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Institute for Public Knowledge @ipk.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Join IPK and NYU's Brademas Center on Oct. 21 for a talk with @juliaazari.bsky.social. She will discuss her book Backlash Presidents with @kimberleynyc.bsky.social and @joelowndes.bsky.social. Moderated by @mikekoncewicz.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/3xd5f8ba
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Stephen Miller's Eugenic Depiction of the Left
A lot has already been said about Stephen Miller’s screed at Rubio’s “Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism” the other day.
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Misery on the National Mall
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Hate, Heat, and Hucksterism
The Republic at 250
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Support the Resistant Cities project — and the production of work that is wholly human, free of AI, and independent of corporate interests. www.gofundme.com/f/resistant-...
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Donate to Resistant Cities: Writing Residency Fundraiser, organized by Michael Gould-Wartofsky
This is a crowdfunding campaign to raise the resources for a tw… Michael Gould-Wartofsky needs your support for Resistant Cities: Writing Residency Fundraiser
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Diagram[me]s @diagrammes.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
[DOSSIER - Fr] Chaque entretien Diagram[me]s est enrichi d’un dossier documentaire. Cette semaine, téléchargez celui qui accompagne notre entretien avec Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social, politiste américain reconnu pour ses travaux sur les droites et les questions raciales aux États-Unis.
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Robert L. Tsai @robertltsai.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Loved my time at Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College discussing presidential power. Thanks for the hospitality @joelowndes.bsky.social and all!
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Diagram[me]s @diagrammes.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
POSTDEMOCRACY IN AMERICA. Our conversation with prominent scholar of American Politics, specializing in the study of right-wing movements, populism, and race, Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social is now available in podcast on all your favourite platforms.
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
I had the great privilege of joining the amazing trio of Kimberle Crenshaw, Donna Brazile, and Barbara R. Arnwine to talk about Jesse Jackson’s legacy and what we still have to learn from it. Link in comments
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Institute for Public Knowledge @ipk.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Join IPK on February 23 for a book talk with @juliaazari.bsky.social. She will discuss her new book Backlash Presidents: Transformative to Reactionary Leaders in American History with @kimberleynyc.bsky.social and @joelowndes.bsky.social. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
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Background Briefing with Ian Masters @ianmastersmedia.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
We spoke with @joelowndes.bsky.social about the latest polls that find support for Trump from young Americans has done a U-turn and the same conditions that dragged down Biden to defeat are now weighing on Trump. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...
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The Same Conditions That Dragged Down Biden To Defeat Are Now Weighing On Trump
Background Briefing goes far beyond the headlines and deep under the radar to bring forward truths unheard elsewhere in American media. Background Briefing features international and national news, ex
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Danny Postel @dannypostel.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
From @joelowndes.bsky.social's MUST-read report for @newlinesmag.bsky.social on Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest confab in Phoenix
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
My report from AmFest 2025
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Charlie Kirk’s Memory Is the Only Thing Uniting AmericaFest Attendees
Just three months after its founder's assassination, Turning Point USA is split over Israel, antisemitism, white nationalism — and Nicki Minaj
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
New Yorkers! Come join a conversation with the brilliant revolutionary philosopher Linda Martin Alcoff and me about the past and future of our political moment. RSVP below
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Institute for Public Knowledge @ipk.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Tonight at IPK: @chelseaebin.bsky.social discusses her new book The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building with @joelowndes.bsky.social.
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
New Yorkers! Come join us next Monday night when I'll be interviewing the brilliant @chelseaebin.bsky.social on her new book The Radical Mind, about the origins of Protestant and Catholic right-wing movement building. 5:30pm, Instutute for Public Knowledge, NYU. ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I spoke with Community Change co-president @dorianwarren.bsky.social last week about current political perils and how to create the world we want. www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu/events/democ...
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Matthew Budman, book guy @matthewbudman.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
@joelowndes.bsky.social on Trump's attempt "to conjure up antifa"—which doesn't really exist!—by baiting Portland "into the mother of all antifascist confrontations."
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Why Portland? – Joe Lowndes
The one big problem with Trump's executive order "Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization" is that they haven't demonstrated that sometjhing called antifa actually exists as more than ...
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
I have a new piece about the memorialization of Charlie Kirk, American identity, and the coming storm.
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The Autumn of Charlie Kirk
What does it mean to turn a far-right activist into a national martyr?
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Diagram[me]s @diagrammes.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
🧵 [1/2 - VOSTF👇] « The Masculinist Factor » - Chapter 6 of our conversation with @joelowndes.bsky.social. 🎞️ From years of fieldwork (GOP, far right, white supremacists, Blue Lives Matter) and archival research, he traces the rise of right-wing populism since the 90s. Watch here buff.ly/h6y1IWK
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Diagram[me]s @diagrammes.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
[FR👇] 🎙️ @joelowndes.bsky.social, expert in U.S. politics and Visiting Distinguished Lecturer at @huntercollege.bsky.social, explores the rise of the far right, from 1990s conservatism to today’s multiracial authoritarian turn. Race, populism, power—his research cuts deep. 📹 Itw here buff.ly/Gpfoff3
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Diagrammes is a new series that aims to diagnose our contemporary authoritarian condition through conversations with left scholars, journalists, and activists including Melinda Cooper, Thea Riofrancos, and Quinn Slobodian. I spoke with them about the past and future of the far right in the US.
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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Brad Lander’s Arrest and the Emergent Fascist Strategy – Joe Lowndes
Mayor Ras Baraka, Judge Hannah Dugan, Rep. LaMonica McIver, Sen. Alex Padilla, and Comptroller Brad Lander have all been physically assaulted, detained, and/or arrested by federal agents in the last t...
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Deva Woodly @devawo.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
“Those who scold protestors for disruptive tactics don’t have a solid basis for their criticism.The highly visible invasion of communities,courthouses,& workplaces by Kevlar-clad, armed ICE agents is bringing thousands more into the streets–evidence that militant resistance is contagious right now.”
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Trump, Anti-ICE Protests, and George Floyd Summer – Joe Lowndes
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
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Trump, Anti-ICE Protests, and George Floyd Summer – Joe Lowndes
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The great antifascist Leonard Zeskind has died. Any activist in the U.S. who seriously confronted white nationalism and fascism in the last half century depended on his immense research, writing, and organizing. We are all indebted to him. www.kcur.org/news/2025-04...
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Famed anti-racist expert Leonard Zeskind, who warned of fascism's rise, has died
A Kansas City resident, Zeskind began studying the white nationalist movement more than 40 years ago and published his findings in his 2009 book, “Blood and Politics.” His work showed uncanny foresigh...
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
A powerfully grim, informative, and essential new piece by Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor on the bizarre and horrifying Armageddonist fascism we all now face:
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The rise of end times fascism | Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor
The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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Katherine Franke on X: "Columbia may have signed its own death notice. Word has it that tomorrow Columbia will announce an agreement to formal oversight by Trump. This, if true, will signal the death of Columbia as we knew it. I explain it here: https://t.co/cQBRrrKDXm" / X
Columbia may have signed its own death notice. Word has it that tomorrow Columbia will announce an agreement to formal oversight by Trump. This, if true, will signal the death of Columbia as we knew it. I explain it here: https://t.co/cQBRrrKDXm
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
New Yorkers, come out tomorrow!
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minali aggarwal @min0p0ly.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Micah and I recently published an essay about this in @politicsgenderj.bsky.social. Check it out here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Pop Culture and the Evolving Politics of the Right: The Potential of Interpretive Methods for Studying Gender, Race, and Politics | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
Pop Culture and the Evolving Politics of the Right: The Potential of Interpretive Methods for Studying Gender, Race, and Politics
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minali aggarwal @min0p0ly.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I've been studying the growth of the multiracial right with Dan HoSang, @joelowndes.bsky.social and Micah English for the last few years. This work has included attending far right conferences and rallies, listening to right-wing media (especially podcasts), and interviewing key influencers.
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Michael Gould-Wartofsky @mgouldwartofsky.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The machinery of mass deportation has been set in motion in a nightmarish fashion. It is meant to be impossible to stop—or at least to appear that way. Still, history teaches us that this machine, like any other, can be brought to a halt. My latest @thenation.com. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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A Step-by-Step Guide to Trump’s Deportation Machine
March 20, 2025 A Step-by-Step Guide to Trump’s Deportation Machine The machinery of mass deportation is meant to be impossible to stop. But any machine can be brought to a halt, if only we understand ...
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Kathryn Joyce @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
“The Left thought that cultural, linguistic, representational shifts would inure us from reactionary authoritarian politics. The Right has shown they can retool it & make it work for their ends.” @alfatau.bsky.social @joelowndes.bsky.social & Dan HoSang on the troubling rise of the multiracial right
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Trump and the Rise of the Multiracial Right
Scholars Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes on the plastic politics of race in today’s GOP.
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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 25/02/2025
How do you protect yourself online? In this video we’ll walk you through some steps we take to protect our online safety, and give you tips on how to strengthen yours… www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9uF...
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Digital Safety - How to protect your online identity
YouTube video by Bellingcat
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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shoutout Joe Lowndes, some great work #fyp #viral #leftist #leftists #leftistsoftiktok #politics #democrat #democrats #donaldtrump
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Fascism’s Soothing Affect – Joe Lowndes
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Shellimoto @shellibee.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
@joelowndes.bsky.social giving us a tiny bit of hope in Oakland
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Dan HoSang and I did an interview with New Politics about Trump’s victory and the multiracial right. newpol.org/issue_post/a...
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America’s Multiracial Right - New Politics
Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph Lowndes argue that support for the far-right is gaining among people of color, reframing the politics originally rooted in white supremacy.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The discourse around the pervasive tendency among our political, media, and business elites to accommodate Trump and signal compliance is, in my opinion, focused too much on the idea that they are “obeying because they’re cowards” - as opposed to the idea that many don’t think Trump is all that bad.
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Natalie Fertig @natsfert.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
“If you really wanted to drive a wedge, a deep wedge, into the union movement — and there already were strong cracks in it prior to this election — this would be a hell of a way to do it,” @joelowndes.bsky.social told me earlier today about Rep LCD as Labor Sec. www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Will labor have a place on Trump’s team?
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I was asked about Polis's support of RFK Jr. In the west there is distrust of the feds as well as a counterculture that has supported both alternative medicine and local food sources. And meanwhile liberals have become reflexive defenders of institutions with close ties to big pharma and big ag.
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RFK Jr.’s surprising support
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Kay Whitlock @kwhitlock.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
An invaluable resource; look for a related book by @joelowndes.bsky.social and Daniel HoSang, forthcoming in 2025. www.politicsmultiracialright.org
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Politics of the Multi-Racial Right
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
New Yorkers, come through for a conversation about fascism at Columbia University this Wednesday, November 13 at 6pm. Here's a link for registration: mailchi.mp/columbia/joi...
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hi friends, here’s a couple of recent pieces I wrote on Trump and MAGA: logosjournal.com/author/josep... newlinesmag.com/argument/in-...
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In the World of His Supporters, Trump Has Already Won
That the Republican base is incapable of accepting defeat points to a deeper crisis that demands attention
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 14/11/2023
Political scientists, please consider signing this open letter: www.polisciceasefire.org
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Alberto Toscano on how the fascist politics that have been developing in Israel in recent years are imbedded in the colonial project
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The War on Gaza and Israel’s Fascism Debate
Green-lit by Western governments and described by myriad human rights law experts as demonstrating clear ‘genocidal intent’, the State of Israel’s retaliation against Hamas’s Al Aqsa Flood Oct...
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 19/10/2023
Centre for Constitutional Rights (one of the few legal organisations I love unconditionally) has issued an emergency report about the Israeli crimes against Palestinians. Below link is a PDF: ccrjustice.org/sites/defaul...
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 11/10/2023
This Thursday - don't miss this important discussion about prison labor and extraction with @min0p0ly.bsky.social, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and Stevie Wilson:
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The Work and Us: A Survey of Incarcerated People on Prison Labor
Join Haymarket Books and Study & Struggle for a conversation between Ruthie Gilmore and Stevie Wilson
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Dan HoSang on the Conversation podcast:
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Why are brown and Black people supporting the far right?
Prof. Daniel Martinez HoSang of Yale University discusses the rising popularity of the far-right with people of colour – what he calls multicultural white supremacy.
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 05/10/2023
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Joe Lowndes @joelowndes.bsky.social · 22/08/2023
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Not just Trump: the tactics of election subversion have long been a GOP strategy – Joe Lowndes
At the first Republican debate tomorrow night we will no doubt see most of the candidates onstage condemn the various indictments against Trump for conspiring to steal the 2020 presidential election....
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