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The Road to Flint

The Right’s 50-Year Anti-City Agenda

It’s not by chance that the U.S. is full of hollowed-out urban centers. Residents are disproportionately poor and people of color, surrounded by wealthier and Whiter suburbs. It traces back to the Great Migration, which brought great numbers of…

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Multi-Racial Democracy, or Authoritarianism?

Tarso Luís Ramos speaking at the Facing Race conference.

I’m a pastor’s kid and I was raised to believe in Martin Luther King Jr.’s inspiring assertion that the arc of history may be long, but it bends towards justice. And, I was raised in a family that had to flee our country when Brazilian democracy…

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Advancing Immigrant, Muslim, and Refugee Justice In A Period Of Ascendant White Nationalism

Executive Summary

This report seeks to document the effects of the rise of a White nationalist movement whose policy prescriptions and rhetoric on immigrant, refugee, and Muslim populations echo the White House’s, and to generate new thinking and strategizing to…

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Shooting in Tallahassee Illustrates Increasing Misogynist Violence

When the news broke on November 2, that a male shooter had killed two women at a yoga studio in Tallahassee, Florida, George Sodini immediately came to my mind.

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National Anti-Transgender Organizations Bolster “No on Question 3” Campaign to Overturn Public Accommodations Protections in Massachusetts

On November 6, Massachusetts voters will decide several ballot measures, including Question 3, which asks voters to overturn public accommodations protections in the Bay State based on gender identity.

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Support for Oregon’s Ballot Measure 105 Reveals Collaboration Between Right-Wing Sheriffs and Anti-Immigrant Networks

In August 2018, 16 of Oregon’s 36 sheriffs signed a letter in support of ballot measure 105, the referendum in the November 6 election to repeal Oregon’s 31-year-old sanctuary law.

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Proposed Federal Re-Definition of Sex Only Latest in Anti-Transgender Attacks from Right

Two protesters hold signs at a rally for trans rights

On October 21, The New York Times reported receiving information from the White House that details how the Trump Administration proposes to impose a multi-agency re-interpretation of “sex” under several civil rights laws to mean “[t]he sex listed on…

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Candidates Continue Promoting Key Themes of White Nationalism Following Synagogue Shooting

Trump is briefed by Michael Burnett about the mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh

Today, President Trump visited Pittsburgh, PA after a violently antisemitic attack at Tree of Life synagogue left 11 dead on Saturday. The shootings are the deadliest attack on Jews in the United States. Jewish leaders affiliated with Bend the Arc…

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The Violent Consequences of Antisemitic Bigotry

Anti-Semitic flier distributed by the Daily Stormer

On Monday, October 22, reporting that someone had placed a bomb in the mailbox of billionaire George Soros dominated news coverage.¹ Similar devices were subsequently discovered to …

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The Right Revisits their Misogynist Playbook

Women protesting the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court at the Hart Senate Office Building on Friday, September 7, 2018.

From Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill to Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the machine of right-wing politics has gone into high gear to defend prominent men from women’s accusations of sexual violence and harassment.

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The New Southern Strategy

How Christian Persecution Became White Supremacy’s Newest Disguise

Donald Trump shakes hands with Family Research Council president Tony Perkins at the 2017 Value Voters Summit, Friday, Oct. 13, 2017, in Washington.

On Election Day, White evangelicals turned out in force for Trump, with over 80 percent voting for the Republican ticket. Their game-changing status became undeniably clear, but so did an unsavory truth about their “values voter” identity. For all…

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Dismantling Public Education One Brick at a Time

The Privatization Strategy of Pioneer Institute and Betsy Devos

President Donald Trump and U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos poses for a photo with students of Saint Andrew Catholic School on March 3, 2017.

On Wednesday, September 12 a federal judge ruled Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s delay of Obama-era regulation of for-profit colleges as “unlawful.” The regulations forgive federal student loans from “misleading, deceitful, and predatory” lending…

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Anti-Muslim Sentiment Binds National Security and White Nationalist Forces Under Trump

Protest of the Muslim Ban, Washington, D.C., January 2017.

Since the Trump administration came into office, anti-Muslim sentiment has become a glue that binds this administration’s national security leadership with anti-Muslim organizations, White nationalist organizations, and anti-government militia.

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Trump, the Republican Party, and Westmoreland County

In the 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump obtained 63.5 percent of the vote to Hillary Clinton’s 32.5 percent in Westmoreland County.4 The county is now solidly red, but it hasn’t always been. I grew up in Westmoreland County in the 1960s and…

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Blurring the Border

Immigration Enforcement and Solidarity in Ohio

“Families Belong Together” rally and march in Ohio, June 30, 2018.

The growth of immigration enforcement further north has led many within the immigrant and refugee communities to feel that they, too, live on the border.

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Beyond Strange Bedfellows

How the “War on Trafficking” Was Made to Unite the Left and Right

President Donald Trump signs H.R. 1865 (FOSTA) into law, 2018.

The prevailing narrative about “human trafficking” was shaped by a relatively small group of political influencers on the Right who had dreams of organizing Christian activists around winnable social issues.

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Before the Alt Right

Anita Hill and the Growth of Misogynist Ideology

Anita Hill testifies before Congress, during Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings for Supreme Court, October 11, 1991.

Today, #MeToo, a Twitter hashtag now synonymous with the campaign to call attention to the widespread problem of sexual harassment and often name perpetrators, picks up on Hill’s legacy in bringing this issue into the national spotlight.

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White Nationalism on the March

One Year After Charlottesville

Introduction The “Unite the Right” rally was designed, over months, to be the largest gathering of its kind in at least a decade, and was successful in bringing together disparate elements of the Far Right on August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville,…

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The Art of Activism: Rae Senarighi

Rae Senarighi is a painter, designer, and muralist based in Portland, Oregon. The front cover of the Summer 2018 issue of The Public Eye features a piece from “The Love Series,” which he conceptualized after a cancer diagnosis. Senarighi decided…

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Oregon referendum latest flashpoint in anti-immigrant efforts

Protesters rally against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in San Francisco, February 2018.

On July 17, the Oregon Secretary of State’s office approved signatures for Initiative Petition 22, a ballot measure that could repeal the state’s so-called sanctuary law. Oregon voters will now vote in November whether to keep or repeal the 1987 law…

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