MAGA Republicans and their far-right allies are undermining our freedom and building political power to impose their worldview on the rest of us.
Right Wing Watch exposes their strategies and tactics so we can understand the threat--and fight back.
The Threat of the Far Right
Americans’ freedoms and our future as a diverse democratic society are at risk. Dangerous far-right voices pull the conservative movement further from democratic values. MAGA leaders undermine supporters’ faith in democracy, encouraging a turn toward authoritarianism and political violence. Aggressive Christian nationalists and white nationalists fuel antisemitism, racially motivated violence, and harassment against LGBTQ people—and threaten the separation of church and state. Legislatures wage war on the right to vote and the freedom to read, teach, and learn the truth about American history. All this work is backed by a massively funded legal and political infrastructure that presents a long-term threat to our freedoms.
Why it Matters
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow has called Right Wing Watch “a fire alarm system for the whole country” and “a great public service.” Right Wing Watch disrupts antidemocratic forces through daily reporting and in-depth analysis of far-right movements and their power-building strategies. Our videos, publications, and expertise help journalists and scholars understand these threats to democracy—and help activists and public officials respond to them. As a project of People For the American Way, Right Wing Watch informs the organizing and activism of its networks of progressive cultural, political, religious, and community leaders.
Our Impact
Right Wing Watch reporting has:
- led to deplatforming of disinformation promoters like Alex Jones
- spurred legal action by state attorneys general against televangelist Jim Bakker
- aided the congressional investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol
- exposed and discredited extremist politicians like North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson
- shaped thousands of news stories and other investigations of white nationalism, Christian nationalism, anti-LGBTQ forces and other threats to democratic values.
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