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Capitol Offenses: January 6th 2021 & The Ongoing Insurrection

PRA State of the Right Report

Introduction: The Insurrection Isn’t Over; Neither is the Attempted Coup The January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol provided the bloody final chapter to Donald Trump’s term as president, as “stop the steal” loyalists from all over the…

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"We Have To Push the Envelope”

A Year After Storming the Capitol, White Nationalist “Groypers” Storm the Right

On January 6, 2021, White nationalist Nick Fuentes stood outside of the U.S. Capitol, addressing a crowd of thousands, as rioters streamed into the building. Hailing the “American people rising up and taking our country back,” Fuentes…

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Blue Lives Matter and the U.S. Counter-Subversive Tradition

A Q&A with authors Jarrod Shanahan and Tyler Wall

On the anniversary of the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, PRA is taking a moment to examine the history of law enforcement’s relationship with the Far Right. In 2021, academic activists Jarrod Shanahan and Tyler Wall published a…

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Excerpt: Mobilizing for Reproductive Freedom in the Battle Over Bodily Sovereignty

This May, Texas passed a law deputizing citizens to sue anyone who aids another in obtaining an abortion after six weeks, and rewarding those whose court challenges are successful with $10,000 in attorney fees. This clever and destructive law is the…

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PRA's Year in Books

A Gift Guide and/or Reading List to Close Out 2021

White Skin, Black Fuel: On the Danger of Fossil Fascism By Andreas Malm and the Zetkin Collective Read PRA’s review here. The book, coauthored by an…

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A Field Guide to White Supremacy

Author Q&A with Kathleen Belew

Over the past several years, as the mass media quickly tried to orient itself to a growing Far Right and rapidly accelerating news cycle, there’s been a tendency to reduce complex issues of oppression, historical inequalities, and the legacy of…

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Between a Secular Rock and a Fundamentalist Hard Place

The Aftermath of Scandal at Liberty University

I sometimes joke that Liberty University and I grew up together. My childhood home was about a mile from campus. While Liberty was getting on its feet, so was I. I started kindergarten at a Baptist school and stayed through 9^th grade. I…

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This Year and Next in Anti-LGBT Advocacy

Watch Now: A briefing from PRA

Even as we reel from one of the most deadly and destructive years in recent memory for anti-LGBT advocacy, we must start preparing for the next. On December 9, PRA hosted an invaluable conversation about the past year and what we expect to see in…

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Dispelling Illusions and Overlooking Continuities

A Review of Spencer Ackerman’s Reign of Terror

Reading Spencer Ackerman’s new book Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and Produced Trump (Penguin Random House, 2021) is a…

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Sentimentalizing Resentment

How Taylor Caldwell Set the Mood for the Far Right

If you were a middle-class White mom in 1976 with copies of lifestyle magazines piled in the corner of a green shag-carpeted room designed by a Dorothy Draper protégé, you probably also had a few thick Taylor Caldwell novels tucked in the bookshelf…

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Anti-Sex Work Feminism and the Lived Reality of Criminalization and State Violence

Watch Now: A PRA Roundtable Discussion

Anti-Sex Work Feminists have a (deadly) listening problem: a problem listening to the people whose lives and livelihoods have been made economically and socially precarious by the state and made subject to daily violence by its carceral arm. In this…

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White Skin, Black Fuel

Author Q&A with Andreas Malm

From “heat domes” to super-hurricanes, the signs of an accelerating climate crisis are all around us. Yet at the same time there’s been a parallel, global surge in far-right forces, many of which flatly deny the very existence of climate change, and…

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Exodus or Transformation

Christian Homeschooling and R.J. Rushdoony’s Legacy in the Age of COVID

On a March 2021 episode of the popular Christian radio show and podcast Stand in the Gap Today, a former Pennsylvania legislator exhorted Christian parents to “leave Egypt behind” and seek out the “Promised Land.”^{^[1]…}

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Sowing the Seeds of White Supremacy Through Education

School board meetings across the country have seen an influx of parents and community members over the last few months, many there to fight Critical Race Theory (CRT)—something that the majority of primary and secondary schools don’t teach, and a…

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Far-Right Alignment of County Sheriffs and the Violent Policing of Immigrant Communities

Watch Now: A PRA Roundtable Discussion

The inhumane treatment and deportations of Haitian refugees from our southern border underscores what we already suspected: that the U.S. anti-immigration movement, which thrived under President Trump, has yet another champion in President Biden and…

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Big Tech: Anti-Muslim Racism, Surveillance, and Violence in the 20 Years since 9/11

Watch Now: A PRA Roundtable Discussion

Anti-Muslim racism and policing has been a facet of U.S. White supremacy since the dawn of the Atlantic slave trade. In the two decades following 9/11, anti-Muslim racism and state violence enacted on Muslims has been a core component of the U.S.…

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More of the Same, but More of It

The Conspiratorial Legacy of 9/11

One of the lasting legacies of 9/11 is the growth and mainstreaming of conspiracy theories, across the U.S. and the world. Within hours of the attacks, theories cropped up online to identify culprits, explain their motives, and uncover their…

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A Wider Type of Freedom

Author Q&A with Daniel Martinez HoSang

In the last year, a record number of people took to the streets in protest of systemic racism and police violence. But over the same time period,…

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21st Century White Nationalism

9/11 and the Anti-Immigrant Movement

More than two decades ago, during the 2000 election, leading anti-immigrant group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) offered a glimpse of things to come. Amid his reelection campaign, FAIR targeted U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI…

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What If 9/11 Had Never Taken Place?

No Department of Homeland Security. No Paramilitarized Border Enforcement. No War on Terror. No Trump.

On this 20^th anniversary of September 11, 2001, the attacks and their political aftermath have receded into the distance: an important historical event at the start of the 2000s, long before Obama, the Tea Party, Trump, and the pandemic.…

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