Tyler O’Neil

Tyler O’Neil is senior investigative reporter at the Daily Signal and author of two books, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center” and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.”

He graduated in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in history at Hillsdale College. He interned with the National Journalism Center and studied journalism at the Leadership Institute.

He has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, Newsweek, The Daily Wire, WORLD Magazine, and more.

O’Neil has long studied the nonprofits that aim to silence dissent from the Left’s orthodoxy on hot-button issues such as gender ideology, critical race theory, and climate alarmism. He has focused on the Southern Poverty Law Center, which he considers to be the tip of the spear when it comes to demonizing conservatives. This abiding interest led him to write his first book, “Making Hate Pay.” He was gratified to break the news in 2025 that the FBI was cutting off all ties to the SPLC.

Despite the SPLC’s many scandals, it enjoyed broad access to the Biden administration. This fact spurred O’Neil on to investigate what other left-wing nonprofits have influenced the administrative state. His research uncovered a vast left-wing campaign to influence policy, with many nonprofits feeding staff into the Biden administration and shaping federal regulations. He also found that a dark money network propped up this influence campaign.

In 2025, he was selected as a finalist for the Dao Prize for his series, “Your Money, Their Agenda: The Left’s Taxpayer-Funded War on Trump.”