a Product of White Terror

Sikivu Hutchinson — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 01:53:41 EDT

Abortion is the best f**king thing to happen to you. These words were uttered by the Black female protagonist of my play White Nights, Black Paradise , a Black feminist reimagining of Peoples Temple and the 1978 Jonestown massacre…

Guns, God and Government — The Coming of White Minority Rule?

A. E. Brooks-Key — Thu, 24 Jun 2021 02:10:28 EDT

In 2012 James Carville was ecstatic on CNN as incumbent President Barack Obama had just won re-election in convincing fashion over GOP challenger Mitt Romney. Carville who co-authored the 2008 book 40 More Years: How Democrats Will Rule the Next…

Largely Overshadowed by the Election, 'Red Pill, Blue Pill' Transcends Standard Explanations of Conspiracy Culture Which is 'Killing Us All'

Katherine Stewart — Mon, 17 May 2021 11:56:54 EDT

Mat Staver, cofounder of the right-wing legal activist group Liberty Counsel, seems to think that he knows a lot about vaccines. In his new show, he’s taken to pushing lurid theories about how the Covid vaccination drive is part of…

Christians Must Confront the Lies at the Heart of Whiteness

Rachel C. Schneider — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 04:44:06 EST

On Wednesday, January 6, a day now infamous for many Americans, I was pulled from my daily work tasks by a colleague’s text urging me to turn on the television and stop all work. We all know what happened that…

Q Shaman's New Age-Radical Right Blend Hints at the Blurring of Seemingly Disparate Categories

Susannah Crockford — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 03:53:41 EST

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 velvet red ropes, as they stormed the Capitol building in…

Can White Jews Still Be White if They're Reviled By White Supremacists?

SJ Crasnow — Tue, 08 Dec 2020 03:45:31 EST

Under Trump’s presidency there has been a rise in high profile anti-Jewish incidents. Perhaps because these incidents are often perpetrated by white supremacists who hold denigrating racialized views of Jews, writers have responded by asking whether white Jews in the…

Are Evangelicals Sweetness and Light or Enablers of Cruelty and Racism? Gender Roles Hint at an Answer

Kristin Kobes Du Mez — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 03:23:24 EDT

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 behind a president who appears to be the antithesis of the moral values…

Are Churches Making Americans More Racist?

Kristopher Norris — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 02:06:21 EDT

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 numerous implications for racial justice. And while all…

The Left Behind: Why Are White American Christians So Racist?

Daniel Schultz — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 11:15:48 EDT

Robert Jones, founder of the Public Religion Research Institute, has been doing the op-ed thing recently to publicize his new book: White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. Jones articulates a thesis that’s sure to make…

White Supremacy: Mobilization & Resistance

Political Research Associates — Thu, 30 Jul 2020 12:00:00 EDT

While Portland contends with unwanted federal troops and other cities like Chicago facing surges of their own, it reinforces that we are at an inflection point in the administration of White supremacy in the United States. White nationalist movements exercise…