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Inform Your Resistance

Every month, experts join Political Research Associates to discuss the most significant contemporary threats to democracy from the mainstream and Far Right. Listen now so that you can inform your resistance in the fight for a just and inclusive democratic society. After all, resisting is just better with friends.

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Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 8
In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads “Florida Is the ‘Tip of the Spear:’ How 287(g) Expansion Fuels Mass Deportations” by Jessica Pishko, as part of our ongoing From the Archives series. From the Archives features those must read and, now, must listen to pieces from PRA’s more than 40 years of publishing. This article was published in the Fall 2025 issue of The Public Eye magazine.
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Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 7
How is ICE mobilizing on our streets today? What role does local law enforcement play in Trump’s immigration crackdown? And what are local organizers doing about it?
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Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 6
In this episode, Hialy Gutierrez, PRA Deputy Research Director, and Claudia Espinel, discuss the connections and contradictions between prevailing economic systems, political infrastructure and…
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Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 5
In this second of a two-part series on analyzing Trump 2.0’s first 100 days in office, we share insights from PRA’s researchers about how MAGA weaponizes gender to entrench authoritarianism.
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Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 4
In this first of a two-part series on analyzing Trump 2.0’s first 100 days in office, we share insights from PRA’s researchers about how to move beyond the work on blocking rising authoritarianism, to the work of building power, vision, and solidarity.
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Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 3
In this episode, Koki and Jiva lay out key ways that the Left can and must build a shared vision of democracy, while the pro-democracy movement is in a moment of crisis. They talk through the “what is to be done?”, drawing inspiration history.
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Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 2
In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads Koki reads “Gender and Authoritarianism: A Framework for Analysis and Action” by Annie Wilkinson, as part of our ongoing From the Archives series.
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Inform Your Resistance Season 4: Episode 1
Host Koki Mendis kicks off season 4 with a discussion with Steven Gardiner on the wide-ranging practices, policies, and ideologies underlying the antidemocratic goals of the Neoreactionary Right—and how to resist them.
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Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 10
PRA’s former Executive Director Tarso Luís Ramos about the ways that the terrain of contestation between Left and Right has shifted over three decades, and where he looks to for inspiration in an era of growing authoritarianism.
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Inform Your Resistance Season 3: Episode 9
Koki speaks with researchers Mariel Cooksey and Amy Mack about the Far Right in Canada today. They discuss the evolution of the Far Right and its disparate movements and the current rise to prominence of the Far Right in provincial politics.
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