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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 get a ballot measure passed that would have eliminated all property and income tax in the state and replaced them with a
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“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.' The moment anyone attempts to introduce an idea that is 'unacceptable,' nationwide forces are mobilized to silence the 'heretic'
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On the challenges of writing a democratic history of an anti-democratic movement
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...Is it the buzzing background noise of white conservative political culture from the 1950s to the present
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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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If you think Arizona Republicans like Kari Lake are pretty whacky nowadays, just wait till you hear about Evan Mecham
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Walter Huss and the little-known subculture of "Granola Nazis"
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A 1985 conversation between Walter Huss and a DOJ attorney in which Huss's bizarro understanding of the world confronts reality head on
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The problem of definitions when writing about the American right
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Matthew Dallek's "Birchers" was released yesterday and it's well worth your time
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The Far Right Genealogy of a MAGA Salutation
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A dispatch from the queer community in Cedar Rapids, IA well worth reading