Opinion How the Fascist-friendly pro-Trump QAnon Conspiracy Theory Led to Insurrection
Q's 'Great Awakening' focuses around an authoritarian-style crackdown of Donald Trump's enemies
Alexander Reid Ross
Alexander Reid Ross is a Lecturer in Geography at Portland State University. His book, Against the Fascist Creep, was listed one of the best books of 2018 by the Willamette Week. Twitter: @areidross
Opinion As pro-Trump Extremists Converge on D.C., Will There Be ‘Bloody Civil War’ or More Bluster?
Crowds and white power: As pro-Trump conspiracy theorists, Constitutionally-challenged conservatives, COVID deniers and armed far right gangs prepare to march on the Capitol, is violence inevitable?
Opinion America's Armed, Antisemitic Far Right Is Prepping to Defend Trump in November
Agitators, infiltrators, white supremacists and civil war accelerationists: How America's far right vigilantes and militias are arming and organizing to counter a potential 'Democratic coup'
Opinion Portland Is Trump's Testing Ground for Authoritarian Rule
Unmarked federal officers, gratuitous partisan violence and unconstitutional detentions: Donald Trump is abducting America's democracy
Opinion Russia's Disinformation War on America Takes Racist Aim at Black Lives Matter
'BLM mobs,' 'anti-white racism' and Soros Antifa conspiracies: For 2020, Russian state-sponsored media and its acolytes are no longer playing provocateur on all sides. Their focus is subverting and discrediting the anti-racist protest movement
Opinion America's neo-Nazi Terrorists Have a Powerful New Patron: Vladimir Putin
Violent ultranationalists (like the paramilitary race war inciters 'The Base') dedicated to destabilizing America are finding ideological common ground, aid and shelter in Putin’s Russia
Opinion After Richard Spencer’s anti-Semitic Tirade, Will the U.S. Media Now Stop Glamorizing Well-dressed White Nationalists?
The mainstream media is noisily shocked at the leaked audio of Richard Spencer’s racist rantings. But it serially platformed him – and his boosters from the left
Opinion Fascism and the Far Left: A Grim Global Love Affair
There was shock when far-right U.S. provocateur Steve Bannon and leftist UK firebrand George Galloway shared an intimate moment in Kazakhstan recently. But the 'red-brown' alliance's roots run deep, and their mutual attraction shows no sign of waning
Opinion Steve Bannon's Fascist Far Right Christian Army Is Marching on Liberal Europe - and on the Pope
Bannon thinks he's Europe's savior. He's also a narcissist, spinmeister and provocateur. But we shouldn't dismiss his coalition-building efforts to radicalize Europe, empower the far right and declare holy war on the Vatican
Opinion The anti-Semitism Fest Where Russian Spies, Code Pink, David Duke and the Nation of Islam Make Friends and Influence People
When a former U.S. intelligence officer was charged with spying for Iran, attention focused on the Tehran conference where she was radicalized. Meet New Horizon's bizarre collage of neo-Nazis and anti-imperialists, recruiters for Russian subversion, and unmitigated anti-Semitism
Opinion Even After the FBI Declared His Proud Boys Extremists, Gavin McInnes' 'Hip' Fascism Retains Its Toxic Appeal
McInnes and the Proud Boys dressed racist far-right views in a hip new uniform. Now he's resigned as their leader – but they won't be disappearing, nor will the resurgent anti-Semitic, racist and violent nationalism they incubate and spread
Opinion Hitler in Brasilia: The U.S. Evangelicals and Nazi Political Theory Behind Brazil's President-in-waiting
Mix up fascist geopolitics, Pat Robertson's LGBT hate, Bannon's nationalism and Putin's shills and you get Jair Bolsonaro, who's nostalgic for the U.S.-backed dictatorship that tortured and killed thousands of leftists - and he's about to come to power
Opinion In Portland, I Witnessed the Violence of White Pride in Trump's America
Portland, once known as America's far-right skinhead capital, was the scene of a hate crime 30 years ago that galvanized action against white supremacist gangs. This Saturday, with a tailwind from the Trump White House, far-right political violence returned to its streets
Opinion How Trump's Foreign Policy Is Making Russian Fascism Great Again
As he sabotages America's strategic alliances in favor of pro-Kremlin autocrats, the president is acting out the geopolitical fantasies of Alexander Dugin, rising Russian fascist ideologue and guru to Trump's alt-right base
Opinion How Assad's War Crimes Bring Far Left and Right Together - Under Putin's Benevolent Gaze
The 'anti-imperialist' left is now shilling for tyrants in Damascus and Moscow. And conspiracy theories are the toxic glue binding them to their fellow Assad and Putin apologists on the alt-right