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Originally posted on my Patreon; please consider signing up to support my work!In his 1980s neo-Nazi terrorist newsletter SIEGE, James Mason promoted worshiping Charles Manson as the new Hitler—something that was important to the book’s original popularity (though not as important to Mason’s followers today). Michael Moynihan, who edited a book of the same title […]
Below is my July 2026 Patreon post. If you like this content, please consider signing up to my Patreon. I’m not funded by any think tanks, universities, or security services, so for as little as $2/month, you can help support antifascist research and get (usually) exclusive content! www.patreon.com/spencersunshine We can’t always be right—but if we […]
Long threatened, I am nearing completion of the third edition of my organizing guide, Forty Ways to Fight Fascists. It outlines 40 different ways that people can legally organize against fascist threats in their community, and includes options for people of all identities and abilities. Since the first edition was published in 2018, over a […]
This is was my contribution to an anthology I co-edited with Pam Chamberlain, Matthew N. Lyons, and Abby Scher, called Exposing the Right and Fighting for Democracy: Celebrating Chip Berlet as Journalist and Scholar (Routledge, 2022). (If the hardcopy is too expense, it is also usually available at your favorite pirate website.) This festschrift—a collection […]
i have a new interview in The Battleground with Malika Criezis about the CJNG cartel’s wave of attacks in Mexico in February. To what extent was this a political action? How is the CJNG adopting new, 21st century strategies, similar to those of groups like ISIS? And what are the implications of the cartel being […]
I am incredibly sad to relay the news that that Chip Berlet has passed on. Chip was one of the key figures—not that there was much competition—watching and organizing against the U.S. Far Right from the 1980s into the 2010s. I got to know Chip quite well over the years. I met him in 2007 […]
The original version of this appeared on my Patreon Just like other political movements, fascists hold political events indoors. But they rarely have their own spaces, and they often have difficulty finding a venue that will host the event. If they do, and word gets out, it’s typical for community members who oppose it to […]
up on YouTube: my video about the Hardline micro-subculture (based on my review of Phoenix X Eeyore’s book about the movement). Part of the ’90s hardcore scene, Hardline was straight-edge, militantly vegan – and homophobic and anti-abortion. This is a reading of the my Patreon post of the same name. Both are open access […]
Since this got somewhat overlooked between the news about Venezuela and Minneapolis, and because some people prefer to get their information this way, I made a video of my 2025 U.S. Far Right wrap-up. This year’s annual wrap-up covers the influence of conspiracy theories on the Trump administration; the successes of TPUSA, the Groypers, Blood […]
Since 2017, every year I have a done a wrap-up of the U.S. Far Right, seeing who the winners and losers are, how the grassroots has affected the administration and elected officials, whose crimed who and been imprisoned for it—and of course the year’s massacres. These annual wrap-ups have bounced between platforms over the years, […]
