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Far Right Analysis Network

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We are a network of scholars focusing on the rise of populism and the far right

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Sophie Schmalenberger @soschma.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
🎧 PODCAST ALERT 🎧 With the @franetwork.bsky.social, I talked (and rambled) about the far-right in Germany, (Eastern) German feelings, memory, bananas, AI-propaganda tools, ragebait and hopebait. A worthwhile listen, I dare say, if you enjoy a (=my) good German accent. rightrising.fireside.fm/73
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The AfD's Usage of Emotion, featuring Sophie Schmalenberger
Dr. Schmalenberger discusses the AfD's semiotics, historical narratives, and the subjectivation process that produces their following
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
The AfD is surging in Saxony-Anhalt, as culture becomes a politicized battlefield. We caught up with FRAN fellow Sophie Schmalenberger to get her thoughts about the AfD's affective repertoire, history wars, and AI ragebait. Check it out! rightrising.fireside.fm/73
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The AfD's Usage of Emotion, featuring Sophie Schmalenberger
Dr. Schmalenberger discusses the AfD's semiotics, historical narratives, and the subjectivation process that produces their following
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
"Beyond The Riots: Britain’s Far Right, Online Radicalisation And The Future Of Counter-Extremism" An interview with @willallchorn.bsky.social www.farrightanalysisnetwork.com?p=959
26th of October Protest in Highfield, Southampton, at the Highfield House Hotel. Southampton Patriots anti-immigration protest and Stand up to Racism. Lots of Union Jacks and English flags (white background, red cross). red smoke from a flare in center, trailing off into an eerily-white sky. can see angry faces, confusion, a TV camera, and the back of a man's shaved head in the foreground. in the background, a brick building with a red roof—it's a hotel that houses migrants.
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
New episode with Dr. Valerio Alfonso Bruno of Polidemos on recent events in Italy rightrising.fireside.fm/72
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Cracks Forming in the Italian Far Right, ft. Valerio Alfonso Bruno
Dr. Bruno discusses the economic, climatological, and political dilemmas facing Meloni's coalition amid the fracturing of Lega.
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
New episode out featuring Beatriz Lopes Buarque rightrising.fireside.fm/71
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How AI-Driven Male Fantasies Contributed to Anti-Migrant Riots and the "Far-Right Multitude," ft/ Beatriz Lopes Buarque
Dr. Beatriz Buarque discusses her work elucidating the way that AI helps engender male fantasies used in anti-migrant riots, and what the left-wing social theories of the '80s and '90s got wrong about...
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
New episode featuring Eviane Leidig, PhD, about gender and the far right rightrising.fireside.fm/70
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The Vortex of All Principles: Gender and the Far Right, ft. Eviane Leidig
Eviane Leidig joins the pod to talk about her recent work and update us on the Women of the Far Right
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
New episode with Dr. Jasmeet Bahia on her work delving into the Parler social media platform as well as grad students' experiences of racism and sexism in the academy. rightrising.fireside.fm/69
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Whiteness and Patriarchy on Alt-Tech Platforms, ft/ Jasmeet Bahia
We chat about Dr. Bahia's dissertation work on Parler, and how to conceptualize the ways people react to and build communities around changes in social norms.
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
New episode on the manosphere and German far right w/ Greta Jasser rightrising.fireside.fm/68
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Male supremacy, Far-Right Virility and AI, ft/ Greta Jasser
Sitting down with Dr. Greta Jasser to discuss the far right in Germany, alt-tech platforms, and the mainstreaming of the "Looksmaxxing" community in recent weeks
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Alusta! @alustalehti.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Alusta made this small piece based on the interview, thank you @franetwork.bsky.social and Lynda! This will later be published in Finnish too. blogs.tuni.fi/alustalehti/...
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Right-Wing Populism Is Politicising Public Health | Alusta! | Tampereen korkeakouluyhteisö
How does right-wing populism challenge expert knowledge, international health institutions, and the very foundations of evidence-based policymaking? And how can right-wing populists present themselves...
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
New episode on the transnational "anti-gender" movement and its struggle against sexual and reproductive health and rights rightrising.fireside.fm/67
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Transnational Opposition to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, ft. Lynda Gilby
This interview discusses the "anti-gender" opposition to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, featuring a leading expert on transnational conservative movements
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
New episode on the transnational "anti-gender" movement and its struggle against sexual and reproductive health and rights rightrising.fireside.fm/67
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Transnational Opposition to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, ft. Lynda Gilby
This interview discusses the "anti-gender" opposition to Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, featuring a leading expert on transnational conservative movements
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
New podcast episode with FRAN member Valerio Alfonso Bruno, PhD, analyzing the Brothers of Italy and their "political government" rightrising.fireside.fm/66
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Understanding the Brothers of Italy, ft. Valerio Alfonso Bruno
This podcast offers keen analysis of the party structure, strategy, and individuation of the Fratelli d'Italia, featuring expert Dr. Bruno.
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
New episode is up rightrising.fireside.fm/65
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White Nationalism and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Contemporary Historiography, ft/ Curtis Dozier
Prof Cutis Dozier discusses his latest book, The White Pedestal on the way that white nationalists use Greco-Roman history for their own purposes, and how this effort is symptomatic of larger problems...
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
New podcast episode with Professor Lee Bebout on how to engage with right-wing talking points rightrising.fireside.fm/64
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"Rules for Reactionaries": Prof Lee Bebout on the Rhetoric of the Right
Lee Bebout speaks with RR about his book Rules for Reactionaries: How to Maintain Inequality and Stop Social Justice about countering rhetorical strategies, behavioral patterns, and logical problems p...
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
New podcast episode in collaboration with 2Act4 with Professor Miroslav Mareš exploring the spread of transnational foreign fighters and the impacts of the digitization of the far right in the Czech Republic. share.fireside.fm/episode/yoYm...
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Right Rising Episode 63: From Skinheads to Foreign Fighters: Lessons on the Czech Far Right with Miroslav Mareš
FRAN in collaboration with 2Act4 brings you the insights of Professor Mareš on the far right in the Czech Republic, the rise of accelerationism and foreign fighters, and the impacts of digitization.
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
New podcast episode with Vinicius Bivar, PhD, exploring the political, economic, and historical context of Trump's tariffs against Brazil. Enjoy! rightrising.fireside.fm/62
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Trump's Brazil Tariffs in Historical Context w/ Prof. Vinicius Bivar
This episode covers the economic history of Brazil's relationship with the United States, as well as developmentalist economics in light of Trump's recent, punitive tariffs against Brazil.
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
If you're in Milan next week, we hope you'll join us for this International Seminar at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore developed by Polidemos and featuring FRAN executive committee member @areidross.bsky.social on the discursive construction of the "fall of Rome" by the US far right.
DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE POLITICHE
POLIDEMOS - CENTRO PER LO STUDIO DELLA DEMOCRAZIA E DEI MUTAMENTI POLITICI
COLLAPSE:
THE FALL OF ROME VIEWED FROM THE RIGHT
Alexander Reid Ross
Portland State University
Far-Right Analysis Network (FRAN)
Dr. Alexander Reid Ross's expertise focuses mainly on white nationalist groups and their relation to the international fascist movement He has done extensive research on the development of fascist ideology and the growth of the fascist movement
since 2014.
International Seminar
Lunedì 30 giugno 2025
Aula G.041, ore 16.30
Largo A. Gemelli, 1 - Milano
POLIDEMOS
le dei mutamenti politici a derocraza
UNIVERSITAS
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CATTOLICA del Sacro Cuore
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Mario Peucker @mariopeucker.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Thanks for the chat.
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
New podcast episode on the roots of the modern "pro-family movement" and anti-abortion extremists like the alleged Minnesota assassin. rightrising.fireside.fm/61
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The "Pro-Family" Movement: The Roots of the New Christian Right
This discussion covers the rise of the "pro-family movement" through the linking of "single issues" into an illiberal political movement with a long-range determination to restore a mythical past of ...
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
New podcast episode featuring Bharath Ganesh of the University of Amsterdam on his work mapping disinformation and how it pertains to Trump's usage of the carnivalesque. rightrising.fireside.fm/60
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Trump's Carnival: Far-Right Social Media and Symbolic Disorder, ft. Bharath Ganesh
This episode delves into a deeply philosophical analysis of far-right social media and the insurrectionary destabilization of symbolic hierarchies
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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
amid the analyses of the far right rising, it's nice to have a story about the far right losing. this one adds some interesting, if unsettling, insight into how it happened, and why "claim no easy victories" remains a useful precept.
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
New blog post from Roland Clark (University of Liverpool) highlights lessons that can be learned from Romania's recent, crucial victory against the populist far right. www.farrightanalysisnetwork.com?p=655
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A Sigh of Relief: How the Far-Right Lost Romania – Far Right Analysis Network
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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Finnish teen who stabbed three girls at his school says that he used ChatGPT to prepare the attack ... ht @vorkoz.bsky.social www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finl...
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Teen suspect stabs three in targeted school attack in Pirkkala
A 16-year-old student stabbed three female classmates at a school in Pirkkala, Finland. All victims survived. Police say the suspect may have planned the attack for months and targeted girls deliberat...
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Dr William Allchorn @willallchorn.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Great to see part two of the @franetwork.bsky.social pod now up! A rich discussion on different research methodologies 🔬 when studying the far right, extremist language online and counter-extremism interventions. Check out part two below 👏👍👇
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Part 2 of the episode on research methodologies and counter-extremism with @willallchorn.bsky.social rightrising.fireside.fm/59
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The Far Right, Technology, and State Intervention, pt. 2, ft/ William Allchorn
In this wide-ranging discussion, Prof Allchorn elaborates on his work on the far-right's engagement in hybrid warfare, counter-messaging efforts, and the "crisis of social democracy."
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
New episode with @willallchorn.bsky.social on technology and the far right, as well as counter-messaging using different media rightrising.fireside.fm/58
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The Far Right, Technology, and State Intervention, pt. 1, ft/ William Allchorn
In this wide-ranging discussion, Prof Allchorn elaborates on his work on the far-right's engagement in hybrid warfare, counter-messaging efforts, and the "crisis of social democracy."
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
CALL FOR PAPERS!!!! FRAN is launching a new peer-reviewed research series for studies on the New Right. Check out the link below, and feel free to send in your abstracts if you have relevant research. www.farrightanalysisnetwork.com?page_id=648
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Research Series – Far Right Analysis NetworkCall for Papers
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Scott Burnett @burscott.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Had a lovely chat about hard men, hard times, and the funny little manosphere guys who’ve taken over the US govt — with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social and Alexander Reid Ross from @franetwork.bsky.social — check it out below!
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
New podcast episode is out with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social and Scott Burnett rightrising.fireside.fm/57
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The New Hard Right: Linguistic Anthropology and Far-Right Gender Trouble with Cat Tebaldi and Scott Burnett
Drs Cat Tebaldi and Scott Burnett join the pod to discuss gender and the far right through the lens of linguistic anthropology. We discuss the "moral flavor" of hardness apropos their recent, in-depth...
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Alexander Reid Ross @areidross.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
I got to chat with FRAN fellow Jason Luger about his work analyzing the interweaving of far-right online/irl worlds in everyday spaces from gyms and boozy flotillas in North Carolina to graffiti wars in eastern Germany. Enjoy! bsky.app/profile/fran...
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
New episode of Right Rising is up featuring geographer Jason Luger. rightrising.fireside.fm/56
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Geographic Analysis of the Far Right, ft. Jason Luger
Dr. Jason Luger is a Human Geographer and a member of the Social and Cultural Geographies Research Group at Northumbria. His research focuses on the cultures, politics, contestations, and textures of ...
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Dr. Ashley Mattheis @draamattheis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Very pleased to share my new article exploring how institutional disregard for researcher safety online produces structural failures of care. Early view, open access here 👇👇👇 doi.org/10.1332/2515...
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Structural failures of care: institutional disregard for researcher safety online
Online harassment has become an almost ubiquitous, though often institutionally unacknowledged, reality for academics globally, whether they study the online milieu or use digital media to publicise t...
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"This is an international fight. It’s more valuable to work in an international context. There’s not an atmosphere of fear." www.chronicle.com/article/no-n...
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‘No Noncitizen Professor at My Institution Can Speak About Politics Ever Again’
Why Jason Stanley, a scholar of fascism, is leaving Yale for Canada.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26/03/2025
Texas prosecutors will no longer seek the death penalty against the gunman who killed 23 people in a mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart six years ago, the local district attorney announced on Tuesday.
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Texas Prosecutors Will No Longer Pursue Death Penalty in El Paso Shooting
The gunman, who killed 23 people at a Walmart in 2019, was previously sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms after pleading guilty to federal hate crimes.
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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Tracing Violent White Supremacists and Online Radicalization from Charlottesville to Today
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Tracing Violent White Supremacists & Online Radicalization from Charlottesville to Now | FRONTLINE
In connection with "The Rise and Fall of Terrorgram," explore a selection of FRONTLINE and ProPublica’s past documentaries and podcasts tracing the evolution of violent white supremacists and online r...
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
If you could not make it to last week's thrilling webinar on the German far right after the elections, you can watch a recording—posted here along with previous webinars: www.farrightanalysisnetwork.com?page_id=470
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Webinars – Far Right Analysis Network
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Dr William Allchorn @willallchorn.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
How to Respond to the Resurgent Far Right Threat? A new episode of the @franetwork.bsky.social Right Rising Podcast has landed. Check it out 👏👍👇 rightrising.fireside.fm/55
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Democracy Strikes Back
Dr. Mario Peucker joins the pod to discuss his efforts in developing robust institutions to combat hate and conspiracy theories alongside marginalized communities in Victoria, Australia
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 17/03/2025
The Trump administration is testing the limits of the federal court system to constrain the president, brushing aside court orders, harshly attacking judges and, in some cases, finding ways to circumvent adverse rulings.
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Trump officials test limits of courts’ power to constrain their actions
Several legal experts said the deportation episode marks a dramatic — and troubling — escalation in the Trump administration’s pushback against the courts.
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Don't forget about this awesome event coming up in a couple of days! Hope to see you there. March 13, 2025, 6pm CET / 1pm ET / 10am PT Registration link: forms.gle/E8jyrTr931kX...
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Sophie Schmalenberger, on the far right's "Peaceful Revolution"
Sabine Volk on memory regimes and
"foundations for the present"
Polina Zavershinskaia, on civil society and the "mimetic crises"
March 13, 2025, 6pm CET / 1pm ET / 10am PT
Registration link: https://forms.gle/E8jyrTr931kXJjvS6
FRAN WEBINAR:
ANALYZING THE FAR RIGHT IN GERMANY
AFTER THE ELECTIONS
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/03/2025
An armed man who posted threatening messages on social media and was suspected of planning a mass shooting at a Virginia church during service was convicted of a hate crime on Thursday, officials said.
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Man Who Brought Gun to a Church Service Is Convicted of a Hate Crime
The man had posted threatening messages on social media and was suspected of planning a mass shooting at a Virginia church, the authorities said.
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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 07/03/2025
🔴BREAKING: Reform UK is in crisis. The party has suspended MP Rupert Lowe and referred him to the police for alleged bullying and threatening violence against his own party chairman. 💥 Deeply worrying, but unsurprising given Reform UK’s track record. 🧵👇
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
After the Trump administration cut $400 million of funding to Columbia University over "antisemitism" because of pro-Palestine protests, Charlie Kirk is now warning college campuses that if he's not "treated well" when TPUSA arrives, they'll be next. www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
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Charlie Kirk warns "all these campuses that don't treat us well at Turning Point USA" may have their funding cut
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"A U.S. leader of the neo-Nazi accelerationist network known as the Terrorgram Collective directly communicated with a 16-year-old who killed four people in a school shooting spree that took place in Brazil in 2022." www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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'The Hard Reset': Here's how the U.S. is exporting terrorism around the world
A U.S. leader of the neo-Nazi accelerationist network known as the Terrorgram Collective directly communicated with a 16-year-old who killed four people in a school shooting spree that took place in B...
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
"Clifford had watched up to 10 videos of the self-styled misogynist influencer in the lead-up to the assault on Louise in what the prosecution described as a 'final act of spite.'" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Kyle Clifford watched Andrew Tate videos before triple murder
Jury was not told former soldier convicted of murder and now rape was interested in misogynist influencer
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Podcast Relaunch! FRAN's podcast Right Rising is back! Check out our latest podcast episode with Prof Mario Peucker talking about his efforts in Victoria, Australia. rightrising.fireside.fm/55
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Democracy Strikes Back
Dr. Mario Peucker joins the pod to discuss his efforts in developing robust institutions to combat hate and conspiracy theories alongside marginalized communities in Victoria, Australia
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NPR @npr.org · 06/03/2025
Members of Congress and civil rights groups are condemning past comments from Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson, including some which critics called antisemitic.
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A Pentagon press secretary has history of pushing antisemitic, extremist theories
Members of Congress and civil rights groups are condemning past comments from Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson, including some which critics called antisemitic.
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Check out our upcoming webinar, coming up next Thursday. Three experts on the German far right will evaluate the recent elections and the future of Europe. Register here today! forms.gle/E8jyrTr931kX...
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Sophie Schmalenberger, on the far right's "Peaceful Revolution"
Sabine Volk on memory regimes and
"foundations for the present"
Polina Zavershinskaia, on civil society and the "mimetic crises"
March 13, 2025, 6pm CET / 1pm ET / 10am PT
Registration link: https://forms.gle/E8jyrTr931kXJjvS6
FRAN WEBINAR:
ANALYZING THE FAR RIGHT IN GERMANY
AFTER THE ELECTIONS
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
We agree! That's why we're working to spark new conversations and evolve our analyses of the "New Right" in ways that will facilitate practical applications. Join our upcoming webinar about the German elections on March 13. Registration link: forms.gle/6zpeZrmb9eQy... bsky.app/profile/blac...
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Sophie Schmalenberger, on the far right's "Peaceful Revolution"
Sabine Volk on memory regimes and
"foundations for the present"
Polina Zavershinskaia, on civil society and the "memetic crises"
March 13, 2025, 6pm CET / 1pm ET / 10am PT
Registration link: https://forms.gle/E8jyrTr931kXJjvS6
FRAN WEBINAR:
ANALYZING THE FAR RIGHT IN GERMANY
AFTER THE ELECTIONS
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Far Right Analysis Network @franetwork.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
German elections are happening tomorrow!! Keep up to date with this great article by FRAN scholar Michael Zeller (and Fabian Virchow) on the groups and leaders in the far right. FRAN's planning a webinar on March 13 to discus the election outcome. Stay tuned! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Far-right leadership in comparison: shifts and continuities in German-speaking movements
Leadership has long been acknowledged as a crucial feature of social movement activity. Theorisation has delved into the types of leadership and, more recently, the activities performed by leaders....
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NPR @npr.org · 22/02/2025
Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, its recently departed director, Robert Santos, tells NPR. By @hansilowang.bsky.social
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Census Bureau stopped work on data for protecting trans rights, former director says
Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, its recently departed director, Robert Santos, tells NPR.
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