New episode is up rightrising.fireside.fm/65

New podcast episode with Professor Lee Bebout on how to engage with right-wing talking points rightrising.fireside.fm/64

New podcast episode in collaboration with 2Act4 with Professor Miroslav Mareš exploring the spread of transnational foreign fighters and the impacts of the digitization of the far right in the Czech Republic. share.fireside.fm/episode/yoYm...

New podcast episode with Vinicius Bivar, PhD, exploring the political, economic, and historical context of Trump's tariffs against Brazil. Enjoy! rightrising.fireside.fm/62

If you're in Milan next week, we hope you'll join us for this International Seminar at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore developed by Polidemos and featuring FRAN executive committee member @areidross.bsky.social on the discursive construction of the "fall of Rome" by the US far right.

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New podcast episode on the roots of the modern "pro-family movement" and anti-abortion extremists like the alleged Minnesota assassin. rightrising.fireside.fm/61

New podcast episode featuring Bharath Ganesh of the University of Amsterdam on his work mapping disinformation and how it pertains to Trump's usage of the carnivalesque. rightrising.fireside.fm/60

amid the analyses of the far right rising, it's nice to have a story about the far right losing. this one adds some interesting, if unsettling, insight into how it happened, and why "claim no easy victories" remains a useful precept.

New blog post from Roland Clark (University of Liverpool) highlights lessons that can be learned from Romania's recent, crucial victory against the populist far right. www.farrightanalysisnetwork.com?p=655

Finnish teen who stabbed three girls at his school says that he used ChatGPT to prepare the attack ... ht @vorkoz.bsky.social www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finl...

Great to see part two of the @franetwork.bsky.social pod now up! A rich discussion on different research methodologies 🔬 when studying the far right, extremist language online and counter-extremism interventions. Check out part two below 👏👍👇

Part 2 of the episode on research methodologies and counter-extremism with @willallchorn.bsky.social rightrising.fireside.fm/59

New episode with @willallchorn.bsky.social on technology and the far right, as well as counter-messaging using different media rightrising.fireside.fm/58

CALL FOR PAPERS!!!! FRAN is launching a new peer-reviewed research series for studies on the New Right. Check out the link below, and feel free to send in your abstracts if you have relevant research. www.farrightanalysisnetwork.com?page_id=648

Had a lovely chat about hard men, hard times, and the funny little manosphere guys who’ve taken over the US govt — with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social and Alexander Reid Ross from @franetwork.bsky.social — check it out below!

New podcast episode is out with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social and Scott Burnett rightrising.fireside.fm/57

I got to chat with FRAN fellow Jason Luger about his work analyzing the interweaving of far-right online/irl worlds in everyday spaces from gyms and boozy flotillas in North Carolina to graffiti wars in eastern Germany. Enjoy! bsky.app/profile/fran...

New episode of Right Rising is up featuring geographer Jason Luger. rightrising.fireside.fm/56

Very pleased to share my new article exploring how institutional disregard for researcher safety online produces structural failures of care. Early view, open access here 👇👇👇 doi.org/10.1332/2515...

"This is an international fight. It’s more valuable to work in an international context. There’s not an atmosphere of fear." www.chronicle.com/article/no-n...

Texas prosecutors will no longer seek the death penalty against the gunman who killed 23 people in a mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart six years ago, the local district attorney announced on Tuesday.

Tracing Violent White Supremacists and Online Radicalization from Charlottesville to Today

If you could not make it to last week's thrilling webinar on the German far right after the elections, you can watch a recording—posted here along with previous webinars: www.farrightanalysisnetwork.com?page_id=470

How to Respond to the Resurgent Far Right Threat? A new episode of the @franetwork.bsky.social Right Rising Podcast has landed. Check it out 👏👍👇 rightrising.fireside.fm/55

The Trump administration is testing the limits of the federal court system to constrain the president, brushing aside court orders, harshly attacking judges and, in some cases, finding ways to circumvent adverse rulings.

Don't forget about this awesome event coming up in a couple of days! Hope to see you there. March 13, 2025, 6pm CET / 1pm ET / 10am PT Registration link: forms.gle/E8jyrTr931kX...

An armed man who posted threatening messages on social media and was suspected of planning a mass shooting at a Virginia church during service was convicted of a hate crime on Thursday, officials said.

🔴BREAKING: Reform UK is in crisis. The party has suspended MP Rupert Lowe and referred him to the police for alleged bullying and threatening violence against his own party chairman. 💥 Deeply worrying, but unsurprising given Reform UK’s track record. 🧵👇

After the Trump administration cut $400 million of funding to Columbia University over "antisemitism" because of pro-Palestine protests, Charlie Kirk is now warning college campuses that if he's not "treated well" when TPUSA arrives, they'll be next. www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

"A U.S. leader of the neo-Nazi accelerationist network known as the Terrorgram Collective directly communicated with a 16-year-old who killed four people in a school shooting spree that took place in Brazil in 2022." www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

"Clifford had watched up to 10 videos of the self-styled misogynist influencer in the lead-up to the assault on Louise in what the prosecution described as a 'final act of spite.'" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Podcast Relaunch! FRAN's podcast Right Rising is back! Check out our latest podcast episode with Prof Mario Peucker talking about his efforts in Victoria, Australia. rightrising.fireside.fm/55

Members of Congress and civil rights groups are condemning past comments from Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson, including some which critics called antisemitic.

Check out our upcoming webinar, coming up next Thursday. Three experts on the German far right will evaluate the recent elections and the future of Europe. Register here today! forms.gle/E8jyrTr931kX...

We agree! That's why we're working to spark new conversations and evolve our analyses of the "New Right" in ways that will facilitate practical applications. Join our upcoming webinar about the German elections on March 13. Registration link: forms.gle/6zpeZrmb9eQy... bsky.app/profile/blac...

German elections are happening tomorrow!! Keep up to date with this great article by FRAN scholar Michael Zeller (and Fabian Virchow) on the groups and leaders in the far right. FRAN's planning a webinar on March 13 to discus the election outcome. Stay tuned! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, its recently departed director, Robert Santos, tells NPR. By @hansilowang.bsky.social

New article from Polina Zavershinkaia on the Russlandsversteher of the German far right www.farrightanalysisnetwork.com?p=502

"Francis is not their pope anymore, and they are not afraid to say so out loud. Just a few days before the pope's visit to Marseille on September 22 and 23 – and as a new influx of migrants disembarked on the Italian island of Lampedusa ... 1/

How nice it must be to have an understanding of international relations of a 10-year-old to divide the world up into "big spaces" with clean lines along artificial borders that have no resemblance to the real world. That's your mind on Duginism.

"This article uses computational data and social science theories to analyze the misogynistic discourse of the involuntary celibate (“incel”) community. " 1/

Extremism + Gaming Research Network produced this excellent and useful infographic with GNET on the Online Gaming Ecosystem, extremism risks, and mitigation efforts...

Joseph Biggs, a onetime Proud Boys lieutenant, was sentenced to 17 years for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 riot. nyti.ms/3R37m6T