Arizona house speaker Russell “Rusty” Bowers, Republican, testified yesterday (Tuesday, 21 June 2022) before the select committee investigating the events of 6 January 2021. He told the committee he “didn’t want to be used as a pawn”.
This week we talk with Heron Greenesmith(link is external), a lawyer and senior research analyst with Political Research Associates(link is external), about anti-Trans violence and rhetoric from the Right and Left.
What happens in the SBC, with its deep connections to the Republican Party and the anti-abortion movement, inevitably affects U.S. politics more broadly. But this year, the reverse was true as well.
We are the directors of the American Indian Studies and the Gender, Women’s & Sexuality Studies (GWSS) programs at Eastern Washington University. We are reeling at the latest racist mass shootings and all of the current attacks on bodily autonomy
The event was intended to be light-hearted, featuring musical chairs, mocktails and a chance for kids to vogue alongside the performers. But before the doors had even opened, the whole thing turned ugly.
After threats made against Pride events by far-right actors in Idaho and Arizona over the past few weeks, a group whose leader calls herself a “Christian fascist” and others with ties to white nationalist groups targeted a Pride event in Dallas.
“Tarso Luis Ramos is executive director of Political Research Associates, a Boston-based research group that tracks white nationalism.” Listen to the episode and read the transcript here.
“Of course, this is true. As Political Research Associates, a leading expert in white nationalist movements, put it, ‘The attack should be understood as an act of political violence’ that ‘takes Black…
