SOMERVILLE, MA / AGILITYPR.NEWS / January 05, 2022 / Political Research Associates (PRA), a 40-year old national nonprofit research and strategy center, addresses the major trends, actors, and coalitions driving the contemporary Right in a new movement strategy memo and provides a roadmap for how to think about and organize against its growing power. This briefing on Thursday, January 6, 2022 provides an overview of convergent forces, how we got to where we are, where we might be headed, and what we can do to defend democracy and promote justice.

Register today to attend the public briefing: https://bit.ly/PRAJ6Briefing

Thursday, January 6, 2022 from 1:00-2:30pm EST via Zoom

Speakers: Steven Gardiner (PRA), Carol Lautier (Demos), Tarso Luís Ramos (PRA), and

Mab Segrest (Blueprint NC)

According to PRA Research Director Steven Gardiner, "We are looking at the simultaneous development of, on the one hand, the continuing transformation of insurgent attitudes, with millions or even tens of millions of people believing that political violence is the only way the United States can be rescued from conspiratorial forces trying to destroy the country, and, on the other hand, an ongoing effort to establish minority rule in the roughly half the states where legislative and procedural maneuvering are making it harder to vote and easier for partisan forces to influence which votes will be counted."

"Culture war issues—from access to abortion and laws criminalizing protest to what is taught about racism in our schools and public health measures—are being used to foment resentment and resistance."

Key takeaways of the briefing will include:

• The future of the MAGA movement with or without Donald Trump
• Uncovering intersecting and cooperative agendas of the White nationalist and Christian nationalist movement
• Implications of the growing landscape and influence of right-wing media and disinformation
• Overview of the consolidation of local and regional electoral power and state and federal judicial power by the Right
• Averting the continued slide of the United States towards authoritarianism

Register today to attend the public briefing and receive a copy of the memo on January 6, 2022: https://bit.ly/PRAJ6Briefing

Read PRA’s previously published statement on the January 6 insurrection.

Press briefing scheduled for Tuesday, January 4, 2022 at 3:00 pm EST. Register here: https://bit.ly/PRAJ6Media

For more information or for press queries, please contact Greeley O’Connor via email: g.oconnor@politicalresearch.org

Steven Gardiner, PRA Research Director, started researching and writing in opposition to the politics of bigotry, violence, and authoritarianism in the early 1990s and, in 2004, received a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from Cornell University. He has taught more than twenty different courses at eight universities in the United States, Pakistan, and the UAE. Selected publications include “White Nationalism Revisited: Demographic Dystopia and White Identity Politics (Journal of Hate Studies, 2006) and “End Times Antisemitism: Christian Zionism, Christian Nationalism, and the Threat to Democracy” (PRA, 2020). 

Tarso Luís Ramos, PRA Executive Director, has been researching and challenging the U.S. Right Wing for more than 25 years. At PRA, Tarso has launched major initiatives on antisemitism, misogyny, authoritarianism, White nationalism, law enforcement, the Far Right, and other threats to democracy. Ramos is a sought-after public speaker and his work has been featured in The Guardian, The New York Times, and Time Magazine, among other outlets.