POSTDEMOCRACY IN AMERICA. Our conversation with prominent scholar of American Politics, specializing in the study of right-wing movements, populism, and race, Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social is now available in podcast on all your favourite platforms.

I had the great privilege of joining the amazing trio of Kimberle Crenshaw, Donna Brazile, and Barbara R. Arnwine to talk about Jesse Jackson’s legacy and what we still have to learn from it. Link in comments

Join IPK on February 23 for a book talk with @juliaazari.bsky.social. She will discuss her new book Backlash Presidents: Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History with @kimberleynyc.bsky.social and @joelowndes.bsky.social. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

We spoke with @joelowndes.bsky.social about the latest polls that find support for Trump from young Americans has done a U-turn and the same conditions that dragged down Biden to defeat are now weighing on Trump. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

From @joelowndes.bsky.social's MUST-read report for @newlinesmag.bsky.social on Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest confab in Phoenix

My report from AmFest 2025

New Yorkers! Come join a conversation with the brilliant revolutionary philosopher Linda Martin Alcoff and me about the past and future of our political moment. RSVP below

Tonight at IPK: @chelseaebin.bsky.social discusses her new book The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building with @joelowndes.bsky.social.

New Yorkers! Come join us next Monday night when I'll be interviewing the brilliant @chelseaebin.bsky.social on her new book The Radical Mind, about the origins of Protestant and Catholic right-wing movement building. 5:30pm, Instutute for Public Knowledge, NYU. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...

I spoke with Community Change co-president @dorianwarren.bsky.social last week about current political perils and how to create the world we want. www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/events/democ...

@joelowndes.bsky.social on Trump's attempt "to conjure up antifa"—which doesn't really exist!—by baiting Portland "into the mother of all antifascist confrontations."

I have a new piece about the memorialization of Charlie Kirk, American identity, and the coming storm.

🧵 [1/2 - VOSTF👇] « The Masculinist Factor » - Chapter 6 of our conversation with @joelowndes.bsky.social. 🎞️ From years of fieldwork (GOP, far right, white supremacists, Blue Lives Matter) and archival research, he traces the rise of right-wing populism since the 90s. Watch here buff.ly/h6y1IWK

[FR👇] 🎙️ @joelowndes.bsky.social, expert in U.S. politics and Visiting Distinguished Lecturer at @huntercollege.bsky.social, explores the rise of the far right, from 1990s conservatism to today’s multiracial authoritarian turn. Race, populism, power—his research cuts deep. 📹 Itw here buff.ly/Gpfoff3

Diagrammes is a new series that aims to diagnose our contemporary authoritarian condition through conversations with left scholars, journalists, and activists including Melinda Cooper, Thea Riofrancos, and Quinn Slobodian. I spoke with them about the past and future of the far right in the US.

“Those who scold protestors for disruptive tactics don’t have a solid basis for their criticism.The highly visible invasion of communities,courthouses,& workplaces by Kevlar-clad, armed ICE agents is bringing thousands more into the streets–evidence that militant resistance is contagious right now.”

The great antifascist Leonard Zeskind has died. Any activist in the U.S. who seriously confronted white nationalism and fascism in the last half century depended on his immense research, writing, and organizing. We are all indebted to him. www.kcur.org/news/2025-04...

A powerfully grim, informative, and essential new piece by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on the bizarre and horrifying Armageddonist fascism we all now face:

New Yorkers, come out tomorrow!

Micah and I recently published an essay about this in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social. Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I've been studying the growth of the multiracial right with Dan HoSang, @joelowndes.bsky.social and Micah English for the last few years. This work has included attending far right conferences and rallies, listening to right-wing media (especially podcasts), and interviewing key influencers.

The machinery of mass deportation has been set in motion in a nightmarish fashion. It is meant to be impossible to stop—or at least to appear that way. Still, history teaches us that this machine, like any other, can be brought to a halt. My latest @thenation.com. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

“The Left thought that cultural, linguistic, representational shifts would inure us from reactionary authoritarian politics. The Right has shown they can retool it & make it work for their ends.” @alfatau.bsky.social @joelowndes.bsky.social & Dan HoSang on the troubling rise of the multiracial right

How do you protect yourself online? In this video we’ll walk you through some steps we take to protect our online safety, and give you tips on how to strengthen yours… www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9uF...

@joelowndes.bsky.social giving us a tiny bit of hope in Oakland

Dan HoSang and I did an interview with New Politics about Trump’s victory and the multiracial right. newpol.org/issue_post/a...

The discourse around the pervasive tendency among our political, media, and business elites to accommodate Trump and signal compliance is, in my opinion, focused too much on the idea that they are “obeying because they’re cowards” - as opposed to the idea that many don’t think Trump is all that bad.

“If you really wanted to drive a wedge, a deep wedge, into the union movement — and there already were strong cracks in it prior to this election — this would be a hell of a way to do it,” @joelowndes.bsky.social told me earlier today about Rep LCD as Labor Sec. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

I was asked about Polis's support of RFK Jr. In the west there is distrust of the feds as well as a counterculture that has supported both alternative medicine and local food sources. And meanwhile liberals have become reflexive defenders of institutions with close ties to big pharma and big ag.

An invaluable resource; look for a related book by @joelowndes.bsky.social and Daniel HoSang, forthcoming in 2025. www.politicsmultiracialright.org

New Yorkers, come through for a conversation about fascism at Columbia University this Wednesday, November 13 at 6pm. Here's a link for registration: mailchi.mp/columbia/joi...

Hi friends, here’s a couple of recent pieces I wrote on Trump and MAGA: logosjournal.com/author/josep... newlinesmag.com/argument/in-...

Political scientists, please consider signing this open letter: www.polisciceasefire.org

Alberto Toscano on how the fascist politics that have been developing in Israel in recent years are imbedded in the colonial project

Centre for Constitutional Rights (one of the few legal organisations I love unconditionally) has issued an emergency report about the Israeli crimes against Palestinians. Below link is a PDF: ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...

This Thursday - don't miss this important discussion about prison labor and extraction with @min0p0ly.bsky.social, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and Stevie Wilson:

Dan HoSang on the Conversation podcast:

I wrote a piece for WaPo on the ugly past and dangerous future of the authoritarian presidency https://t.co/i2p2K20hY5

What are we doing on this platform?

While I'm relieved by the Harper decision, we should be clear about what happened. SCOTUS agreed to consider, before rejecting, a ludicrously anti-democratic appeal. Doing so helped boost the Court's own legitimacy while extending its political authority over elections.

Proud Boys + neo-Nazis are planning protests + disruptions of #Pride events - so we created a resource page with original flyers, printable booklets + a library of report backs detailing community self-defense to help you push back. https://itsgoingdown.org/materials-and-resources-to-defend-pride/

Moms for Liberty is in many ways like the Citizens Councils of the 50s and 60s. Like the CC MfL claims civic legitimacy for bigotry through the idea of defending children against the state. Also like the CC, they act as a link between a major party and more extreme groups.

Lisa Beard’s brilliant new book offers a pol theory of identification through Black, Latinx, queer and trans activist appeals. It is smart, revolutionary, and beautifully written. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/if-we-were-kin-9780197517321?cc=us&lang=en&