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Cloee Cooper

Research Director

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Cloee Cooper is a journalist and researcher with over a decade of experience researching far right movements and their inroads into law enforcement and local government. She was granted the 2021 Soros Justice Media fellowship to develop a podcast on far right sheriffs and holds a master’s degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism, specializing in social justice and investigative reporting. Before the mainstream knew of A social movement based on a belief in biologically determined racial hierarchies, often with the ultimate goal of establishing an all-White nation state. Learn more , she tracked, monitored, and organized against A term used to describe organizations, movements, ideas, and policies that oppose immigrants and immigration. Learn more organizations with ties to White nationalism with the Center for New Community from 2009-2012. Her work has been cited in Politico, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HuffPo, NPR Nevada, and The Guardian. You can read her analysis at The Progressive, The Center for Right-Wing Studies, PBS Chicago, and The Public Eye. She currently serves on the editorial board of Hard Crackers, a journal documenting the everyday life of those striving to overturn the mess we are in.

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Public Eye
How Movements Sustain Us Amid Rising Authoritarianism
Cloee Cooper speaks with three movement leaders—Alex Tom, Meena Jagannath, and Vince Warren—about rising authoritarianism, successful resistance strategies, and the future of Left organizing.
Q&A
Public Eye
Amplifying Voices for Immigrant Justice
Cloee Cooper interviews Greisa Martínez Rosas, Executive Director of United We Dream, about her work in the immigrant justice space and our current political moment of rising authoritarianism and anti-immigrant policy and sentiment.
Q&A
Religion Dispatches
To help readers navigate this pivotal election, RD is collaborating with PRA’s research team to provide short, timely posts, with a special emphasis on far-right organizing and election interference…
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