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Far-Right Alignment of County Sheriffs and the Violent Policing of Immigrant Communities

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The inhumane treatment and deportations of Haitian refugees from our southern border underscores what we already suspected: that the U.S. anti-immigration movement, which thrived under President Trump, has yet another champion in President Biden and…

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Big Tech: Anti-Muslim Racism, Surveillance, and Violence in the 20 Years since 9/11

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Anti-Muslim racism and policing has been a facet of U.S. White supremacy since the dawn of the Atlantic slave trade. In the two decades following 9/11, anti-Muslim racism and state violence enacted on Muslims has been a core component of the U.S.…

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More of the Same, but More of It

The Conspiratorial Legacy of 9/11

One of the lasting legacies of 9/11 is the growth and mainstreaming of conspiracy theories, across the U.S. and the world. Within hours of the attacks, theories cropped up online to identify culprits, explain their motives, and uncover their…

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A Wider Type of Freedom

Author Q&A with Daniel Martinez HoSang

In the last year, a record number of people took to the streets in protest of systemic racism and police violence. But over the same time period,…

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21st Century White Nationalism

9/11 and the Anti-Immigrant Movement

More than two decades ago, during the 2000 election, leading anti-immigrant group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) offered a glimpse of things to come. Amid his reelection campaign, FAIR targeted U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI…

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What If 9/11 Had Never Taken Place?

No Department of Homeland Security. No Paramilitarized Border Enforcement. No War on Terror. No Trump.

On this 20^th anniversary of September 11, 2001, the attacks and their political aftermath have receded into the distance: an important historical event at the start of the 2000s, long before Obama, the Tea Party, Trump, and the pandemic.…

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Subverting State Violence

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Save the Date From the Rise of the New Right to Trump’s America: Forty Years of Right-Wing State Infiltration and Left Resistance Date/Time TBA Previous Webinars in the Series…

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The Politics of Belonging

Refugees, Islam, and Germany’s Far Right

This April, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson elevated a narrative that has long festered on the Far Right to the conservative mainstream, when he used his show to promote the conspiratorial “Great Replacement” theory. That’s the idea that the so-called “…

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“Hitler Youth, Without the Hitler”

At Gen-Z Camping Retreat 76Fest, Conservative Influencers Network with White Nationalists

On August 20, 2021, a network of paleoconservative and White nationalist youth activists will gather at F.D. Roosevelt State Park outside of Atlanta, Georgia for a weekend camping retreat called 76Fest. Arielle Early, an 18-year-old White…

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Why Are Gen Z Girls Attracted to the Tradwife Lifestyle?

At first glance, Sarah (not her real name) is your average, social-media-savvy, Generation Z girl.^[1] Her Instagram account is typical of a “Zoomer” feminine aesthetic: inspired by the alternative, colorful style of…

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Mobilizing for Reproductive Freedom in the Battle Over Bodily Sovereignty

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Under the perceived threat of a Democratic administration stymieing the war of attrition against reproductive rights, the anti-abortion movement continues to strategize for a post-Roe future. From the growth of the abortion abolitionist movement to…

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‘The Forgotten Gamers of America’

New Gen-Z Influencers Continue to Push White Nationalism for a Post-Trump Era

On Monday, July 19, 2021 in Tampa, Florida, as the Student Action Summit of Turning Point USA (TPUSA) drew…

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The Israeli Far Right

A Q&A with Scholar Cas Mudde

As the conflict over the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah escalated into a massive Israeli military action against Gaza this May, the role of the Settler Movement and the Israeli Far Right became a primary topic of conversation worldwide…

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Blood Red Lines: How Nativism Fuels the Right

Author Q&A with Brendan O'Connor

Although some markers of the Trump presidency may be fading, the xenophobic, exclusionary nationalism it helped elevate remains a defining force in U.S. politics. Within the same two weeks this April, Fox News host Tucker Carlson helped mainstream…

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Christian Right Bill Mill, Project Blitz Hasn't Gone Away

It's Just Gotten More Secretive

In the Fall of 2019, the secretive Christian Right state legislative campaign, Project Blitz, became even more of a secret. When RD first reported on Project Blitz in April 2018 the website featured…

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Free City!

Author Q&A with Marcy Rein, Mickey Ellinger, and Vicki Legion

Until 2012, City College of San Francisco (CCSF) was widely recognized as one of the country’s top community colleges. Founded in 1935 as the San Francisco Junior College, at its peak, it served more than 100,000 students a year in degree and non-…

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The Great 2020 Antifa Scare

Over the last six years, the U.S. has seen a mass wave of nativism that has shifted the “Overton Window” of acceptable politics, making once-marginal aspects of anti-immigrant ideology a part of the mainstream GOP. This has changed the nature of…

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The Mainstream Pill

How Media and Academia Help Incels Rebrand

On July 13, 2019, in Utica, New York, 17-year-old Bianca Devins was murdered. Her alleged killer, a 21-year-old man named Brandon Clark, was charged with second-degree murder after he posted a photo of her body and nearly decapitated head on Discord…

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Red Pill, Blue Pill

Q&A with author David Neiwert

Conspiracy theories can be many things to different people. For some, it’s fun: the entertainment value of outlandish “alternative facts,” the promise of secrets revealed, the thrill of envisioning oneself a detective, scouring the internet for…

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Anti-Vaxx Events in New York Highlight Alignment Among Far-Right Militias, Alternative Health Promoters, and Local Politicians

In late June, anti-vaccination groups planned to hold two events in New York, in the towns of Ghent and Akron. While…

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