What We Fight For
Racial & Immigrant Justice
Gender, Sexual, and Reproductive Justice
Economic Justice
Our Impact
Disrupting Anti-Trans Advocacy and Promoting Inclusive Feminism
For nearly four decades, PRA has been committed to challenging anti-LGBTQ movements by exposing tactics of the Christian Right through research and analysis. Since 2013, PRA has prioritized research and tracking of attacks on transgender communities to support activists leading the fight for national and global transgender rights and…
Challenging Far-Right Sheriffs
By examining the documented roles that 404 sheriffs play in far-right and anti-immigrant movements, PRA research identified a logic countering much of the framing around the far right as extremist, radical, or fringe.
Revealing the Antisemitism at the Core of White Nationalism
PRA worked within the U.S. Left to build solidarity around the analysis that Jewish activism and Black, Muslim, and immigrant activism are united in a mission to weaken and block the White nationalist movement and its foremost champion President Donald Trump.
Keeping Our Movements Safe and Our Organizers Focused
The Summer of 2020 ushered in a new era of racial justice uprising; a mobilization of millions of people across the country demanding an end to anti-Black state violence. The Movement for Black Lives and racial justice organizers, who have been on the ground long before 2020, responded to this…
Exposing A Secretive Christian Nationalist Agenda
PRA assembled a coalition of partners, including American Atheists, Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, the Interfaith Alliance, and the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Freedom to name a few, to form BlitzWatch: a campaign to monitor, track, and defeat attempts by Christian Nationalists to implement their dominionist…
We Hear From Our Partners
On the power of the tools PRA produces:
“Law enforcement has always been rooted in the history of White supremacy in this country. We actually have hard evidence to prove it based on the research of PRA. … This [sheriffs map] gives us the playbook. We know what they’re gonna do, and it gives us the opportunity to decide we are going to come together across our own sectoral differences to do something about it. … This is an opportunity to fight for the progressive policies that we’ve always deserved.”
“Law enforcement has always been rooted in the history of White supremacy in this country. We actually have hard evidence to prove it based on the research of PRA. … This [sheriffs map] gives us the playbook. We know what they’re gonna do, and it gives us the opportunity to decide we are going to come together across our own sectoral differences to do something about it. … This is an opportunity to fight for the progressive policies that we’ve always deserved.”
On how PRA helps fill critical gaps for movement activists:
“PRA’s research has helped us make our case for change in North Carolina’s sheriffs’ offices. While many activists and progressives are aware that racism runs deep in law enforcement stemming from their role as slave patrols, we now have additional hard facts to point to … and a clearer map of right-wing influence. Grassroots organizations do not often have the time or resources to take on this kind of research, so PRA’s work is especially valuable to us.”
“PRA’s research has helped us make our case for change in North Carolina’s sheriffs’ offices. While many activists and progressives are aware that racism runs deep in law enforcement stemming from their role as slave patrols, we now have additional hard facts to point to … and a clearer map of right-wing influence. Grassroots organizations do not often have the time or resources to take on this kind of research, so PRA’s work is especially valuable to us.”
On the importance of PRA’s challenge of the “hate” frame:
“Political Research Associates [is] a hub for critical analysis not only on the Far Right folks … but the ideologies that drive them. Several years back, PRA produced a report challenging the “hate” frame. It identified how incidents of supposed “hate” are connected to movements and ideologies that wield power and influence both inside and outside of government and how referring to them as “hate” incidents or groups is vastly insufficient. The framework has been key to political education among activists.”
“Political Research Associates [is] a hub for critical analysis not only on the Far Right folks … but the ideologies that drive them. Several years back, PRA produced a report challenging the “hate” frame. It identified how incidents of supposed “hate” are connected to movements and ideologies that wield power and influence both inside and outside of government and how referring to them as “hate” incidents or groups is vastly insufficient. The framework has been key to political education among activists.”
On how PRA contextualizes on-the-ground movement efforts:
“PRA’s work has helped me contextualize the current volatile political moment. The street-level organizing we are doing is largely based on instinct, and academic work like that done by PRA situates our work within a larger socio-political context and helps us better understand the complexities of the various white nationalist, traditionalist, conservative and explicitly fascist groups that make up the Alt-right coalition.”
“PRA’s work has helped me contextualize the current volatile political moment. The street-level organizing we are doing is largely based on instinct, and academic work like that done by PRA situates our work within a larger socio-political context and helps us better understand the complexities of the various white nationalist, traditionalist, conservative and explicitly fascist groups that make up the Alt-right coalition.”
On how PRA informs social justice strategies:
“The gender ideology monitoring group has been very valuable to the Advancing Universal Rights and Justice team at AWID. The information shared in calls has enriched our anti-rights monitoring and analysis, and connections made in the group have led to, for example, collaboration on monitoring anti-rights events, new relationships with media, and overall a stronger more connected web of organizations and individuals resisting these trends – a very important contribution in the current context!”
“The gender ideology monitoring group has been very valuable to the Advancing Universal Rights and Justice team at AWID. The information shared in calls has enriched our anti-rights monitoring and analysis, and connections made in the group have led to, for example, collaboration on monitoring anti-rights events, new relationships with media, and overall a stronger more connected web of organizations and individuals resisting these trends – a very important contribution in the current context!”
On the power of the tools PRA produces:
“We are steeped in compound crises undergirded by false narratives and destructive agendas, now is the time for potent data and storytelling, in context, that can provide a pathway for solutions. And no one is working harder than PRA to deliver it!”
“We are steeped in compound crises undergirded by false narratives and destructive agendas, now is the time for potent data and storytelling, in context, that can provide a pathway for solutions. And no one is working harder than PRA to deliver it!”
On PRA as a convener of the Left:
“This group has brought oppo researchers together from hotspot regions like the UK and the US to compare notes and think about strategies to combat bad actors. Anti-trans sentiment is especially on the rise right now and through contacts on this list, I have been able to alert allies who work in international arenas (with UN bodies in particular) and provide accurate information about bad actors in the space.”
“This group has brought oppo researchers together from hotspot regions like the UK and the US to compare notes and think about strategies to combat bad actors. Anti-trans sentiment is especially on the rise right now and through contacts on this list, I have been able to alert allies who work in international arenas (with UN bodies in particular) and provide accurate information about bad actors in the space.”
On the power of the tools PRA produces:
“Political Research Associates does something few organizations do, it combines deep research and analysis in a framework that actually seeks to contribute to progressive change in the world. This has allowed them to maintain a forty year legacy of essential research, much of which have become essential tools in these struggles. PRA is the best organization of its kind.”
“Political Research Associates does something few organizations do, it combines deep research and analysis in a framework that actually seeks to contribute to progressive change in the world. This has allowed them to maintain a forty year legacy of essential research, much of which have become essential tools in these struggles. PRA is the best organization of its kind.”
On how PRA contextualizes on-the-ground movement efforts and informs strategy:
“At a time when anti-democratic and anti-human rights forces are on the march across our country, the work of PRA is needed now more than ever. Grounding our responses to those opposed to creating a nation which works for all in data, analysis and a fundamental understanding of what’s driving the right is the only way to win. PRA brings this vital understanding to every corner of the progressive movements and the tools they offer are essential to all those fighting for a better future.”
“At a time when anti-democratic and anti-human rights forces are on the march across our country, the work of PRA is needed now more than ever. Grounding our responses to those opposed to creating a nation which works for all in data, analysis and a fundamental understanding of what’s driving the right is the only way to win. PRA brings this vital understanding to every corner of the progressive movements and the tools they offer are essential to all those fighting for a better future.”
“PRA’s mission to analyze the Right Wing social movements, its understanding of these forces as complex and interlocking ecosystems, and its clear-eyed exposition of the leaders, goals, strategies and tendencies of right-wing and authoritarian movements is essential to organizers, policy-makers, media, and civil society leaders.”
In partnership with social justice movements:
“Our relationship with PRA – both as Bend the Arc organizationally and myself personally – is foundational to our work exposing and fighting back against the white nationalist movement which threatens all of our safety and belonging. Our movements are strengthened by having such a well-researched and extraordinarily reliable source for data and analysis. Because of PRA we have a deep and complex understanding of the threats we are facing, what we need to overcome them, and why we need a model of solidarity for inclusive multiracial democracy more than ever.”
“Our relationship with PRA – both as Bend the Arc organizationally and myself personally – is foundational to our work exposing and fighting back against the white nationalist movement which threatens all of our safety and belonging. Our movements are strengthened by having such a well-researched and extraordinarily reliable source for data and analysis. Because of PRA we have a deep and complex understanding of the threats we are facing, what we need to overcome them, and why we need a model of solidarity for inclusive multiracial democracy more than ever.”
PRA conducts thoughtful, well-documented research and analysis.
PRA examines a wide range of right-wing currents and the interactions between them.
PRA addresses the interconnections between the ideological right and established systems of oppression, exploitation, and violence.
PRA brings together work by academic scholars, professional journalists, independent researchers, and movement activists.
PRA examines a wide range of right-wing currents and the interactions between them.
PRA addresses the interconnections between the ideological right and established systems of oppression, exploitation, and violence.
PRA brings together work by academic scholars, professional journalists, independent researchers, and movement activists.
On how PRA informs social justice strategies:
One of the most important lessons I learned about organizing is that you have to build your strategy based on what is actually happening and not what you hope is happening. Our movement has been contending with a volatile and crisis-riddled historical conjuncture. Political Research Associates with its sober analysis has been a critical partner in making sense of the forces standing in the way of realizing a multi-racial feminist democracy and economy. We cannot win without being clear-eyed about who we are up against. PRA has helped all of us know our enemies.
One of the most important lessons I learned about organizing is that you have to build your strategy based on what is actually happening and not what you hope is happening. Our movement has been contending with a volatile and crisis-riddled historical conjuncture. Political Research Associates with its sober analysis has been a critical partner in making sense of the forces standing in the way of realizing a multi-racial feminist democracy and economy. We cannot win without being clear-eyed about who we are up against. PRA has helped all of us know our enemies.
On how PRA contextualizes on-the-ground movement efforts and informs strategy:
You have our deepest respect and gratitude for: meticulously tracking the anti-abortion movement and the Right; alerting us to new threats; providing leading edge intersectional analysis and thought leadership; and generously sharing it all. Your work has had a tremendous influence on our thinking, and has shaped our movement’s collective understanding and resistance.
You have our deepest respect and gratitude for: meticulously tracking the anti-abortion movement and the Right; alerting us to new threats; providing leading edge intersectional analysis and thought leadership; and generously sharing it all. Your work has had a tremendous influence on our thinking, and has shaped our movement’s collective understanding and resistance.
On the power of the tools PRA produces:
PRA’s work tracking and researching the far-right is invaluable, for journalists, activists, and organizers alike. From mapping out right-wing networks to highlight where TERFs and white nationalist movements intersect, to reports that break down the links between Groyper-sympathizers and members of Congress, shines a crucial and measured light on who threatens our communities and democracy.
PRA’s work tracking and researching the far-right is invaluable, for journalists, activists, and organizers alike. From mapping out right-wing networks to highlight where TERFs and white nationalist movements intersect, to reports that break down the links between Groyper-sympathizers and members of Congress, shines a crucial and measured light on who threatens our communities and democracy.