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  • Profile on the Right: Turning Point USA (TPUSA)

    Charlie Kirk (founder of TPUSA) speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland.

    Established in 2012, Turning Point USA (TPUSA)’s mission is to “identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government.” Claiming to have a presence on over 1,000 college campuses…

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  • Profile on the Right: CitizenGO

    CitizenGO describes itself as a “community of active citizens who work together, using online petitions and action alerts as a resource, to defend and promote life, family, and liberty.” The right-…

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  • The Right’s “Gender Ideology” Menace Rolls to Africa

    An orange HazteOir/CitizenGO bus in Spain

    CitizenGO Africa recently announced that Nairobi, Kenya would be the first city on the continent to host the so-called #FreeSpeechBus. The bus, infamous for its explicitly anti-transgender messages, will likely roll through Nairobi in conjunction…

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  • Old Dog, New Anti-Union Tricks

    Pioneer Institute Lawyers-Up with Janus
    James Stergios, Executive Director of the Pioneer Institute. Photo: Rappaport Center via Wikimedia Commons.

    Since PRA’s 2016 report on Massachusetts’ most notable conservative think tank, the Pioneer Institute has taken on public sector unions not just in Massachusetts but across the entire country. Recent legal challenges to public sector unions have…

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  • Standoffs and the Far Right

    What Changed After Oklahoma City?
    Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building after bombing, 1995.

    Twenty-three years ago, on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a powerful homemade truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The death toll reached 168, and about 850 were injured.

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  • White Revolution and the Legacy of the Vietnam War

    Drawing on government documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests and multiple archives of White Power publications, Kathleen Belew has written a comprehensive history of White Power vigilantism, paramilitary training, and…

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  • Christian Nationalism and Donald Trump

    Donald Trump speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Gage Skidmore)

    The depth and breadth of White evangelical support for Donald Trump before and since his election has perplexed most observers. But a team of sociologists, freshly-analyzed data in hand, may have the answer that has eluded journalists, scholars, and…

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  • Jake Laskey and the American Front

    In the small Oregon town of Cottage Grove, just south of Eugene, a sign on an empty storefront that used to house a local museum announces a new business: Wolfclan Armory. While most towns would welcome the new blood, instead protests have already…

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  • The Future of the U.S. “Populist Radical Right” and White Nationalism

    Looking at Cas Mudde’s The Far Right in America

    Donald Trump did not invent nativism or right-wing populism, but he did provide those ideologies a more prominent platform than it has enjoyed in many decades. And, as scholar Cas Mudde warns, its claws in American society will ensure that it…

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  • Mothers of White Supremacy

    Q&A with Elizabeth Gillespie McRae

    Although historically, White women have supported the political, cultural, and social systems of White supremacy, there’s still a surprising level of confusion and shock when White women today do the same. Media narratives continue to assume,…

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  • Social Justice Feminism and How We Defeat the Right

    The ascent of Donald Trump to the presidency has dramatically worsened an already grave set of challenges confronting justice-minded people, and has presented the women’s movement in the United States with an historic opportunity to create a…

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  • Where the White House Gets its Racist Immigration Policies

    Protest in support of DACA, September 1, 2017. Photo: Joe Flood / Flickr.

    It should come as no surprise that President Trump disparages scores of countries while lamenting the lack of European immigrants coming to the U.S., as he reportedly did during a meeting with lawmakers in January 2018. In addition to his racially…

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  • Profile on the Right: ACT for America

    ACT for America describes itself as “the NRA of national security” and a non-partisan, national security organization dedicated to fighting terrorism. However, in practice it is the largest anti-Muslim organization in the United States, claiming to…

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  • Religious Freedom is the Cornerstone of Our Democracy

    Religious freedom is a central issue of our time. It has figured prominently in recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. It was a major theme of the presidential election of 2016. And it has been a major theme of the Christian Right in both…

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  • The Art of Activism: Karl Orozco

    Cover art for PE Winter 2018, showing the words "Protest makes America great," and several important moments of protest of American history.

    As a Filipino-American printmaker, illustrator, comic artist, and educator, Karl Orozco’s work often grapples with the legacy of colonialism, seeking to “challenge assumed notions of race, family, migration and power.”

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  • White Nationalist Groups Turn Up at 2018 Women’s Marches

    Vanguard America banner removed from State House lawn by Women’s March 2.0 participants in Providence, RI

    In the year of the #MeToo movement, Women’s Marches took place in every state on January 20 and 21, drawing crowds of a little over a thousand to half a million. But, from Knoxville, Tennesee to Seattle, Washington, Far Right and White nationalist…

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  • Olympics Row Reveals White Supremacist Pagan Foothold

    This week The New York Times reported that the uniforms of this year’s Norwegian Olympic Alpine ski team have caused a stir among those concerned about neonazi co-optation of Viking symbols. The Viking-themed uniforms include the runic Tyr symbol,…

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  • White Supremacy’s Old Gods

    The Far Right and Neopaganism
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    In 2014, a White supremacist leader, Frazier Glenn Cross, Jr. (also known as F. Glenn Miller), killed three people outside Jewish organizations in Overland Park, Kansas. Although all three were actually Christian, Cross’s intended target was clear,…

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  • Race, Class, and the Contradiction of Contemporary Abortion Politics

    As we mark the 45th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, two facts about the current abortion patient population in the U.S. are especially striking. First, that patients are disproportionately poor, with half living below the official poverty line and…

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  • Tony Perkins Pops Off

    Tony Perkins speaking at the Values Voter Summit in Washington D.C. on October 7, 2011. Photo: Gage Skidmore via Flickr.

    Paul Rosenberg recently published an essay at Salon that challenged the myth that the United States was founded as a Christian Nation. The occasion was the then-forthcoming annual celebration of Religious Freedom Day, which commemorates the…

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