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Political Research Associates. Social justice research and strategy center since 1981. Publishers of The Public Eye magazine
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Political Research Associates @praeyesright.bsky.social · Nov 14
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.
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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:
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.
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November 7, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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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.
When Adversaries Become Allies The Fight Against the Patriot Act and the Surveillance State From the Archives
November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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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.

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November 5, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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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....
“Trump's second win didn't come out of nowhere. It's the result of decades of corporate backed policies that have really wrecked and configured the material conditions of the working class today … And both major political parties have been a part of this. They've been pushing economic policies that have been putting corporate profits over people's needs. And that's the exact environment that allows or that enables far-right actors to step in "
October 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
DHS’s Immigrant Tracking Tech Lays the Ground for Authoritarian Surveillance By Anita Say Chan The Public Eye Fall 2025 While eugenic disinformation allowed expansive gains in immigration bans at the turn of the century, it proved to be as powerful a tool for conditioning public tolerance for more overtly authoritarian containment measures.
October 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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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.
The Public Eye Fall 2025 Florida Is the “Tip of the Spear” How 287(g) Expansion Fuels Mass Deportations By Jessica Pishko “There is no way to control people entering the country without also controlling those of us who live inside, because limiting immigration always has the effect of limiting civil rights and freedoms for everyone.”
October 15, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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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...
What Antisemitism Is, What It Isn’t, and Why It Matters By Ben Lorber What Antisemitism Is Antisemitism has always been deeply interwoven with other types of social domination. It is both a form of bigotry and scapegoating against Jews, and a conspiracy theory that today is stitched into the fabric of white Christian nationalism and its authoritarian culture. What It Isn’t In this moment, antisemitism largely doesn’t manifest in the kind of structural disparities in income, housing, incarceration and the like that characterize systemic racism. But these conspiracy theories remain structural in a different way. They are built into the layer of social storytelling, the ideological fabric that holds public understanding in a country shaped by centuries of hegemonic Christian attitudes. Why It Matters In times of crisis like our own, authoritarian leaders draw on antisemitism as a distinct and powerful narrative tool to consolidate their base, name enemies, and advance their agenda. We must understand and combat antisemitism so that we can protect our Jewish comrades. But ending antisemitism is also crucial to getting everyone free. Antisemitism is a crucial weapon in the Right’s assault on justice movements.
October 14, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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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....
REsources: Building Alternative Economic Systems to Fight Authoritarianism with Hialy Gutierrez and Claudia Espinel Media Justice, mediajustice.org Corporate Media Is Capitulating to Trump, 2025 Qasim Rashid, Esq., Let’s Address This with Qasim Rashid Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians, 2024 Ciara Torres-Spelliscy, NYU Press What Is Movement Infrastructure? How Movements Sustain Us Amid Rising Authoritarianism, 2024 Cloee Cooper, The Public Eye
October 10, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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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
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October 9, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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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....
“We Must Fight for Everyone” for Immigrant Justice Author Q&A with Silky Shah on Unbuild Walls By Ethan Fauré “The strategy of ‘good’ immigrant versus ‘bad’ immigrant ultimately targets all immigrants. We knew that would happen: As abolition teaches us, that’s how the system works. If you accept that some people deserve such treatment, they’ll expand who’s deserving.“ — Silky Shah
October 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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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
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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.
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October 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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“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?
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September 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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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....
REsources: “It's Never Just About Gender”: Gender and Authoritarianism: PRA Analyzes Trump 2.0’s First 100 Days, Part 2 Authoritarians Must Break Your Will to Resist — So What Can You Do About It?, 2024 Steven Gardiner, Religion Dispatches Capitol Offenses: January 6th 2021 & The Ongoing Insurrection, 2022 Steven Gardiner and Tarso Luís Ramos, PRA Trump 2.0’s First 100 Days: Authoritarian Gains and Consolidation, 2025 Political Research Associates, The Public Eye One Year In: A Q&A with Tarso Luís Ramos on Trump’s First Year in Office, 2018 ,Tarso Luís Ramos and Kathryn Joyce, The Public Eye Authoritarianism, Criminalization, and Reproductive Injustice: A Roundtable Discussion, 2018 ,Annie Wilkinson and Mary Reynolds, The Public Eye The Women Disobey protest against US Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) "zero tolerance" policy separation children and families at the US/Mexico border. Credit: Sarahmirk via Wikimedia Commons
September 26, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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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.
In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, research analysts Annie Wilkinson, Chancie Calliham, and Mary Reynolds are joined by reproductive justice movement leader Norbese Flint to discuss how MAGA weaponizes gender to entrench authoritarianism. Listen to the full episode at https://politicalresearch.org/2025/09/25/its-never-just-about-gender-gender-and-authoritarianism-pra-analyzes-trump-20s-first-100.
September 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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“Kirk may serve a purpose as a martyr for the moment, but it is only ever truly beholden to one messiah: Donald Trump.” @ardenthistorian.bsky.social reports for @religiondispatches.org on Charlie Kirk’s memorial service and how his death is being used to advance MAGA's agenda: ow.ly/VJpG50X1CPh.
Part MAGA Rally Part Christian Revival — Charlie Kirk’s Memorial Service Includes Numerous Calls for 'Spiritual Warfare'
Sunday’s Charlie Kirk memorial service was part MAGA rally, part fundraising event for Turning Point USA—but mostly, it was a religious revival. The more than 70,000 attendees witnessed the canonizati...
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September 25, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Charlie Kirk took Turning Point USA from an organization advocating for free markets to a center for content creation pushing forward his Christian nationalist agenda. Read about the Kirk’s transformation from a free market proponent to a Christian nationalist here: bit.ly/42bPn35.
Who was Charlie Kirk? Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA (TPUSA) focused on conservative economic themes such as free markets in the initial years of its founding. But gradually, Kirk created a new larger “culture war” mission grounded in Christian nationalism. In a 2019 speech, Kirk invited his fellow Christians into a version of culture war tinged with antisemitism. He claimed that liberal philanthropist George Soros, not merely content with “winning at the ballot box,” was funding a program to put liberal pastors in churches across the country. At the February 2020 CPAC convention, Kirk offered his most public endorsement of Christian nationalism yet when he praised Trump as a president who understood the “seven mountains of cultural influence,” a term frequently used by Christian nationalists to refer to various areas of society they believe Christians are entitled to take “Dominion” over through culture and laws
September 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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The killing of Melissa and Mark Hortman highlights the dangerous convergence of radicalized religion and America’s escalating antiabortion violence.
'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
September 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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Shanice Octavia McBean and @rachelshabi.bsky.social join us for our final episode of Lifting the Curtain On Antisemitism. Listen in as we explore how progressives can build alliances, challenge false framings around antisemitism, and deepen their understanding of the issue: ow.ly/k56950WZ1m1.
September 18, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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In this episode of Lifting the Curtain, Leo Ferguson from @jfrejnyc.bsky.social and PRA’s @vetanthropology.bsky.social explore the intertwined histories of antisemitism and racism, and how politics around Israel's genocide in Palestine are challenging these movements. Tune in now: ow.ly/jK7a50WVW3s.
Anti-Antisemitism and Antiracism with Leo Ferguson and Steven Gardiner
This episode of Lifting the Curtain on Antisemitism breaks down how antisemitism is tied to anti-immigrant movements and anti-Blackness, and how they work together to reinforce systems of oppression.
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September 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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This episode of Lifting the Curtain takes a deep look into the role of antisemitism in the global far-right ecosystem, paying close attention to the U.S. and Germany. Tune in now to listen to the full conversation with @eladn.bsky.social and Dr. Stefanie Schüler-Springorum: ow.ly/zuLJ50WUOC0.
September 10, 2025 at 7:51 PM