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  • Not So Reformed

    How “Countering Violent Extremism” Groups Elevate “Former” White Nationalists
    A white woman and four men sitting in chairs in straight line. Behind them a board says "Ctrl Alt Delete Hate".

    In April 2020, Matthew Heimbach, founder and long-time leader of the neonazi Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP), announced he had left White nationalism behind in an article he wrote for the “countering violent extremism” organization Light Upon…

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  • The People Disclose

    Executive Summary In the United States, the Internal Revenue Service confers tax-exempt status to charitable organizations, allowing them to receive tax-deductible donations. Most donors would assume that an organization that targets…

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  • "This is the fight of our lifetime"

    A January 6th Roundtable Discussion
    A U.S Flag, A Trump and Pence flag and other flags flying from the balcony of the Capitol building.

    In a January 6 PRA briefing, panelists convened to situate January 6th in a longer trajectory of ongoing insurrection and answer the questions that are foremost on our minds. What do we do if we keep losing? What are some of the most significant…

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  • Review: Blood in the Face

    A sign that says Fukkk Racism

    Coverage of the Far Right is often shortsighted, particularly in the U.S. When the Alt Right emerged into public view in 2015, there was a sense of shock as few understood how it had seemed to metastasize so quickly and without precedent. The Unite…

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  • Ten Years of Turning Point USA

    From Free Markets to Freedom Square
    A young white man, Charlie kirk, in a suit, holding a mic.

    During an October 2021 “Freedom Night in America” event at Dream City Church, a megachurch in Phoenix, Arizona, Charlie Kirk, founder and president of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), talked about Vermont as a new frontier for organizing—and evangelizing—…

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  • Understanding the State of the Right One Year After the January 6th Insurrection

    Watch Now: A PRA Briefing

    One year after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, PRA hosted a briefing where we provided an overview of convergent forces, how we got to where we are, where we might be headed, and what we can do to defend democracy and promote justice. We…

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  • An “America First” White Nationalist Is on Texas Gubernatorial Candidate Don Huffines’ Staff

    Jake Lloyd speaking at the 2019 Groyper Leadership Summit.

    An open White nationalist leader within the America First/groyper movement, best known within the movement as Jake Lloyd, appears to be currently serving as deputy communications director for far-right Texas gubernatorial candidate Don Huffines.…

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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
    A young white man, Nick Fuentes, in a suit

    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
    A sheriff pointing a gun at a car.

    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

    Three women holding signs that say "We march for Woomen's Health."

    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
    A person wearing a mask at a protest holding a sign that reads "Dismantle White Supremacy"

    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
    The letters LU in red on a green mountain

    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 9th 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
    A sign that reads: The War Against Terror is bound up in the War Against Poverty

    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
    Three books overlapping each other: Taylor Caldwell's Captains and the Kings, Taylor Caldwell's Dynasty of Death, and Taylor Caldwell's Captains and the Kings

    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
    A person at a protest holding a sign that says DeGrow the North and Decolonize the south

    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
    The word In God We Trust engraved in a stone staircase

    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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