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An update on the Substackers Against Nazis campaign

A "best of 2023" playlist for your enjoyment (with only a little bit of political commentary in it)

The Anatomy of American Fascism, part 1: Fascist Foot Soldiers and their Patrician Funders

Substackers Against Nazis

Down the Derp State Rabbit Hole with the Chair of the Marion County (OR) GOP

Those "funny" fluoride fighters were, frankly, fanners of fascism's flames

The Everyday Antifascists who pushed back against Walter Huss, Episode 1

Walter Huss's Christian Ventriloquist friend Jim Bisel could have either written a song called "Porno Gravy" or gone to therapy. You'll never guess which one he chose!

What's up with these Christian Nationalists like Mike Johnson and their odd relationship to banks?

A snapshot of the quack "miracle cure" doctor-corrupt politician-Nazi propagandist industrial complex ca. 1954-7

Raising the cost of telling the truth about the far right

Some thoughts on the messed up memory culture of late 20th century America into which I was socialized

The Eternal Batshittery of the Right Wing Mind

I read a box and a half of "crackpot letters" in Tom McCall's archive and all you got was this newsletter

An inspiring 1962 dispatch from a 63 y.o. Antifascist rancher from Sturgis, SD

Walter Huss's plan to take back America for God, one precinct at a time, Part 1 of 2

The Trilateral Shitpost Fire that was the 1980 GOP convention, part 2

The World According to Lyle Hartford VanDyke, Jr.

Walter Huss and the Fascist Fifth Column in Cold War America

Walter Huss and "The Best People," Episode 2 (Richard Barrett)

Why the right's cultural counter-offensive is unlikely to succeed

Salem hosted not one, but TWO Christian Nationalist events this Saturday, July 29

A window into the media diet of today's grassroots Oregon Republican Party

Zoom link for DeSantis conversation with Thomas Zimmer and me--6pm (Pacific) tonight

The Trilateral Shitpost Fire that was the 1980 GOP convention, part 1

Some thoughts on Ron DeSantis's terrible, horrible, no good, very bad 2011 book, Dreams from Our Founding Fathers

Upcoming event (date TBD) for paid subscribers: Join me, Thomas Zimmer, and hopefully a few other historians for a conversation about Ron DeSantis's 2011 book "Dreams from Our Founding Fathers."

Senator Josh Hawley tweeted a Christian Nationalist quote falsely attributed to Patrick Henry that was actually from a 1950s antisemitic and white supremacist magazine. Who cares?

How to Not See

Walter Huss and "The Best People," Episode 1 (Rev. Dale J. Benjamin)

We Interrupt Our Regularly Scheduled Racist Bullshit from Walter Huss's Archive for Some Refreshing White Working Class Anti-Racism from the Mark Hatfield Archive

The anti-communist circular firing squad that is the Oregon GOP

How a Backlash against Gay Pride Helped Mobilize Grassroots Christian Nationalists, the 1978 edition

Walter Huss's 1987 plan for the "silent majority" to "save America" from impending ruin.

On the Road with Walter Huss and his Weirdo Friends

The Far Right Genealogy of Today's Dopey "FrEe sPeAcH!" arguments

That's Nazi Coffee! vs. the Hermeneutic of Generosity

Is it a Rabbit Hole? Or...

My conversation about Walter Huss with historian Thomas Zimmer

Donald Trump and the Revenge of the Evan Mecham Republicans

Sending Spit to Ms. Safron

An Archival Find Too Good Not to Share

What exactly is "Bircherism?" What do we mean when we call it "far right?"

New Book of Interest for Readers of Rightlandia

"Dear Patriot"

A reminder of the real human costs and real social damage wrought by the "culture war" politics of Rightlandia

Antisemitism and the Genealogy of American anti-leftism

Why archival research matters: The power of a single document

Rightlandia: It's not just a far right fever dream in the mind of Oregon's Walter Huss anymore

Coming soon