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Vance Boelter and the Return of Violent Anti-Abortion Zealotry

Political Research Associates
Intelligencer
Whatever else Boelter is, he appears to be the latest in a long line of violent opponents of abortion who have used terror tactics to intimidate providers and patients alike in order to discourage them from exercising their rights.
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Press

The Minnesota Suspect’s Radical Spiritual World

Political Research Associates
The Atlantic
Before Vance Boelter was accused of killing a Democratic state lawmaker, he had an active, even grandiose, religious life.
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Press

Hodl Be Thy Name: My Adventures With Bitcoin’s True Believers

Political Research Associates
MotherJones
Crypto as a new American religion.
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White nationalist streamer Nick Fuentes declares “the groypers have won” as the right is now “so explicitly against mass migration”

Political Research Associates
Media Matters
Fuentes said of Charlie Kirk and Matt Walsh: “Six years ago, they said it was racist to say that we should have a whites-only immigration policy. … Here we are in 2025, both of them say no more nonwhites, no more third-worlders, deport them all.”
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Make America Hate Again

Political Research Associates
IREHR
MAHA Institute director has a history of promoting antisemitic conspiracies.
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Turning Point USA: A case study of the hard right in 2024

Political Research Associates
SPLC
Several weeks after the 2024 presidential election, Charlie Kirk, founder and president of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), proudly embraced a white nationalist conspiracy theory while celebrating then-President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for mass deportation.
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Press

Focus on the Family

Political Research Associates
SPLC
Focus on the Family has long relied on its biblical worldview strategy to push back against LGBTQ+ progress and reproductive rights.
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Press

Behind Trump and DOGE’s Reckless Destruction Is a Determination to Crush Workers

Political Research Associates
Truthout
The future of collective bargaining and labor rights in the United States is on the table.
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Press

Will Leo XIV Be the Labor Pope?

Political Research Associates
Barn Raiser
Will the U.S. Catholic church revive its legacy of support for migrant farmworkers and organized labor?
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Press

Legislators in 13 States Have Introduced 15 “Abortion Abolition” Bills in 2025

Political Research Associates
Truthout
Explicit criminal liability for the person who obtains an abortion is a hallmark of all the bills.
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Press