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Imogen Richards
@imogenrichards.bsky.social
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Lecturer & researcher in criminology https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zyAtjbEAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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polstudies.bsky.social
IN NEW ISSUE: How do non-party actors view far-right parties in Australia? @imogenrichards.bsky.social, Callum Jones, Jordan McSwiney & @kurtsengul.bsky.social explore perceptions & relationships within the far-right ecosystem beyond formal politics.Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/uxTW0e3

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Abstract Far-right political parties form an integral component of the broader far-right landscape globally. While these parties have received extensive scholarly attention, less is known about how they are perceived within the wider far-right milieu – a relationship with significant implications for understanding movement-party dynamics in contemporary democracies. This article investigates the relationship between far-right political parties and the non-party sector through a mixed-methods approach, combining keyword frequency analysis, sentiment analysis, and qualitative content analysis. Drawing on large-scale data sets from Telegram, X (formerly Twitter), 8kun, and far-right alternative media outlets in Australia, we explore two key research questions: How does the non-party sector perceive far-right parties and politicians? And what role do these parties play within the broader far-right ecosystem? Our findings reveal a complex and often contradictory relationship, with non-party actors expressing views that reflect deeper ideological, organisational, and strategic divisions within far-right movements. These patterns of conditional support, strategic adaptation, and ideological tension offer insights applicable beyond Australia, contributing to theoretical understanding of how extra-parliamentary actors evaluate electoral politics across democratic settings.
September 17, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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polstudies.bsky.social
How do non-party actors view far-right parties in Australia? @imogenrichards.bsky.social, Callum Jones, Jordan McSwiney & @kurtsengul.bsky.social explore perceptions & relationships within the far-right ecosystem beyond formal politics. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/IbeMNRL

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June 22, 2026 at 11:02 AM
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whiterosesociety.bsky.social
A leader of a global satanic child abuse ring bailed. The group hasn't been named, but if it's 764, they are a proscribed terrorist group in Canada and the UK. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
Bail win for alleged leader of global satanic child abuse ring
The accused head of the syndicate that allegedly includes a sports coach and former cop has been released into the community, despite concerns about potential alleged reoffending.
www.smh.com.au
May 1, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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whiterosesociety.bsky.social
Banning protest slogans won’t end antisemitism. We need to understand the complex forces driving it -- @imogenrichards.bsky.social theconversation.com/banning-prot...
Banning protest slogans won’t end antisemitism. We need to understand the complex forces driving it
Antisemitism has many forms in Australia – and a diverse array of actors behind it.
theconversation.com
April 29, 2026 at 10:57 PM
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polstudies.bsky.social
How do non-party actors view far-right parties in Australia? @imogenrichards.bsky.social, Callum Jones, Jordan McSwiney & @kurtsengul.bsky.social explore perceptions & relationships within the far-right ecosystem beyond formal politics. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/EJKn2bX

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February 9, 2026 at 12:02 PM
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Got a chapter with @philofwrite.bsky.social and @aysed.bsky.social on the media and Jan 6 coverage in @imogenrichards.bsky.social’s new book. www.routledge.com/The-Far-Righ...
February 8, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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aurelmondon.com
So pleased to have received my copy of The far right and the media, edited by @imogenrichards.bsky.social!

You can order the book here:

www.routledge.com/The-Far-Righ...
The far right and the media book cover
January 29, 2026 at 9:43 AM
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polstudies.bsky.social
How do non-party actors view far-right parties in Australia? @imogenrichards.bsky.social, Callum Jones, Jordan McSwiney & @kurtsengul.bsky.social explore perceptions & relationships within the far-right ecosystem beyond formal politics. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/RIP41sg

@polstudiesassoc.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
imogenrichards.bsky.social
Excited to share that a new book I was fortunate to edit is now online! 📚 shorturl.at/LaKw7

'The Far Right and the Media' examines cases of reporting on the FR across Spain, Portugal, the US, UK, Aotearoa NZ, Israel & Australia.

A preprint of the introduction is available here: shorturl.at/Rui7S
(PDF) Introduction: Media, democracy, and the global rise of the far right
PDF | This introductory chapter establishes a theoretical and conceptual foundation for analysing far-right media representations across the... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Resea...
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September 11, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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kurtsengul.bsky.social
🚨 We have a new article out in Political Studies

Will hopefully be of interest to scholars of the far-right, party politics, social movements, and anyone drawing breath really

Led by the excellent Imogen Richards, & Callum Jones & with Jordan McSwiney & me

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
August 18, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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abcnewsbot.bsky.social
Victoria must build 80,000 new social housing homes over the next decade just to catch up to the national average, according to new data released by housing advocates.
Victoria facing 'human catastrophe' without social housing fix
Victoria must build 80,000 new social housing homes over the next decade just to catch up to the national average, according to new data released by housing advocates.
www.abc.net.au
May 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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reuters.com
First white South Africans board plane for US under Trump refugee plan reut.rs/3YEFARt
First white South Africans board plane for US under Trump refugee plan
The first white South Africans granted refugee status under a programme initiated by U.S. President Donald Trump boarded a plane to leave from the country's main international airport in Johannesburg on Sunday.
reut.rs
May 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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letsgomathias.bsky.social
When the vice president uses the exact same language as a white supremacist mass murderer www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
March 30, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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sarahschwartz.bsky.social
I mourn for every single person slaughtered in this needless genocide, and I mourn for the souls of those in my own community who have been following Israel down into the moral abyss.

Full statement on this shameful saga brought to you by the Israel lobby and gutter journalists at Murdoch 1/2
April 7, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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whiterosesociety.bsky.social
National Socialist Network leader Joel Davis has boasted that neo-Nazi news site The Noticer is "literally one of our biggest weapons." Many federal election candidates or current and former political figures have engaged with Noticer content. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
Neo-Nazis say this site is their 'biggest weapon' and candidates are spreading it
Federal election candidates and elected officials are sharing content from The Noticer, a news site regularly publishing articles promoting white supremacist and neo-Nazi ideologies.
www.abc.net.au
April 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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clarecorbould.bsky.social
making America white again (as if it ever was 🤬)
March 18, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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kurtsengul.bsky.social
🚨 Very thrilled to see my latest article out in the world (open access)

It looks at the far-right dating app, The Right Stuff which boasts “profiles without pronouns” and was co-founded by Trump administration AND Project 2025 alumni

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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esqueer.net
They're actually selling the FBI headquarters.
March 4, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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samsteindc.bsky.social
NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two.

www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...
March 3, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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Russia-linked Telegram channels ‘offering to pay for attacks on mosques’. Campaigners say cryptocurrency payments were offered to UK residents if they daubed anti-Muslim graffiti
Russia-linked Telegram channels ‘offering to pay for attacks on mosques’
Exclusive: Campaigners say cryptocurrency payments were offered to UK residents who daubed anti-Muslim graffiti
www.theguardian.com
February 28, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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euobserver.com
Why we're suing Elon Musk's X for German election data
Why we're suing Elon Musk's X for German election data
As part of our research agenda, we gained access to TikTok’s Virtual Compute Environment (a secure data room designed for civil society organisations in lieu of its API) and Meta’s Content Library. X, however, was not cooperative.
euobserver.com
February 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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aurelmondon.com
Framing this article around "eating less kebabs" is really strange...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
UK urged to act now on net zero – and skip two kebabs’ worth of meat a week
Climate Change Committee issues advice to government on meeting carbon emissions target by 2050
www.theguardian.com
February 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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igd.bsky.social
The Trump budget has passed in the House of Representatives:

💸$4.5 trillion in tax cuts to the top 1% + corporations
🪖more money for war + mass deportations
🚑$2 trillion in cuts to programs like Medicaid + food stamps

This is a massive transfer of wealth from the poor to the uber-elite.
Donald Trump, Kid Rock, and Elon Musk
February 26, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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“The privilege of asking Trump the first question was bestowed upon none other than nepo boyfriend Brian Glenn, a “journalist” at the far-right propaganda peddler Real America’s Voice, who’s currently dating Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). “ I hate this timeline
kylietcheung.bsky.social Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · Feb 26
The Trump admin's whole ethos relies on self-victimization at the hands of their favorite catch-all boogeyman: “the media.” They've never held more power—over the country & the media landscape—but they're still too whiny/pathetic to present as anything but victims of their own imagined mistreatment:
Trump Holds More Power Than Ever—So Why Is Karoline Leavitt Obsessed With Victimizing Him?
Leavitt, along with the entire Trump administration and MAGA movement, appears to be suffering from media derangement syndrome.
www.jezebel.com
February 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM