The 1980s and 1990s saw a number of national-level “monitoring groups” — organizations that tracked and countered the far right, including the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Political Research…
DeVos has advanced faith-based education while at the helm of the corporate education reform movement. As former chair of the Michigan Republican Party, DeVos pressed for a failed ballot initiative in…
Salman’s prosecution could highlight, however, a crease in the legal landscape – one which some say punishes Muslims more harshly than others, as Naomi Braine, an associate professor of sociology at…
The religious right has been organizing intensively around its Orwellian redefinition of the term since the beginning of the Obama era. This was laid out in detail in a report by Frederick Clarkson of…
Many are called but few are chosen during any presidential transition. That’s why it’s illuminating to consider who Donald Trump has chosen from the parade of possibilities for his transition team and…
Many are called but few are chosen during any presidential transition. That’s why it’s illuminating to consider who Donald Trump has chosen from the parade of possibilities for his transition team and…
In the last few years of the 20th Century a new form of fascism emerged in a period of resurgent neofascism. Called the Third Position, it seeks to overthrow existing governments and replace them with…
Political Research Associates, a progressive group that tracks the extreme right, has described the Third Position movement as “ a minor current of fascism” that borrows ideas liberally from both the…
Donation to Political Research Associates: Couple the above with a gift in their honor, to Political Research Associates and your point should be clear. PRA has been monitoring right-wing movements in…
Frederick Clarkson, a senior fellow at Political Research Associates, has studied the Christian right for decades. He says that when it comes to their relationship with the morally erratic Trump, it’s…
