The Southern Poverty Law Center :

Calling Everyone a Hate Speaker, Quietly Funding the Actual Haters, and Fleecing American Donors Like It Was Going Out of Style.

Back in 1971, the Southern Poverty Law Center started as this scrappy civil rights outfit that actually did something useful, like suing the Ku Klux Klan into the ground in the 1980s. Cool story. Then it discovered the real money was in playing professional hall monitor for American politics. Now it pumps out annual “Hate Maps” and breathless reports claiming to track every last basement Nazi. Except federal prosecutors just dropped a bomb: the SPLC allegedly spent years telling donors it was bravely dismantling white supremacy while slipping more than three million dollars to the very clowns running those hate groups. All while slapping “hate speaker” stickers on anyone right of center who dared question open borders or boys in girls’ bathrooms. Nice grift if you can get away with it.

Let’s start with the April 21, 2026 federal indictment out of Alabama. Eleven counts: six wire fraud, four false statements to banks, one conspiracy to launder money. The feds say from at least 2014 to 2023 the SPLC ran a secret informant network. They paid at least eight guys who were leaders or active players in the KKK, Aryan Nations, National Socialist Movement, American Nazi Party types, and even some Unite the Right organizers. One charming fellow, tagged F-37, supposedly helped plan parts of the 2017 Charlottesville mess while cashing SPLC checks. Total tab: over three million in donor money. They hid it all through fake shell outfits with hilarious names like Center Investigative Agency, Fox Photography, and Rare Books Warehouse. Opened bank accounts, lied about who owned them and what they were for. Classic.

Acting AG Todd Blanche put it best: they were manufacturing racism to keep the lights on. FBI boss Kash Patel went further, saying the SPLC promised to smash extremist groups then turned around and paid their leaders, sometimes even helping those groups pull off crimes. Donors thought they were funding the good fight. Instead they were subsidizing the villains in the SPLC’s own fundraising horror stories. If that’s not the most 21st-century nonprofit hustle, I don’t know what is.

Meanwhile the SPLC’s famous Hate Map kept growing like a bad rash. Forget actual Klansmen. They tagged mainstream conservative outfits like Family Research Council, Alliance Defending Freedom, Center for Immigration Studies, Moms for Liberty, and Turning Point USA as hate groups. Their leaders?

Hate speakers, naturally. All for the crime of believing marriage is between one man and one woman, securing the border isn’t racism, or letting parents have a say in what their kids learn in school. These are views held by about half the country and most Republican politicians. The result was predictable: banks cut off Christian nonprofits, tech platforms deplatformed speakers, employers fired people, and universities canceled events. One actual lunatic who shot up the Family Research Council in 2012 straight-up admitted the SPLC’s label inspired him. Whoops.

The post-Trump era was pure rocket fuel for the racket. After 2016 the SPLC screamed about a massive “hate incident” spike and pinned it on Trump’s mean tweets about caravans and immigration. Their Intelligence Project cranked out report after report painting the entire MAGA universe as a gateway drug to white nationalism. Then in April 2022 they really leaned in. Susan Corke, boss of the Intelligence Project, along with Megan Squire, Hannah Gais, and Michael Edison Hayden, handed an 18-page love letter to the House January 6 Select Committee. It was all about Nick Fuentes and his America First crew. They bragged they’d been tracking Fuentes for five whole years, right back to Charlottesville. Fuentes marched with the Nazis and Klansmen there, sure, and later called the whole thing a success that would spark a “tidal wave of white identity.” The SPLC report ate that up.

They went on about Fuentes’ “Groyper Wars,” where his fans crashed Turning Point USA campus events in 2019 and asked awkward, often nasty questions during Q&A. The report called it “tormenting” mainstream conservatives. Because nothing says dangerous extremism like trolling TPUSA with gotcha questions on stage. They also lingered on Fuentes’ AFPAC conference and his America First Foundation 501(c)(4), complete with details about some crypto-scheming buddy who helped set it up. The whole thing read like opposition research dressed up as expert testimony, fed straight into a Democratic congressional circus trying to tie Trumpworld to the Capitol riot. Fuentes was outside the building on January 6, gave a speech, and later called the day awesome. The SPLC connected those dots with glee.

CLARENCE THOMAS warns the United States: “Freedom dies when we choose comfort over courage.”

Justice Thomas at UT Austin April 15: “Give me liberty or give me death.” That same devotion built the West, prairie towns, sent sons to war. Now it’s missing. Progressivism wants to replace the Declaration’s premises. One Justice said what institutions won’t. Who benefits from forgetting this?

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Oh, and Susan Corke? Same woman who co-wrote the 2019 Brookings “Democracy Playbook” with Norman Eisen and friends. That delightful little manual lays out exactly how to fight “democratic backsliding” when voters pick the wrong guy. Unified opposition coalitions, civil society pressure, media campaigns, corporate muscle, the whole color-revolution starter kit. Corke handled the domestic actors section. She later jumped to Eisen’s State Democracy Defenders outfit, which spent years lawyering up against Trump and Republicans. Funny how the woman running the SPLC’s hate-label factory also authored the playbook for resisting populist elections. Almost like it was all part of the same extended universe.

The cash side is where it gets truly obscene. The SPLC sits on an endowment pushing eight hundred million dollars. Annual haul often over a hundred million. Big checks from George Soros’ Open Society crew, JPMorgan, George Clooney’s foundation, Tim Cook, OpenAI, you name it. Their political arms shove nearly every dime to Democrats. Post-Charlottesville donations supposedly jumped from around fifty-one million to one hundred thirty-three million in a single cycle. Nothing motivates liberal checkbooks like headlines about Nazis on the march, especially when your own outfit is quietly cutting checks to some of those very same charming fellows.

Critics on the right have been yelling about this for years. The SPLC wasn’t just biased. It allegedly built a business model on scaring the hell out of donors with exaggerated threats, then used the proceeds to smear anyone who disagreed with left-wing orthodoxy. Trump called it one of the greatest political scams in American history. House Republicans started hauling them in for hearings. Labeled groups are now pointing at the indictment and saying “told you so.”

Naturally the SPLC and its fans insist everything was above board. Standard intelligence gathering, they say. Donors knew informants get used sometimes. The whole indictment is just Trump revenge porn. Former prosecutors like Andrew Weissmann gripe that proving every donor felt materially deceived will be tough. Fair enough on the legal nitpicking. But when your “hate experts” are on the payroll of actual hate group organizers while your fundraising letters drip with moral panic, the optics are, shall we say, not great.

At the end of the day the SPLC turned into exactly what it claimed to oppose: a wealthy, powerful machine that profited from division. It labeled dissent as hate, allegedly subsidized the extremists it pretended to fight, and cashed fat checks from Americans who thought they were helping. The federal charges, the Jan 6 report, the Democracy Playbook connections, and the Soros money all add up to one long con. Whether the courts nail them or not, the real damage is done. Millions of normal people now roll their eyes at every new “hate group” press release. Trust in these self-appointed watchdogs is in the toilet, and for good reason.

The Southern Poverty Law Center didn’t just lose credibility. It became a punchline that cost real people jobs, platforms, and peace of mind while the folks at the top counted their millions. In 2026, that’s not just hypocrisy. That’s performance art.

DSA is like MAO’s Red Guard, and they just passed 100,000 Members

This Saturday, as an armed man stormed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and tried to kill the President of the United States, I could not help but think that if this were a dozen IRGC commandos and not a 31-year-old teacher from California, the results could have been very tragic

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