"Many of us think we have some sixth sense that lets us know when we see or hear a fascist -- and who is on the side of justice and who is not. And maybe we do. But our 'sixth sense' is not adequate documentation when we want to convince others of our assessment and analysis. People want, and deserve, facts.

"PRA provides those of us working on the front lines of social justice struggles with the facts we need to fight. Their work is invaluable to the progressive movement in this country."

-- Anne Braden,
Southern Organizing Committee,
Louisville, KY.

"I just went to my School Board meeting and was handed Concerned Women for America's very professional-looking pamphlet on education. If I hadn't been to PRA's workshop last week, I would have believed what it said and would have been supporting them. But instead, I was able to use the material that I got at PRA's workshop to put the CWA's material in context and explain to other people the deception that was going on. It changed the direction of the whole meeting."

-- Teacher
southeast Massachusetts,
May, 1994.

"I want to thank PRA for the assistance you provided...with our research on the Guide to Uncovering the Right on Campus. From your files we collected source materials on over 30 New Right and Far Right groups which have significant operations on college campuses. By using the "leads" we got from this material, we were able to obtain much additional information and complete our research on the guidebook in six months, which is much less time than would otherwise have been possible....I look forward to working with you in the future ....to make more students aware of the threat posed by the alarming growth of the Right, and to help them develop the research and organizing techniques necessary to counter this threat."

-- Rich Cowan,
University Conversion Project (Center for Campus Organizing)
May, 1994.

"It is imperative for us and other grassroots organizations to be able to continue to take PRA for granted. NGLTF and our national network of grassroots organizations and activists simply don't have the time to do the kind of high quality research provided by PRA. And we cannot afford to struggle alone. PRA does the intelligence gathering and the analysis that both informs our actions, and builds the bridges necessary for us to work with other groups and movements."

--Scot Nakagawa,
Fight The Right Organizer,
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

"The people at PRA supply the information that enables the rest of us to create strategies that defend and promote democracy....PRA provides a lot of the invisible backbone of the work we do at the Women's Project in Arkansas in our project to monitor racist, religious, sexist and anti-gay and lesbian violence and the activities of neo-Nazis and the religious Right. When members of the extraordinarily complex army of the Right show up in Arkansas, we call PRA to find out who they are and who they are connected to. PRA's response is always respectful, thorough and to the point."

-- Suzanne Pharr,
Women's Project,
Arkansas.

"All editors have a story that got away, the one they wish they'd published in time. So it is with us. The first thing we thought of when we heard about the Oklahoma City bombing was, 'It's those Waco avengers that Chip Berlet and Matthew N. Lyons were warning us about'.

"Since late last year, Berlet and Lyons had been trying to interest us in a story on the dangers of the far-right militias. The authors had sent us a first draft, which we sent back, and they were in the process of revising it when the terrible explosion went off."

-- Editorial
The Progressive magazine
June, 1995

"Currently, an unprecedented assault on the basic civil rights of lesbians, gay men and bisexuals is sweeping the country, propelled by the work of he radical right....Both through litigation and public education, those of us fighting against these attacks and working to strengthen civil rights protections have had some successes in and outside the courtroom. Political Research Associates has played a crucial role in contributing to our victories in both arenas. Apart from litigation-related contributions, PRA also provides an invaluable service to activists working to educate themselves and others about the power of the radical right. PRA's breadth and depth of information in this arena is unsurpassed."

-- Suzanne Goldberg,
Staff Attorney,
Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc.

"About nine years ago when I met Chip Berlet...we were struggling to save farmers from going on a wild goose chase of blaming the Federal Reserve or an international Jewish conspiracy. I was thankful that I found PRA, where I could get reliable information so our organization could steer farmers away from as much crazy stuff as possible. Maybe you saved more farmers from bankruptcy than you know."

--Merle Hanson
President Emeritus
North American Farm Alliance

"PRA is a valuable resource which I implicitly trust and upon which I depend for accurate, reliable information. They are a community resource that should be richly supported."

--John Roberts
Executive Director
Civil Liberties Union
of Massachusetts (ACLU)

"In an era when the right has become so devious and far-flung, the scrupulous and courageous work of Political Research Associates is crucial to shaping progressive strategy."

--Mab Segrest
Board Member
Center for Democratic Renewal

"I recall our first contacts in Chicago, in the earliest days of Midwest Research.... Your support an encouraement was invaluable in enabling us to educate and mobilize our community around the emergence of one of American fascism's most twisted and farreaching enterprises, 'holocuast revisionism.'"

--Hayyim Feldman
National Steering Committee
New Jewish Agenda

"We at the Women's Theological Center know that religion can be a powerful force for good or ill. PRA, through its publications, presentations, and staff participation in WTC programs, has helped us understand what we know intuitively; the Christian Right has often used religion as a base for creating a social climate and a powerful lobby that support public policy that favors the wealthy and is anti-woman and white supremacist. The concrete data that PRA provides enables us to act more effectively to challenge the strategies and policies of the right."

--Nancy Richardson
Women's Theological Center

"The work of PRA has been invaluable for exposing the RENAMO (South African backed rebel forces in Mozambique) support network in the USA. PRA has consistently helped inform people about who were the friends of the apartheid government of South Africa."

--Prexy Nesbitt
Senior Consultant
Mozambique Government

"PRA provided up-to-the-second information an analysis that has been invaluable for social justice movements attempting to make sense of an upside-down world. We at the Center for Democratic Renewal have been blessed to be able to work side-by-side with PRA in our common efforts to research and oppose the poison of the white supremacist movement and the far right. They have been brave as well as thoughtful over the past ten years and we will all benefit from their work in the future."

--Daniel Levitas
Executive Director
Center for Democratic Renewal

"Political Research Associates fills a unique niche in the progressive movement by providing accurate and timely research that benefits grassroots organizations. No other research group brings the political perspective, knowledge of the progressive movemen't history, and committment to organizing which PRA embodies. The information PRA provides on the Right is invaluable at a time when the Right's agenda has moved from the margin to the mainstream."

--Urvashi Vaid
Executive Director
National Gay and Lesbian Task Force

"The thing I've respected most about PRA has been their careful research, emphasis on getting their facts right, and courage in taking on tough and controversial investigations. PRA and Russ Bellant's work on the pro-fascist trends inside some supposedly 'mainstream' conservative organizations, for example, is not just good--it is the best that I have seen anywhere. And in spite of PRA's daily descent into the world of LaRouchites and worse, PRA's analysts seem to have been able to maintain a sense of humor and political common sense. Amazing."

--Christopher Simpson
Author of
"Blowback: U.S. Recruitment of Nazis
and its Effect on the Cold War

"Several years ago the Heritage Foundation, Coors money and windbag Sen. Jesse Helms got together and passed a law which in

effect banned my major poems off FCC airwaves--a 24-hour prohibition against indecent language. Looking for information I inquired of Political Research Assocaites and reveived a hefty package of astonishing scholarly background details on the "respectable" cabal of totalitarian neo-con stalinists-indisguise. Their FCC law was knocked down by the courts in the 1991 as unconstitutional, fortunately."

--Allen Ginsberg
Poet & Activist

"We have long relied on your insightful analyses of the right wing. Your thorough research, clear and principled analysis, and well-documented studies are powerful tools for those who are working to counter right-wing extremism. We also appreciate your collegial work-style, accessibility, willingness to share information, and the priority you give to getting your information into the hands of those who most need it. Keep up the great work. We need you. May you have anothe prosperous ten years."

--Fred Goff
Executive Director
The Data Center

"Political Research Associates is an asset for anyone investigating the interaction among right-wing extremists and the power centers of the U.S. political system. We regularly turn to PRA for solid information on the groups and individuals who are subjects of our own studies. We know that we can count on the meticulous research and thoughtful analysis of PRA's materials, as well as the humor, intelligence, and concern of the organization's staff. Your hard work has benefitted all of us who are working on behalf of progressive change in this country!"

-- Beth Sims, Debra Preusch, & Tom Berry
The Inter-Hemispheric Education
Resource Center