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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…

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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-…

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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
    Abstract painting - blue and orange

    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,…

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  • 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…

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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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  • 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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