Tag: SPLC

Following a national search, the board of directors for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has unanimously selected Ryan Haygood as the new president and CEO.

The SPLC is currently under indictment for fraud after allegedly funneling millions of dollars to white supremacist groups, stoking the very hate it claims to combat.

As the investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center's alleged crimes continues, Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall expects “shocking” results.

U.S. Rep. Terri Sewell (D-Birmingham) went on a tirade Wednesday against Republican-led efforts to investigate foreign donations made through ActBlue, accusing the Trump administration of maliciously targeting black women.

During a Tuesday House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center, interim CEO Bryan Fair doubled down on his organization's labeling of TurningPoint USA and its deceased founder, Charlie Kirk, as having an "authoritarian vision for the country that threatens the foundation of our democracy." 

The Department of Justice obtained a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday.

For decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center has monetized and weaponized political tensions by labeling anyone right-of-center a “hate group.” Now the Montgomery-based organization is facing multiple indictments, accused of stoking the hatred they claimed to fight.

The House Judiciary Committee subpoenaed the SPLC on Wednesday for documents related to its coordination with the Biden-Harris administration and funding of extremists.

Southern Poverty Law Center interim president and CEO Bryan Fair should appear before the House Judiciary Committee soon to “answer our questions about the scam they run,” according to committee chairman U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio).

Chad O. Jackson, the filmmaker behind the hit documentary series "The MLK Project,” joined “1819 News: The Podcast” last week to discuss how groups like the recently indicted Southern Poverty Law Center used agitation and propaganda to push its radical agenda.

During a Wednesday episode of Mobile radio's FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show," Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall unpacked the state's newly launched civil investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center's (SPLC) alleged deceptive fundraising practices.

The left-leaning group MoveOn(dot)org has launched a petition challenging state and federal actions taken against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).

State Attorney General Steve Marshall has issued an investigatory subpoena to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) after opening a civil investigation alleging deceptive fundraising practices under Alabama’s consumer protection statutes.

The Southern Poverty Law Center was arraigned in federal court on Thursday and pleaded not guilty to all counts of wire fraud, money laundering, and making false statements to a federally insured bank.

Republican members of a Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee on Tuesday passed legislation to give Alabama the option to call a special election for two Montgomery-area State Senate districts later this year. 

Representatives from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Southern Poverty Law Center and other civil rights organizations across the state converged on the Montgomery State House to protest as lawmakers started the process of potentially redrawing the state’s Congressional map.

When you build your entire business model on fighting racism and you find out that racism is so minor that you can’t make much money fighting it, there’s only one money-making option: create racism. That is exactly what the SPLC did according to a recent federal indictment.

The SPLC sits in Montgomery. The violations alleged, if true, occurred here. Alabama’s laws are implicated. Silence from either attorney general candidate on this subject should itself be considered a kind of answer. 

The SPLC did not merely fail to fight hatred. It may have tended it, watered it, kept it alive in a lawn chair on Dexter Avenue for the cameras. The map isn’t the territory. But in America, the most profitable business has always been selling the map – and making sure the territory never quite heals. 

A federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on Tuesday was a result of “work that’s been done for a while,” according to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is advertising its president and CEO job opening one day after the left-wing nonprofit was indicted by a Montgomery grand jury on Tuesday.

A Montgomery grand jury returned an indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and money laundering. 

The SPLC has, in my view, spent decades inflicting harm upon this country, weaponizing the language of civil rights to silence legitimate dissent and stigmatize conventional conservatism. That injury will not be quickly undone.

Read Freely Alabama has been facing an uphill battle in its fight to keep controversial books in the children's and young adult sections of the state's public libraries. Now, the group hopes to channel the energy from the recent "No Kings" protest to boost its cause.

On Friday, America First Legal released a sampling of what it describes as thousands of pages of new documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests and litigation, which show the significant power and influence the Montgomery-based Southern Poverty Law Center wielded during the Biden administration.

There’s no love lost between the Southern Poverty Law Center and Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, who recently praised the FBI’s decision to cut all ties with the organization.

FBI Director Kash Patel confirms that the agency has cut all ties to Montgomery based Southern Poverty Law Center. "The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine. Their so-called “hate map” has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence," Patel wrote in an X post.