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Against Antisemitism and for Justice in Israel/Palestine

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This week, large-scale protests in support of Palestinian rights have unfolded across the United States and around the world. An overdue narrative shift is occurring across broad sectors of U.S. society,…

You Will Not Erase Our Kids: The High Stakes Fight for Trans Liberation

Watch Now: A PRA Roundtable Discussion

The Christian Right and anti-trans activists have united behind a single-minded agenda to prevent children from accessing life-saving trans-affirming healthcare and living full, authentic lives. On May 13th, PRA hosted a roundtable discussion with…

The Arc of History Bends Towards Climate Crisis

Watch Now: A PRA Roundtable Discussion

From ecofascism to science denialism and the lobbying power of extractive industries, the Right does not present a unified opposition to climate action. Social justice organizers have a four-fold task: build buy-in on the urgency of addressing…

White Evangelical Racism

Author Q&A with Anthea Butler

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One of the myths that Anthea Butler, author of White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America (University of North Carolina Press, 2021) discovered in her research is the “conceit that the Religious Right, fundamentalism, and…

Technologies of the Right: Disinformation, Mobilization, and Surveillance

Watch Now: A PRA Roundtable Discussion

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There is no question that social media has been a meteoric tool of the Right: propelling Donald Trump to office in 2016, mobilizing his supporters to mount a nationwide resistance to the outcome of the 2020 election, and fueling the growth of far-…

Sisters In Hate

Author Q&A with Seyward Darby

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After a pro-Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6, journalist and author Seyward Darby pointed out that women—and White nationalist women specifically—played a key role behind the scenes. Like much of “women’s labor,” Darby…

Pulling Up the Ladder

The Anti-Immigrant Backlash

“Many persons who have spoken and written in favor of restriction of immigration, have laid great stress upon the evils to society arising from immigration. They have claimed that disease, pauperism, crime and vice have been greatly increased…

It's Not Over Yet

Spring/Summer 2021 Webinar Series

The Arc of History Bends Toward Climate Crisis March 11, 2021 at 4PM ET From ecofascism to science denialism and the lobbying power of…

New Anti-Trans Promise

An Ohio state legislator may have leaked a new set of anti-trans “principles” endorsed by three major anti-LGBT organizations.

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Amid a spate of legislation in early 2021 targeting trans-affirming health care for youth and trans and gender nonconforming athletes, Ohio…

Aberration of Common Sense

Anti-trans activists and the ramifications of the Bell v. Tavistock decision for transgender youth

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A high profile case holding that trans youth cannot obtain care in the United Kingdom will have rippling negative effects around the world. The Court’s …

The January 6 Insurrection

A Snapshot

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Supporters of President Trump storm the United States Capitol building in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. (Photo by Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post via Getty Images) While “Back the Blue” sentiment reigned supreme in the MAGA movement…

“Broken Windows” Policing During COVID-19

Unmasked: Impacts of Pandemic Policing By Pascal Emmer, Woods Ervin, Tiffany Wang, Derecka Purnell, and Andrea J. Ritchie As of this report’s release in October 2020, the U.S. death toll from COVID-19 was approaching a quarter-of-a-million people,…

Class of 2020

Far-Right Candidates Reveal Where the GOP is Headed

A collage of Warren Hamilton, Laura Loomer and Marjorie Taylor Greene

While the Trump administration is over, part of its legacy is helping carve a place for 21^st Century far-right movements and ideologies in the halls of government and within Republican ranks that look more like 19^th Century…

Conspiracy for the Masses

Mapping a QAnon Lockdown Network

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In late April 2020, Jessica Prim left her home in Peoria, Illinois, and headed east to New York Harbor, where the U.S. Navy Hospital Ship Comfort was docked. She arrived at midday on April 29. Although the Comfort was serving as a field hospital for…

2020: A Year in Pictures

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Anthony Crider is a professor of Astrophysics at Elon University in North Carolina. He is also a photographer with a keen eye for capturing just the right moment. Photographing both social justice protests and far-right mobilizations, Crider has…

The Long and Tangled History of Law Enforcement and Right-Wing Violence

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On January 6, the world saw competing representations of the United States, as the Deep South state of Georgia sent two Democrats to the Senate just hours before hundreds of Trump supporters invaded the Capitol with the goal of overturning the…

Watch Now - Insurrection: Past, Present, and Future

A Briefing and Strategy Session

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On January 17th, PRA convened a panel of organizers and experts to reflect on the January 6th insurrection, far-right mobilizing throughout the 2020 election season and into 2021, and the implications of an emboldened Far Right for racial justice…

Reactionary Power in the Union

The Repercussions of Politicized Law Enforcement

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On January 6, a right-wing mob took over the U.S. Capitol with relative ease. Among many things this made clear—including the continued threat of far-right violence, reinforced by movement misogyny^{^[1]}—the…

“America First Is Inevitable”

Nick Fuentes, the Groyper Army, and the Mainstreaming of White Nationalism

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On November 19, 2016, days after Donald Trump’s startling election victory, White nationalist Richard Spencer stood in an event space near the White House, feeling the wind of history in his sails. Addressing the approximately 200 attendees of his…

Culture Warlords

Author Q&A with Tal Lavin

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This fall, anti-fascist journalist Tal Lavin published his first book, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. The book—reported in a “gonzo” style that at times involved undercover infiltration of online White supremacist…

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