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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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Public Eye
The U.S. Patriot Movement Today
Judging from his recent statements, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump seems to be making plans for post-election violence if he’s defeated. At the beginning of August he warned, “I’m afraid…
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Political Research Associates
Sometimes Patriot movement groups reach out to progressive activists in an attempt to recruit them to their cause.
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Political Research Associates
“Coordination” is a process which allows state, county, and other lower-level governments to give input to federal agencies’ land use plans, in an attempt to achieve consistency. While this process is mentioned in a number of federal acts, the Hard Right promotes an interpretation of it which is close to its doctrines of the county governments as holding more power than the federal government, including the notion that county sheriffs can decide what laws are constitutional.
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