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  • Subverting State Violence

    A PRA Webinar Series
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    Save the Date From the Rise of the New Right to Trump’s America: Forty Years of Right-Wing State Infiltration and Left Resistance Date/Time TBA   Previous Webinars in the Series…

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  • The Politics of Belonging

    Refugees, Islam, and Germany’s Far Right
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    This April, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson elevated a narrative that has long festered on the Far Right to the conservative mainstream, when he used his show to promote the conspiratorial “Great Replacement” theory. That’s the idea that the so-called “…

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  • “Hitler Youth, Without the Hitler”

    At Gen-Z Camping Retreat 76Fest, Conservative Influencers Network with White Nationalists
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    On August 20, 2021, a network of paleoconservative and White nationalist youth activists will gather at F.D. Roosevelt State Park outside of Atlanta, Georgia for a weekend camping retreat called 76Fest. Arielle Early, an 18-year-old White…

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  • Why Are Gen Z Girls Attracted to the Tradwife Lifestyle?

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    At first glance, Sarah (not her real name) is your average, social-media-savvy, Generation Z girl.[1] Her Instagram account is typical of a “Zoomer” feminine aesthetic: inspired by the alternative, colorful…

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  • Mobilizing for Reproductive Freedom in the Battle Over Bodily Sovereignty

    Watch Now: A PRA Roundtable Discussion

    Under the perceived threat of a Democratic administration stymieing the war of attrition against reproductive rights, the anti-abortion movement continues to strategize for a post-Roe future. From the growth of the abortion abolitionist movement to…

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  • ‘The Forgotten Gamers of America’

    New Gen-Z Influencers Continue to Push White Nationalism for a Post-Trump Era
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    On Monday, July 19, 2021 in Tampa, Florida, as the Student Action Summit of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) drew…

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  • The Israeli Far Right

    A Q&A with Scholar Cas Mudde
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    As the conflict over the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah escalated into a massive Israeli military action against Gaza this May, the role of the Settler Movement and the Israeli Far Right became a primary topic of conversation worldwide…

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  • Blood Red Lines: How Nativism Fuels the Right

    Author Q&A with Brendan O'Connor
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    Although some markers of the Trump presidency may be fading, the xenophobic, exclusionary nationalism it helped elevate remains a defining force in U.S. politics. Within the same two weeks this April, Fox News host Tucker Carlson helped mainstream…

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  • Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz Hasn't Gone Away

    It's Just Gotten More Secretive
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    In the Fall of 2019, the secretive Christian Right state legislative campaign, Project Blitz, became even more of a secret. When RD first reported on Project Blitz in April 2018 the website featured their…

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  • Free City!

    Author Q&A with Marcy Rein, Mickey Ellinger, and Vicki Legion
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    Until 2012, City College of San Francisco (CCSF) was widely recognized as one of the country’s top community colleges. Founded in 1935 as the San Francisco Junior College, at its peak, it served more than 100,000 students a year in degree and non-…

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  • The Great 2020 Antifa Scare

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    Over the last six years, the U.S. has seen a mass wave of nativism that has shifted the “Overton Window” of acceptable politics, making once-marginal aspects of anti-immigrant ideology a part of the mainstream GOP. This has changed the nature of…

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  • The Mainstream Pill

    How Media and Academia Help Incels Rebrand
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    On July 13, 2019, in Utica, New York, 17-year-old Bianca Devins was murdered. Her alleged killer, a 21-year-old man named Brandon Clark, was charged with second-degree murder after he posted a photo of her body and nearly decapitated head on Discord…

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  • Red Pill, Blue Pill

    Q&A with author David Neiwert
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    Conspiracy theories can be many things to different people. For some, it’s fun: the entertainment value of outlandish “alternative facts,” the promise of secrets revealed, the thrill of envisioning oneself a detective, scouring the internet for…

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  • Anti-Vaxx Events in New York Highlight Alignment Among Far-Right Militias, Alternative Health Promoters, and Local Politicians

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    In late June, anti-vaccination groups planned to hold two events in New York, in the towns of Ghent and Akron. While…

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  • A Storm is Coming

    Horror and Hope in QAnon Apocalypticism
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    On October 28, 2017, the now infamous “Q” posted for the first time on 4chan in a chat thread titled “Calm before the Storm.”[1] The thread’s title seemed to reference a puzzling statement President Trump…

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  • Precarity: The American Way

    Watch Now: A PRA Roundtable Discussion

    The myth of American Exceptionalism is well-understood to be just that, a myth. But the pandemic-induced national recession has thrown into high relief the true American Exceptionalism: life lived in a constant state of precarity. Precarity…

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  • Excerpt: "Prisons Make us Safer"

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    In 1983, the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA, now CoreCivic) was founded. That year, approximately 24,000 people were sent to state and federal prisons, bringing the total number of prisoners to 438,830. It was a 12 percent increase from the…

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  • Global White Nationalism

    A Book Review
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    In the years following World War II, far-right ideologues, led by figures like fascist philosopher Francis Parker Yockey, attempted to re-create fascism for the post-war era. Instead of European ethnic divisions and reliance on the politics of…

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  • Convergence of Far-Right, Anti-Democratic Factions in the Northwest Could Provide a Model for the Rest of the Nation

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    The city of Spokane, Washington sits at the eastern edge of the state—a mountain range and a cultural world away from the Pacific coast. It looks eastward to Idaho and Montana, and south to Eastern Oregon, where far-right secessionist movements have…

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  • Progressive Movements Cannot Afford to Ignore the Role of Christian Zionism in the Dispossession of Palestinians

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    Over the past several weeks, the world has witnessed Palestinians continuing to resist forced displacement, apartheid and brutal military occupation. There have been outcries around the world calling for solidarity and to hold the Israeli government…

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