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  • “The Incel Rebellion”

    Flowers and messages are placed at a memorial for victims of the mass killing on April 24, 2018 in Toronto, Canada.

    On April 24, minutes before Alek Minassian plowed his van into a busy pedestrian street in Toronto, killing 10 and wounding at least 13—predominantly women—the 25-year-old posted an explanation of sorts on Facebook: “Private (Recruit) Minassian…

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  • Profile on the Right: Steven Anderson

    Steven Anderson is a virulently anti-LGBTQ preacher from the United States, who has compared gay people to ax murderers and Adolf Hitler, believes that all gay people should be executed, and admitted he would reject his children if they were …

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  • Profile on the Right: Arthur Goldberg & JONAH

    Arthur Goldberg founded JONAH, a Jewish gay conversion therapy organization.

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  • Profile on the Right: Desert Stream Ministries

    DSM is an ex-gay ministry that promotes homophobia under the guise of offering counseling, support, and healing for “men and women seeking Jesus in light of unwanted same-sex attractions.”

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  • Profile on the Right: Human Life International (HLI)

    Human Life International (HLI) is a Catholic organization with a long history of vicious and hyperbolic attacks on LGBTQ and reproductive rights. It opposes contraception, in-vitro fertilization, comprehensive sex education, and abortion in all…

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  • Profile on the Right: Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam)

    The Center for Family and Human Rights, known as C-Fam, is a fierce and active opponent to LGBTQ rights and has considerable international influence, particularly in the United Nations.

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  • Profile on the Right: MassResistance

    MassResistance is a Massachusetts-based anti-LGBTI group with an expanding global presence. The group supports activists around the world in combatting LGBTI equality “without compromise.”

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  • Profile on the Right: Christian Broadcasting Network & Trinity Broadcasting Network

    While casting themselves as ambassadors of goodwill, the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN) and Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) are global purveyors of a rigidly right-wing political and social agenda. By vastly expanding the U.S. Christian…

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  • Profile on the Right: Turning Point USA (TPUSA)

    Charlie Kirk (founder of TPUSA) speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland.

    Established in 2012, Turning Point USA (TPUSA)’s mission is to “identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of freedom, free markets, and limited government.” Claiming to have a presence on over 1,000 college campuses…

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  • Profile on the Right: CitizenGO

    CitizenGO describes itself as a “community of active citizens who work together, using online petitions and action alerts as a resource, to defend and promote life, family, and liberty.” The right-…

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  • The Right’s “Gender Ideology” Menace Rolls to Africa

    An orange HazteOir/CitizenGO bus in Spain

    CitizenGO Africa recently announced that Nairobi, Kenya would be the first city on the continent to host the so-called #FreeSpeechBus. The bus, infamous for its explicitly anti-transgender messages, will likely roll through Nairobi in conjunction…

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  • Old Dog, New Anti-Union Tricks

    James Stergios, Executive Director of the Pioneer Institute. Photo: Rappaport Center via Wikimedia Commons.

    Since PRA’s 2016 report on Massachusetts’ most notable conservative think tank, the Pioneer Institute has taken on public sector unions not just in Massachusetts but across the entire country. Recent legal challenges to public sector unions have…

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  • Standoffs and the Far Right

    Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building after bombing, 1995.

    Twenty-three years ago, on April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a powerful homemade truck bomb in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The death toll reached 168, and about 850 were injured.

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  • White Revolution and the Legacy of the Vietnam War

    Drawing on government documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests and multiple archives of White Power publications, Kathleen Belew has written a comprehensive history of White Power vigilantism, paramilitary training, and…

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  • Christian Nationalism and Donald Trump

    Donald Trump speaking at CPAC 2011 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Gage Skidmore)

    The depth and breadth of White evangelical support for Donald Trump before and since his election has perplexed most observers. But a team of sociologists, freshly-analyzed data in hand, may have the answer that has eluded journalists, scholars, and…

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  • Jake Laskey and the American Front

    In the small Oregon town of Cottage Grove, just south of Eugene, a sign on an empty storefront that used to house a local museum announces a new business: Wolfclan Armory. While most towns would welcome the new blood, instead protests have already…

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  • The Future of the U.S. “Populist Radical Right” and White Nationalism

    Donald Trump did not invent nativism or right-wing populism, but he did provide those ideologies a more prominent platform than it has enjoyed in many decades. And, as scholar Cas Mudde warns, its claws in American society will ensure that it…

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  • Mothers of White Supremacy

    Although historically, White women have supported the political, cultural, and social systems of White supremacy, there’s still a surprising level of confusion and shock when White women today do the same. Media narratives continue to assume,…

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  • Social Justice Feminism and How We Defeat the Right

    The ascent of Donald Trump to the presidency has dramatically worsened an already grave set of challenges confronting justice-minded people, and has presented the women’s movement in the United States with an historic opportunity to create a…

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  • Where the White House Gets its Racist Immigration Policies

    Protest in support of DACA, September 1, 2017. Photo: Joe Flood / Flickr.

    It should come as no surprise that President Trump disparages scores of countries while lamenting the lack of European immigrants coming to the U.S., as he reportedly did during a meeting with lawmakers in January 2018. In addition to his racially…

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