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The New Antisemitism and Neo-McCarthyism

Unsurprisingly, authoritarian forces in the U.S. are desperate to quell the grassroots upsurge in Palestine solidarity protests by responding with neo-McCarthyist repression tactics, recalling a period of extreme anti-Left repression driven by the U…

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Old Problems, New Tricks

The AI-Enabled Far Right Hits the Elections Cycle

While artificial intelligence (AI) itself might not be a problem, the way it’s being used by the Right is exacerbating a problem that marginalized communities have been warning us about since the inception of social media: disinformation.

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Taiwan’s 2024 Elections

Disinformation in the Struggle Between Democracy and Authoritarianism

Taiwan is often described as Asia’s freest country. Kayo Chang Black details Taiwan’s political history and how the 2024 election cycle resurfaced the authoritarian threat that lurks within Taiwan’s democracy.

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On Political Violence

The Assassination Attempt on Former President Donald J. Trump

As federal law enforcement agencies investigate the apparent attempted assassination of presidential candidate Donald J. Trump during a campaign appearance Saturday in Butler County, Pennsylvania, PRA encourages our supporters to speak out against…

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Big Oil Wants to Exploit the Legal System to Crush Protest & Dissent. We Cannot Let It Win

The political stakes are high for the oil and gas industry, which is desperate to preserve its dominance amid cascading environmental policy shifts, broadening support for the renewable energy revolution, and ever more visible, sensed, social, and…

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From the Archives: The Spirit of January 6

Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 10

In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads “The Spirit of January 6th” by Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné, the third in our new From the Archives series. From the Archives features those must read and, now, must listen to pieces from…

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How the Right “Sets the Mood”

Carol Mason on Sentimentalism and Resentment

Carol Mason talks with Mary Reynolds and PRA’s Annie Wilkinson about how her 2021 article “Sentimentalizing Resentment” still holds true—and the ways that the culture of sentimentalism and resentment on the Right has shifted in just the past three…

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The Entwined Geographies of White Nationalism and Climate Denialism with Laura Pulido

Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 9

In this episode, Koki interviews Laura Pulido, Collins Chair and Professor of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies and Geography at the University of Oregon, who studies race, environmental justice, and cultural memory. They discuss the intersection…

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Art of Activism: Vicky Shahjehan

A Q&A with Fearless Collective ambassador, Vicky Shahjehan on solidarity, and the role that art plays in activism.

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The “Business-as-Usual” of Right-Wing Climate Realism

This excerpt from Ajay Singh Chaudhary’s book, The Exhausted of the Earth, discusses the Right’s “climate realism” and who benefits from the extractive economic system that fuels climate change.

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The Organizational Psychology of the Far Right with Shane Burley

Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 8

In this episode, Koki sits down with Shane Burley to discuss some of the most peculiar, and—at times, most influential—corners of the Far Right, capturing a spectrum of White nationalist, misogynist organizing that spans the neopaganist Wolves of…

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A Global Trail of Violence

India’s Hindu Supremacist Movement and Its Role in the Transnational Far Right

PRA’s newest partner, Savera: United Against Supremacy, reports on the violent, far-right Hindu supremacist movement behind Modi’s government.

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Putin’s “Year of the Family”

How Russia Revives and Reverses U.S. Cold War Rhetoric

In her commentary, Irina Smolevskaya scrutinizes Putin’s appeal to “traditional family values” as a reversal of U.S. Cold War containment rhetoric appealing to domestic and transnational conservatives alike.

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From Palestine to Atlanta, Outside and Foreign

The Institutional Policing of Dissent

In a timely commentary on the state’s use of the “outside agitator” narrative to violently repress progressive movements, namely, Palestine solidarity activism and the Stop Cop City movement, Habiba Farh examines how “the powerful choose…

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Beyond “Border Security”

Reframing the 21st Century Border Crisis Narrative

Ethan Fauré discusses U.S. immigration politics and considers how two books, The Case for Open Borders and My Fourth Time We Drowned, challenge “border crisis” narratives.

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Conspiracy / Theory

Author Q&A with Lisa Wedeen and Joseph Masco

PRA’s Annie Wilkinson interview authors Lisa Wedeen and Joseph Masco about their new book, Conspiracy / Theory, which asks its readers to critically consider the stigma around conspiracy theories and conspiratorial thinking in a world of growing…

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From the Archives: Total Life Reform

Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 7

In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads “Total Life Reform: The Real Consequences of the Far Right’s Self-Help Grift” by Shane Burley, the second in our new From the Archives series. From the Archives features those must read and, now…

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Why You Should Care about the End Times: Christian Zionism & its Outsized Influence on American Policy with Aidan Orly

Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 6

Koki is joined by Aidan Orly, one of a handful of U.S.-based researchers writing and speaking about Christian Zionism: the right-wing domestic and international movements that use a Christian biblical interpretation to promote and endorse Jewish…

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101: Christian Zionism

Christian Zionism comprises several authoritarian movements, and collectively forms the largest political base of support for Israel in U.S. Learn about the Who and What behind this influential movement.

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From the Archives: Why Are Gen Z Girls Attracted to the Tradwife Lifestyle?

Inform Your Resistance Season 2: Episode 5

In this episode, Koki reads “Why Are Gen Z Girls Attracted to the Tradwife Lifestyle?” by Marielle Cooksey, the first in our new From the Archives series. From the Archives features those must read and, now, must listen to pieces from PRA’s more…

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