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PRA Executive Director Search

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Introduction Dear Friends of PRA, As you have heard, Political Research Associates seeks a strategic, experienced, innovative, and values-aligned Executive Director to succeed Tarso Luís Ramos in 2024 as PRA works to counter the rising tide of…

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Watch Now: A Roundtable Discussion Presented by Religion Dispatches

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Rage against violence. Rage against oppression. Rage against poverty. Rage against suffering. How do we fuel the struggle for justice with rage? In this discussion, we explore rage and its potential for transformative racial justice, the…

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Organizing for the Year Ahead: Countering Anti-LGBTQ Persecution and Violence in 2023

Watch Now: A PRA Roundtable

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Featuring civil rights and gun safety advocate Brandon Wolf, Communications Manager of the Transgender Education Network of Texas Gin Pham, PRA Senior Research Analyst Heron Greenesmith, and organizer Kwyn Townsend Riley. In this briefing, we…

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Embodying White Christian Supremacy: From Deputizing Citizens to Flying the Blue Lives Matter Flag

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In the same breadth as decrying so called liberal identity politics, the U.S. Right declares itself representative of an oppressed White, Christian social class, fly Blue Lives Matter flags in place of Old Glory, and bedeck themselves in the cultish…

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Combating Anti-Transgender Disinformation

Anti-LGBTQ Organizing 201

Strategy and Implementation It can be difficult to think of responses to common anti-transgender disinformation in the moment. Responding directly to anti-trans talking points may also provide attention and validation to the disinformation,…

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The Fight Ahead

How the Electoral Far Right Fared in the 2022 Midterm Elections

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In October 2022, PRA published a map tracking the Electoral Far Right in the 2022 U.S. midterm elections. Of the 276 candidates tracked by PRA, 155 appeared on the general election ballot. 107 of these candidates won their races. In addition to…

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101: Dominionism

Dominionism is one of the most significant, yet little-known ideological forces in the U.S. and increasingly, globally. This theological idea has been gathering strength for a half century and is transforming conservative evangelical Christianity…

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Beyond the Hate Frame: When Systemic Violence Masquerades as Hate and Extremism

A PRA Roundtable

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From the candidates in 2022 races carrying the mantle of the Far Right to the treatment of anti-LGBTQ persecution as “phobia,” join PRA Research Analysts Ben Lorber, Habiba Farh, and Heron Greenesmith as they name and explore the language and…

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A Bid For Power

Mapping The Electoral Far Right in the 2022 Elections

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The purpose of this resource is to help understand and visualize how ideas, policies, and factions that have long been associated with the Far Right in the United States have become an ordinary part of U.S. politics. PRA has identified 274 far-right…

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Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever

A Reporter’s Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation

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While the Christian Right has been an increasingly powerful factor in American politics for decades, it has benefited from a strangely persistent culture of denialism. We needn’t review the …

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The Next Frontier: Comprehensive Sex Education in the Post-Roe Era

Watch Now: A PRA Roundtable

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The webinar asked the question: “What’s next for the anti-abortion movement in this post-Roe moment?” with a focus on the ongoing anti-comprehensive sex ed movement, its overlap with the antiabortion and anti-trans/anti-lgbtq movements, and,…

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He's on a Mission From God: Pennsylvania GOP Candidate Doug Mastriano's War With the World

Exclusive: Pa. GOP candidate closely linked to Christian extremists who want "spiritual warfare" against America

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An animating element of politics in the age of Trump is that some people are increasingly living out religious metaphors. These metaphors are derived from contemporary understandings of the Old Testament by new elements within Christianity. This has…

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The Sovereignty Strategy

Anti-abortion Politics in the Americas

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Opposition to reproductive and sexual rights is at the heart of authoritarian and theocratic politics around the world, including in the United States. The Trump-Pence administration worked hard to build a…

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101: Far-Right Sheriffs

Who These are the sectors of the Right setting the cultural context and/or organizing right-wing sheriffs. Anti-immigrant Right Anti-immigrant organizations like the…

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At American Virtue Summit, Gen-Z White Nationalists and GOP Candidates Plot the Right’s Future

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On Friday, July 22, Florida State Representative Anthony Sabatini introduced himself as a “Tucker Carlson, Steve Bannon conservative” to a boisterous crowd assembled in a conference hall in Tampa for the launch event of American Virtue, the group…

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Reconsidering Reparations

Author Q&A with Dr. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

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There has been a recent resurgence of interest in reparations, with cities including Detroit, MI; St. Paul, MN; and Berkeley, CA either considering or endorsing institutional compensation and redress for the country’s legacy of slavery and racism.…

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Transformation: Toward a People's Democracy

Author Q&A with Suzanne Pharr

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In Arkansas in 1981, inspired by The Combahee River Collective Statement released in the 1970s, activist Suzanne Pharr founded The Women’s Project, an organization that worked across rural and urban communities to bring about social change.…

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A Conspiratorial Life

Author Q&A with Edward H. Miller

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A Conspiratorial Life: Robert Welch, the John Birch Society, and the Revolution of American Conservatism, by Northeastern University professor Edward H. Miller is an engaging and penetrating…

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Building Broad Coalitions

A Roundtable on Confronting Christian Zionism

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Aidan Orly: We gather this evening in the midst of ongoing and increased assaults on Palestinians around the globe. This is a very raw moment on the heels of the murder of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian journalist with Al Jazeera, and the…

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