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Kai Arzheimer

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Politics Prof @powimz.bsky.social | parties, elections, attitudes, behaviour | right-wing extremism/populism/radicalism www.kai-arzheimer.com

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 16h
Same here
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RRResRobot @rrresrobot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
T. E. Givens. “The Radical Right Gender Gap”. In: Comparative Political Studies 37 (2004), pp. 30-54.
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 21h
Same old, same old
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French far right’s Bardella denies reports he made antisemitic comments
Mediapart published several comments it alleged the MEP made as a teenager and young activist.
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 29/09/2026
"Scholarly prognostic biscuits, rewind & resubmit version"
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Academic fortune cookies, R&R edition - kai arzheimer
Related posts: The Secret Life of Canada: Jewish Montreal – a culinary history Germany and the European Crisis: Confusion and Delay Interview with Diário de Notícias on the Nationalist International (or not) Video: policy brief on immigration, local decline, and anti-immigrant backlash
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Martina BWC @blackandwhiteandcolours.de · 28/09/2026
I can see the whole room! ...and there's nobody in it! #JGU #MZ
Farbfoto. Nachtaufnahme. Der Vordergrund zeigt eine Straßenkreuzung mit Ampeln, Leuchten, Stoppschild, an der Kreuzung haltende Autos. Rechts Gebüsch, hinter der Kreuzung Gebüsch und Bäume. Dahinter mittig ein dunkles Gebäude mit einem leuchtenden Schriftzug auf dem Dach über zwei Seiten. Linke, von der Betrachterin abgewandte Seite: "I can see the whole room!" Rechte, der Betrachterin zugewandte Seite: "...and there's nobody in it!" Darüber dunkler Nachthimmel.
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie e.V. @dgsoziologie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Kai Arzheimer, die letzte Hürde vor dem Einstieg ins Programm. "Die Soziologie ist sowas wie die ältere Schwester der Politikwissenschaft... und hat meistens leider recht." #dgs2026
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RRResRobot @rrresrobot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Follow me. I'm powered by the The Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe www.kai-arzheimer.com/extreme-right…
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Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe
A bibliography of more than 1600 titles on the parties of the Extreme Right in Western Europe (aka the Populist Right, Radical Right, Anti-Immigrant Right)
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 28/09/2026
Working on research into far-right mobilisation and what it means for democracy? This call may be for you. We’re especially keen to see innovative theoretical and empirical work that critically examines the radical–extreme distinction. 📣
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Far-right mobilisation and democratic transformation
This Humanities and Social Sciences Communications Collection examines the contemporary dynamics of far-right mobilisation and its implications for democracy. ...
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 28/09/2026
#tbp "While secularism as a political and philosophical concept has existed for centuries and while there is a plethora of measures for individual religiosity, there is no established instrument for measuring political secularism at the micro-level"
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A Short Scale for Measuring Political Secularism | Politics and Religion | Cambridge Core
A Short Scale for Measuring Political Secularism - Volume 15 Issue 4
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 27/09/2026
This is a very generally useful list 👇
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Nine Things You Can Actually Do About the Far Right in Britain
Take back control. It was a good slogan, which is an annoying thing to admit, and it worked because it offered people something to do at a moment when most of them felt they could do nothing. Three words, a verb at the front and the promise that the doing would be simple. Ten years on, the people who used it have deliv
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RRResRobot @rrresrobot.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Are you interested in the #RadicalRight in France? → P. Vasilopoulos, G. E. Marcus, N. A. Valentino, et al. “Fear, Anger, and Voting for the Far Right: Evidence From the November 13, 2015 Paris Terror Attacks”. In: Political Psychology 40.4 (2019), pp. 679-704.
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 27/09/2026
In which @michaelhansenphd.bsky.social gives a very nuanced overview of the #farright mess in #GermanPolitics
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The AfD, Saxony-Anhalt and the fragility of Germany’s “firewall”
The AfD has become too large to ban without a serious backlash, yet its electoral success threatens the foundations of the democratic order it seeks to enter.
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Zukünfte der Gesellschaft @dgskongress2026.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Presseeinladung zum 43. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS) auf dem Campus der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz:
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Zukünfte der Gesellschaft – 43. Kongress der Gesellschaft für Soziologie (DGS)
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 26/09/2026
Double-check your spelling #AcademicChattter
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Unfortunate hyphenation or a new conflict in Uro-Pean politics? - kai arzheimer
Related posts: Don’t feed the troll A reading list: populism, euroscepticism & foreign policy attitudes Who is going to succeed Kurt Beck? German Constitutional Court Kills Electoral Threshold For European Elections
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 19/09/2026
The marshy county of Essex will always have a special place in my ❤️, so I find this audio long read about how it was turned into a literal dumping ground for London both fascinating and depressing 🎧
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The Audio Long Read - The rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt us
Listen to The Audio Long Read - The rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt us by The Guardian on Podcast Addict. We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2023: Landfill sites have swallowed many a beauty spot along the Thames estuary in the past 50 years. Now, as those dumps start to disgorge tonnes of mouldering detritus into the river, it truly feels like the Age of Consequences By Tim Burrows. Read by Sam Swainsbury. Help support our independent journalism at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/longreadpod">theguardian.com/longreadpod</a>
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Jan Üblacker @januebl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Nächste Woche ist es so weit: Der 43. Kongress der @dgsoziologie.bsky.social @dgskongress2026.bsky.social findet an der JGU Mainz statt. Die Sektion Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie ist mit zwei Panels vertreten ⬇️
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Kathleen Belew @kathleenbelew.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I study the apocalypse and this is the surest sign I've seen
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 25/09/2026
Wie wichtig ist die Wahlforschung für die Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft? Sehr. Wer es genauer wissen möchte, liest dieses Buchkapitel (freier Preprint)
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Wahlforschung in der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft (zweite Auflage 2025) - kai arzheimer
Die Wahlforschung ist eines der wichtigsten Teilgebiete der Politischen Soziologie. Sie operiert damit an der Schnittstelle zwischen Politikwissenschaft und
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 20/09/2026
All this just goes to show that the time wasn't ripe yet for a male Bundeskanzlerin #Germany
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 25/09/2026
"This is a transparent and despicable attempt to drive Nazi victims in Heidenau out of the city once again and dispose of them where, according to the AfD, their memory has belonged a long time ago — at the cemetery"
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AfD, CDU ban new Holocaust 'stumbling stones' in Heidenau
Activists, politicians and representatives of Holocaust victims reacted with anger after the center-right CDU party joined forces with the AfD to ban new Stolpersteine (stumbling stones) in the eastern town of Heidenau.
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RRResRobot @rrresrobot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Want to know more about the #SD? J. Rydgren and S. van der Meiden. “The Radical Right and the End of Swedish Exceptionalism”. In: European Political Science (2018). dx.doi.org/10.1057/s41304-018-0159-6.
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Des Fitzgerald @desfitzgerald.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Some of the lads from the english department heard you made a light, passing reference to intertextuality in your sociology paper and want to talk about it
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 24/09/2026
Beyond the pale: Even back in 2019 #AfD leader Weidel gave the keynote presentation at well known right-wing extremist seminar
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Another AfD leader speaks at a far-right "institute" - kai arzheimer
The 'Institut für Staatspolitik' is a well-known far-right 'think tank'. Their self-stated meta-political mission is to educate the future nationalist. The
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Bigs @goatemperor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Pretty common, funny misconception a lot of people have about autism is that having a "social norm hyperfixation" would make you act normal, instead of what it actually does, which is make you a sociologist.
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Corinna Kroeber @corinnakroeber.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Do you know graduates looking for a PhD position? The interdisciplinary IRTG “Baltic Peripeties” studies political and social change around the Baltic Sea—escalating crises, shifting expectations, and competing narratives. Please share shorturl.at/7nIrZ
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Research Assistants - International Research Training Group “Baltic Peripeties. Narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes” 26/ES20
Stellenausschreibung Institut für Deutsche Philologie
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 22/09/2026
Foxes possibly in charge of one of the 17 henhouses (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/22/w...
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 22/09/2026
The November 2019 iteration of the Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe. Click to see what was new then #farright
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The Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Europe: Winter 2019 update - kai arzheimer
Here comes the winter 2019 edition of the Eclectic, Erratic Bibliography on the Extreme Right in Western Europe. This is what you will want to know ?
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Kira Ayyadi @kiraayyadi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Vornamen von Erstklässlern ins Netz stellen und "Remigration" fordern, so macht ein FPÖ-Politiker Sechsjährige zum Feindbild. Wer Schulkinder nach Namen sortiert, fantasiert von Deportation nichts anderes meint "Remigration". Die FPÖ dient der AfD als Blaupause www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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FPÖ-Politiker Walch postet Liste mit Vornamen von Schulkindern und fordert "Remigration"
"Zur Minderheit in unserer eigenen Stadt" zu werden, sei "Realität, wenn wir nicht endlich mit der Remigration beginnen", schrieb der Abgeordnete. Grüne und SPÖ kritisieren "Rassismus in Reinform" sow...
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 21/09/2026
🆓 Wie funktionieren Extremismus- und Radikalismusforschung? Dieses Kapitel erklärt es. Freie Vorabversion 🆓
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Empirische Extremismus- und Radikalisierungsforschung - kai arzheimer
Empirische Extremismus- und Radikalisierungsforschung setzt zunächst voraus, dass weitgehende Einigkeit über die zugrundeliegenden Konzepte und die damit zu
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 20/09/2026
All this just goes to show that the time wasn't ripe yet for a male Bundeskanzlerin #Germany
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Reto Mitteregger @indubioproreto.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Not suprising that the Linke got the most votes among younger voters in Berlin. Yet, the size of their vote share among under-35 year-olds is stunning.
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Tom Nuttall @tomnuttall.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Early days, but looks like we may be heading for red-red-green governments in both M-V and Berlin - albeit with different parties on top. That's going to be difficult for the CDU to swallow. Merz due to speak shortly.
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 23/12/2024
Helmut Kohl and his happy family, enjoying a very German holiday
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 14/09/2026
Colmar. Our Tour de France is coming to a close
A narrow street at dusk with a glowing ornate lantern mounted on a tall, shutter-windowed building, silhouetted figures walking in the distance under a pale sky.

A picturesque canal lined with half-timbered houses, outdoor café terraces with diners, and vibrant pink flowers in the foreground at twilight.

.A tranquil canal flanked by colourful half-timbered houses and a grand stone building, with a small bridge, a docked boat, and wildflowers in the foreground at dusk.

A Gothic stone church tower with a green spire rises above traditional half-timbered rooftops under a bright blue, cloud-streaked sky.

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 19/09/2026
That was in 2019 A vast majority sees the #AfD as a extremist party. #tbp 🌐
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A vast majority of Germans sees the AfD as a right-wing extremist party - kai arzheimer
In a recent paper published in JCMS, I argue that unlike other German far-right parties, the "Alternative for Germany party" (AfD) managed to avoid being
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 19/09/2026
The marshy county of Essex will always have a special place in my ❤️, so I find this audio long read about how it was turned into a literal dumping ground for London both fascinating and depressing 🎧
podcastaddict.com
The Audio Long Read - The rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt us
Listen to The Audio Long Read - The rubbishscapes of Essex: why our buried trash is back to haunt us by The Guardian on Podcast Addict. We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2023: Landfill sites have swallowed many a beauty spot along the Thames estuary in the past 50 years. Now, as those dumps start to disgorge tonnes of mouldering detritus into the river, it truly feels like the Age of Consequences By Tim Burrows. Read by Sam Swainsbury. Help support our independent journalism at <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/longreadpod">theguardian.com/longreadpod</a>
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 18/09/2026
How divided was Germany in 2025, and in which ways? 🆓 📘 chapter👇
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Divided we stand? Demographic sorting and regional polarization in German electoral behavior beyond the east-west divide - kai arzheimer
Regional differences in electoral results are hardly a new phenomenon: after all, they are a major motivation for creating electoral systems based on
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 13/09/2026
Golden hour in Dijon
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Matthias Dilling @matthiasdilling.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The CDU is polling at 6% in the last FWG poll for Sunday's election in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. This would be catastrophic for the CDU. As a reminder: Its worst state election result was 9% in Bremen - in 1951(!). Honestly hard to imagine how Merz could stay if that ends up being the result...
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 17/09/2026
📔 #throwbackpost the Christmas 2018 iteration of extreme bibliography brought 56 titles. Click to check out what was exciting then. 🖥️ 📖
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Extreme Right Bibliography: winter 2018 update - kai arzheimer
Christmas comes early this year for political scientists, sociologists, social psychologists, and anyone else interested in research on the Extreme
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 16/09/2026
good morning to the Guardian newspaper
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 16/09/2026
Really handy: the newsmap package for #rstats helps the RadicalRightResearchRobot to identify topics in texts #farright #tbp
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Identifying topics in research papers with the newsmap package for R (or: how the Radical Right Research Robot became slightly less dumb) - kai arzheimer
The Radical Right Research Robot is a fun side project whose life began exactly one year ago. The Robot exists to promote the very large body of knowledge on
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RRResRobot @rrresrobot.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
L. de Jonge. The Success and Failure of Right-Wing Populist Parties in the Benelux Countries. Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy. London, New York: Routledge, 2021.
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 15/09/2026
France, everybody loves your flag, but you're overdoing this
A modern bathroom sink beneath three illuminated dispensers labelled "savon" (blue), "eau" (white) and "air" (red), with a mirror above reflecting a person holding a phone to take the photo.
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 15/09/2026
Back in 2019, then co-leader of the #AfD, Alexander Gauland, spoke at the “winter school” hosted by the “Institut für Staatspolitik” (#IfS), a right-wing extremist think tank #throwbackpost
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Schnellroda: AfD leader Gauland speaks at the New Right "winter school" - kai arzheimer
Alexander Gauland, the leader of the AfD, is the keynote speaker at a notorious far-right conference in Schnellroda, organised by Götz Kubitschek
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 14/09/2026
Colmar. Our Tour de France is coming to a close
A narrow street at dusk with a glowing ornate lantern mounted on a tall, shutter-windowed building, silhouetted figures walking in the distance under a pale sky.

A picturesque canal lined with half-timbered houses, outdoor café terraces with diners, and vibrant pink flowers in the foreground at twilight.

.A tranquil canal flanked by colourful half-timbered houses and a grand stone building, with a small bridge, a docked boat, and wildflowers in the foreground at dusk.

A Gothic stone church tower with a green spire rises above traditional half-timbered rooftops under a bright blue, cloud-streaked sky.

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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 14/09/2026
#ThrowBackPaper: Everyone and their nan know that 'place' is important for the Far Right. But how? We show the 4 links between 'place' and the Far Right. 🌍🔍 Click, it's open access 👉 #GeographyMatters #FarRight #Research #OpenAccess 📚
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‘Place’ does matter for populist radical right sentiment, but how? Evidence from Germany | European Political Science Review | Cambridge Core
‘Place’ does matter for populist radical right sentiment, but how? Evidence from Germany - Volume 16 Issue 2
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 13/09/2026
Golden hour in Dijon
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Kai Arzheimer @kai-arzheimer.com · 13/09/2026
The Far Right Can’t Stand Being Called “Far Right”
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The Far Right Can’t Stand Being Called “Far Right”
On Sunday, the German far-right party Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) won a resounding—and di...
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Omas* gegen Rechts Leipzig 🌈🦄🏳️‍🌈 @omasgegenrechtsle.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Mehr als 5000 Menschen heut bei der 'Zeit zum Handeln: AfD stoppen!' Demo auf dem Leipziger Markt versammelt! ❤️‍🔥✊🏻🫶🏻 #le1209
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