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The Vindication of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and a Long Overdue Reckoning for the Southern Poverty Law Center

Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been under attack by Muslim groups for more than two decades. Her work in trying to free Muslim women from the tyranny, the beatings, the forced genital mutilation by Muslim men has resulted in death threats against her, too numerous to count.

A close friend and collaborator, Theo van Gogh, was butchered on an Amsterdam street in 2004 by a Muslim terrorist. Suffice it to say that “hate” — real, soul-destroying, all-consuming hate — is something that Hirsi Ali is quite familiar with.

Exposing the truth about Islamic societies, their oppression of women, and virulent antagonism directed against other religions became her life’s work. Yet, despite the target on her back and the need for constant protection from attack, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) branded her an “anti-Muslim extremist.”

“I have lived under armed protection for more than two decades because men with weapons and conviction want me dead—for apostasy; for writing about Islamist-driven antisemitism and the subversive actions of the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups in the West; for drawing attention to practices such as honor killings and female genital mutilation; for arguing that Muslim women deserve the same protections under the law as other women,” writes Hirsi Ali in The Free Press.

But those crimes by Islamists play a secondary role to the glorious mission of the SPLC. Groups like the Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazis, and other violent white supremacists are only players in a massive fundraising game by the SPLC. If individuals like Hirsi Ali are exposed to blood-curdling threats and attempts on her life, that’s just part of the game.

The SPLC placed Ali on a blacklist called “A Journalist’s Manual: Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists,” along with 15 other “anti-Muslim extremists.” It accused her of using “the political bully pulpit to bash Muslims.”

“Maajid Nawaz, a reformed radical who ran a counter-extremism organization, and an array of figures also dedicated to combating Islamism and antisemitism, such as David Horowitz and Daniel Pipes,” were also on the list, according to The Free Press. Nawaz sued the SPLC and won a handsome $3.4 million settlement. The list of “anti-Muslim extremists” quickly disappeared.

But that lawsuit began a collapse of SPLC’s fundraising juggernaut. It was described in a 2000 investigation as the “wealthiest civil rights organization in America.”

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Jim Jordan demands SPLC hand over communications with Biden admin

In the wake of the Department of Justice charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with counts that include wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan has demanded that the organization turn over all communications it had with the Biden administration.

The letter to SPLC head Bryan Fair began by noting allegations laid out in the indictment, including that the organization paid $3 million in donor funds to people associated with the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party, as well as organizers of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.

The letter stated, “At no point did the SPLC inform its donors that their charitable donations might be used to pay leaders of violent hate groups. To conceal the source of these payments, the SPLC allegedly opened bank accounts under the name of various fictitious entities and transferred funds from those accounts to their informants.”

Citing the indictment, Jordan noted that these entities “were never incorporated, had no bona fide employees, and conducted no actual business.” He added, “Rather, their sole purpose was to enable the SPLC ‘as if the [informants] were receiving money from the fictitious entities rather than receiving donated funds from the SPLC to conduct financial transactions that made it appear.'”

Jordan said that the Judiciary Committee has been conducting oversight regarding the Biden administration’s “close coordination with the SPLC on federal civil rights matters.” Among the things uncovered was “that an internal FBI system contained at least 13 documents, including the Richmond memorandum that labeled traditional Catholics as ‘violent extremists,’ that cited material from the SPLC.”

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Accused of Funding Hate Groups, Southern Poverty Law Center Has History of Targeting Christians

A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering. The DOJ alleges that between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC paid at least $3 million to individuals affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America, Unite the Right, the National Alliance, the National Socialist Movement, the National Socialist Party of America, the Aryan Nations-affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, and the American Front.

The payments were made through fictitious entities, including “Fox Photography” and “Rare Books Warehouse,” and the SPLC never disclosed this informant program to donors. One informant received more than $1 million while affiliated with the neo-Nazi National Alliance; another was the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced the charges alongside FBI Director Kash Patel, who had previously severed the bureau’s relationship with the SPLC, calling it a “partisan smear machine.” The SPLC reported over $800 million in assets as of 2024. Interim CEO Bryan Fair called the allegations false, saying the SPLC’s sources had “risked their lives” and provided information to the FBI that “saved lives.” The indictment does not allege that funds went directly to the hate groups themselves, only to affiliated individuals.

The indictment is the latest development in a long record of the SPLC using its “hate group” designation against Christian organizations, a pattern that produced real-world violence, a nationwide Catholic surveillance program, and the systematic exclusion of Christian ministries from donor platforms. The irony is that the vast majority of African Americans the SPLC purports to defend are themselves Christians, particularly in the South.

The SPLC designated the Family Research Council (FRC) as a hate group in 2010. In August 2012, Floyd Lee Corkins II entered FRC’s Washington headquarters armed with a 9mm pistol and multiple magazines. He told the FBI, “Southern Poverty Law lists anti-gay groups. I found them online, did a little research, went to the website, stuff like that.”

Prosecutors said his mission was to kill as many people as possible; a security guard was shot but stopped the attack. Corkins pleaded guilty to committing an act of terrorism while armed and was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2013. FRC President Tony Perkins stated that Corkins “was given a license by a group such as the Southern Poverty Law Center, who labeled us a hate group because we defend the family and we stand for traditional, orthodox Christianity.” A decade after the attack, FRC remained on the SPLC hate map.

The SPLC also designated the Alliance Defending Freedom as a hate group, an organization founded in 1994 by Christian leaders, including James Dobson, Bill Bright, and D. James Kennedy, which has since secured 64 victories before the United States Supreme Court. Former Attorney General Edwin Meese III wrote in the Wall Street Journal that placing ADF alongside KKK chapters was “not only wrong, it’s malicious.”

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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 is some sort of noble civil rights group and that to attack it is to attack America’s soul.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., claimed that the Justice Department’s indictment against the SPLC is “turning what America’s all about inside out.”

He noted that “in 1983, the Ku Klux Klan tried to burn down the Southern Poverty Law Center for daring to oppose its hatred.”

“More than four decades later, the Trump administration is trying to do the same thing in the courtroom,” Schumer said.

That’s a powerful line, but is it true?

Schumer didn’t address the specific charges in the indictment—six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to conceal money laundering. Nor did he address the allegations that the SPLC didn’t just pay $3 million to a set of “informants” in white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups, but actually directed racist social media posts and helped bring more people to the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017, paying the very same extremists it highlighted on its website.

The Democrat merely dismissed the idea as laughable.

“It has nothing to do with alleged wire fraud, with the Southern Poverty Law Center somehow working in coordination with the KKK,” Schumer said. “That’s ridiculous on its face! It doesn’t pass the laugh test.”

If the good senator has any evidence the SPLC did not fund KKK members, I’d love to see it. The claim is extraordinary, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t true. The SPLC hasn’t denied it—the group has merely argued that it was funding “informants” in order to protect victims from potential violence.

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Southern Poverty Law Center Story Sends the Legacy Media Into a Schizophrenic Fit

In today’s legacy media newsroom, there are two sides to every story: the one they want the public to see, and the one they’re trying to hide. As often as not, the one they want the public to see is untrue, and the one they are trying to hide is true.

The news coverage of the mess the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has gotten itself into this week provides a perfect opportunity to compare and contrast the way something like this manifests itself.

To set the stage, you have to know the actual facts, which are:

  • A grand jury in Montgomery, Al., indicted the SPLC with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering.
  • A U.S. Attorney’s Office filed two forfeiture actions to recover alleged proceeds of the organization’s fraud scheme.
  • The counts center on allegations from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and National Socialist Party of America.
  • The DOJ claims that the SPLC’s donors weren’t told of this, and that since the SPLC publicly said it was working to dismantle the same groups it was allegedly funding, they likely never would have donated in the first place.
  • The DOJ and multiple news reports have indicated that front groups were allegedly created to launder the payments to those whose organizations the SPLC was publicly demonizing.

Now, in terms of the battle for the truth, the reality seems to be that when the SPLC paid certain operatives in these “hate groups,” the purpose was not to pay an informant to aid the SPLC in taking the group down, even though that’s not the SPLC’s job anyway. Rather, it was to pay the operative to help advance the cause of the targeted “hate group” through certain actions, and even under certain direction from the SPLC.

The net effect of the SPLC’s support, by design was to bolster the organizations the SPLC portrayed as public enemies, thus keeping the hate alive. Millions of dollars over many years may have been involved.

Why would the SPLC do such a thing? I don’t know for sure, but according to reports, after the infamous Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally in 2017, which received funding from the SPLC, the SPLC saw an increase in its own funding to the tune of over $80 million. This is a video the SPLC produced in 2024 that sends a completely different message now that you know it allegedly funded the group behind the event.

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Dirty MI Sec of State Jocelyn Benson Was On Southern Poverty Law Center’s Board When They Allegedly Paid Top “Hate Group” Charlottesville Protest Organizer Where Innocent Woman Was Killed

The conservative-hating Southern Poverty Law Center appears to be facing some serious charges.

The same “hate group” smear machine that’s spent decades labeling conservatives, Christians, Trump supporters, and patriotic Americans as dangerous extremists has just been federally INDICTED on serious criminal charges.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, a federal grand jury in the Middle District of Alabama returned an 11-count indictment against the SPLC on April 21, 2026. The so-called “anti-hate” organization stands accused of running a massive fraud operation while pocketing hundreds of millions from gullible liberal donors.

Here’s what they’re charged with:

-6 counts of wire fraud
-4 counts of false statements to a federally insured bank
-1 count of conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering

Prosecutors say that between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 MILLION in donated funds to individuals tied to the same extremist groups they publicly claim to be fighting – including the Ku Klux Klan (and United Klans of America), Aryan Nations, the National Socialist Party of America, and other alleged neo-Nazi and white supremacist organizations.

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Biden administration sourced discredited SPLC to target Catholics, met with them at least 11 times at White House

The Biden administration worked hand-in-hand with the Southern Poverty Law Center, which was indicted on numerous fraud charges for funding the very “hate groups” they claimed to be fighting. The administration used documentation from the SPLC to target traditional Catholics and worked with the group prior to its adding parents groups to their so-called “hate map.”

The charges come after it was discovered that the group was clandestinely funding the very “hate groups” they told donors they were fighting. The group funded members of the KKK, Nazis, and those who were part of the leadership in organizing the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, VA.

In 2023, it was revealed that Biden’s FBI was relying on documentation from the SPLC to classify traditional Catholics as having an “adherence to anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, anti-LGBTQ and white supremacist ideology.” The way these Catholics could be identified, per the FBI bulletin, was through their “rejection of the Second Vatican Council.” The sources cited on that bulletin include materials from the SPLC and that discredited group’s list of “Radical Traditional Catholicism Hate Groups.” 

In January 2023, as the Biden administration continued to declare that white supremacy and right-wing extremism were the biggest threats facing America, the SPLC’s director of their Intelligence Project, Susan Corke, met with the White House’s National Security Council’s counterterrorism director John Picarelli. It was shortly thereafter that the SPLC added Moms for Liberty, Parents Defending Education, and other parent groups to their “hate map.”

It turns out that the SPLC met with both Biden and his White House officials 11 times by 2023, which was just two years into his presidential term. The Biden administration brought the SPLC in to serve on their antisemitism coalition.

Multiple members of the SPLC, including LaShawn Warren, Brandon Jones who was the SPLC director of Political Campaigns, head of the board of directors Joseph Levin, board member Joshua Bekenstein, Kirsten Johnson of the SPLC’s Economic Justice Practice Group, and director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Mississippi state office Waikinya Clanton, all met with the Biden administration during his first two years in office.

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Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges related to past use of paid informants

The Southern Poverty Law Center has been indicted on federal fraud charges related to its past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said Tuesday.

The civil rights group faces charges including wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering in the case brought by the Justice Department in Alabama, where the organization is based.

The indictment came shortly after SPLC revealed the existence of a criminal investigation into its program to pay informants to infiltrate extremist groups and gather information on their activities. The group said the program was used to monitor threats of violence and the information was often shared with local and federal law enforcement.

SPLC CEO Bryan Fair said the organization “will vigorously defend ourselves, our staff, and our work.”

Blanche said the SPLC paid at least $3 million between 2014 and 2023 to people affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, the United Klans of America, the National Socialist Party of America and other extremist groups.

“The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred,” Blanche said.

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New Complaint Calls for Investigation Into Southern Poverty Law Center’s Tax Exempt Status

Calls to investigate the tax-exempt status of the far-left extremists at the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) are increasing with a new complaint filed with federal authorities. The complaint calls for a full review of the organization’s status as a “charitable” organization.  The charitable designation offers significant tax benefits to the organization.

The Federalist reports that the Center to Advance Security in America (CASA) submitted a complaint to Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Acting Commissioner Scott Bessent, requesting a full review in light of the SPLC’s “hyper-partisan political activity.”

CASA Director James Fitzpatrick told The Federalist, “American taxpayers should not be expected to subsidize an organization that engages in daily attacks on Republicans, compares those who hold mainstream conservative beliefs to the KKK, and who consistently labels conservatives as engaging in ‘hate’ without any reference to any other political parties or ideologies.”

“We believe the American people are entitled to a full investigation into this urgent matter.”

Per The Federalist:

Addressed to Treasury Secretary and Acting IRS Commissioner Scott Bessent, the legal complaint obtained by The Federalist requests that the federal agency launch an investigation into the SPLC over “several serious concerns about [its] compliance with federal law regarding tax-exempt status under Section 501(c)(3) including but not limited to it no longer fulfilling a charitable purpose and its partisan political activity.”

As described by the nonprofit watchdog InfluenceWatch, the SPLC is a “controversial left-of-center advocacy group that claims to be a watchdog of extremist groups.” The organization “has been criticized for its financial practices and for characterizing non-violent conventional conservative organizations as equivalent to violent extremists.”

As further noted by Fitzpatrick in CASA’s complaint to the IRS, the SPLC “liken[s] normal, mainstream, conservative beliefs, to that of the KKK” and labels “political candidates and government officials, only Republicans, on their hate lists or hate watch articles.” The leftist group notably characterized Turning Point USA — the organization founded by the recently assassinated Charlie Kirk — as a “hard right” group that embraces “white nationalist” conspiracies.

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Fitzpatrick went on to note that the SPLC’s status as a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt “charitable” organization allows it to “raise money or financing while avoiding state and federal income taxes, unemployment taxes, and in some cases property or other state taxes.” This also means that donors’ financial contributions to the group can be tax deductible.

A few months before Charlie Kirk’s political assassination, SPLC’s “Year in Hate and Extremism” report, named Turning Point USA (TPUSA) a “hate group.”

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