After retreating into relative silence, the so-called alt-right and its allies returned to organized street protesting this past weekend. The August 4 and 5 rallies in Arizona, California, Oregon and…
The far-right brawlers of “ Patriot Prayer” and the “Proud Boys” are planning a demonstration on August 4, in Portland, Oregon. Their “freedom march” is likely to be light on political content, but is…
The manual first came to public attention in April when Frederick Clarkson, a senior policy analyst at the think tank Political Research Associates, discovered it. In his first article about Project…
Frederick Clarkson, senior research analyst with Political Research Associates, a social justice think tank based in Somerville, Massachusetts, argues, however, that the way Project Blitz defines…
But the way Project Blitz defines religious freedom is misleading, said Frederick Clarkson, senior research analyst with Political Research Associates, a social justice think tank based in Somerville…
Researcher Fred Clarkson agrees. “Ramos and David Lenio seem to have been drawn into the orbit of far-right visions of anti-democratic violence, even as they seem to have ultimately acted on their own…
Thanks to an important discovery by longtime Americans United ally and veteran researcher of the Religious Right Fred Clarkson, we now know why. Fred shared the Project Blitz playbook: a 116-page…
Frederick Clarkson, senior research analyst at Political Research Associates, a thinktank which studies the political right, was first to write about Project Blitz, which he said had been hiding in…
“‘Project Blitz’ Seeks to Do for Christian Nationalism What ALEC Does for Big Business,” reads the headline of a recent piece Frederick Clarkson wrote for Religion Dispatches that highlighted the…
It’s election year in the United States and an episode from the very recent past may be prologue to an election season like nothing we’ve seen since the McCarthy era. The Christian Right recently…