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Defending Discrimination in Baltimore County

A Case Study in Right-Wing Organizing

In July, President Donald Trump attacked the city of Baltimore on Twitter, using barely-coded racist language (“rat and rodent infested,” “disgusting”) to express his dislike for the majority African American city that just happened to be home to…

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In Search of the Russian Soul

How Russia Became the U.S. Far Right’s Mirror

Long before White nationalists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting “Russia is our friend!,” the post-war fascist writer Francis Parker Yockey took to the pages of a U.S. neonazi, White nationalist organization’s newsletter to praise an…

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Christian Nationalists Try to Dodge the Baptists

A remarkable thing has happened since the Baptist Joint Committee launched an unprecedented campaign called …

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Culture and Belonging in the USA

Multiracial Organizing on the Contemporary Far Right

August 4, 2018, the day of the “Gibson for Senate Freedom March,” was a balmy day in Portland, Oregon. Patriot Prayer, a group loosely associated with the Alt Right, had organized the march, calling on like-minded people to “make history today” and…

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Review: Netflix’s The Family

The five-part, original Netflix documentary “The Family,” is about a secretive, international religious network that has profoundly influenced governments in the U.S. and around the world for many…

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Playing the Long Game

How the Christian Right Built Capacity to Undo Roe State By State

Executive Summary The progressive movement and advocates for reproductive rights, health, and justice have been caught off guard by a movement that has adapted to a changing political, social, and cultural landscape. The Christian Right has…

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“All You Have to Do Is Show Up”

How White Nationalists Are Infiltrating the GOP

In recent years, the most adept attempts at entryism have come from those trying to embed in the Republican Party a far-right ideology that calls for a rebirth of a nation’s mythic past in order to create a populist movement founded on…

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The National Sheriffs’ Association Alignment with Far-Right Groups Undermines Public Safety

Technological tools to increase law enforcement’s surveillance capacity will be showcased at this year’s annual National Sheriffs’ Association (NSA), Education and Technology Expo from June 14-18, heightening concerns regarding law enforcement’s…

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Epicenter: Chicago

Reclaiming a City from Neoliberalism

Introduction In many ways, all eyes are on Chicago. The city increasingly finds itself at the epicenter of multiple discourses of violence and safety – from hubristic Presidential tweets claiming federal intervention is necessary to address Chicago’…

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How a Right-Wing Network Mobilized Sheriffs’ Departments

Sheriffs are elected at the county level, and in most cases operate without any direct oversight. This presents an opportunity for White nationalists and other right-wing movements, particularly …

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The National Sheriffs’ Association Strengthens the Deportation Machine

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a new effort in May 2019 to expand the reach of its deportation machine. ICE’s new Warrant Service Officer (WSO) program allows local police officers to effectively become federal immigration…

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The Intersectional Right

A Roundtable on Gender and White Supremacy

In the early 1990s, when researcher and activist Loretta Ross was monitoring the White supremacist movement for the Center for Democratic Renewal, a national anti-Ku Klux Klan network, she realized that most fight-the-Right organizations were…

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Aberration or Reflection? How to Understand Changes on the Political Right

Trump’s election was less an aberration than a reflection of changes in the New Right coalition, which brought business elites, evangelicals, and neoconservatives together under the Republican umbrella in the late 1970s and has underpinned the party…

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The Art of Activism: Danbee Kim

Danbee (Deb) Kim is a Chicago-based artist who supports social justice movements and organizations through visual storytelling and design. Originally on the path to become a social worker, Kim now focuses full-time on centering art in movement…

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States Criminalize Abortion with Roe in Reach

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday evening signed a bill into law intended to ban nearly all abortions and criminalize physicians who provide abortion care, and hours later the Missouri state senate approved legislation that ban abortions after…

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In Search of New Frames

Q&A with the authors of Producers, Parasites, Patriots

A new book, Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity, offers a framework for interpreting and dismantling racist capitalist oppression without getting bogged down in this treacherous narrative of “makers and…

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New Mexico’s Constitutional Sheriffs Pave the Way for Militias Patrolling the Border

Although these state and federal officials tried to distance themselves from militia organizing, New Mexico’s constitutional sheriffs cumulatively have taken actions that signal that militias are welcome in the state.

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The Right’s Decades-Long Fight for A Census Citizenship Question

The contemporary anti-immigrant movement, which has established influence at various levels of the administration, has promoted and attempted to litigate changing the census to reveal citizenship status for nearly 40 years.

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Blitzing to Dominion

The Christian and business Right has been steadily building political, policy and legislative capacity in the states since the 1980s. Since 2016, a Christian Right state legislative campaign called Project Blitz has become part of this …

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White House Ties to Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Muslim Leaders

The influence of organized anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim movements is readily apparent in policy changes over the last two years.

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