Plus the return of our webinar series! September/October 2022 PRA has been busy this fall. Earlier this month, we published an interactive map depicting hundreds of candidates for federal, statewide, and state legislative office in the 2022 midterm election cycle who represent a definable Electoral Far Right, the insurrectionist edge of American politics. The map identifies 274 candidates who advance multiple categories of bigoted, supremacist, or anti-democracy ideas and policies, and/or are involved with far-right movements which promote these ideologies. Check out the map and its companion report here. PRA has also resumed our webinar programming with our series Capturing the Center: The Precipitous Spread of Far Right Movements. The first webinar in the series, The Next Frontier: Comprehensive Sex Education in the Post-Roe Era, discussed the Right’s involvement in restricting access to reproductive health care, and how these strategies are being used to block access to evidence-based sex education. The second webinar in this series, Beyond the Hate Frame: When Systemic Violence Masquerades as Hate and Extremism, focused on PRA’s core framework referred to as the “hate frame.” PRA Research Analysts looked at how the designation of “hate”— i.e. hate crimes, hate groups—and “extremism” perpetuates hegemonic oppression, and who benefits from this design. Join us for the third webinar in this series, Embodying White Christian Supremacy: From Deputizing Citizens to Flying the Blue Lives Matter Flag, on 11/23/2022 at 4 PM ET. And finally, join PRA for our virtual end of year celebration, "Rooted in Resistance." We'll be recapping our successes in blocking the Right in 2022 while looking ahead to what we are up against in 2023. You can register here. We look forward to sharing more ways for you to interact with our work. In Solidarity, The PRA Team Interact with our map! PRA's interactive map depicts hundreds of candidates for federal, statewide, and state legislative office in the 2022 midterm election cycle who represent a definable Electoral Far Right. Learn more here! In Case You Missed It In this conversation, analysts and organizers broke down the strategies of the Right in restricting access to reproductive health care, and how these strategies are being used to block access to evidence-based sex education. Panelists shared their strategies for ensuring that communities have access to sex education and to reproductive rights more broadly, and how to use messaging to further a just and more inclusive society. Watch here. From the candidates in 2022 races carrying the mantle of the Far Right, to the treatment of anti-LGBTQ persecution as “phobia”, PRA Research Analysts Ben Lorber, Habiba Farh, and Heron Greenesmith name and explore the language and policies that obscure purposeful and concerted programs of social order maintenance. In this conversation, they answered the questions: “How does the designation of 'hate'–i.e. hate crimes, hate groups–and 'extremism' or 'fanaticism' perpetuate hegemonic oppression? And who benefits from this design?” For security reasons, we will not be making the recording public until early 2023. A transcript is available for your reading. Read the Transcript here. Join PRA for our virtual end of year celebration, "Rooted in Resistance." We'll be recapping our successes in blocking the Right in 2022 while looking ahead to what we are up against in 2023. Register Here! New from PRA A Bid For Power: Mapping the Electoral Far Right in the 2022 Elections By Ben Lorber, Olivia Lawrence-Weilmann, and Steven Gardiner PRA has developed an interactive map to identify 274 candidates in the 2022 midterm election cycle who represent a definable Electoral Far Right, the insurrectionist edge of American politics. Christian Right Denialism is More Dangerous Than Ever: A Reporter's Guide to the New Apostolic Reformation By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné Popular media has ignored the influence of the New Apostolic Reformation, even denying its existence. He's on a Mission From God: Pennsylvania GOP Candidate Doug Mastriano's War With the World By Frederick Clarkson Pennsylvania's Republican candidate, Doug Mastriano, is deeply embedded in the Christian Right, and it shows. New From Religion Dispatches 'Do They Even Read the Bible?' — Why Exposing White Evangelical Hypocrisy is a Dead End By Cavan Concannon In the battle over the “correct” and “incorrect” interpretations of scripture, White evangelicals will never be persuaded to reconsider their position, writes Cavan Concannon. As Midterms Approach, White Christian Nationalism is Mainstream for the GOP — And it's Only Getting Worse By Annika Brockschmidt At Yale University’s conference on White Christian nationalism and the approaching midterms, speakers warned of the mainstreaming of far-right ideas in the GOP. Annika Brockschmidt gives a recap of the conference and details the ongoing threat White Christian nationalism poses to democracy. Statement on NAR & Christian Nationalism Answers Few Questions But Exposes Growing Rifts in the Movement By Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné Frederick Clarkson and André Gagné continue their series on covering the New Apostolic Reformation with a critical breakdown of a new statement from NAR leaders attempting to distance themselves from the movement. For more analysis and resources, browse our most recent articles and 40-year archive on our website. Get involved with PRA! Work with Us Senior Research Analyst - Intersectional Reproductive Justice Subscribe to The Public Eye Our quarterly print magazine is one of the longest running of its kind! Subscribe today for $25 for one year or $45 for two years. 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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