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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

    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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  • Torchbearers for a Different Future

    Enduring the End of Roe and Thwarting an Accelerated Push Toward Authoritarianism
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    For much longer than 50 years, individuals who should be free have been made to endure the cruelty of courts. On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that for now, bodily autonomy is not a protected freedom, instead giving states greater…

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  • 101: Anti-LGBTQ Organizing

    101: Anti-LGBTQ Organizing

    Who These are the sectors of the Right setting the cultural context and organizing against LGBTQ people, rights, and equality. Christian Right Christian Right advocacy organizations like the Alliance Defending Freedom, the Heritage…

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  • Self-Described "Christian Fascist" Movement is Trying to Sabotage LGBTQ Pride Month

    Last Weekend's Vicious Episode in Dallas Wasn't Isolated — It was Part of a Coordinated Far-Right Assault
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    On Saturday morning in the Dallas “gayborhood” of Cedar Springs, an LGBTQ bar called Mr. Misster hosted a family-friendly “drag queen brunch” advertised with the tongue-in-cheek slogan, “Drag Your Kids to Pride.” The event was …

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  • "Traditional" Catholics and white nationalist "groypers" forge a new far-right youth movement

    Activist arm of right-wing Catholic outlet Church Militant is increasingly entwined with racist "groyper" movement
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    The activist wing of Church Militant is called the Resistance network. As of 2020 the outlet said it boasted more than 5,000 members, and claimed to have…

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  • White Nationalists Get Religion: On the far-right fringe, Catholics and racists forge a movement

    Nick Fuentes' racist "groyper" movement is building a coalition with far-right Catholics. They have a plan
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    Last Sunday, as pro-choice supporters reacted to the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion that will likely overturn Roe v. Wade, a series of videos shot in lower Manhattan went viral. In one, a group of young men stood before an arched wooden doorway…

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  • Castizo Futurism and the Contradictions of Multiracial White Nationalism

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    On the night of November 3, 2020, as results from that day’s presidential election began pouring in, White nationalist Nick Fuentes held an election-night livestream event with other leaders of his America First/groyper movement. The assembled White…

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  • Australia’s First Pentecostal Prime Minister Faces Re-Election after Floods, Fires, and Plagues

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    As Australia’s first Pentecostal Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, perhaps could not help but notice, the events of his first years in office had biblical connotations. “Floods. Fires. Drought. Pandemic. Mouse plague,” Morrison recently quipped to his…

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  • Buffalo Massacre: An Act of White Nationalist Political Violence

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    On Saturday, May 14, 2022, ten people were murdered and three more wounded by an 18-year-old White man—kitted out in the all-too-familiar uniform of paramilitary tactical gear and semiautomatic military-style rifle—who violently targeted a busy Tops…

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  • Power Concedes Nothing

    2020 Was an Extraordinary Year
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    An Excerpt from the book Power Concedes Nothing, edited by Linda Burnham, Max Elbaum, and María Poblet

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  • Can You Ever Trust a Former White Nationalist?

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    After leaving behind her career on the Far Right, it only made sense for Katie McHugh to turn over emails from her former bosses, colleagues, and boyfriend. McHugh had been an Alt Right favorite, an editor at Breitbart News who helped funnel far-…

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  • A Twisted Love Story

    How American Evangelicals Helped Make Putin’s Russia and How Russia Became the Darling of the American Right
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    If someone from 1965 were to arrive in a time machine, there’s likely much about our current state of affairs that would shock them. But I cannot imagine anything that would be more confusing than the love affair between the U.S. Right and Russia—…

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  • CRT and the SBC

    Fights over Racism Highlight Southern Baptist Divide

    It was late May, but Denny Burk’s mind was on June.[1] A professor of biblical studies at Boyce College in Kentucky and an associate pastor at Kenwood Baptist Church—both institutions affiliated with the…

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