"What we're learning is that the insurrection is not distant. It's not a year ago. It's now, it's close, it's in our communities."
- Serena Sebring, Executive Director of BluePrint NC
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On the one year anniversary of the January 6th insurrection, PRA hosted a briefing with our partners at BluePrint NC and published a new report to take stock of the current strategies and momentum on the Right and to ground ourselves and our movement in big picture analysis of how we can most effectively face the fight ahead.
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Featuring:
Steven Gardiner, PRA Research Director
Tarso Luís Ramos, PRA Executive Director
Serena Sebring, Executive Director of BluePrint NC
Mab Segrest, Senior Strategist for Blueprint NC’s Anti-Racist Research Program
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Read PRA's New State of the Right Report:
By PRA's Tarso Luís Ramos and Steven Gardiner
The first anniversary of the Capitol storming is an occasion to take stock of the robust current state of America’s insurrectionist, anti-democratic factions, those that would sooner dispense with democracy altogether than lose their hold on power.
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On January 6, 2021, White nationalist Nick Fuentes stood outside of the U.S. Capitol, addressing a crowd of thousands, as rioters streamed into the building. Hailing the “American people rising up and taking our country back,” Fuentes urged the crowd to “not leave this capitol until Donald Trump is inaugurated President.”
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One year later, Fuentes may remain under federal scrutiny in ongoing Capitol insurrection investigations. However, while other far-right formations present that day, such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, have seen their national momentum falter, Fuentes’ America First/groyper movement—a largely online and anonymous network of Gen Z White nationalists and hard-right paleoconservatives that inherited the legacy of the 2016-17 Alt Right—has seen its profile continue to rise...
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On the anniversary of the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, PRA is taking a moment to examine the history of law enforcement’s relationship with the Far Right. In 2021, academic activists Jarrod Shanahan and Tyler Wall published a scholarly article, “‘Fight the reds, support the blue’: Blue Lives Matter and the US counter-subversive tradition.” Shanahan, a criminal justice professor at Governors State University, and Wall, a sociologist at the University of Tennessee, explore an important historical parallel to contemporary forms of backlash against racial justice organizing.
Half-a-century before many members of today’s Blue Lives Matter and MAGA movements found themselves facing Capitol police on January 6, the John Birch Society (JBS) built a grassroots network of far-right citizens and rank-and-file cops around the country to mobilize around the slogan, “Support Your Local Police, and Keep Them Independent!”—independent, that is, from federal oversight...
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A look back at a few PRA pieces you may have missed from the last weeks of 2021:
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