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Inside the National Conservatism Movement to Reshape the Right with Ben Lorber

Inform Your Resistance Season 1: Episode 3

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Host Koki Mendis and guest PRA Senior Research Analyst, Ben Lorber, pull back the curtain on the National Conservatism Conference 2022 (NatCon 3), a gathering of far-right politicians, intellectuals, and influencers in Miami, FL. Listen in as Ben…

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Review: We Are Proud Boys

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On August 17, 2019, the Proud Boys staged a rally against “domestic terrorism” in Portland, Oregon, allegedly in response to a prior scuffle between far-right media personality Andy Ngo and counter-demonstrators who were opposing the Proud Boys and…

Book Review

Racial Capitalism with Saqib Bhatti

Inform Your Resistance Season 1: Episode 2

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Uncover the disturbing realities of racial capitalism and state violence with host Koki Mendis and Saqib Bhatti, co-executive Director of the Action Center on Race and Economy (ACRE). Bhatti’s insights illuminate the distressing crossroads where…

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Abortion Abolitionists with Cloee Cooper

Inform Your Resistance Season 1: Episode 1

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Abortion abolitionists: who are they, what drives them, and how do their tactics overlap with those of other far-right movements? Join host, Koki Mendis, and PRA Senior Research Analyst, Cloee Cooper, as we reveal the chilling facts about this…

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Glossary

PRA’s Glossary is a hybrid tool bridging the gap between definitions and contextual explanations of key ideas, movements, and political phenomena. It is not intended as a substitute for a good contemporary dictionary or usage guide. Rather, the…

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…

Rage

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

Watch Now: A PRA Roundtable

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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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