Jason Wilson
Jason Wilson is an Australian-born writer living in Portland, Oregon. He's on Twitter at @jason_a_w.
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Far right movements have been successful globally by politicising hostility to immigrants and cultivating a resurgent ethnonationalism. The left can – and should – fight back
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In the fragmented world of new media it is all too easy to experience only opinions we agree with. These titles can help liberal readers change that
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Thousands of people are reportedly on waitlist to join website that prominently features pro-Trump content, as founder insists Gab is not ‘Twitter for racists’
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Stephen Bannon, newly appointed chief strategist in the Trump administration, spent four years as executive chairman of Breitbart, a ‘platform for the alt-right’
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Far right groups are gaining a global foothold because they echo mainstream discourse which has shrunk the political horizon to issues of border paranoia, terror, and security
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Extremist surge got national attention during the Oregon militia standoff and has continued to rise with Trump, with his legitimization of white nationalist politics
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Ben Radford, the author of a new book, Bad Clowns, isn’t surprised by the scary clown sightings that have moved from the US to the UK and Australia
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A reading of Pauline Hanson: The Truth reveals the extent to which Hansonist positions have been co-opted by conservatives in politics and media
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‘Fuck Portlandia’ blogpost by In Other Words bookstore, the setting for many sketches, says the show ‘has had a net negative effect on the city as a whole’
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The Blaze’s up-and-coming conservative TV pundit is seen by many as the new Ann Coulter – and, she says, she is #NeverHillary through and through
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Malcolm Roberts’ belief that sustainable development is a disguised attempt to impose global communism has entered US mainstream politics. It could here too
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The real damage done by extremism often comes, not from far-right groups, but from the influence they are able to exert on the mainstream right
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Clinton said ‘outside forces’ did not affect policy decisions as secretary of state; Stephen Bannon’s empty Florida home and domestic violence charges revealed
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Jared Taylor, a self-proclaimed ‘race realist’, distanced Trump from the alt-right, the racially divisive fringe movement Clinton denounced in a recent speech
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Anti-EU leader Nigel Farage joins Donald Trump in Mississippi;
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Donald Trump’s naming of a new campaign chief linked to a fiercely outspoken far-right movement is a dangerous step, Hillary Clinton is set to warn in a speech
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In a climate of Black Lives Matter protests and the growing white backlash, some African Americans feel the answer is not gun control but to arm themselves
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Before writing off One Nation voters, take a look around Townsville: this is what political frustration in a low-growth, post-boom economy with a popped real estate bubble looks like
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There are a few reasons conservatives may now be hailing Paul Keating as a great leader. And progressives should be questioning why
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For areas on the wrong side of a boom, ‘jobs and growth’ makes sense – in the absence of a better-articulated vision for northern Australia, symbolism matters
Topics
- Donald Trump
- Australian politics
- US politics
- US elections 2016
- Race issues
- Republicans
- Hillary Clinton
- Pauline Hanson
- One Nation
- Far right
- Malcolm Turnbull
- Australian election 2016
- Religion
- Cory Bernardi
- Oregon
- Australian immigration and asylum
- Oregon militia standoff
- Australian media
- Queensland
- Coalition
Burst your bubble: five conservative articles to read before 2016 ends