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The anti-communist circular firing squad that is the Oregon GOP
Some observations on yesterday's failed effort to recall Oregon Republican National Committeeman Solomon Yue
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Seth Cotlar
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How a Backlash against Gay Pride Helped Mobilize Grassroots Christian Nationalists, the 1978 edition
Or, why we should think of "backlash" not as a force of nature, but as the consequence of political mobilization
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Seth Cotlar
Walter Huss's 1987 plan for the "silent majority" to "save America" from impending ruin.
[Spoiler Alert: It didn't work.]
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Seth Cotlar
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On the Road with Walter Huss and his Weirdo Friends
The last chapter of Walter Huss’s 40-year career as a right wing activist in Oregon came in the 1990s when he launched several unsuccessful efforts to…
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Seth Cotlar
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The Far Right Genealogy of Today's Dopey "FrEe sPeAcH!" arguments
“There is a CONSPIRACY in this country to limit public comment and discussion to what a small but powerful clique has predetermined to be 'acceptable…
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Seth Cotlar
That's Nazi Coffee! vs. the Hermeneutic of Generosity
On the challenges of writing a democratic history of an anti-democratic movement
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Seth Cotlar
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Is it a Rabbit Hole? Or...
...Is it the buzzing background noise of white conservative political culture from the 1950s to the present
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Seth Cotlar
My conversation about Walter Huss with historian Thomas Zimmer
Listen now (85 min) | I was honored to be an invited guest on the Is This Democracy podcast a few weeks ago. Here's the episode.
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Seth Cotlar
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