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In the Lead-Up to the Election, Special Forces Train Civilians for Insurgency

In July 2020, retired Green Beret and military special forces operator Mike Glover began sharing videos on YouTube and Instagram…

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Paramilitaries at the Polls

What to Expect Around the 2020 Elections

As we draft this memo in the days immediately prior to Election Day 2020, there are dozens of articles and opinion pieces pointing out possible “chaos” or “nightmare” scenarios related to the 2020 elections and what could happen in their wake.…

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Could Anti-Government Militias Become Pro-State Paramilitaries?

Armed militia members march next to a WWG1WGA flag, a common identifier of QAnon believers, at the United We Stand & Patriots March for America, St. Paul, Minnesota, September 12, 2020 (Credit: Fibonacci Blue/Flickr).

In 2020 millions of Americans peacefully stood up against racism and police violence in protests across the country. These protests are remarkable not only for their size and duration, but their geographic scope, ranging from big cities to small…

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Conservative, Christian, Corporate

COVID-19 Opportunism and Betsy DeVos’s Education Agenda

Since her deeply contested confirmation hearings, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has been criticized for incompetence and ignorance regarding the public education system. But this lens obscures the extent to which DeVos’s decisions as secretary…

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Brave New World

The legal landscape post-Bostock

Panorama of US Supreme Court Building at Dusk

The recent decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, wherein the mostly-conservative Supreme Court voted 6-3 to protect LGBTQ employees against discrimination because of gender identity or sexual orientation, represents an abandonment of the as-written…

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The Danger Within: Right-Wing Violence in Nevada

Executive Summary With presidential elections just weeks away, Nevada faces a visible and growing threat of violence from White supremacists and far-right militias. The FBI and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have both recently warned that…

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Unholy

Author Q&A with Sarah Posner

For years, Sarah Posner has been one of the most perceptive journalists covering the political activism of U.S. evangelicals and the broader Religious Right. In 2016, she became one of the first reporters to track the rise of the Alt Right, and its…

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Beyond Pizzagate

Anti-Immigrant Conspiracists Traffic Fear in Southern Arizona

Humanitarian worker Joel Smith knew it would be difficult to reason with the man who had been knifing and draining his water tanks in the Southern Arizona desert. Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, a non-veteran who nonetheless heads the anti-immigrant…

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New England's Joe Arpaio

How a Massachusetts Sheriff Became the Far Right’s Perfect Ally

Two weeks before Donald Trump took the oath of office, Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson walked into a Fall River, Massachusetts, auditorium filled with law enforcement officers from around the county. With bagpipes blaring, Hodgson was sworn in…

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Standing By for Violence:

Ahead of November Election, Trump Inflames His Vigilante Base

President Trump speaking during the 2020 Presidential Debate

During the September 29, 2020 presidential debate, President Donald Trump gave his White nationalist and militia base a jolt of inspiration, refusing to condemn White supremacy and recent acts of violence and intimidation against widespread Black…

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An Annotated Directory of the Prochoice Religious Community in the United States

This directory lists the current prochoice and reproductive justice elements of organized religion in the United States. It is intended primarily as a resource for those seeking to support these values in light of contemporary legislative and…

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Building the Cultural and Political Power of Pro-Choice Religious Communities

Colloquium Proceedings: May 14, 2020

Colloquium Speakers Rev. Dr. Cari Jackson (Moderator) Rev. Dr. Cari Jackson is the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice’s Director of Spiritual Care and Activism. Dr. Cari collaborates with religious and community leaders, advocating for…

The Prochoice Religious Community May Be the Future of Reproductive Rights, Access, and Justice

There is a vast prochoice religious community in the United States that could provide the moral, cultural, and political clout to reverse current antiabortion policy trends in the United States. Most, but not all, of this demographic are Christians…

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Mapping Far-Right and Anti-Immigrant Movement Alignment with County Sheriffs

Open Map Introduction to Right-Wing Sheriffs County sheriffs have featured heavily in the right-wing imagination for…

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Battle With Bullets: Advancing a Vision of Civil War

Pro-confederacy protestor holds up a confederate flag, a counter-protestor raises a fist in response.

In January 2019, Rick Joyner, head of Morningstar Ministries, an important New Apostolic Reformation parachurch organization,^{^[1]} claimed to have received a prophetic vision in a dream in the form of a…

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Speechwriter for U.S. Congressman Channels White Nationalism

Darren Beattie delivers speech in NM with U.S.-Mexico border wall construction behind him.

On July 22, far-right House Republican and top Trump ally Representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) came under fire for potentially breaking House Ethics rules by…

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A Room Of Their Own

How Anti-Trans Feminists Are Complicit in Christian Right Anti-Trans Advocacy

Since 2016, anti-transgender feminist advocates in the US have used funding and fame from the Christian Right to undermine gains made towards justice for transgender people. After 40 years of activism, anti-trans feminists have now achieved greater…

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Right-Wing Populism Outside the Global North

Brazil and the Philippines

Over the last several years, countries including the U.S., UK, Turkey, Hungary, Poland, and Spain have witnessed the rise of authoritarian leaders and the return of politicians posing as defenders of the “will of the people.” Right-wing populism is…

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Third Millennium Fascism

Highlights from Italy

The annual spring Salone Internazionale del Libro in Turin is not just a book fair, but one of Italy’s most important cultural events: five days of debates, book presentations, and discussions with writers from Italy and around the world, featuring…

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The Right in the Streets

The Past and Present of the Polish March of Independence

In the early afternoon on November 11, 2019, in central Warsaw, tens of thousands of people came together at the Roman Dmowski roundabout, for an event known as one of the biggest right-wing gatherings in the world. The location itself was telling:…

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