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Michael Edison Hayden, a former Southern Poverty Law Center staffer, says the SPLC settled a racial discrimination case he brought against it in 2024.
The Southern Poverty Law Center on March 3, 2020. (Barry Lewis/InPictures/Getty Images)
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a left-leaning civil rights nonprofit in Montgomery, Alabama. It gained its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy, and later started publishing a “hate map” with Klan chapters that grew to include many other organizations, including mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits such as Focus on the Family, Moms for Liberty, and Turning Point USA.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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