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Spencer Sunshine

Spencer Sunshine, PhD writes about the U.S. White Nationalist movement (including the Alt Right, neonazis, and esoteric fascists), the Patriot movement and militias, and antisemitic currents. He is the lead author of the 2016 report Up In Arms: A Guide to Oregon’s Patriot Movement, which is a collaboration between PRA and Oregon’s Rural Organizing Project. He was a fellow at PRA from 2013-2019.

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Political Research Associates
In the United States, 2017 was a banner year for fascist and related far right activism. There were arguably the highest levels of public demonstrations by the Right since the last wave of Klan and neonazi activity in the 1980s and ‘90s.
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Political Research Associates
White Nationalism, Antisemitism, and Misogyny
A new wave of avowed White nationalists energized by Donald Trump—most prominently the Alt Right—held demonstrations across the United States in 2017, most famously in Charlottesville, Virginia in August.
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Political Research Associates
How Anti-Communist Conspiracies Imagine an Antifa Civil War on November 4
A conspiracy theory has spread like wildfire through the Far Right claiming that on November 4, “antifa” will start a civil war and attempt to overthrow Donald Trump.
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