Spencer Sunshine, PhD, is an independent scholar and political analyst who has written extensively about the U.S. Far Right, from militias to neo-Nazis. He has been documenting that movement since 2005, making him one of only a tiny handful of people tracking the explosion of the U.S. Far Right before Trump’s first presidential run in 2015 and then continuing into the present day.
Spencer’s book Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of Jame Mason’s Siege was released on Routledge in May 2024. He is also the author of the organizing guide 40 Ways to Fight Fascists: Street-Legal Tactics for Community Activists (PopMob, 2020) and co-editor of the festschrift Exposing the Right and Fighting for Democracy: Celebrating Chip Berlet as Journalist and Scholar (Routledge, 2021).
Spencer’s articles have been published on a range of platforms, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, Daily Beast, New Republic, Colorlines, and The Forward. He has been translated into numerous language and quoted in papers around the world; has given talks in the United States, Canada, and Europe; and has appeared on dozens of podcasts, videos, and radio shows.
Along the way, Spencer made an appearance at an armed militia takeover in 2016 and was in the car attack at Charlottesville in 2017. He was accused of being the international leader of antifa before being fingered as the QAnon Shaman on January 6. (He is not.) After all that, Vice made a short documentary about him.
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