PRA’s research and strategic partnerships teams are working to support on-the-ground movement partners in the struggle against ICE in Minneapolis and targeted cities around the country. Learn more on our website: politicalresearch.org/strategy-par....

In our latest episode of IYR, PRA researchers discuss the deadly ICE crackdown in Minneapolis and the powerful resistance we’ve seen on the streets. By contextualizing today’s anti-immigrant movement, they reveal lessons from Minneapolis that can help us strengthen our strategies for the future.

In a 2024 episode of IYR, PRA's Ethan Fauré examines how the push for increased anti-immigration policing outlined in Project 2025 advances the project’s broader authoritarian goals of consolidating executive power. Listen to the full episode here: politicalresearch.org/2024/09/26/a....

In this episode of IYR, we discuss the Trump administration's attack on Venezuela, escalating conflicts with ICE across the U.S., and the protests in Minneapolis following Renee Good's murder with PRA's @vetanthropology.bsky.social. Tune in now: politicalresearch.org/2026/01/20/b....

Read Anita Say Chan’s article on the eugenicist roots of the new surveillance technologies employed by DHS and ICE to monitor, arrest, and deport immigrants: https://ow.ly/37Le50Y4Zl9.

“The right-wing project is genuinely unpopular, which makes it precarious and fragile.” PRA’s @benlorber8.bsky.social examines the Right’s outrage over the amazing grassroots anti-ICE organizing in Minneapolis. Read his full @religiondispatches.org piece here: religiondispatches.org/2026/01/26/r....

Last year, the author of Unbuild Walls, @silkys13.bsky.social, spoke with PRA’s Ethan Fauré about how abolition serves as a critical strategy to combat the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant authoritarian agenda. Learn more here: politicalresearch.org/2025/09/23/w....

“He wants the chaos, but he wants to be able to control it—keeping the threat of escalation as leverage.” PRA’s @vetanthropology.bsky.social breaks down Trump’s threats to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis in his piece for @religiondispatches.org : religiondispatches.org/2026/01/19/t....

In this bonus episode of IYR, we talk to PRA’s @vetanthropology.bsky.social about the Trump administration’s attack on Venezuela and domestic clashes with ICE, including the Minneapolis protests over Renee Good’s murder. Learn more here: politicalresearch.org/2026/01/20/b....

In the season finale of Inform Your Resistance, Host Koki Mendis and PRA’s Principal Research Advisor Steven Gardiner reflect on the first year of Trump’s second term, and discuss the future of MAGA politics. Listen here: https://ow.ly/9B6C50XXtnl

This PRA Public Eye issue on "Gender & Authoritarianism" will, as @jamellebouie.net says, "help you understand the current psychosis in american life." @praeyesright.bsky.social @justisaurus.bsky.social @maryrreynolds.bsky.social politicalresearch.org/public-eye-m...

Published in 2019, but chillingly relevant today: @undertheshadow.bsky.social warned that a U.S. invasion of Venezuela—sold as “humanitarian aid”—would be a nightmare for its people. The playbook hasn’t changed. inthesetimes.com/article/vene...

PRA is working on new and exciting changes! As we work on fighting the Right, PRA is launching a new website and updating our look to reflect who we are and the vibrant future we fight for. Stay tuned!

As the year is winding down, so is PRA's staff. PRA's offices will be closed from Dec 25th - January 3rd. See you in the new year where we'll continue to work to #InformYourResistance.

Here are the Q&As, roundtables, and excerpts from the books we've covered in our Public Eye issues, and online. As the year winds down, we hope you have the time to read up and inform your resistance for the coming year: https://politicalresearch.org/

As 2025 draws to a close, The Public Eye team looks back at a year of publishing our signature in-depth reporting on and analysis of the Right. In this year-end roundup, we’re highlighting important stories to read before the year’s over: https://ow.ly/AjG250XNqXH

In this 2008 article, former PRA Executive Director Tarso Luís Ramos and Pam Chamberlain examine how the anti-immigrant Right successfully mobilized the Christian Right, leading to a convergence around shared anti-democratic, exclusionary agendas. Learn more here:

Host Koki Mendis reads @jesspish.bsky.social's piece “Florida Is the ‘Tip of the Spear’” in this episode of Inform Your Resistance. Tune in now to learn how the expansion of 287(g) agreements under Trump is accelerating America’s deportation machine: politicalresearch.org/2025/12/11/h....

In his article for @barnraiser.bsky.social, @paulrosenberg.bsky.social highlights PRA's podcast “The Insurgence: Sheriffs,” co-produced by Cuentero Productions. The piece explores the rise and growing mainstream influence of the Constitutional Sheriffs movement. Read the full article here ↓

@unitedwedream.org’s Greisa Martínez Rosas speaks with PRA about her path to leading the nation’s largest immigrant youth network as a queer undocumented women, and how immigrant communities uniquely resist authoritarianism. Read our full interview here: politicalresearch.org/2024/12/13/r....

Then in Oct 2024, came a podcast series, “The Insurgence: Sheriffs,” created & hosted by researcher Cloee Cooper with @praeyesright.bsky.social. It took a more cultural approach, focused on how constitutional sheriff myth-making led to J6 & beyond. 4/n politicalresearch.org/the-insurgen...

DHS’s immigrant-tracking tech draws on eugenics, fuels political repression, and accelerates surveillance authoritarianism. Read Anita Say Chan’s piece to learn more: politicalresearch.org/2025/10/10/d....

This year, for the first time in decades, the U.S. government refused to commemorate World AIDS Day. In this 2017 article, Cole Parke explains what can happen when those in power impose their oppressive ideologies on institutions meant to protect us: politicalresearch.org/2017/12/20/w....

As the Right continues to fracture after Tucker Carlson’s interview with Nick Fuentes, the Zionist Right is struggling to confront the surge of antisemitism from within their own ranks. @benlorber8.bsky.social and Jess Schwalb explain more in their latest piece for @jewishcurrents.bsky.social:

PRA's @benlorber8.bsky.social interviews authors Xtn Alexander and @matthewnlyons.bsky.social about their distinct approach to radical antifascism and the ‘three way fight.’ Learn more: politicalresearch.org/2025/03/11/t....

“We need to combat far-right efforts to build alliances with leftists and also efforts to co-opt antifascism as a tool of ruling-class repression.” — Xtn Alexander and Matthew N. Lyons, Three Way Fight: Revolutionary Politics and Antifascism Learn more about radical antifascism here:

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....

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 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.

“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:

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.

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

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...

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....

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.

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...

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....

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.

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!

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....