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Today, PRA joined the movement to #eXit Elon Musk's Twitter. From today on, you'll find our newest outputs here on Bluesky. Follow us for the latest research and analysis on the U.S. and global Far Right as we head into this coming period of authoritarian repression and much-needed Left resistance.
Following our recent IYR episode, here are some additional resources for further context on the role of local law enforcement in immigration: politicalresearch.org/2025/11/20/n....
November 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Following our recent IYR episode, here are some additional resources for further context on the role of local law enforcement in immigration: politicalresearch.org/2025/11/20/n....
PRA Research Director Cloee Cooper hosts this episode of Inform Your Resistance, examining the role of local law enforcement in Trump’s immigration crackdown, current ICE mobilizations, and how local organizers are resisting. Tune in now: politicalresearch.org/2025/11/20/n....
The New Frontlines of Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
How is ICE mobilizing on our streets today? What role does local law enforcement play in Trump’s immigration crackdown? And what are local organizers doing about it?
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November 20, 2025 at 9:39 PM
PRA Research Director Cloee Cooper hosts this episode of Inform Your Resistance, examining the role of local law enforcement in Trump’s immigration crackdown, current ICE mobilizations, and how local organizers are resisting. Tune in now: politicalresearch.org/2025/11/20/n....
CONTENT WARNING: This post discusses child sexual assault and underage marriage. Please be advised.
In Religion Dispatches, Becky Garrison breaks down how Megyn Kelly’s recent minimization of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse fits into the broader framework of purity culture. Learn more below.
In Religion Dispatches, Becky Garrison breaks down how Megyn Kelly’s recent minimization of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse fits into the broader framework of purity culture. Learn more below.
To Those Familiar with Purity Culture, Megyn Kelly's Comments About Epstein and 15-Year-Old Girls isn't Such a Surprise
International media outlets and even an actual teenager slammed attorney and media personality Megyn Kelly for claiming (31:40) that the late Jeffrey Epstein was not an "actual" pedophile because there's a significant difference between girls who are five years old and girls who are 15. According to
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November 19, 2025 at 8:50 PM
CONTENT WARNING: This post discusses child sexual assault and underage marriage. Please be advised.
In Religion Dispatches, Becky Garrison breaks down how Megyn Kelly’s recent minimization of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse fits into the broader framework of purity culture. Learn more below.
In Religion Dispatches, Becky Garrison breaks down how Megyn Kelly’s recent minimization of Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse fits into the broader framework of purity culture. Learn more below.
In a 2022 Q&A with PRA, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social breaks down the ideas behind his book Reconsidering Reparations, where he argues for a collective effort to dismantle and rebuild global systems to create a more equitable future. Learn more at politicalresearch.org/2022/07/19/r....
Reconsidering Reparations
There has been a recent resurgence of interest in reparations, with cities including Detroit, MI; St. Paul, MN; and Berkeley, CA either considering or endorsing institutional compensation and redress ...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
In a 2022 Q&A with PRA, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social breaks down the ideas behind his book Reconsidering Reparations, where he argues for a collective effort to dismantle and rebuild global systems to create a more equitable future. Learn more at politicalresearch.org/2022/07/19/r....
This week marks the start of COP30, the UN’s 30th Climate Change Conference, with notable absences from several U.S. leaders. In this 2024 excerpt from The Exhausted of the Earth, @materialistjew.bsky.social examines the reality of right-wing climate realism. Learn more at https://ow.ly/fKm950Xrkoe.
November 13, 2025 at 7:43 PM
This week marks the start of COP30, the UN’s 30th Climate Change Conference, with notable absences from several U.S. leaders. In this 2024 excerpt from The Exhausted of the Earth, @materialistjew.bsky.social examines the reality of right-wing climate realism. Learn more at https://ow.ly/fKm950Xrkoe.
“Davis, represented by right-wing group Liberty Counsel, had filed the appeal seeking to avoid paying hefty fees in relation to her anti-LGBTQ activism.” — @sharonzhang.bsky.social, @truthout.org.
Supreme Court declined to hear ex-Kentucky clerk Kim Davis’s appeal over a $360k fee, leaving intact rulings holding her liable for denying marriage licenses to same-sex couples and keeping same-sex marriage legal.
Supreme Court Declines to Hear Challenge to Decision Legalizing Gay Marriage
Justices declined to hear an appeal from Kim Davis over a $360,000 fee she was ordered to pay.
truthout.org
November 12, 2025 at 6:24 PM
“Davis, represented by right-wing group Liberty Counsel, had filed the appeal seeking to avoid paying hefty fees in relation to her anti-LGBTQ activism.” — @sharonzhang.bsky.social, @truthout.org.
PRA’s @benlorber8.bsky.social writes in @thenation.com, “In just a week, Carlson has introduced the groyper leader’s ideas to an immeasurably wider audience.”
Learn more about how fractures on the Right are opening space for White nationalist Nick Fuentes to gain influence within MAGA:
Learn more about how fractures on the Right are opening space for White nationalist Nick Fuentes to gain influence within MAGA:
Nick Fuentes Has Officially Breached the MAGA Gates
How the right’s crisis over US support for Israel has provided the white nationalist with the opening he needs to be welcomed into the MAGA fold.
www.thenation.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
PRA’s @benlorber8.bsky.social writes in @thenation.com, “In just a week, Carlson has introduced the groyper leader’s ideas to an immeasurably wider audience.”
Learn more about how fractures on the Right are opening space for White nationalist Nick Fuentes to gain influence within MAGA:
Learn more about how fractures on the Right are opening space for White nationalist Nick Fuentes to gain influence within MAGA:
Following Dick Cheney’s recent death, it’s worth reflecting on his harmful legacy. As a chief architect of the USA PATRIOT Act, he helped expand government power and mass surveillance. In this 2006 article, Abby Scher examines how unlikely coalitions pushed back: https://ow.ly/byuO50Xo0BQ.
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Following Dick Cheney’s recent death, it’s worth reflecting on his harmful legacy. As a chief architect of the USA PATRIOT Act, he helped expand government power and mass surveillance. In this 2006 article, Abby Scher examines how unlikely coalitions pushed back: https://ow.ly/byuO50Xo0BQ.
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Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday, marking a historic win for the left over a high-powered, moneyed coalition of establishment forces that came together in hopes of defeating him.
Read more: bit.ly/3WB0AqR
Read more: bit.ly/3WB0AqR
November 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City mayoral race on Tuesday, marking a historic win for the left over a high-powered, moneyed coalition of establishment forces that came together in hopes of defeating him.
Read more: bit.ly/3WB0AqR
Read more: bit.ly/3WB0AqR
In the latest episode of Inform Your Resistance, @hialy.bsky.social and Claudia Espinel examine how we can use narrative strategy to fight against authoritarian leaders and the economic system that enables them: politicalresearch.org/2025/10/09/c....
October 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
In the latest episode of Inform Your Resistance, @hialy.bsky.social and Claudia Espinel examine how we can use narrative strategy to fight against authoritarian leaders and the economic system that enables them: politicalresearch.org/2025/10/09/c....
As ICE raids tear people from their communities, The Public Eye is in solidarity with all im/migrants. Our Fall 2025 issue looks at the movement driving attacks on immigrants from the White House: the anti-immigrant Right: politicalresearch.org/public-eye-m...
October 28, 2025 at 4:54 PM
As ICE raids tear people from their communities, The Public Eye is in solidarity with all im/migrants. Our Fall 2025 issue looks at the movement driving attacks on immigrants from the White House: the anti-immigrant Right: politicalresearch.org/public-eye-m...
In a recent roundtable discussion, authors @chelseaebin.bsky.social, @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social, and @julieingersoll.bsky.social discussed the connection between the NAR and the New Christian Right of the 70s and 80s. Learn more here: politicalresearch.org/2025/10/15/i....
It’s Not Backlash, It’s Strategy
Chelsea Ebin, Matthew Taylor, and Julie Ingersoll discuss the intersection of today’s New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) and the New Christian Right of 1970s and 1980s formed by conservative Catholics an...
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October 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
In a recent roundtable discussion, authors @chelseaebin.bsky.social, @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social, and @julieingersoll.bsky.social discussed the connection between the NAR and the New Christian Right of the 70s and 80s. Learn more here: politicalresearch.org/2025/10/15/i....
We are excited to feature the work of author and illustrator Robert Liu-Trujillo on the cover of our Fall 2025 issue of the Public Eye. Learn more about his process here: politicalresearch.org/2025/10/10/a....
The Art of Activism: Robert Liu-Trujillo
Artist Robert Liu-Trujillo speaks with PRA about this issue’s cover image, graffiti and political art, and connected global resistance.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
We are excited to feature the work of author and illustrator Robert Liu-Trujillo on the cover of our Fall 2025 issue of the Public Eye. Learn more about his process here: politicalresearch.org/2025/10/10/a....
In this article, @sbjorkjames.bsky.social analyzes how the Trump administration's acceptance of Afrikaner refugees reinforces the ‘White Genocide‘ myth that has been utilized to incite fear and violence, advance authoritarianism, and promote White nationalism. Learn more: ow.ly/lf8150XfHH1.
Afrikaner Refugees and the White Nationalist Myth that Won't Die
The Trump administration has adopted draconian immigration policies limiting new arrivals and increasing deportations across the board in the U.S., with one notable exception: White Afrikaner refugees...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
In this article, @sbjorkjames.bsky.social analyzes how the Trump administration's acceptance of Afrikaner refugees reinforces the ‘White Genocide‘ myth that has been utilized to incite fear and violence, advance authoritarianism, and promote White nationalism. Learn more: ow.ly/lf8150XfHH1.
In this article, Anita Say Chan discusses how new surveillance technology used by DHS and ICE to track immigrants is rooted in a long history of eugenics. Learn more about the connections between immigration, eugenics and an authoritarian surveillance state here: ow.ly/Tm5t50XcKHs.
October 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
In this article, Anita Say Chan discusses how new surveillance technology used by DHS and ICE to track immigrants is rooted in a long history of eugenics. Learn more about the connections between immigration, eugenics and an authoritarian surveillance state here: ow.ly/Tm5t50XcKHs.
The expansion of 287(g) agreements under Trump are fueling mass deportations and Ron DeSantis’s Florida provides a stark preview of what the future of these policies looks like in practice. @jesspish.bsky.social examines how the anti-immigrant Right is fueling authoritarianism: ow.ly/Hyiw50Xc5Yy.
October 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The expansion of 287(g) agreements under Trump are fueling mass deportations and Ron DeSantis’s Florida provides a stark preview of what the future of these policies looks like in practice. @jesspish.bsky.social examines how the anti-immigrant Right is fueling authoritarianism: ow.ly/Hyiw50Xc5Yy.
PRA’s @benlorber8.bsky.social defines antisemitism and examines how it has been weaponized to disrupt social justice organizing, fuel White Christian nationalism, and support genocidal and authoritarian policies in this two-part series for @convergencemag.com: convergencemag.com/articles/wha...
October 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
PRA’s @benlorber8.bsky.social defines antisemitism and examines how it has been weaponized to disrupt social justice organizing, fuel White Christian nationalism, and support genocidal and authoritarian policies in this two-part series for @convergencemag.com: convergencemag.com/articles/wha...
Following our episode on building alternative economic systems, we’ve compiled a list of resources to help you better understand and combat authoritarianism. Learn more here: politicalresearch.org/2025/10/09/b....
October 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Following our episode on building alternative economic systems, we’ve compiled a list of resources to help you better understand and combat authoritarianism. Learn more here: politicalresearch.org/2025/10/09/b....
PRA Deputy Research Director @hialy.bsky.social and Claudia Espinel explore the connections and contradictions among economic systems, political infrastructure, ideology, and authoritarianism in this episode of Inform Your Resistance. Tune in now: politicalresearch.org/2025/10/09/b....
Building Alternative Economic Systems to Fight Authoritarianism with Hialy Gutierrez and Claudia Espinel
politicalresearch.org
October 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
PRA Deputy Research Director @hialy.bsky.social and Claudia Espinel explore the connections and contradictions among economic systems, political infrastructure, ideology, and authoritarianism in this episode of Inform Your Resistance. Tune in now: politicalresearch.org/2025/10/09/b....
In a Q&A with PRA, Silky Shah, author of ‘Unbuild Walls’, discusses why an abolitionist approach to immigration is needed to combat the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant authoritarianism. Learn more: politicalresearch.org/2025/09/23/w....
October 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
In a Q&A with PRA, Silky Shah, author of ‘Unbuild Walls’, discusses why an abolitionist approach to immigration is needed to combat the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant authoritarianism. Learn more: politicalresearch.org/2025/09/23/w....
PRA Senior Research Analyst Annie Wilkinson appeared on @juliekkohler.bsky.social’s White Picket Fence podcast to discuss how authoritarian regimes depend on gender essentialism and misogyny to consolidate power. Tune in now to learn more: lnk.to/wpfep1.
America's Gender Whiplash
America is facing a gender backlash—a backlash so swift and severe, it feels more like a whiplash. Right now, no group is more at risk than trans Americans. On his first day back in the White House, T...
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October 3, 2025 at 3:19 PM
PRA Senior Research Analyst Annie Wilkinson appeared on @juliekkohler.bsky.social’s White Picket Fence podcast to discuss how authoritarian regimes depend on gender essentialism and misogyny to consolidate power. Tune in now to learn more: lnk.to/wpfep1.
PRA's @fredclarkson.bsky.social speaks with @jodi-enda.bsky.social in @msmagazine.com about the New Apostolic Reformation movement's link to the killing of Melissa and Mark Hortman. Learn more in this four-part series on the rise in anti-abortion violence under Trump: msmagazine.com/2025/09/18/r....
'Dad Went to War': The Radical Faith Behind the Minnesota Assassinations
The killing of Melissa and Mark Hortman highlights the danger of radicalized religion and America’s escalating antiabortion violence.
msmagazine.com
October 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
PRA's @fredclarkson.bsky.social speaks with @jodi-enda.bsky.social in @msmagazine.com about the New Apostolic Reformation movement's link to the killing of Melissa and Mark Hortman. Learn more in this four-part series on the rise in anti-abortion violence under Trump: msmagazine.com/2025/09/18/r....
“You don’t necessarily need people doing things that are high-risk. You just need large numbers of people doing them,” says Hardy Merriman in an episode of @newyorker.com’s ‘The Political Scene’ discussing strategies of resistance in a backsliding democracy. Tune in now!
Jimmy Kimmel and the Power of Public Pressure
The comedian has returned to late-night TV. What can the response to his suspension teach us about countering Trump?
www.newyorker.com
September 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
“You don’t necessarily need people doing things that are high-risk. You just need large numbers of people doing them,” says Hardy Merriman in an episode of @newyorker.com’s ‘The Political Scene’ discussing strategies of resistance in a backsliding democracy. Tune in now!
Following our recent episode of Inform Your Resistance, we compiled a list of resources to give you more insight into how anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion organizing reinforce authoritarian norms and politics: politicalresearch.org/2025/09/25/i....
September 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Following our recent episode of Inform Your Resistance, we compiled a list of resources to give you more insight into how anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion organizing reinforce authoritarian norms and politics: politicalresearch.org/2025/09/25/i....
In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, researchers Annie Wilkinson, @ch4ncie44.bsky.social, and @maryrreynolds.bsky.social are joined by reproductive justice movement leader Norbese Flint to discuss how MAGA weaponizes gender to make authoritarian gains. Tune in now at bit.ly/4mMfgOA.
September 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, researchers Annie Wilkinson, @ch4ncie44.bsky.social, and @maryrreynolds.bsky.social are joined by reproductive justice movement leader Norbese Flint to discuss how MAGA weaponizes gender to make authoritarian gains. Tune in now at bit.ly/4mMfgOA.