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Digital Authoritarianism

Lessons from Duterte's Philippines for the United States

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How did President Duterte use social media to further his authoritarian agenda in the Philippines, what are the parallels to the US authoritarian regime, and what lessons can we learn.

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Pro-Family Politics

The Political Convergence of Conservative Catholics and Protestants in the 1980s American Right

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An excerpt from The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building that explores how The Family Policy Advisory Board moved forward Christian organizing for “traditional” families in the 80s.

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The Neoreactionary Movement Defining the Authoritarian Rise with Steven Gardiner

Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 1

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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.

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The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights

Author Q&A with Phillip M. Ayoub and Kristina Stoeckl

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A Q&A with authors Phillip M. Ayoub and Kristina Stoeckl on their book, The Global Fight Against LGBTI Rights, about the methods used by moral conservative transnational networks to strip LGBTQ people of their rights.

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Exposing and Resisting the Coordinated Attacks on Higher Education

Q&A with Isaac Kamola on Manufacturing Backlash

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Isaac Kamola discusses the findings from his report Manufacturing Backlash: Right-Wing Think Tanks and Legislative Attacks on Higher Education, and how anticolonial theory and organizing lessons can guide strategies to block far-right forces.

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A Televangelist in the White House

The Rise of Paula White and the Independent Charismatics

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In this excerpt from The Violent Take It by Force, Matthew D. Taylor examines the role of Paula White as a televangelist-turned-advisor for the Trump administration.

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Trolling for Trump

An excerpt from Coming Out Republican

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In this excerpt from Coming Out Republican, author Neil J. Young explores far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos’ role in the launching of Donald Trump’s political career.

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Why They're Winning And What We Can Do About It

An Issue of the Anti-Authoritarian Playbook Newsletter

Authoritarians in the U.S. and around the world are clearly gaining ground rapidly. Their success has caused many to speculate about why and how they are winning, hoping to duplicate or riff on those winning strategies and tactics. In this endeavor…

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Sporting Authoritarianism

Anti-Trans Feminists in the Anti-Gender Movement

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The Our Bodies, Our Sports coalition unites anti-trans feminist groups in a crusade against “gender ideology” in women’s sports, exemplifying the growing prevalence of anti-gender campaigns in the U.S.

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From Courts to Clinics

How the Anti-Gender Far Right is Reshaping Texas

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In Texas, state Attorney General Ken Paxton is testing the powers of the AG to enact wide-ranging right-wing policies, including anti-trans and anti-abortion legislation, that extends beyond state lines.

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Gender and Authoritarianism

A Framework for Analysis and Action

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Annie Wilkinson provides a framework understanding the rise of anti-gender movements across the globe as part of a wave of autocratization.

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Feminists Against Women

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In a world of competing feminisms, from anti-trans feminists to liberal feminists, Sophie Lewis makes the case for taking feminism seriously in all its forms in order to make real progress toward a multiracial, feminist democracy.

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Trad Values Meets Tech

The U.S. Right’s Pronatalist Coalition

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Pronatalism has produced a tenuous coalition of traditional conservatives, abortion opponents, and White nationalists working together with tech moguls, futurists, libertarians, and libertines, united in a common cause of promoting more births.

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Canaries in the Classroom

Public Education and Authoritarian Politics in West Virginia and Kentucky

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In Kentucky and West Virginia, attacks on public education by the state and federal governments foreshadow the authoritarian future promised by Project 2025 and the Heritage Foundation on a national scale.

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White Nationalism, Authoritarianism, and the Ongoing Threat to Native Sovereignty

An Issue of the Anti-Authoritarian Playbook Newsletter

If you’re serious about fighting white nationalism and authoritarianism, you need to understand how they’re built on the foundations of settler colonialism. Native genocide, tribal termination, and constant attacks on treaty rights aren’t just…

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Authoritarianism, Criminalization, and Reproductive Injustice

A Roundtable Discussion

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In this roundtable discussion, seasoned practitioners who work on the front lines of healthcare, reproductive justice, and criminal law join to share insights drawn from their experiences of navigating repression.

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Three Way Fight

Author Q&A with Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons

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Ben Lorber interviews authors Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons about their book Three Way Fight, a collection of essays designed to serve as a guide to antifascism and revolution.

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Stacking the Courts against Mifepristone

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Conservative groups are reshaping judicial outcomes in their favor using forum shopping and dark money, as seen in the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine v. FDA case on access to the abortion pill mifepristone.

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Barstool Politics

Sports Media and Fratriarchy

Barstool Sports, a Boston sports publication turned national sports multimedia company, has become a decentralized platform for the dissemination of misogynistic and racist attitudes.

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Leading in Resistance: Three Decades of Fighting Authoritarian and Supremacist Forces, A Conversation with Tarso Luís Ramos

Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 10

PRA’s former Executive Director Tarso Luís Ramos about the ways that the terrain of contestation between Left and Right has shifted over three decades, and where he looks to for inspiration in an era of growing authoritarianism.

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