Inform Your Resistance

Dec 19 2024 32 ep. 35 mins 109
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Political Research Associates is joined by experts to discuss the most significant contemporary threats to democracy from the mainstream and Far Right. Join host Koki Mendis twice a month so that you can inform your resistance in the fight for a just and inclusive democratic society. After all, resisting authoritarianism is just better with friends.

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Strategizing for the 2025 Trump Regime Change with Steven Gardiner

Dec 19 2024 51 mins  
In this episode, PRA Principal Research Advisor Steven Gardiner provides astute analysis on what has led us to this moment in history—when Donald Trump and the Republican Party have so decisively won the presidency and both houses of congress. Steven shares likely scenarios that may play out in Trump’s first year back in office, the implications of his chaotic cabinet picks for

From Palestine to Atlanta: The Institutional Policing of Dissent

Dec 05 2024 17 mins  
In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads “From Palestine to Atlanta, Outside and Foreign: The Institutional Policing of Dissent” by Habiba Farh, 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 Spring 2024 issue

HAF Way to Supremacy: Rebranding Hindu Supremacy as Minority Rights, a Conversation with Safa Ahmed and Pranay Somayajula

Nov 21 2024 61 mins  
This interview with Savera Coalition partners Safa Ahmed and Pranay Somayajula dives into an expose on the immensely influential Hindu American Foundation, or HAF, as a Hindu supremacist institution masquerading as a civil rights organization. We discuss HAF's reputation as a leader in civil rights and its true agenda to perpetuate caste discrimination and support for the autho

U.S. Imperialism Comes Home to Roost: A Conversation with Ramah Kudaimi

Nov 07 2024 42 mins  
Koki talks with Ramah Kudaimi about U.S. imperialism and state violence, and its reverberations both domestically and abroad. From the global war on terror, to genocide in Palestine, to anti-Muslim policing and surveillance in our communities, we discuss the ways that imperial power, capitalist interests, and far-right organizing intersect in ways that compound harm and entrench sy

You Might Think They're Absurd but They're Quite Serious: Frederick Clarkson on The New Apostolic Reformation

Oct 24 2024 40 mins  
This episode with guest-host Jack Gieseking features an in-depth discussion with Frederick Clarkson about the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR), a significant and influential movement within the Christian Right. Clarkson explains the background and history of NAR, as well as its contemporary political significance. The conversation also touches on the relationship between NAR the Jan

The Insurgence: Sheriffs—The Sundown Siren

Oct 17 2024 24 mins  
Inform Your Resistance is coming to you this week in between regularly scheduled episodes to introduce you to a new podcast series, The Insurgence: Sheriffs. This collaboration between Political Research Associates and Cuentero Productions uncovers how a national network of far-right sheriffs is mobilizing to create a White Christian republic, one county at a time.Subscribe today,

Nativist Bedfellows by Tarso Luís Ramos and Pam Chamberlain

Oct 10 2024 35 mins  
In this episode of Inform Your Resistance, Koki reads “Nativist Bedfellows: The Christian Right Embraces Anti-Immigrant Politics” by Tarso Luís Ramos and Pam Chamberlain, the fourth in our new 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 Summ

Anti-Immigration Politics with Ethan Fauré: When the Center Helps the Right Capture State Institutions

Sep 26 2024 24 mins  
In this first episode of Season 3, we are back with a conversation about the origins, unlikely intersections, and influence of the contemporary anti-immigration movement. Ethan provides us with a fascinating overview of how this movement developed, from its White Nationalist origins, with significant bipartisan and centrist support. We discuss John Tanton’s network of organizatio

Rerelease: Racist Tech Meets the Labor Movement: AI, Policing, and Gig Economies

Aug 29 2024 30 mins  
Uncover the disturbing realities of racial capitalism and state violence with host Koki Mendis and Saqib Bhatti, co-executive Director of the Action Center on Race and Economy (ACRE). Bhatti’s insights illuminate the distressing crossroads where austerity programs, mass incarceration, and a negligent police state meet. Throughout the conversation, Bhatti exposes the dangerous inf

Rerelease: Militant U.S. Anti-Abortion Activists: Towards the Total Abolition of Abortion

Aug 15 2024 35 mins  
Who are the abortion abolitionists? What drives them, and how do their tactics overlap with those of other far-right movements? Join host, Koki Mendis, and PRA Senior Research Analyst, Cloee Cooper, as we uncover the differences between the broader pro-life movement and the abortion abolitionist movement.The abortion abolitionists are a nationwide network of militant anti-abortion