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The Daily Signal covers how woke left ideology drives cultural and political division across education, media, and public life. Featuring investigative reporting, analysis, and commentary, this section highlights the consequences of identity-driven activism and the left’s progressive agenda in America.
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    Today’s NFL: Higher Prices, More Politics

    President Donald Trump has lit the National Football League up several times this year. He made it clear that he’s not a fan of several rule changes. He slammed this year’s Super Bowl halftime show, saying that it was “absolutely terrible, one of the worst, EVER! It makes no sense, is an affront to the Greatness of…
    Daniel Suhr
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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…
    Tyler O’Neil
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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…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    A Boycott That’s Increasingly Off-Target: The Pitfalls of Pushing DEI

    In an announcement on YouTube in March, Atlanta pastor Jamal Harrison Bryant said that he and his fellow progressive Target boycotters were declaring victory and going home—or back to Target, as the case may be. “This fight, for us, has now reached its conclusion,” he said. There was only one problem: No one told the…
    Stephen Soukup
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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…
    Tyler O’Neil
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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…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    • News

    Judge Orders CAIR to Turn Over Foreign Donor Info to Greg Abbott

    A district court judge ordered the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which bills itself as America’s largest Muslim civil rights group, to hand over donor information to Texas Gov. Greg Abbott. CAIR “will produce documents sufficient to identify the identities of any foreign donor who has given donations … of $5,000 or more to” the CAIR…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Florida Launches Rival to ‘Woke’ AP US History

    The Florida Department of Education launched a new framework Monday to explicitly compete with “woke” Advanced Placement U.S. history courses, following criticism that the College Board embeds racist bias and “diversity, equity, and inclusion” into such courses. The department will launch the Florida Advanced Courses and Tests framework for U.S. history as a pilot program…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    CORRECTING THE RECORD: The Palisades Fire Was Yet Another Example of Leftist Political Violence

    Democrats’ heated rhetoric may have contributed to the Palisades Fire—but not by warming the global climate. When the Los Angeles-area fire burned 23,707 acres, destroyed 6,833 structures, and killed 12 people, those on the left rushed to blame it on man-made climate change. Only later did we learn that the human causation was far more…
    Tyler O’Neil
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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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    • Opinion

    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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    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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    • Opinion

    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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    • News

    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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    • Opinion

    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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