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    Is the Left’s Censorship Industrial Complex Pulling the Strings Behind AI?
    Over the past decade, the Left has cultivated a censorship industrial complex of “experts” on “extremism” who try to bully Big Tech and corporate America into blacklisting conservatives over hot-button cultural issues such as LGBTQ+ orthodoxy and parental rights. While the censorship industrial complex has suffered setbacks, it enjoys a persistent influence—notably at Anthropic, the…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    The Deep State Strikes Back
    Last month, the Justice Department targeted a central hub of the Left’s cancel culture machine that weaponized the federal government under President Joe Biden. Just over a week later, Democrats received a “whistleblower” report claiming that the DOJ rushed the indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center. To my eyes, this looks like a deep…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • news

    2 Major Companies Bankrolling SPLC Will Cut Off Grants After DOJ Indictment
    The federal indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, which accuses the SPLC of wire fraud and bank fraud for funding members of the very white supremacist groups it claims to dismantle, has led some financial institutions to block grants to the group. After Fidelity Investments and Vanguard Financial announced they would stop issuing grants…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    The Biden Admin’s Anti-Christian Bias Was Even Worse Than You Think
    Joe Biden’s presidency was even worse for Christians than you think, according to an exhaustive report from the Justice Department’s Task Force to Eradicate Anti-Christian Bias, published Thursday. The anti-Christian bias seeped into official policy across the federal government, from personnel matters—where Christians’ requests for time off around Easter Sunday were met with suspicion in…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Southern Poverty Law Center Gets Taste of Its Own Debanking Medicine
    After years of the Southern Poverty Law Center demanding that charitable foundations blacklist conservative and Christian nonprofits, the shoe is finally on the other foot: Fidelity Charitable has denied contributions to the SPLC. Fidelity hasn’t targeted the SPLC for ideological reasons in the same way the SPLC targets conservatives, however—America’s largest sponsor of donor-advised funds…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • news

    ‘LUDICROUS’: Rabbi Slams Latest Attempt to Defend SPLC Paying Klan Members
    Jewish groups have used paid informants to protect synagogues from antisemitic violence, and the Southern Poverty Law Center has claimed that it was funding KKK members for similar reasons, but a group that represents 2,500 Orthodox Jewish rabbis is crying foul. Last week, a federal grand jury indicted the SPLC on wire fraud, bank fraud,…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    DOJ Responds to SPLC Claim That Todd Blanche Lied About Informant Program
    The Justice Department responded Tuesday after the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a complaint in federal district court demanding an apology from acting Attorney General Todd Blanche for making allegedly false statements. Last week, a federal grand jury indicted the SPLC on wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy charges for allegedly paying members of the…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    SPLC’s Hate Inflation Strategy
    The Southern Poverty Law Center raises money by presenting itself as the expert on combating “hate,” and then exaggerating “hate” to scare donors into ponying up cash. The problem? The SPLC’s inflated demand for “hate” has long outstripped the supply. Thousands of donors expect the SPLC to prove there’s enough “hate” to justify their donations,…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    250 Major Companies Still Use SPLC to Screen Donations, Despite KKK Funding Scandal
    Hundreds of companies use the software company Benevity to connect with nonprofits, allowing employees to donate their time and money, but Benevity’s platform blacklists conservative nonprofits, using as a resource the very same leftist group that now faces charges for hiding its secret payments to Ku Klux Klan members. The SPLC admitted to funding members of…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • WHAT DID SHE KNOW? 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…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    AMA Race-Based Scholarships Disappear From Website After Do No Harm IRS Complaint
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The American Medical Association Foundation website no longer includes listings for race-based scholarships after a medical watchdog suggested the foundation should lose its tax-exempt status for racial discrimination. Do No Harm, a watchdog group of doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals, aims to expose racial discrimination, transgender ideology, and other divisive…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    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…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Trump Administration Is ‘Looking Beyond the SPLC’ to Broader ‘Marxist’ Network: Chip Roy
    Rep. Chip Roy told The Daily Signal that the Justice Department’s indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, while a welcome move, represents just one step in a broader effort the administration has undertaken against leftist groups. “The indictments are an enormously important step forward and an indication that the administration is taking this seriously,”…
    Tyler O’Neil
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  • opinion

    Blowing the Lid Off of the Left’s Charlottesville Narrative
    President Donald Trump never defended white nationalists in the infamous 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, but a leftist group in league with Trump’s 2020 opponent, President Joe Biden, was funding the white nationalists under the table. According to the Justice Department’s new indictment, the Southern Poverty Law Center—which raises money by presenting…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Bruce Springsteen’s Land of Hope and Dreams No Longer Welcomes All
    The first time I heard Bruce Springsteen play “Land of Hope and Dreams” during his reunion tour of 1999, I nearly wept. Summoning the spirit of Woody Guthrie’s “Bound for Glory” and The Impressions’ gospel-tinged “People Get Ready,” the soul-soaring number evoked America as a train, with “this train” welcoming “saints and sinners,” “losers and…
    Al Perrotta
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  • news

    The SPLC Was Paying the Ku Klux Klan, DOJ Indictment Claims
    The Southern Poverty Law Center has raised money for decades claiming to dismantle white supremacy, but it funneled millions of dollars to white nationalist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, according to a federal indictment handed down Tuesday. The SPLC claims it was funding informants inside the extremist groups. While the SPLC “purports to fight…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    EXCLUSIVE: Consumer Group Wants Insurers Investigated for ‘Woke’ Policies
    FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A consumer advocacy organization is asking the House Oversight Committee to examine whether major insurance companies are allowing wokeness to shape business decisions. Consumers’ Research President Will Hild wrote a letter to Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., claiming that large insurers are “leveraging their market power, corporate governance practices, and public-facing programs to…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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  • analysis

    ‘Hollywood for Ugly People’ Finally Gets a Taste of Celebrity Treatment
    It’s often said that Washington, D.C., is Hollywood for ugly people. Well, Congress is finally getting the Hollywood treatment it has been longing for. While lawmakers are on spring break, the entertainment news outlet TMZ has joined the scrum that is covering news on Capitol Hill. As members of Congress left Washington, D.C., for a…
    Virginia Grace McKinnon
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  • opinion

    Is Hollywood’s Political Preaching Era Drawing to an End?
    The Washington Stand—Recent years have seen a number of Hollywood stars toss out their soapboxes and urge their fellow celebrities to simply shut up about politics. During President Donald Trump’s first term, superstar and then-“it” girl Jennifer Lawrence was an outspoken critic, frequently weighing in on political matters, describing the Trump presidency as “the end of the…
    S.A. McCarthy
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  • news

    Massie Questions ‘Woke’ Opponent’s Conservative Credentials
    Rep. Thomas Massie released an ad Tuesday questioning his primary opponent’s conservative credentials. Massie, R-Ky., who has an 83% lifetime score from Heritage Action, pointed out that Ed Gallrein, who is now endorsed by President Donald Trump, changed his voter registration from Republican to Independent in 2016, the year Trump won the Republican Party’s presidential…
    Pedro Rodriguez
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