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The Mainstreaming of White Supremacy: From the fringes of everyday life to the halls of American power

By ACoM

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Was Live Friday, November 14, 2025 | 11am PST

Guest Speakers

  • Heath Druzin, journalist and host of the Extremely American podcast, covering the mainstreaming of extremist and militia movements, as well as Christian Nationalism
  • Matthew D. Taylor, Ph.D., Senior Christian Scholar, Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies (ICJS); author of The Violent Take It By Force: The Christian Movement That Is Threatening Our Democracy
  • Sanford F. Schram, Adjunct Lecturer in Political Science, Stony Brook University (SUNY)  and co-author of Hard White: The Mainstreaming of Racism in American Politics
  • Devin Burghart, Executive Director of the Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights (IREHR) and co-author of Breaching the Mainstream: A National Survey of Far-Right Membership in State Legislatures

Event Overview

White supremacist ideas once confined to the margins of U.S. society have increasingly entered mainstream political and cultural spaces, shaping debates, influencing policy, and fueling polarization.

This briefing will explore how white supremacist narratives and ideologies have become normalized in public discourse, their connections to Christian nationalism and political mobilization, and what this shift means for communities and journalists covering these issues.

Presented by ACoM

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