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Putin’s “Year of the Family”

How Russia Revives and Reverses U.S. Cold War Rhetoric

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In her commentary, Irina Smolevskaya scrutinizes Putin’s appeal to “traditional family values” as a reversal of U.S. Cold War containment rhetoric appealing to domestic and transnational conservatives alike.

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From Palestine to Atlanta, Outside and Foreign

The Institutional Policing of Dissent

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In a timely commentary on the state’s use of the “outside agitator” narrative to violently repress progressive movements, namely, Palestine solidarity activism and the Stop Cop City movement, Habiba Farh examines how “the powerful choose…

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Beyond “Border Security”

Reframing the 21st Century Border Crisis Narrative

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Ethan Fauré discusses U.S. immigration politics and considers how two books, The Case for Open Borders and My Fourth Time We Drowned, challenge “border crisis” narratives.

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Conspiracy / Theory

Author Q&A with Lisa Wedeen and Joseph Masco

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PRA’s Annie Wilkinson interview authors Lisa Wedeen and Joseph Masco about their new book, Conspiracy / Theory, which asks its readers to critically consider the stigma around conspiracy theories and conspiratorial thinking in a world of growing…

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From the Archives: Total Life Reform

Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 7

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In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads “Total Life Reform: The Real Consequences of the Far Right’s Self-Help Grift” by Shane Burley, the second in our new From the Archives series. From the Archives features those must read and, now…

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Why You Should Care about the End Times: Christian Zionism & its Outsized Influence on American Policy with Aidan Orly

Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 6

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Koki is joined by Aidan Orly, one of a handful of U.S.-based researchers writing and speaking about Christian Zionism: the right-wing domestic and international movements that use a Christian biblical interpretation to promote and endorse Jewish…

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101: Christian Zionism

Christian Zionism comprises several authoritarian movements, and collectively forms the largest political base of support for Israel in U.S. Learn about the Who and What behind this influential movement.

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From the Archives: Why Are Gen Z Girls Attracted to the Tradwife Lifestyle?

Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 5

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In this episode, Koki reads “Why Are Gen Z Girls Attracted to the Tradwife Lifestyle?” by Marielle Cooksey, the first in our new From the Archives series. From the Archives features those must read and, now, must listen to pieces from PRA’s more…

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101: Countering Violent Extremism (CVE)

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Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) programs purport to prevent radicalization and violence by identifying and surveilling communities that are deemed at-risk. These programs, however, only reinforce discriminatory practices against vulnerable…

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Project 2025: The Plan of the Century with Peter Montgomery

Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 4

Host Koki Mendis talks to Peter Montgomery about Project 2025 the Right’s playbook to remake the U.S. government as we currently know it toward authoritarianism. They discuss the architects of this plan, the people and movements who have signed on…

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Male Supremacism: Ideology, Movement, and Political Strategy with Alex DiBranco

Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 3

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In this episode, Koki talks with Alex DiBranco, executive director of the Institute for Research on Male Supremacism. Alex breaks down for us: What is male supremacism? What is its relationship to other supremacist ideologies and movements? And how…

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Countering the Ideology of “Violent Care”

Lessons from Bay Area Radical Abortion Defense

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Abortion defenders and activists showed Angela Hume the inherent contradiction in the anti-abortion movement: it purports to protect women while actively harming them. Hume coins the term “violent care” to explain this contradiction and points to…

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Practicing Emergent Strategies to Fight the Right and Resist Fascism

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An excerpt from Andrea Ritchie’s new book Practicing New Worlds. This book examines the role of practicing emergent strategies toward abolition, or a just future without punishment, prisons, or violence in any form. Arguing that emergent…

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Project 2025

How Trump Loyalists and Right-Wing Leaders Are Paving a Fast Road to Fascism

Project 2025, a Heritage Foundation coalition launched in 2022, aims to “take the reins of government” during a second Trump term by concentrating power in the executive branch—the President and political appointees. The project seeks to pursue long…

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Innocent Until Proven Muslim

Author Q&A with Dr. Maha Hilal

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Dr. Maha Hilal talks to PRA about the pervasive and ongoing effects of the War on Terror domestically, the dehumanization of Muslims across the globe, and her work at Guantanamo Bay.

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When the Sheriff Is Above the Law

The Rise of the Far Right in Western New York

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Demographic shifts in Erie county have led to increased far-right activity. Local sheriffs and government officials have ties to a small but active Far Right in Erie County, leading to the legitimizing of these far-right, sometimes violent …

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Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies

Author Q&A with Andrea J. Ritchie

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PRA talks to Andrea J. Ritchie about her new book Practicing New Worlds: Abolition and Emergent Strategies, and what lessons we can learn from organizers and experts working to fight the Right.

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The Art of Activism: Zoe Newton

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Artist Zoe Newton is also PRA’s Communications Coordinator. Zoe is a visual storyteller and creative problem solver. Their work centers around community and cultural competency. In 2021, Zoe graduated from the Sam Fox School of Art and Design at…

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The Squad Grows Up

Author Q&A with Ryan Grim

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PRA interviews author Ryan Grim about his latest book, The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution, the possibility of bipartisan political progress, and cultivating cohesion in progressive spaces.

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An International Affair: Hindu Nationalism and the U.S. Right with Prachi Patankar

Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 2

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In this episode, Koki interviews Prachi Patankar, an anti-caste and feminist writer and organizer, to discuss Hindu Nationalism, or Hindutva, a little understood but large and well-resourced movement that has transnational influence on U.S. politics…

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