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Enemy in the Making

The Language of “Anti-Sorosism” in the U.S. and Hungary

“I really feel that Soros, in many ways, is the biggest danger to the entire Western world.” So argued British right-wing populist Nigel Farage in 2018 on the U.S. right-wing TV network Fox News.^{^[1]} Though…

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The Golden Dawn Model

Once Emulated by American White Nationalists, Greece’s Anti-Migrant Party Faces an Uncertain Future

October 24, 1998. Anyone walking past the conference in Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, would have likely found the presence of…

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End Times Antisemitism

Christian Zionism, Christian Nationalism, and the Threat to Democracy

I first encountered Christian Zionism—political support for the modern State of Israel grounded in beliefs about its prophetic significance in End Times scenarios—in 1992, while working as a fight-the-Right researcher in Portland, Oregon. A big part…

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Blood and Vanishing Topsoil

American Ecofascism Past, Present, and in the Coming Climate Crisis

“We’re the virus.” So read a popular tweet from mid-March praising reports of diminished air and water pollution in countries under lockdown due to the novel coronavirus COVID-19. By mid-April, the tweet, which also suggested that “Coronavirus is…

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A Crumbling Cornerstone of the Christian Right

The Family Research Council (FRC), a leading organization of the Christian Right has long featured Christian nationalist ideology in its materials and events — including speakers at its annual political conference, the Values Voter Summit. But…

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Antisemitic and Anti-Black

Conservative Jewish Magazine Features Uncensored White Nationalism

On June 11, the American Jewish publication Tablet published a lengthy interview with Kevin MacDonald, a White nationalist and antisemite whose voluminous writings on Jews have shaped the movement responsible…

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Paramilitaries at Your Protest

An Activist Field Guide to the Far Right

Why this Guide Since the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, PRA has documented more than 150 incidents of armed far-right actors showing up at racial justice protests. They have threatened and harassed racial justice protestors…

Mapping Paramilitary and Far-Right Threats to Racial Justice

The murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by Minneapolis police on May 25, 2020 marked the beginning of a dramatic surge in racial justice and politics accountability protests. The Black Lives Matter movement that was at the heart of those…

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Nothing is Untouched

The Aftermath in Chemnitz

The sun was high and the air thick with a weighted August heat as we sat down for lunch at Schmetterling, a Persian restaurant in the heart of Chemnitz, Germany. Anne Gersch, a staff member of Courage, a project that facilitates anti-discrimination…

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Betsy DeVos Is Complicit in Evangelical Right’s Assault on Trans Athletes

While the State of Connecticut inches past 40,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19, the anti-transgender Evangelical right-wing litigation machine presses onward. In mid-May, the anti-LGBT group …

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Police, Paramilitaries, and Protests for Racial Justice

In response to the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, by Minneapolis police, racial justice groups have mobilized tens of thousands of protestors to take to the streets and demand justice nationwide. Local and State officials have…

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On March 30, in response to the COVID-19 crisis, Hungary’s parliament passed a law allowing the nationalist government to rule by…

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How Federal and State Governments are Using COVID-19 to Attack Abortion Rights

Gavel sculpture located in the courtyard of the Ohio Judicial Center in downtown Columbus, Ohio

On March 20, Ohio became the first state to use the COVID-19 crisis as an excuse to ban abortions, with the state’s attorney general calling pregnancy terminations “non-essential” health services.¹ After Ohio opened that door, anti-choice…

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Resistance & Resilience in a Global Pandemic

Political Research Associates has closed its office and staff are working from home to participate in the global social-distancing effort to protect our communities’ most vulnerable members. Balancing the demands of the public and private spheres,…

Homeschooling During COVID-19?

Be Aware of Outreach by Evangelical Homeschooling Organizations

Adult man works on laptop and looks after two children reading nearby in room.

With so many schools closed across the country and so many parents working from home to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus, families are desperate for resources. In response, homeschool organizations like the conservative evangelical-affiliated…

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