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SOURCE: Texas Monthly
8/8/2022
At CPAC, Trump Presents a Violent Blueprint for Taking Power
The combination of persecution and rage on display in CPAC rhetoric by the former president and others suggests the right granting itself permission to take steps including violence to take power if the ballot fails.
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SOURCE: Texas Public Radio
8/1/2022
Edward Miller on the Resurfacing of Bircher Conspiratorialism on the Right Today
Today, the society itself and its beliefs are growing. North Texas is the center of its resurgence. Welch’s legacy continues to live on in modern day conservatism.
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SOURCE: Texas Observer
7/21/2022
The John Birch Society's North Texas Renaissance
The ideas and conspiratorial mindset central to Bircherism have become part of mainstream conservatism, with booming popularity in the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs. Historian Edward H. Miller explains the group's ideas have been more tenacious than the organization itself.
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SOURCE: CNN
7/21/2022
Attacks on Drag Queen Story Hours Part of Bigger Reactionary Project
Historian Thomas Zimmer says that the wave of accusations that drag performers are "grooming" children for sexual abuse is part of a broader reactionary project that seeks to reinforce multiple rigid social hierarchies and put straight white men at the top.
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SOURCE: We've Got Issues Podcast
7/22/2022
Thomas Zimmer: Slide Toward Authoritarianism on Right is Accelerating
Historian Thomas Zimmer tells Joshua Holland that there is a consensus among experts that American democracy is teetering on the brink of collapse -- but there is a reason for hope.
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7/3/2022
The Edmund Burke Foundation Betrays its Namesake and Threatens Liberty with "National Conservatism"
by Thomas Lecaque and J.L. Tomlin
The Edmund Burke Society has claimed the mantle of the foundational conservative in its recent manifesto, but what the document articulates is a blueprint for an authoritarian, theocratic society that owes more to European fascism.
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SOURCE: MSNBC
6/15/2022
Belew to Maddow: Fascist Groups are "Nationwide Paramilitary Army"
Kathleen Belew, an expert on white nationalist paramilitary groups, talks with Rachel Maddow about why individual incidents with racist extremist groups should be seen as part of a single, larger groundswell.
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SOURCE: Freethinker
6/14/2022
Is the Right Now Post-Religious? If Only!
by Jacques Berlinerblau
A high-profile op-ed by Nate Hochman obfuscates the continued significance of strains of Christian nationalism to the rising far right and falsely claims this movement is a secular one.
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SOURCE: CNN
6/15/2022
"Patriot Front" Plan to Attack Pride Shows Connections of White Supremacy and Anti-LGBTQ Politics
The arrest of neonazis in Idaho who planned an attack on a Pride event echoes a 1937 raid on a Miami gay nightclub by the KKK, says historian Julio Capo, Jr.
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SOURCE: HuffPost
6/13/2022
The Families of Victims of Anti-Abortion Violence Face a Post-Roe World
The antiabortion movement has always included a violent, terroristic element. How will the pending Supreme Court decision influence its possible revival?
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SOURCE: The Guardian
6/8/2022
Reece Jones on How "Great Replacement" Idea Revived
"Thanks to the great replacement theory, the people that once forcibly colonised much of the rest of the world can cast themselves as oppressed victims."
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SOURCE: New Statesman
6/9/2022
What's Really New about the "New" American Right?
by John Ganz
There's something familiar about a secular nationalist movement that mobilizes property owners through a narrative of national decline and the promise of controlling or purging enemies of a unified people through force, recently described in a Times op-ed. If only there were a word for it....
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SOURCE: Substack
6/6/2022
Proud Boys Indictment Charges Attempt to Overthrow Government. Does it Matter?
by Heather Cox Richardson
The charge of seditious conspiracy by a paramilitary organization with close ties to the Trumpian Right is incredibly serious, but will it be met with a shrug?
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6/5/2022
Is the Republican Party Willing to Purge its Extremists?
by Jeff Kolnick
Beginning in the 1920s, the Democratic Party began the long, difficult, and politically costly process of dissociation from white supremacy. Do today's Republicans who claim to reject extremism have the courage to do the same?
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
6/2/2022
Another Tragic Eruption of "Great Replacement" Violence
by Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin
"While the specific targets and methods of spreading this theory may be new, White native-born Americans worrying about being replaced is not. And history demonstrates that the theory has been repeatedly used to legitimize discrimination and deadly violence."
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SOURCE: Salon
5/31/2022
The Far Right is Coming for Colleges
by Kathryn Gin Lum
Under the banner of "classical education" and civics, the far right is funding a growing number of academic centers to advance conservative views. Historians Michael Butler, Nancy MacLean and Bethany Moreton comment.
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SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
5/24/2022
White Replacement Theory is Fascism's New Name
by Jason Stanley and Federico Finchelstein
The global adoption of the idea of ethnic replacement by right-wing politicians is a repackaging of the themes of Jim Crow racism, eugenics and fascism.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/19/2022
Bringing CPAC to Hungary Betrays the Roots of the Conservative Movement
by Lauren Lassabe
It is a bitter irony that the postwar American conservative movement was energized by the anti-Stalinist Hungarian revolution of the 1950s; today the movement takes inspiration from a repressive regime and its autocratic leader.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/20/2022
Banning Abortion and The Buffalo Shooting are Connected
by Mytheli Sreenivas
The seeming coincidence of the Buffalo shooter's "Great Replacement" manifesto and the leaked Supreme Court decision actually highlights the way that women's reproductive freedoms are central to the politics of race and demography.
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SOURCE: Salon
5/18/2022
Buffalo Shooting Draws Attention to "Ecofascism"
The ideology links far-right authoritarianism with environmental concerns through the idea that an excess population of nonwhite and non-western people are responsible for overconsumption and waste.
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