The violence is not a bug- it’s a feature. My latest op ed is now live: msmagazine.com/2026/01/27/i...

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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...

@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....

33% of hospital workers in California are foreign born. 25% in Florida. 5% in Tennessee. The U.S. faces shortages of health care workers, and #immigration restrictions will make the situation worse. buff.ly/Xb0nkhS

These women could instead blame unbridled capitalism as they attempt to distance themselves from a lifetime of overwork and redefine what is possible. Join a union, ladies. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/s...

Only 12 percent of Trustees have "professional experience" in higher ed, yet they wield an existential power over universities. Some, such as those at TNS, have been using their power to feather each others' nests at faculty and student expense. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

Annie Wilkinson, Political Research Associates, on global feminist organizing against authoritarianism. @praeyesright.bsky.social @justisaurus.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.

Outstanding work by @fesonline.bsky.social mapping the tech/policy/finance connections binding the network undermining US democracy now, and that is coming for Europe next. Great visuals. www.authoritarian-stack.info

NYC, come out 11/7 and say: Billionaires out of our classrooms! Stand with @aaup.org @aft.org @debtcollective.bsky.social @psc-cuny.org @uupinfo.bsky.social. @higheredlabor.bsky.social @nysut.bsky.social @fordhamaaup.bsky.social @aaupcu.bsky.social, NYU AAUP, SDS, & many more

Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women. I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...

Toxic masculinity is not what it used to be…

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.

“It's Never Just About Gender”: Gender and Authoritarianism: PRA Analyzes Trump 2.0’s First 100 Days, Part 2 @praeyesright.bsky.social @maryrreynolds.bsky.social @ch4ncie44.bsky.social @justisaurus.bsky.social politicalresearch.org/2025/09/25/i...

If anyone is confused about what is going on: www.cunylawreview.org/freedom-of-t...

It’s coming fast and furious now. If you are going to read one thing about my book and my work, read this unbelievably rich piece in The 19th News. Jasmine Mithani gets this book, and my aims, on a cellular level. 19thnews.org/2025/09/how-...

What's Gender got to do with Authoritarianism? Theory: (En)Gendering Authoritarianism belonging.berkeley.edu/engendering-... Practice: Texas Professor Fired After Accusations of Teaching 'Gender Ideology' www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u... @obi-belonging.bsky.social

Faculty in red states are being punished for failing to signal in their course descriptions that their classes will include content on "gender ideology." Remind me again which party was appalled by idea of "trigger warnings"? www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

How does domestic & intimate partner violence relate to overall crime and targeted violence? Read this article with @milleridriss.bsky.social and @washingtonpost.com, then check out Cynthia's newest book: Man Up: The New Misogyny and the Rise of Violent Extremism by Princeton University Press

OpenAI is anything but “open”—very early on, it left behind that marketing tag to become increasingly closed, elitist, and inherently anti-democratic. Empire of AI had a rather different subtitle in its UK edition: “Inside the reckless race of total domination.”

This is a HUGE win for American higher education! #DefendHigherEd www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

Labor activists in coalition of local unions and labor-adjacent orgs. This was new, including the whole workforce of higher ed: faculty, clerical, health care, custodians, librarians, counselors, IT, buildings maintenance, landscapers, dining services, etc. @higheredlabor.bsky.social

Thought the same today. Juries are part of the often-frustrating-but-much-better-than-fascism rule of law Trump is destroying.

Following our recent episode of Inform Your Resistance, we have compiled a list of resources to provide you with more insight on how to focus your organizing, right-size the threat, and resist the Right: bit.ly/45vleMY.

Earlier this year, PRA and our partners hosted a roundtable with gender and reproductive justice activists and change makers to better understand criminalization during this period of authoritarian consolidation. Learn more at politicalresearch.org/2025/03/12/a....

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

"It can't happen here" is the handmaiden for "it" happening.

🚨The Seventh Issue of Hammer & Hope is now live. The decline of the United States into a more open form of authoritarianism continues. The damage here is connected to damage elsewhere. But cracks in the right-wing offensive are also starting to emerge. hammerandhope.org/article/trum...

Just a high-ranking US official promoting an extreme Christian nationalist and his belief that women shouldn't have the right to vote.

I reported for @prismreports.org on how universities are another tool in the government’s mass deportation arsenal.

Funding the illiberal backlash in Europe and beyond. My latest on Substack writekaths.substack.com/p/funding-th...

Learn about why gender and sexual hierarchies are core elements of an authoritarian power structure in this new episode of Inform Your Resistance. Tune in now: politicalresearch.org/2025/06/12/w....

The way the US Republican Party talks about trans people is eliminationist in nature. They use rhetoric that clearly means that in their view, trans people do not have a right to exist in the world. It is inevitable that some people will hear that and see it as license to commit violence.

I'm pouring over the details of the reconciliation bill and its potentially apocalyptic effects on higher education for a short piece - it really is a five alarm fire. They're going to overhaul the student loan infrastructure as a means of anti-intellectual, resegregationist social engineering.

What's gender got to do with authoritarianism?: Everything. Jason Stanley on mainstream media's failure to see the through lines between MAGA attacks on higher ed and global fascism--gender and race are central to its decades-long moral panic and propaganda war. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Christian Zionism, Enforced Disappearances and State Repression, Immigration Enforcement, Reproductive and LGBTQ Rights == comprehensive analysis from @praeyesright.bsky.social politicalresearch.org/2025/06/12/t...

NYTimes Politics reporters and editors reprised Tucker Carlson's disgusting pre-2024 election description of DJT as a punitive father-figure returning home & applied it to Andrew Cuomo, who, like DJT, is a credibly accused sexual harasser of young women. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/n...

On my recent visit to Oxford: open.substack.com/pub/kristind...

www.military.com/daily-news/2... a big part of this is that if they have a choice between having an integrated service that's inclusive or a divided service that's not, they'll opt for the latter because they believe that integration destroys institutions

Republicans have gotten a *lot* more regressive on gender in a very short period of time. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/o...

Checking in from parental leave to share my latest paper with @carnegiedcg.bsky.social! What's behind the contemporary anti-gender backlash? How does it manifest across different countries and regions? And why has it been difficult to mount an effective response? 🔽 🔽 🔽

"It’s reminding our elected leaders that fighting for our democracy means fighting for those disappeared in America." #disappearedinamerica @anatosaurus.bsky.social theimmigrationhub.shorthandstories.com/disappeared-...

Two emergencies. One system failing pregnant people. One hospital was held accountable for denying life-saving abortion care. Another? Let off the hook. The Trump admin just rescinded EMTALA guidance—a quiet but dangerous move that makes hospitals less likely to act.

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An important series on Christian nationalism from a South African perspective, from Gideon Strauss, who worked with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: open.substack.com/pub/institut...