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NOT JUST AN ‘IDEA’: How Trump Admin Is Holding Antifa Accountable For Violent Threats
During the 2020 presidential debate with President Donald Trump, Joe Biden infamously declared that Antifa was “an idea, not an organization,” echoing a leftist talking point that deflected from the violent riots that summer. Yet the Justice Department’s prosecutions of Antifa agitators in this second Trump administration should dispel this notion once and for all…. -
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How One Leftist Group Prevents Corporate Employees From Supporting Conservative Nonprofits
Major employers systematically—though perhaps unintentionally—blacklist conservative nonprofits from their employee charitable giving programs through a third party. Corporate generosity platforms such as Benevity act as middlemen, connecting employers such as AT&T, Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and Starbucks to a host of nonprofits. Benevity, for example, connects “nearly 1,000 enterprise companies” to a network of 513,000 nonprofits after… -
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5 Things to Know About the SPLC’s Incoming CEO
The Southern Poverty Law Center has announced its next president and CEO amid a federal indictment into alleged fraud regarding payments to members of the Ku Klux Klan. Ryan P. Haygood, who serves as president and CEO of the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, will formally join the SPLC in August, the center announced… -
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EXCLUSIVE: DoorDash to Stop Blacklisting Conservative Nonprofits in Employee Giving Program
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The delivery marketplace company DoorDash has begun the process of allowing employees to donate to conservative nonprofits, even if they appear on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map.” The conservative Christian law firm Alliance Defending Freedom, working with the Catholic financial advisory firm IWP Capital, urged DoorDash to reconsider its… -
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SPLC CEO Makes Astonishing Claim to Explain Why Leftist Group Stopped Its ‘Informant’ Program
The Southern Poverty Law Center acknowledged that it funded members of the Ku Klux Klan, but it claims the payments were merely part of an “informant” program to dismantle the Klan and other white supremacist groups—a program it has since ended. The group’s interim president gave a reason why in congressional testimony Tuesday. Rep. Jim… -
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The Sneaky Way Corporate America Blacklists Conservatives, and How More of Them Are Fighting Back
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—More nonprofits are urging the software company Benevity—which hundreds of companies use to allow employees to donate their time and money to charities—to stop systematically blacklisting conservative nonprofits. Twelve organizations first sent a letter to Benevity in October following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. The new letter, sent… -
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IN BED WITH NEO-NAZI: New Indictment Exposes Leftist Group’s Scandalous Relationships With White Nationalists
The Southern Poverty Law Center allegedly paid at least three people who wanted to leave the white supremacist movement not to do so, according to the Justice Department’s superseding indictment handed down Tuesday. A federal grand jury in April had indicted the SPLC on charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to conceal money… -
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Is the Government Still Funding the Immigration Industrial Complex? Trump Wants Answers
Is the federal government still funneling taxpayer dollars to some of the leftist activist groups that called the shots during President Joe Biden’s administration? The Trump White House is asking federal agencies to investigate past and potentially continuing funding for a host of nonprofits, many of which are associated with aggressive promotion of leftist causes…. -
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DNC 2024 Autopsy Reveals Why Democrats Won’t Shake Their Worst Political Liability
The 2024 presidential election autopsy, which the Democratic National Committee commissioned and was shamed into releasing this week, is absolutely pathetic. Even in releasing it, the DNC felt honor-bound to mark it up, noting that some of the claims run counter to real evidence. The DNC will doubtless move on from this shameful embarrassment, but… -
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‘DANGEROUS’: SPLC Hearing Witness Slams Charlie Kirk Statements
Maya Wiley, the Democrat witness for the House Judiciary Committee, testified before members of Congress that Charlie Kirk made “dangerous” statements preceding his assassination. The House Judiciary Committee held a hearing Wednesday to address allegations of fraud against the left-leaning nonprofit titled “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate.” The Daily Signal’s Tyler O’Neil, who… -
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SPLC Leader to Testify Before House Judiciary Committee
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s interim CEO, Bryan Fair, has agreed to testify before the House Judiciary Committee on June 9, the committee announced Wednesday. A committee spokeswoman told the Daily Signal on Thursday that the hearing will be open to the press and to the public. The committee may have other witnesses present but… -
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Jasmine Crockett’s Unhinged Tirade Against Me
I testified in Congress today, and I can’t help but feel like I was doing the job of Rep. Jasmine Crockett’s therapist. The House Judiciary Committee invited me to speak on the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Democrats on the committee didn’t exactly like that. The Democrats spent their time defending the poor, sweet,… -
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‘POVERTY PALACE’: How Is the SPLC Wealthier Than the YMCA and Planned Parenthood?
These are the remarks Tyler O’Neil plans to deliver before the House Judiciary Committee in his opening statement Wednesday morning. The text may change between publication now and the testimony then. Chairman [Jim] Jordan, Ranking Member [Jamie] Raskin, members of the committee, I am honored to testify before you today. I will argue that the… -
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Kevin Roberts Comments on Southern Poverty Law Center Scam
On “The Kevin Roberts Show” on May 13, Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts and co-host Larry O’Connor said that the Southern Poverty Law Center has gone from promoting civil rights to encouraging left-wing extremism. “It’s an organization that didn’t monitor violent extremists like they said they did,” O’Connor said. “Over time, it helped redefine ordinary… -
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What You Can Do to Hold the Southern Poverty Law Center Accountable
The Southern Poverty Law Center faces charges of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy for sending $3 million to members of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. This indictment led me to update the book I wrote in 2020, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center.” At the end of the update,… -
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How Did This Leftist Group Smuggle Its Divisive Ideas Into 169 School Districts, Without Parents Knowing?
The Southern Poverty Law Center has spread its woke activist agenda in education to at least 169 school districts in 42 states, according to a new report, and the impact of teachers unions helps explain this expansive influence. Learning for Justice, the SPLC’s education arm, promotes “social justice” activism, pushes racially divisive messaging, and advocates… -
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‘MONETIZING HATE’: Alabama AG Investigates SPLC for Deceptive Practices Amid KKK Funding Scandal
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall is demanding the Southern Poverty Law Center hand over donor information, fundraising solicitations, and other internal documents after a federal grand jury indicted the SPLC for allegedly funding members of the very hate groups the SPLC claims it exists to “dismantle.” Marshall’s office issued a formal subpoena to the Montgomery-based… -
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Arizona School Resource Directed Teachers to Condemn Moms for Liberty, Turning Point USA in Class
A curriculum audit for an Arizona school district last year identified a resource that urged teachers to direct students to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map” and avoid the websites of “hate groups” or their sympathizers. Critics have faulted the SPLC for putting mainstream conservative and Christian groups, such as Moms for Liberty, Turning… -
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Former SPLC Staffer Spills the Beans on Union-Busting, Israel, Racial Discrimination Claims
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s hypocrisy knows no bounds. Not only was the SPLC allegedly boosting members of the hate groups it says it exists to oppose while demonizing mainstream conservatives, but it also reportedly settled a racial discrimination lawsuit as recently as 2024. Michael Edison Hayden, who worked as a senior investigative reporter at… -
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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…