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How 287(g) Expansion Fuels Mass Deportations

Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 8

In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads Koki reads “Florida Is the ‘Tip of the Spear:’ How 287(g) Expansion Fuels Mass Deportations” by Jessica Pishko, as part of our ongoing From the Archives series. From the Archives features those…

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The New Frontlines of Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 7

How is ICE mobilizing on our streets today? What role does local law enforcement play in Trump’s immigration crackdown? And what are local organizers doing about it?

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It’s Not Backlash, It’s Strategy

How We Got the Christian Right We Know Today

Chelsea Ebin, Matthew Taylor, and Julie Ingersoll discuss the intersection of today’s New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and the New Christian Right of 1970s and 1980s formed by conservative Catholics and Protestants.

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How the Far Right Capitalizes on Neoliberal Ideas and “Race Science”

Author Q&A with Quinn Slobodian on Hayek’s Bastards

PRA speaks with Quinn Slobodian on his latest book, Hayek’s Bastards, and how the modern Far Right emerged out of a “frontlash” to neoliberal capitalism.

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DHS’s Immigrant Tracking Tech Lays the Ground for 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.

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

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The Art of Activism: Robert Liu-Trujillo

Artist Robert Liu-Trujillo speaks with PRA about this issue’s cover image, graffiti and political art, and connected global resistance.

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Coalitions and Contradictions between Capitalist and Far Right Agendas with Hialy Gutierrez and Claudia Espinel

Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 6

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Florida Is the “Tip of the Spear”

How 287(g) Expansion Fuels Mass Deportations

The proliferation of 287(g) agreements under Trump has expanded the deportation machine exponentially. There’s no better case study for what this future of anti-immigrant crusading looks like than the state of immigration & deportation in…

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“It's Never Just About Gender”: Gender and Authoritarianism: PRA Analyzes Trump 2.0’s First 100 Days, Part 2

Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 5

In this second of a two-part series on analyzing Trump 2.0’s first 100 days in office, we share insights from PRA’s researchers about how MAGA weaponizes gender to entrench authoritarianism.

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“We Must Fight for Everyone” for Immigrant Justice

Author Q&A with Silky Shah on Unbuild Walls

PRA Senior Research Analyst Ethan Fauré speaks with Silky Shah, author of Unbuild Walls: Why Immigrant Justice Needs Abolition, to discuss how abolition is the key to a strategy for combating the Trump administration’s immigration agenda.

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Learning About Scripted Violence

Read, Learn, Act

Nakagawa explores coded rhetoric and scripted violence, concepts outlined by PRA’s Chip Berlet, and offers ways to counter them.

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Building Horizontal Alliances and Fighting Antisemitism as Progressives with Shanice McBean and Rachel Shabi

Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 6

In the final episode of Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism, Ben Lorber and Shoshana Brown talk to experts on how the fight against antisemitism is tied to the larger struggle for justice.

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Anti-Antisemitism and Antiracism with Leo Ferguson and Steven Gardiner

Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 5

This episode of Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism breaks down how antisemitism is tied to anti-immigrant movements and anti-Blackness, and how they work together to reinforce systems of oppression.

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Antisemitism in the Far-Right Ecosystem with Elad Nehorai and Stefanie Schüler-Springorum

Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 4

Experts Stafnie Schüler-Springorum and Elad Nehorai discuss the interconnected right-wing political ecosystem in the U.S and Europe, and how they use antisemitism to gain power.

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Weaponizing Antisemitism to Advance Authoritarianism with Lara Friedman and Yousef Munayyer

Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 3

This episode discusses ongoing efforts to suppress criticism of the Israeli government’s oppression of Palestinians under the guise of fighting antisemitism—efforts which are fueling authoritarianism and pushing shared safety further from …

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Conspiracy Theories, Antisemitism, and the Politics of Holocaust Memory with Valentina Pisanty and Jelena Subotić

Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 2

This episode asks, how do conspiracy theories come about? Why do they so often regurgitate false narratives about Jewish people, power & control? How are they used to discredit movements for justice? And what role do the politics of Holocaust…

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What is Antisemitism and its Weaponization? A Conversation for Movement Organizers with Shoshana Brown and Ben Lorber

Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism—Episode 1

This episode dives into discussing antisemitism—its history, how it looks today, how to understand it, & why the fight over defining it has become a means of targeting Palestinians and their allies while driving authoritarian policies &…

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“Do Not Let Grief Harden into Despair”: PRA Analyzes Trump 2.0’s First 100 Days, Part 1

Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 4

In this first of a two-part series on analyzing Trump 2.0’s first 100 days in office, we share insights from PRA’s researchers about how to move beyond the work on blocking rising authoritarianism, to the work of building power, vision, and …

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The Swinging of the Political Pendulum

An Issue of the Anti-Authoritarian Playbook Newsletter

Many people have tried to assure me that however difficult the political, economic, and social conditions in the U.S. may become under authoritarian rule, improvements are on the way - the political pendulum inevitably swings back. The thing is,…

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