Podcasts, Webinars and more! July/August 2024 Dear Readers and Partners, This has been a summer of preparation: for a historic election season, for vital movement convenings, for new and improved content, and for significant changes coming soon to PRA (stay tuned)! As we look to the coming months, we are focused on how PRA can and will meet the needs of the moment—how our research and analysis underpins strategic interventions to block authoritarianism. From our next issue of The Public Eye covering the rise of the multiracial Right, to the release of a new six-episode podcast series on the role that sheriffs play in eroding democracy, and incisive timely commentary published daily on Religion Dispatches, we will continue to provide expertise on the most urgent threats and necessary interventions. Through weekly briefings and convenings with our movement partners on the ground, we will continue to work in close partnership with those building a better future for us all.  In solidarity, Political Research Associates In Case You Missed It! Panelists discussed the the New Apostolic Reformation as a significant religious and political movement playing an outsized role in public life, and the threat the movement proposes to democracy. Audience members left with recommendations for tried and true strategies to block this growing and influential movement. Watch the recording here. Coming Soon! Season 3 of our podcast, Inform Your Resistance, drops in September! On Inform Your Resistance, host Koki Mendis is joined by experts to discuss the most significant contemporary threats to democracy from the mainstream and Far Right. Listen in twice a month so that you can inform your resistance in the fight for a just and inclusive democratic society. After all, resisting authoritarianism is just better with friends. Subscribe to Inform your Resistance wherever you get your podcasts! In Season 1, host Koki Mendis talked to experts on the Christian Homeschooling movement, ecofascism, the abortion abolitionist movement, and labor organizing, among other topics. Listen here. In Season 2, we explore anti-trans organizing, Christian Zionism, tradwives, and other movements on the Right undermining our democracy. Listen here. PRA at the Socialism Conference 2024 PRA staff will attend and host panels at the Socialism Conference. A four-day conference featuring dozens of participatory discussions, lectures, and workshops organized by activists from all over the country, the Socialism Conference will host exchanges between existing organizers and organizations, while bringing in new layers of the politically curious as part of building our radical traditions and movements. Cooperatives, Socialized Power, and the Reproduction of Economic Alternatives with Deputy Research Director Hialy Gutierrez. A Potent Christian Left and the Fight for a Free Palestine with Strategic Partnerships Director Naomi Washington-Leapheart. Christian Zionism 101: What it is, Who's Behind it, & How to Fight it with Senior Program Manager Aidan Orly, Senior Research Analyst Ben Lorber, and Strategic Partnerships Director Naomi Washington-Leapheart. How Can The Left Respond to this Moment? A Special Live Taping of The Laura Flanders & Friends TV Show with PRA board member Rachel Herzing The Latest from PRA and Religion Dispatches The Supreme Court Cleared the Way for the ‘President-King’—The Right’s Prize for 50 Years of Planning by Annika Brockschmidt Following the Supreme Court’s ruling that, in the words of Sonia Sotomayor, made the president “a king above the law,” Annika Brockschmidt broke down the decades-long path forged by the Right to reach this victory. Rising Influence of New Apostolic Reformation Teachings is Ominous Sign For the US — Especially For LGBTQ Students by Jonathon Sawyer The ever-expanding reach of the NAR poses many threats to American people and democracy—and for LGBTQ students, this threat is playing out in real time. Jonathon Sawyer details how NAR policies are harming LGBTQ youth in schools. Want to Know What Public Education Would Look Like Under Project 2025? Just Take a Look at Oklahoma by Andrew L. Seidel Project 2025 promises to dismantle public education, including by “sunsetting” the Department of Education. Andrew L. Seidel uses the case study of Oklahoma public schools to show what Project 2025’s plan could look like if enacted nationwide. Big Oil Wants to Exploit the Legal System to Crush Protest & Dissent. We Cannot Let It Win by Andres Chang The political stakes are high for the oil and gas industry, which is desperate to preserve its dominance amid cascading environmental policy shifts, and ever more visible social and economic effects of climate change. How the Right "Sets the Mood": Carol Mason on Sentimentalism and Resentment by Annie Wilkinson and Mary Reynolds Carol Mason talks with Mary Reynolds and PRA's Annie Wilkinson about how her 2021 article "Sentimentalizing Resentment" still holds true—and the ways that the culture of sentimentalism and resentment on the Right has shifted in just the past three years. For more analysis and resources, browse PRA's most recent articles and 40-year archive on our website. Get involved with PRA! Write for Us PRA accepts pitches for our quarterly magazine, The Public Eye, submissions for web articles, and multimedia submissions. Refer to this page for more information about submission processes. 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