The Southern Poverty Law Center


When time permits, I'll write a better introduction for this page; but for the moment, the general overview goes like this:  The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted [4/21/2026] on fraud and money-laundering charges, because the SPLC was allegedly funding the racists that they pretended to fight.  This is a variation on an old principle that guides a lot of "public service" groups:  If you pay me a million dollars a year to solve a problem, I will make sure that problem is never solved.  Since there aren't more than a handful of militant anti-black racists in the U.S., apparently the SPLC had to resort to paid actors.  Think about it:  If you wanted to attend a KKK meeting, where would you go?  The KKK is practically absent.

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Look Who Just Got Indicted for Funding Hate Groups.  The Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, is fond of screaming about racists and white supremacists; they are vocally part of the school of thought on the left that a white supremacist is lurking around every corner, when in reality, they are pretty thin on the ground.  [Advertisement]  Now, we learn that the SPLC has not only been encouraging real white supremacist and racist groups, but they have been funding them.  And now, they have been indicted on 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.  Acting AG Blanche and FBI Director Patel made the announcement:  [Video clip]

[The] Southern Poverty Law Center [was] indicted for allegedly funneling millions to extremist and white supremacist groups.  The Department of Justice announced Tuesday an indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center for allegedly funneling money to extremist groups.  The SPLC said earlier on Tuesday that the organization was being "targeted" by the Trump administration and speculated that the action was related to money paid to informants to gather information from hate groups.  In a post on social media, the Department of Justice accused the SPLC of paying $1 million to a National Alliance affiliate, $300K to an Aryan Nations affiliate, and $73K to former members of the Ku Klux Klan, among others.  "As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups; it was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred," Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a media briefing.

DOJ charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud for paying white supremacist groups $3M to 'stoke racial hatred'.  The Department of Justice announced Tuesday that a grand jury indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center for making fraudulent payments of millions of dollars to members of the Ku Klux Klan and other neo-Nazi organizations.  Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said at a news conference that the 11-count indictment filed in an Alabama federal court alleged the left-wing nonprofit had in the past decade paid at least $3 million to eight members of the far-right groups.  One leader of the 2017 Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville, Va., received roughly $270,000 over an eight-year period.  Neither that person nor others were identified in the 14-page indictment.

Grand Jury Indicts Southern Poverty Law Center For Secret Fraudulent Payments To Racist Groups.  A federal grand jury indicted the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Tuesday for allegedly making fraudulent payments to racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).  "The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence," Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a statement announcing the charges.  "Using donor money to allegedly profit off Klansmen cannot go unchecked.  This Department of Justice will hold the SPLC and every other fraudulent organization operating with the same deceptive playbook accountable.  No entity is above the law."  [Advertisement]  According to a Justice Department press release, the SPLC — which has often put targets on the backs of nonviolent conservative organizations by falsely labeling them as "hate groups" — has been charged with 11 counts of "wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering."  Per the presser, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Alabama Northern Division "filed two forfeiture actions to recover alleged proceeds of the organization's fraud scheme."

Justice Dept Indictment of SPLC Confirms Long-Held Suspicions of Leftist/Progressive Groups Funding Racism and Chaos.  The DOJ indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for wire fraud, money laundering and false statements, confirms long-held suspicions that Democrat-aligned activist groups have been financing racism, hate mobs and political violence.  For all intents and purposes, the SPLC is a leftist/progressive activist organization who bills itself as anti-racism, yet this same SPLC organization was using cut outs to fund the Ku Klux Klan, the United Klans of America, Unite the Right, National Alliance, National Socialist Movement, Aryan Nations affiliated, Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, National Socialist Party of America (American Nazi Party) and American Front.  In essence, Democrats funding extremist groups, just so they can label them as right-wing.

Flashback: Indicted SPLC Once Targeted The Federalist For Publishing An Attorney General's Speech.  The Southern Poverty Law Center, a far-left outfit that disparages conservative organizations by categorizing them as "extremist" alongside actual racist groups, was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday night for wire fraud and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.  According to the indictment, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million it received from unsuspecting donors toward racist groups by paying "a covert network of informants" who were part of "violent extremist groups."  One of the SPLC's chief activities is what it calls "tracking hate," which includes cataloguing racist groups like the Ku Klux Klan as well as mainstream civil liberties groups like Alliance Defending Freedom.  The smear campaign it wages against Christian and conservative organizations by equating them to actually extreme groups threatens not just their reputations but their fundraising prospects and even their physical safety.  In 2012, a gunman opened fire at the D.C. office of the Family Research Council, intending to "kill as many as possible" because he didn't "like what they stand for."  He told law enforcement afterward that he was inspired by the SPLC's inclusion of the Family Research Council on its list of so-called "hate" groups.

SPLC Funneled $270K Cash to Charlottesville Hoax Rally Planner — 'Manufacturing Racism'.  The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for decades has lectured America about the ever-present threat of "hate" groups while raking in hundreds of millions from donors fearful of these organizations.  But on Tuesday, the Trump DOJ dropped a bombshell:  an 11-count federal indictment charging the SPLC with wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering for secretly funneling more than $3 million in donor cash to actual extremists.  Among those nefarious payments was a staggering $270,000 allegedly paid to a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.  That paid insider attended the event at the SPLC's direction, helped coordinate transportation for attendees, and even made racist postings under the group's supervision.  That rally, of course, led to the wholly media-manufactured "fine people" hoax.  Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche explained how the law center funded hate groups, which allowed them to feign fighting said hate groups.

The SPLC Was One Giant Fraud.  In 2017, the SPLC issued a report claiming that the "number of anti-Muslim hate groups tripled since 2015".  How did the leftist group arrive at this number?  It listed Act for America, a patriotic organization started by a Christian refugee from Islamic persecution, as one group in 2015.  Then it listed 45 chapters of Act for America as separate organizations in 2017.  Suddenly the number of 'Islamophobic' groups had tripled.  Such pathetically obvious statistical frauds were all too common in the Southern Poverty Law Center's work, but the media rarely questioned it.  Or why the SPLC seemed so bent on artificially inflating the number of supposed hate groups.  Next year however the SPLC listed a progressive town on its 'Hate Map' because there had been an online comment that proposed a Neo-Nazi book club should meet there.  There was no evidence that the club existed, that it had ever met at the town or that the town had anything to do with it, but the town still found it impossible to get the SPLC to delist it.  And media stories appeared for the first time questioning the SPLC's methodology which proved to be made up.

Trump Calls SPLC 'Crooked as Can Be' After DOJ Indicts Woke Group.  It's a classic story, really.  An organization starts with a noble mission, earns public trust, and then, somewhere along the way, gets addicted to money and power.  The original purpose becomes a marketing slogan, a convenient fiction to hide the cynical machine whirring just beneath the surface.  It's the story of a hero who lives long enough to become the villain.  [Advertisement]  This week, one of the Left's most celebrated heroes was exposed as a complete fraud.  For decades, they operated as a moral authority, pointing fingers and ruining lives, all while hiding a rotten core.  But the truth, as it always does, finally came knocking.  And it came in the form of a federal indictment.

Leftist SPLC Donor George Clooney and Others Silent on DOJ Indictment.  Some of the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) donors have apparently remained silent after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charged the nonprofit this week with fraud and money laundering.  [Advertisement]  One of those big-name donors is actor George Clooney, whose foundation has not yet said a word about the indictment, the New York Post reported Thursday, noting that left-wing billionaire George Soros' foundation and MGM Resorts have also stayed quiet.  [Advertisement]  The SPLC has been accused of funneling "more than $3 million to the hate groups it claims to fight," the outlet said.  A federal grand jury in Alabama charged the nonprofit with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering, per Breitbart News.

The Siege of Iran, and Other Matters.  The fall of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in an eleven-count fraud and money-laundering indictment is a watershed moment for exposing the bad faith business model of the Lefty-left: pay for the creation of imaginary monsters so you can pretend to be the defender of your fake victim-clients, the sundry "oppressed minorities" yearning to breathe free.  The money was paid to various manifestations of "white supremacy," ranging from the good old Ku Klux Klan (more venerable in America's memory than Frankenstein) to the avant-garde Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, affiliated with the Aryan Nation.  And, turns out, the SPLC also engineered the Fine People Hoax in Charlottesville, 2020, that loomed so large in "Joe Biden's" supposedly victorious campaign for president.  The Left's moral center-of-gravity is a black hole of grift and subterfuge.  Of course, this SPLC farrago might raise some questions about many other Lefty-left NGOs that infest our political landscape, such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Black Lives Matter (BLM), and Al Otro Lado in California, which launders taxpayer money into all manner of freebies for illegal aliens — all of these orgs accused of rank improprieties.  CAIR, which is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, was declared a terrorist or transnational criminal organization by Texas and Florida.  BLM grifters in Atlanta and Oklahoma City were indicted for wire fraud and money laundering.

Unraveling the lies we were told about hate in America.  For most Jews and many other people, the "Unite the Right" neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017 was among the most shocking and disturbing moments in recent American history. [...] But what if it turned out that among the funders of those involved was a group that not only hyped the threat from the far right, but also profited from it with a huge surge of fundraising?  If that were true, then perhaps so much of what had shaped American public opinion about not only the alleged threat from such extremists and Trump, now in his second term as U.S. president, would have to be rethought.  As it turns out, that's the truth about Charlottesville.  The indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center on charges of fraud ought to put in perspective much of the hysteria and alarmism about Trump supposedly empowering racists and engendering an epidemic of racism, xenophobia, antisemitism and Islamophobia.  The SPLC is charged with pouring millions of dollars raised from gullible liberal donors to far-right operatives.  In its defense, the group claims that it was operating a vast undercover operation, obtaining intelligence about extremists that it could then use to better inform the nation about the threats it faced from dangerous organizations.  But its funders didn't know that's where their money was going.

USAID Is Back in the News For All the Wrong Reasons.  It turns out that the Southern Poverty Law Center was funded by USAID.  More specifically, USAID funded the "Vote Your Voice" program at the SPLC through the Tides Center (a left-wing NGO-funding organization).  [Advertisement]  And you just thought your USAID dollars were funding poor kids in Africa or something.  [Tweet]

Democrat Governor Candidate Served on SPLC Board While It Bankrolled KKK Member.  Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson served on the board of the Southern Poverty Law Center while the SPLC paid members of the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations.  Benson, a Democrat running for governor, joined the organization's board in 2014 and left in 2019, when the SPLC fired its co-founder, Morris Dees, amid a racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandal.  The SPLC gained its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy in the 1980s, and today it maintains a "hate map" that plots mainstream conservative and Christian groups alongside Klan chapters.  According to a Justice Department indictment filed Tuesday [4/21/2026], the SPLC broke the law by paying $3 million to members of the Klan and other white nationalist groups while claiming to oppose "white supremacy" and by lying to banks about the shell companies it created to hide the funding.

More Than a Lie:  SPLC's Charlottesville Meddling Rises to Sedition.  The Charlottesville Lie has been the foundation of nearly every ounce of bitterness, division and political violence since it was first thrust upon us in 2017.  The left has used the 'very fine people on both sides' propaganda to fuel their every anti-American impulse.  That lie has permeated and fractured the most important relationships in our nation, pitting husband against wife, parent against child and neighbor against neighbor.  The entire reason conservatives are subjected to the constant slur of 'Nazis!' is the Charlottesville Lie.  It wasn't a term floating around in common parlance until that moment, and suddenly it became the left's favorite insult for the right.  But it was worse than a slur.  It became the impetus for a culture that accepts political violence as a necessary mean to an end.  Nazis are/were the worst people on earth.  The entire world united to defeat them in the 1940s, and subsequently the term became synonymous with evil.  If those people back then were willing to kill to defeat the Nazis, why shouldn't these people now do the same?

So Did the SPLC Buy the Tiki-Torches for Charlottesville?  Joe Biden knowingly launched his 2020 presidential campaign on a hoax — "the very fine people" hoax — likely knowing that his hoax was based on a deeper hoax, one that the United States Department of Justice exposed on Wednesday.  The DOJ confirmed in a grand jury indictment what many people had suspected about the fund raising mill known as the Southern Poverty Law Center:  "The SPLC also had a field source who was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 'Unite the Right' event in Charlottesville, Virginia.  That field source made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees."  [Photo]  And who paid for these guys?  The indictment continues:  "In order to covertly pay its field sources, the SPLC opened bank accounts connected to a series of fictitious entities.  The covert nature of the accounts allowed the SPLC to disguise the true nature, source, ownership, and control of the fraudulently obtained donated money the SPLC paid the field sources.  In order to keep the scheme going, the SPLC made a series of false statements related to the operation of the accounts."

We discovered 15 years ago SPLC was "creating fictitious hate so that they could then fundraise off of it".  The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has been a focus of ours since 2009.  We were against SPLC before it was cool to be against SPLC.  [Tweet]  We uncovered multiple instances where its Hate Map showed Klan and Nazi groups in Rhode Island which didn't appear to exist in real life.  [Tweet]  But that was not all.  We covered their inflated statistics and how they manufactured groups and branches of what often was only an entry on a website somewhere.  So while I didn't expect the level of criminality alleged in the recent indictment, I knew these were bad people doing bad things.  That the Indictment alleges they helped organize and promote the "Unite The Right" rally in Charlottesville is mind boggling — they helped create an event that changed the course of our political history, and then raised funds off of it.  [Tweet]

'There Are No Coincidences': Posobiec Reveals SPLC Connections to Soros, Obama, and Biden.  Political commentator Jack Posobiec discussed the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) following reports of a Department of Justice indictment in the Middle District of Alabama, describing the organization as a significant domestic concern and raising questions about its leadership, funding, and associations. [...] He identified individuals associated with the organization's leadership, including its board.  "Karen Baynes Dunning.  She's the current chair.  As far as we know.  Just checking out the websites, you see, they actually try very hard to cover this up.  They don't want us to know because they've already had so many issues."  Posobiec also highlighted financial contributors and board affiliations.  "But who else do we see on the list?  This is very interesting, Josh Bekenstein, Bain Capital, a guy who's been a hardcore donor to Democrats and left-wing causes.  Josh apparently still donates so much money to the SPLC that they put him on the board.  Isn't that interesting?  Who else do we see associated here?  Oh, that's a that's right, George Soros.  George Soros, another major donor to the SPLC." [...]

It's Official:  The Southern Poverty Law Center Is a 'Hate Group'.  The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has awarded itself far more grace than it deserves by having the word "poverty" in its name, which conjures up images of bootstrap liberal attorneys who live and work like the fictional Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird.  The founders of the organization, in 1971, integrated a myth that became a legend in the very naming of the organization.  From a branding standpoint, this is an amazing feat. [...] Now it seems that this fictional archetype may have run its course in terms of usefulness for the SPLC.  For one, how many kids these days graduate from high school and even know who Atticus Finch is?  Even if they do, they didn't grow up in a culture that might fully appreciate what Finch represented and the very context for his story.  That's why the news this week of the SPLC propping up groups like the KKK might seem unfathomable to a Boomer but no big deal to someone in Gen Z.

The Invention of White Supremacy.  The Southern Poverty Law Center scandal is reverberating everywhere today.  We always knew the SPLC was a fraud perpetrated for the benefit of the Democratic Party, but I, for one, never imagined that it was actually funding the organizations that it excoriated.  But with hindsight, it makes sense: the SPLC needed to keep alive absurd groups like the Ku Klux Klan to keep the money coming in, so that it could smear completely innocent organizations like Turning Point USA, Coral Ridge Ministries, the David Horowitz Freedom Center and the Family Research Council, which was its true purpose.  This is what makes the claim of SPLC's defenders that it was paying "informants," just like the FBI does, so ridiculous. [...] A final point: the SPLC is all about "white supremacy."  I know hundreds of conservatives, but I have never met a white supremacist.  In fact, I am not entirely sure what that term means.  But its use has exploded, not because white supremacists have suddenly burst onto the scene — they haven't — but because the Democratic Party found the term to be politically useful as a distraction from its own failed policies:  [Tweet]

Biden Loves to Say His WH Bid Was Sparked by Charlottesville Rally, Which DOJ Says the SPLC Helped Plan.  Joe Biden has told his absurd Charlottesville story so many times that it has become folklore.  He has framed a 2017 rally in Virginia as a moral turning point and the moment that supposedly compelled him to step in and "save" the country, and run for president in 2020.  Biden's claim was emotionally effective — even if difficult to believe — which is exactly why it has been repeated so often.  [Advertisement]  But the narrative is even more laughable when you juxtapose it with what the Department of Justice is now alleging.  The DOJ has charged the Southern Poverty Law Center with an 11-count federal indictment that accuses the group of funneling millions of dollars to extremist organizations such as the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nation.

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In 2014, the Southern Poverty Law Center Put Dr. Ben Carson on an 'Extremist' List.  Now that the Southern Poverty Law Center is being exposed, it is important to look back at some of the outrageous claims made by this group in the past.  It is absolutely amazing to think that in 2015, they put Dr. Ben Carson on an 'extremist' list.  Is 'extremist' one of the words that comes into your mind when you think of Carson?  Perhaps when they targeted one of the most renowned and highly respected pediatric brain surgeons in the entire country in this way, it was a clue that they were not operating in good faith.  They were eventually forced to take Carson off the list and then apologized... sort of.

SPLC's high-profile donors like Clooney, Soros stay mum after nonprofit indicted over alleged $3M hate group informant scheme.  Big-name donors to the Southern Poverty Law Center, including George Clooney and George Soros, have stayed silent amid allegations that the nonprofit funneled more than $3 million to the hate groups it claimed to fight.  The SPLC was charged with wire fraud, bank fraud and money laundering on Wednesday for allegedly bankrolling at least eight leaders and members of extremist groups — all behind the backs of their deep-pocketed benefactors.  The foundations of Clooney and Soros, along with MGM Resorts and other high-profile backers, haven't spoken up about the Justice Department indictment.

Democrats Beclown Themselves by Defending SPLC Amid KKK Funding Scandal.  The Southern Poverty Law Center, which makes its money by exaggerating "hate" to scare donors and by comparing conservatives to the Ku Klux Klan, was itself funding Klan members — and now major Democrats are beclowning themselves by defending it.  Like a dog returns to its vomit, so Democrats return to the ridiculous claim that the SPLC is some sort of noble civil rights group and that to attack it is to attack America's soul.  Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., claimed that the Justice Department's indictment against the SPLC is "turning what America's all about inside out."  He noted that "in 1983, the Ku Klux Klan tried to burn down the Southern Poverty Law Center for daring to oppose its hatred."  "More than four decades later, the Trump administration is trying to do the same thing in the courtroom," Schumer said.

Southern Poverty Law Center Story Sends the Legacy Media Into a Schizophrenic Fit.  To set the stage, you have to know the actual facts, which are:
  •   A grand jury in Montgomery, Al., indicted the SPLC with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.
  •   A U.S. Attorney's Office filed two forfeiture actions to recover alleged proceeds of the organization's fraud scheme.
  •   The counts center on allegations from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and National Socialist Party of America.
  •   The DOJ claims that the SPLC's donors weren't told of this, and that since the SPLC publicly said it was working to dismantle the same groups it was allegedly funding, they likely never would have donated in the first place.
  •   The DOJ and multiple news reports have indicated that front groups were allegedly created to launder the payments to those whose organizations the SPLC was publicly demonizing.
Now, in terms of the battle for the truth, the reality seems to be that when the SPLC paid certain operatives in these "hate groups," the purpose was not to pay an informant to aid the SPLC in taking the group down, even though that's not the SPLC's job anyway.  Rather, it was to pay the operative to help advance the cause of the targeted "hate group" through certain actions, and even under certain direction from the SPLC.

So When Are The "Punch A Nazi" Sorts Going To Punch SPLC Donors?  The big news this week is that Southern Poverty Law Center was secretly funding all the racist hate groups it claimed to be fighting.  [Lengthy excerpts]  You run into some definitional problems here. The actual indictment lists one of SPLC’s money recipients “F-30” as someone who lead “the National Socialist Party of America.”  (Some online have identified F-30 as one Paul Mullet, the very first Internet search hit is his SPLC page which states “Paul Mullet is a neo-Nazi and Christian Identity adherent with a long history of theft.  He has been involved with the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and the Aryan Nations and formed the American National Socialist Party in 2010.”)  Is someone who is a member of a “National Socialist Party” really a “neo” Nazi, or just a plain old Nazi?  Are they “neo” because they’re not members of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party?  Also: “F-unknown was the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America.”  Imperial Wizard is pretty much the highest rank in the Klan.  Another: “F-unknown was a member of the Klu [sic] Klux Klan and married to an Exalted Cyclops of the Klu Klus Klan.”  If you’re funding the people at the very top of a hate group, you’re not paying “informants,” you’re subsidizing the hate group.


News articles about the SPLC before their federal indictment:


California Conservatives, Beware: Newsom's 'Commission on the State of Hate' Is More Nefarious Than It Seems.  Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., on Tuesday announced five appointments to his new Commission on the State of Hate, and they don't bode well for conservatives in the Golden State.  According to Newsom's office, the commission will "assess data on hate crimes in California, provide resources for victims, and make policy recommendations to better protect civil rights."  The commission aims to help all Californians, but Newsom has nominated a slate of Democrats and activists — without including a single Republican — to serve on it.  Worse, one of the top nominees has a history at the Southern Poverty Law Center.  Those four words should send a shiver down the spine of conservatives.  While the Southern Poverty Law Center began as a public interest legal nonprofit representing poor people in the South, it has long since morphed into a far-left smear factory, branding mainstream conservative and Christian organizations "hate groups" and placing them on a map alongside the Ku Klux Klan.  It brands socially conservative organizations "anti-LGBT hate groups" and national security nonprofits "anti-Muslim hate groups."

Southern Poverty Law Center Now Has $162 Million Stashed in Offshore Accounts.  The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which last year faced accusations of racism among its highest ranks, reported $162 million stashed in offshore investments and paid its disgraced former leaders over $1 million.  The controversial group has continued to build its massive war chest by tens of millions of dollars even after employees claimed that the group's leadership allowed sexual harassment and racial discrimination against its minority staffers.  The ensuing media firestorm ultimately led to the ousting of cofounder Morris Dees, longtime president Richard Cohen, and legal director Rhonda Brownstein from the group in March 2019. New forms, covering a period beginning Nov. 1, 2018, and ending on Oct. 31, 2019, show that Cohen and Brownstein each received six-figure severance packages.

Southern Poverty Surpasses Half Billion in Assets; $121 Million Now Offshore.  The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a far-left nonprofit known for its "hate group" designations, has surpassed a half billion dollars in total assets and now has $121 million parked offshore, according to the group's most recent financial statements.  The SPLC, which is based in Montgomery, Ala., has not publicly posted its most recent financial statements on its website.  However, the organization applied for renewal in the state of California days ago and submitted a number of documents pertaining to its financial standing including its most recent audited statement and tax forms for calendar year 2018, which covers Nov. 1, 2017 to Oct. 31, 2018.  According to the filings submitted to California's Office of Attorney General, the group reported total assets of $518 million from November 2017 to the Oct. 31, 2018, an increase of $41 million from the $477 million in total assets it reported on its previous year's tax forms.

The Southern Poverty Law Center Has $69 Million Parked Overseas.  The Southern Poverty Law Center invests almost 20 percent of its nearly $320 million endowment fund in offshore equities and other investments.  The 2016 annual report of the Alabama-based civil rights organization reports $69,093,576 of "non-U.S. equity funds" among the assets comprising the total endowment fund of $319,283,961, a fund the SPLC describes as a "plan for the day when nonprofits like the SPLC can no longer afford to solicit support through the mail because of rising postage and printing costs."  (Given that 2016 contributions topped $45 million, that day has not yet arrived.)

Southern Poverty Law Center Transfers Millions in Cash to Offshore Entities.  The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a liberal, Alabama-based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization that has gained prominence on the left for its "hate group" designations, pushes millions of dollars to offshore entities as part of its business dealings, records show.  Additionally, the nonprofit pays lucrative six-figure salaries to its top directors and key employees while spending little on legal services despite its stated intent of "fighting hate and bigotry" using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy.

The Worst Smear Site In America.  The far-left Southern Poverty Law Center relentlessly promotes the Big Lie, wildly popular in the media, that conservative Americans are racists and the real threat to the nation rather than Islamic terrorists.  The group claims the principal enemies of the American people are presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, conservatives like David Horowitz, and the Tea Party movement.  The SPLC is a shamelessly hypocritical leftist attack machine funded by radical speculator George Soros and a rogue's gallery of rich people and established philanthropies that want to fundamentally transform America.  The fabulously wealthy 501(c)(3) nonprofit has an astounding one third of a billion dollars ($338 million) in assets, as well as investments in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands, two offshore tax havens the Left loves to attack (but only when non-leftists stash cash there).

The SPLC: A Massive, Multi-Million-Dollar Character Assassination Machine.  As Brett Kavanaugh defended himself on Thursday against scurrilous and unsubstantiated allegations brought forward by the Democrats, who have now richly earned the sobriquet "the Evil Party," David Horowitz tweeted:  "The left lives by character assassination — Bork, Thomas, Kavanaugh."  Yes, it does, and this doesn't manifest itself solely in Supreme Court nominee hearings.  The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the establishment media's principal source for determining who is acceptable in the public square and who isn't, is a well-heeled, unscrupulous character assassination machine, destroying lives and reputations with impunity for years now.  The SPLC has for years defamed me as a "hate group leader" and an "anti-Muslim extremist."  These are not mere words.  Tyler O'Neil reported in PJ Media last September that former SPLC spokesman Mark Potok declared:  "Sometimes the press will describe us as monitoring hate groups, I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, completely destroy them."

Southern Poverty Law Center Claims Antifa Is NOT a Hate Group.  Testifying before the House Homeland Security Committee on Thursday, Southern Poverty Law Center President Richard Cohen stated that Antifa is not considered a "hate group" by his organization.  "If you are familiar with our work, we write about antifa often," Cohen testified during the hearing on domestic terrorism.  "We condemn their tactics — I've said so publicly and we do so always — but antifa is not a group that vilifies people on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion and the like."  While they may not hate over religion, they certainly spread hate based on political leanings.  In fact, Cohen's statements came one day before a man in Boston was hospitalized with three fractures in his face after being attacked by a group of 7-10 Antifa militants over his support of President Donald Trump.

Nonprofit Tracker Smears Dozens of Conservative Organizations as 'Hate Groups'.  The nation's leading source of information on U.S. charities faces mounting criticism for using a controversial "hate group" designation in listings for some well-known and broadly supported conservative nonprofits.  GuideStar, which calls itself a "neutral" aggregator of tax data on charities, recently incorporated "hate group" labels produced by the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center.  The decision by the tracker of nonprofits prompted 41 conservative leaders to protest the move in a letter provided exclusively to The Daily Signal.

'Occupy' terrorists now called 'radical right' by Southern Poverty Law Center.  Did you know that the Occupy Movement is actually a part of the "radical right"?  The movement, which received favorable comments from the commanding heights of the American left — President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, the New York Times, and MSNBC — has now shown itself to include very violent elements, including actual terrorists, who began a bomb plot in Cleveland, only to be apprehended before carrying out their program of terror.

Dr. Seuss shows leftists again blurring fantasy and reality.  What makes it simultaneously amusing and disturbing is that it treats Seuss's nonsensical worlds as real and extrapolates racial messages from them.  Here's the short version of the left's latest attempt to cancel all cultural touchpoints that don't mesh with Marx:  Dr. Seuss's works ended up in the crosshairs when a Virginia school district discovered that Learning for Justice, an education (i.e., indoctrination") site affiliated with the Southern Poverty Law Center, had declared in 2019 that Dr. Seuss's works are racist.  Once the school's story hit the news, the pile-on began, with every leftist rushing to condemn Seuss for making his Asian, Inuit, and African humanoid characters every bit as weird, misshapen, and ugly as his (presumably) white American humanoid characters.  Six Seuss works were pulled from Amazon and eBay because of their racial horrors and Biden ignored Seuss entirely on Read Across America Day, which is held annually on Dr. Seuss's birthday.

Censorship: A Personal Story.  All Islamic political and religious doctrine is found in 3 texts — Koran, traditions of Mohammed (Hadith) and life of Mohammed (the Sira).  The only ideas that I speak about come from Allah and Mohammed.  Political Islam is the part of Islamic doctrine that deals with the non-Muslim, the Kafir.  Oddly enough, more Islamic doctrinal text is devoted to politics than religion.  My books sold like crazy.  I was selling books by the tens of thousands.  My Sharia Law for Non-Muslims was a #1 best seller on Islamic law on Amazon.  My video "Why We Are Afraid" had millions of views on YouTube. [...] But a storm cloud appeared on the horizon.  The Tennessean newspaper put out a Sunday front page article which said that I was an anti-Muslim bigot and a hater.  This was followed by several other attack pieces.  An organization called the SPLC, Southern Poverty Law Center, (the SPLC is not a civil rights group, is not southern, is not poor and is not a law center) declared that I was one of the biggest bigots in the US.  Indeed, the SPLC said Nashville was a hate city because I live here.  Then the media tornado hit.

Disqus' De-Platforming of Frontpage:  The Left's fascistic purges continue.  The relentless de-platforming of conservatives in general and of the David Horowitz Freedom Center specifically, continues.  On March 3rd the Editors at FrontPage received an email from Disqus, the networked community platform used by hundreds of thousands of sites all over the web. [...] As of tomorrow, March 17th, Disqus is de-platforming us.  They have refused to respond to inquiries seeking further explanation.  Disqus has taken on faith the libelous accusations of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a widely-discredited, partisan group that frequently characterizes mainstream conservative organizations as "hate groups."

The All-Out Assault on Conservative Thought Has Just Begun.  After the white nationalist riots in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and others renewed their demands for the suppression of conservative speech on social media.  After Trump's supporters breached the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Big Tech companies clamped down on President Donald Trump and many of his supporters.  Incoming President Joe Biden has said he plans to pass a law against domestic terrorism.  While conservatives rightly denounced the violence this week, this response bodes ill for conservative speech not just on social media, but in the public square and even in private organizations.  In the aftermath of the Capitol riots, Twitter suspended President Donald Trump's account for the first time and Facebook permanently banned the president.  After Trump deleted the tweets Twitter had flagged and had his account restored, Twitter proceeded to ban him entirely on Friday, and then it banned the official President of the United States (POTUS) account.

Google Erases the Existence of Those Who Speak Unwelcome Truths.  Daniel Greenfield, the peerless Shillman Fellow and FrontPage writer, tweeted the news on May 7: "Google just erased my Sultan Knish blog and Front Page Mag articles from the first pages of results for my name doubt very much this is accidental."  I did too, so I checked for myself, and sure enough: a Google search for "Robert Spencer" now does not bring up Jihad Watch, where most of my writing outside of books has been published for the last seventeen years, but it does give you defamatory and distorted attack pieces from the far-Left Southern Poverty Law Center and the Saudi-funded Bridge Initiative, and nothing that doesn't portray me and my work in the most unfavorable possible light.  This latest example of the tech giants' determination to silence all dissenting voices reveals one often overlooked fact: they are desperately afraid.  Google is so afraid of Jihad Watch, in fact, that it is going to great lengths to make you think that the site (which you can find here) doesn't exist at all.

Cartoonist Asks Everyone to Stop Calling Everyone Else Hitler, Facebook Bans Him.  Godwin's Law now joins the legion of things that Facebook inappropriately bans.  The target is talented cartoonist Bosch Fawstin, who was the target of the first ISIS attack in America over his Mohammed cartoon.  The Southern Poverty Law Center responded by naming Bosch, rather than ISIS, as a hate group.  Facebook has managed to go one better by banning Bosch for a cartoon pointing out the fallacy of accusing everyone else of being Hitler.

We are Slaves to the Children of the Lie.  Just this week MasterCard and Patreon pulled services from conservative David Horowitz Freedom Center and Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch.  David Horowitz exposes communists who hate America, and Robert Spencer exposes radical Islamists who hate the West.  Horowitz and Spencer were targeted by the radical, evil organization the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).  The SPLC pretends to oppose "hate," but actually spreads hate and defamation, with the support of the media and government.

David Horowitz:  Visa, Mastercard Cut Off Payments to My Think Tank Based on SPLC 'Hate Group' Label.  The David Horowitz Freedom Center has had their donation processing system blocked by Visa and Mastercard allegedly following a campaign by the Southern Poverty Law Center.  Visa has since contacted Breitbart News to deny involvement in the blacklisting of the Freedom Center.  The David Horowitz Freedom Center stated in a recent email that its ability to accept donations by credit card has been disabled by both Visa and Mastercard following a campaign by the SPLC to label the Freedom Center as a hate group.  This situation comes shortly after Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch was forced off the funding platform Patreon following pressure from Mastercard.

Robert Spencer:  Silicon Valley Blacklisting Conservatives 'with No Recourse, No Appeal, No Discussion'.  Robert Spencer, founder and director of Jihad Watch and author of "The History of Jihad:  From Muhammad to ISIS," warned of expanding online left-wing political censorship via large technology companies. [...] Spencer said, "The social media giants, now, have more control over the means of communication than the Soviet Union did in its heyday, or Nazi Germany, and they are pursuing a genuinely totalitarian initiative, and it's based largely on the work of Southern Poverty Law Center, which is a far-left group trying to demonize all dissent from the leftist agenda by lumping in legitimate conservative voices with groups like the KKK and neo-Nazis.  If you end up on the Southern Poverty Law Center's hate-group list, then the tech media giants will deplatform you on that basis with no recourse, no appeal, discussion; nothing."  [Audio clip]

Spotify Announces Partnership with Far-Left Groups Including SPLC to Police Platform.  Music streaming service Spotify has announced a partnership with several far-left groups, including the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), in an attempt to police the platform and remove "hate content."  The groups include the SPLC, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Color of Change, GLAAD, Showing Up For Racial Justice, Muslim Advocates, and the International Network Against Cyber Hate.

Prominent Christian Legal Group Barred From Amazon Program While Openly Anti-Semitic Groups Remain.  Amazon has barred prominent Christian legal group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) from participating in its Amazon Smile charitable program, which allows nonprofits to recoup a small fraction of the money their supporters spend through Amazon.  ADF, which specializes in First Amendment law and has won cases at the Supreme Court, is barred from Amazon Smile on account of the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center, which labeled ADF a "hate group."

Stop treating the Southern Poverty Law Center like it's a respectable and responsible organization.  YouTube has tapped the Southern Poverty Law Center to help it police objectionable content, according to the Daily Caller.  Hopefully, this isn't true.  But if it is, it's a disaster.  YouTube couldn't have chosen a worse or less trustworthy partner.  The SPLC is a dishonest, irresponsible and obnoxiously partisan organization.  Trusting them to decide what constitutes objectionable and "extremist" content, as YouTube's more than 100 "Trusted Flaggers" have been asked to do, is like asking the inmates to run the asylum.  YouTube's monitoring program dates to 2012.  However, according to the Caller, it has "exploded in size in recent years amid a Google push to increase regulation of the content on its platforms, which followed pressure from advertisers."

Exclusive: YouTube Secretly Using SPLC To Police Videos.  The Southern Poverty Law Center is assisting YouTube in policing content on their platform, The Daily Caller has learned.  The left-wing nonprofit — which has more recently come under fire for labeling legitimate conservative organizations as "hate groups" — is one of the more than 100 nongovernment organizations (NGOs) and government agencies in YouTube's "Trusted Flaggers" program, a source with knowledge of the arrangement told The [Daily Caller].  The SPLC and other program members help police YouTube for extremist content, ranging from so-called hate speech to terrorist recruiting videos.

How will Facebook, Google and Twitter define the "Hate" they plan to censor?  [Scroll down]  What is "hate," as defined by leftists, the very community from which these curators hail?  The Southern Poverty Law Center is a prominent radical leftist group hell-bent on poisoning society against conservatives, especially the social kind.  It features a "Hate Map" with the locations of conservative organizations of all stripes.  The Family Research Center, The Center for Security Policy, the Center for Family and Human Rights, ACT for America and the Traditional Values Coalition — these are but a few.  And what views do these "haters" hold?  Some support traditional marriage, some stopping illegal immigration, some fighting radical Islam.  A writer for the leftist website Salon has his example of hatred — the Confederate flag, which he calls "the American swastika."

Southern Poverty Law Center Stops Monitoring Black Hate Groups Because of 'Equity'.  The Southern Poverty Law Center claims it's dedicated to fighting hate.  But some things are more important than fighting hate.  Like "equity".  In the name of equity, the SPLC announced that it's shutting down its black nationalist hate groups category like the Nation of Islam.  After "doing the internal work of anti-racism", the SPLC will no longer list black racist hate groups because "the hate is not equal".  Even racism requires its own equity.  The SPLC's move dismantles the last remaining shred of credibility of the organization, but it also comes after Democrat politicians and activists, including Senator Cory Booker and Kamala Harris pressured the FBI to stop monitoring black nationalist hate groups before several murderous antisemitic attacks by members of the Black Hebrew Israelite hate group.

SPLC Promotes Teaching Kids About Black Lives Matter on MLK Day — in First Grade.  The Southern Poverty Law Center's education arm, Learning for Justice, promoted a former teacher's article about using Martin Luther King Jr.  Day to teach first graders about the Black Lives Matter movement and the "need for continued protest and action in the face of ongoing systemic injustice."  Critics slammed the lesson as "child abuse" and a "shameful form of indoctrination."  Learning for Justice shared the January 2018 article, "From MLK to #BlackLivesMatter: A Throughline for Young Students," on Twitter on Wednesday.  In the article, Bret Turner (then a first grade teacher at Head-Royce School in Oakland, California) wrote that Martin Luther King Jr.  Day represents "a great opportunity" to connect King's work with "the work of today's civil rights activists."  "First-graders are excited to study through a lens of fairness; it is largely what drives them in their daily interactions," Turner wrote.

Emails Expose Collusion at Highest Levels between Department of Justice and Communist SPLC.  The communists over at the Southern Poverty Law Center are among the gravest threats to freedom in the United States, and are named as such in the AFDI Threats to Freedom Index.  The enemedia eagerly laps up and repeats their designation of pro-freedom groups as "hate groups," and uses this designation as a propaganda tool to demonize and discredit us.  But here is an excellent expose that shows what these subversives are really all about.

Washington Post Says Fake Hate Is Rare, and Other Fairy Tales.  The reality is that black victimization is the biggest hoax of our lifetimes, and fake hate is a part of that huge liberal con game.  And it is easy to see with even a cursory look at a list of recent fake hate stories that gathered national attention.  The SPLC tells so many fibs about so many fake hate crimes even they have trouble keeping track.  After the election of Donald Trump, Mark Potok and MSNBC's Chris Matthews were talking about the millions — or was it billions? — of hate crimes that Trump supporters were creating all over the universe when they settled on one particularly egregious example of a Moslem woman in New York whose hijab was torn from her sainted head.  Trump supporters did it, of course, all the while threatening even more violence.  It never happened.  Even the New York Times figured that out a few months before.  But that hardly mattered to Potok and Matthews.

Chris Matthews and SPLC Fall for Hoax Even the NYT Says Is a Lie... Again.  [Scroll down] Chris and the Goofy Looking Dude said Trump and his ilk have been responsible for gajillions of acts of hatred and violence against everybody except white men, starting the day after the election.  In most newscasts, this is usually the time when they run a video that supports at least a little bit what they said.  This they did not do, at least not at first.  But when they did get around to giving a specific example of this nationwide tsunami of hatred and violence, the Goofy Looking Dude from SPLC reminded Chris how a woman in a hijab in a New York subway was attacked by the Trump acolytes on a mission of hate:  "37 percent of the perpetrators, as you said, either named President Trump by saying something like — you know — yelling to a woman wearing a hijab 'you go back to your country, now Donald Trump is President.  That kind of thing.'"  Chris nodded in knowing satisfaction.  That was the only specific example the Goofy Looking Dude could come up with.  And it was a lie.  A fabrication.  A hoax.

SPLC Keeps Denying.  Black-on-White Violence Keeps Happening.  Let's look at just a few examples of black violence, all of which happened since the SPLC's latest report a few days ago.  All of the keep happening wildly out of proportion.  All of them, the SPLC could not care less about.  In New York City, a black woman was walking down the street, bumping into white ladies.  When one of the white women suggested she stop assaulting white pedestrians, the black woman started hitting the white woman with a heavy metal box, all the while yelling and threatening, "Take that you white b----," followed by "that's what you get, white b----."

That SPLC Survey on Post-Election 'Hate Crimes' Left Out 2,000 Committed Against White Students.  How else are you going to create the fake news narrative that a wave of so-called "hate crimes" was sweeping the nation?  For one, just make things up, as the SPLC is famous for doing.  Two, ignore all the actual crimes committed against Trump supporters, or people who just happen to be white.

Provocateur Journalism.  When a news organization reports an impending weather event based on forecasts from the National Weather Service, or warns of potential seismic activity anticipated by the U.S. Geological Survey, or alerts the public concerning an infectious-disease outbreak being tracked by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, no one questions the news organization's motives, because the underlying information is factual and derived from a reliable, nonpartisan, and authoritative source.  CNN presents itself as a news organization, yet today [8/17/2017] it posted a dubious story titled "Here are all the active hate groups where you live," based entirely on data from the Southern Poverty Law Center.  The SPLC is not the equivalent of the National Weather Service, the USGS, or CDC, to put it mildly.  It is risible for CNN to recite SPLC data uncritically, with no additional validation, as a credible list of "domestic hate groups," let alone to describe SPLC's data as "widely accepted."

CNN, DHS & SPLC's Blame Righty hit job.  The Department of Homeland Security refuses to release a report on "right-wing" terrorism that somehow found its way into CNN's hands last week during the farcical White House summit on Don't Say Islamic Extremism.

CNN, DHS and SPLC's Blame-Righty Hit Job.  The Department of Homeland Security refuses to release a report on "right-wing" terrorism that somehow found its way into CNN's hands last week during the farcical White House summit on Don't Say Islamic Extremism. [...] CNN splashed the big scoop on its website:  "DHS intelligence report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat."  The fear-mongering piece featured a huge map of 24 alleged acts of "violence by sovereign citizen extremists since 2010." [...] But a closer look at the rigging of that phony factoid simply confirms the malevolent intention of so-called objective journalists and "hate watch" groups to marginalize conservative political speech and dissent.  The CNN/MSNBC/SPLC smear job involved both the dishonest deflating of left-wing and jihadist incidents, and the dishonest inflating of "right-wing" incidents.

Media's Lack of Curiosity About Killer of Muslims in North Carolina.  [Scroll down]  The SPLC runs a hate crimes racket, and the media — desperate to promote headlines that fit their pre-existing left-wing narratives about race, inequality and religion — are quick to swallow their propaganda.  "I think it's perfectly natural to guess that this is anti-Islamic," [Mark] Potok told the [Washington] Post in the interview regarding the triple murder.  "Not just because the three victims are Muslim, but because there has been so much terrible news in recent days about extremist Muslims."  Potok also appeared on MSNBC on the morning of February 13 with the news anchor Tamron Hall, and there was no mention of Hicks' political leanings, which appear to be consistent with their own.

A Lawsuit Exposes the Southern Poverty Law Center's Lies.  Twenty-one years ago, Dustin Inman, a sixteen year old boy, lost his life to a Mexican illegal alien.  That alien is still a wanted fugitive.  Under the Trump administration, the ICE VOICE office was established to help victims of illegal aliens and Dustin's killer appear on its most wanted list.  In one of his numerous acts of calculated cruelty, Biden shut down ICE VOICE.  And two decades later Dustin's killer is still out there.  There are tragically a thousand cases like this.  But some of them make people step up.  That's how D.A. King founded the Dustin Inman Society.  The former Marine financed it with his life savings, borrowed against his house and sold his inheritance.  Since then he has fought a tireless campaign in Georgia against an illegal alien crisis that only keeps getting worse.  And now he's fighting one against the Southern Poverty Law Center.  A decade ago the Southern Poverty Law Center called him a "nativist", but admitted the Dustin Inman Society wasn't a hate group. "Because he is fighting, working on his legislation through the political process, that is not something we can quibble with, whether we like the law or not," Heidi Beirich, the woman behind the SPLC's infamous hate labeling, conceded.  Now, the SPLC lists the Dustin Inman Society and D.A. King as an "anti-immigrant hate group" because he favors enforcing the nation's laws.  King responded by suing the SPLC.

Teaching assistant docks point on conservative student's Black Panther essay: 'White people cannot experience racism'.  A student at Virginia Tech University was told by a teaching assistant that "White people cannot experience racism" when asked why she received a low grade on her final paper.  Students in the Nations and Nationalities class at Virginia Tech were asked to complete a paper describing a hate group from the Southern Poverty Law Center's list, and analyze how that group justifies its worldview, according to Alyssa Jones, a student in the class.  Jones is also the president of the Virginia Tech University Turning Point USA chapter and a campus ambassador for The Leadership Institute, the parent organization of Campus Reform.  Jones told Campus Reform that she decided to pick "the New Black Panther Party with the focus of the essay being on separatism."

Kindergarten History Lessons in Virginia to Focus on Slavery.  Most adults who attended public school remember early history lessons about American leaders and symbols — George Washington crossing the Delaware, Betsy Ross sewing the American flag.  But starting this fall, kindergarteners in Loudon County — a wealthy suburb of Washington D.C. — will be taught a new radicalized history curriculum focusing on slavery and social justice.  Loudon County has elected to partner with the disgraced far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to develop the new curriculum which deliberately paints America in a highly negative light.

Anti-conservative SPLC now has chapters on 100+ campuses.  The Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization that maintains a list of conservative "hate groups," now has more than 100 chapters on college campuses across the country.  Chapters are expected to distribute materials such as a guide to the "alt-right on campus," as well as "further the SPLC's goals by raising awareness of the growth and activities of hate and extremists groups."

SPLC Suggests Gun Ownership a 'Red Flag' For Violence.  Authorities still haven't released any official motive for the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, but the media has already started to point the finger at "gun culture" for the crime.  At USA Today, reporters Kenny Jacoby and Lucas Aulbach spoke to a representative of the Southern Poverty Law Center about the assassin's family, who was all too eager to portray the family's gun ownership as a red flag. [...] As sociologist David Yamane has emphasized, gun ownership is normal and normal people own guns, but to the Southern Poverty Law Center buying a firearm is a red flag for violence.  At a time when voices across the political spectrum are calling on Americans to take a deep breath and deescalate the political tensions, the SPLC is throwing gasoline on the fire by blithely asserting that gun ownership or "gun culture" is a warning sign that should alarm both average citizens and law enforcement.

20 years after 9/11, Islamophobia continues to haunt Muslims.  Sept. 11, 2001, marked the start of a new era for Muslims in the United States.  Shortly after al-Qaida terrorists attacked the Twin Towers and the Pentagon, many Muslims, as well as other Arab Americans, became the targets of anger and racism.  Mosques were burned or destroyed and death threats and harassment followed many Muslims in the weeks following the attacks, according to congressional testimony from the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2011.  Some victims were beaten, attacked or held at gunpoint for merely being perceived as Muslim, the organization said.

The Great Hijab Cover-Up.  Forget fake news; the real issue is fake "hate."  Has there been one (1) documented hate crime committed by white people against any hue in the Rainbow Coalition since Nov. 8?  That's out of the 9,456,723 hate crimes alleged by America's leading hate group, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).  The SPLC is to "hate" what Rolling Stone is to rape.  It is the biggest peddler of fantasies since Walt Disney.  I've read through dozens of SPLC "hate crimes" and they are all lies.  The Muslim girls in particular seem to be very spirited liars.

Left's Orwellian Censorship Campaign.  The evidence of this calculated assault on free speech is overwhelming, but the most recent and high-profile examples include carefully orchestrated campaigns by three well-funded, interconnected, George Soros-linked organizations:  Media Matters for America (MMFA); the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC); and the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD).

Ben Carson lands on Southern Poverty Law Center's 'extremist' list because he opposes gay marriage.  An iconic American civil rights group that was founded to fight the Ku Klux Klan is now taking aim at the only African-American to hint he might run for president in 2016 — because he opposes gay marriage.  Republican Ben Carson, a retired world-class pediatric neurosurgeon, has found himself listed on the Southern Poverty Law Center's 'Extremist Watch' website alongside neo-Nazis, skinheads, and Klansmen, in a peculiar example of the group's mission-creep.  Carson said Monday [2/9/2015] that the characterization is 'projectionist and ignorant.'

Update:
Southern Poverty Law Center issues totally unconvincing apology to Dr. Ben Carson.  The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) apparently realized its primary goal, fundraising, was in danger by its placing of Dr. Ben Carson on its "Extremist File" list.  But the apology it has issued is the least convincing pretense of remorse that I have ever seen.

Southern Poverty Law Center Apologizes To Ben Carson For Putting Him On Its 'Extremist' List.  Retired neurosurgeon and possible 2016 presidential candidate Ben Carson isn't an anti-gay extremist after all, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.  Under intense scrutiny after it was revealed that the civil rights organization had lumped Carson in with the likes of KKK members and other zealots on its "extremist watch list," the SPLC announced on Wednesday [2/11/2015] that it was scrubbing Carson's name.

The Southern Poverty Law Center Has Become a Dangerous Joke.  [Scroll down]  We heard from men and women who've long served gay customers and formed lasting friendships with gay neighbors who now face death threats because they simply refused to lend their artistic talents to celebrate a gay wedding.  We heard one man's voice break as he told the story of how his father fought across Europe and helped liberate a concentration camp from Nazi control — and now his son is called a "Nazi" in part because he wants all people to enjoy the same rights of conscience and wants no man or woman to be coerced into supporting events they find immoral.

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