Some of the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) donors have apparently remained silent after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) charged the nonprofit this week with fraud and money laundering.
One of those big-name donors is actor George Clooney, whose foundation has not yet said a word about the indictment, the New York Post reported Thursday, noting that left-wing billionaire George Soros’ foundation and MGM Resorts have also stayed quiet.
In the court of public opinion, the Southern Poverty Law Center just lost all of its credibility.
Without loud and visible racists, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) would cease to exist. Is that why it allegedly subsidized them so heavily for so long?
A federal case brought by the Justice Department against the SPLC accuses the group of paying millions of dollars to prominent racists. The indictment notes that the group paid the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, the leader of the National Socialist Party of America, and the president of the American Front.
The April 21 indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) doesn’t just threaten a major organ of the left’s lawfare machine; it also puts in jeopardy one of the corporate news media’s favorite sources of activist data.
For decades, but particularly since the first Trump administration, the SPLC has enjoyed a perverse symbiotic relationship with the left-wing press. Their absurd “hate group” designations provided the media with ammunition against their right-wing targets, and the media in turn held up the SPLC as the gold standard of analysis and objectivity.
Canadian media frequently cites the SPLC along with other left wing extremist hate groups that use the same rent seeking business model.
They profit by crafting smears-to-order against opponents of Liberal-Left governments.
Every now and then, there’s a news event that feels simultaneously insane and entirely logical. The stink swirling around the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is just such an event.
At first blush, the suggestion that the centre has been ‘fund[ing] the extremism that it claimed to be fighting’ seems wild. But then it hits you – such duplicitous antics, if true, would be wholly in keeping with an activist class that continually inflates the far-right threat in order to make itself feel purposeful and virtuous.
Everything the average Democrat believes about America and Republicans is based on a series of hoaxes.
The most obvious case, of course, was the Steele Dossier, upon which the decade-long hate campaign against Donald Trump has been based, along with every accusation that he is a tool of Russia.
The same may be said of the Elbow people.
The Department of Justice is reportedly investigating the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) over its “use of paid informants” to infiltrate non-violent conservative-leaning organizations it deems to be “extremist.”
The Associated Press (AP) disclosed the explosive development on Tuesday, when it reported comments from the leftist group’s leadership indicating that “it’s the subject of a criminal investigation” by federal officials.
Update: Awesome news!
🚨 BREAKING: Acting AG Blanche and FBI Director Patel announce a grand jury has INDICTED leftist NGO Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 COUNTS
This is MASSIVE!
SPLC said they were “fighting white supremacy,” but they were “MANUFACTURING the extremism it purports to expose” by… pic.twitter.com/WtyvBUuwrW
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 21, 2026
The SPLC realizing if there isn’t enough racism they can just make some. pic.twitter.com/6VQ9V0aAun
— Charles Curran (@charliebcurran) April 22, 2026
h/t XC
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a despicable organization. It has spent its lifetime attacking and lying about organizations that don’t agree with its leftist policies. But it’s finally being challenged for defamation by the Dustin Inman Society, an organization involved in immigrant issues. Unfortunately, SPLC claims they are a hate group and anti-immigration. The Society is pursuing a defamation lawsuit against the SPLC
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has listed conservative youth organization Turning Point USA on its controversial “Hate Map,” grouping it alongside KKK chapters and other extremist groups.
The SPLC, a disgraced far-left nonprofit with alleged links to domestic terrorism through a staffer charged with terrorism & RICO offenses in Georgia, has labeled TPUSA and PragerU "hate groups" in its report on "white supremacy." https://t.co/aFp3rLsSbg
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) May 25, 2025
The PBS NewsHour displayed its usual disaste for the Trump victory on Tuesday night by investigating whether today’s political climate is leading to a “spike in racist incidents”? Naturally, PBS turned to the radical-left Southern Poverty Law Center for predictable answers.
PBS reporter Stephanie Sy recounted incidents where tiny groups of neo-Nazis marched to cause outrage, like outside a playhouse with The Diary Of Anne Frank. Then she added “since the election, Black, Latino and LGBTQ Americans in at least 25 states, including kids and teens, have been subjected to racist text messages.”
The Southern Poverty Law Center, an IRS designated charity with almost a billion dollars in “reserves,” laid off a quarter of its staff. In a scathing rebuke from the SPLC Union that represents staff with the charity, the organization was slammed for the decision, which they say will have “a catastrophic impact” on the work done by the SPLC.
White pill of the day
The extreme left-wing SPLC is laying off a quarter of its staff. pic.twitter.com/49uyzyjjLJ
— National Conservative (@NatCon2022) June 13, 2024
This is the group CAHN aspires to emulate.
h/t XC
The movement for diversity, equity, and inclusion may have lost a prominent advocate in Harvard president Claudine Gay, but it continues to dominate America’s institutions. Worse, the Biden administration has apparently enlisted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), one of DEI’s most notorious ideological enforcers, in its crusade against “domestic terrorism.”
This week, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) dropped a major investigation into “anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience”. Dubbed Project Captain, the report declares that the “network we identify supports and is supported by white Christian nationalist ideology that seeks to privilege straight, white, cisgender Christians in public policy and replace science and American law with Christian theology”.
The authors cast a strange and internally contradictory set of aspersions over the Enlightenment and “science” (their quotation marks, not mine), while deploying all the strategies they accuse their political opponents of practising. Then again, making sense of the opposition is not what this report is about.
Did the Biden administration coordinate with the Southern Poverty Law Center to designate Moms for Liberty an “extremist” group, and what kinds of communications have the FBI, the Department of Justice, and other federal agencies had about the parental rights group?
Those questions are central to a lawsuit filed last week by the Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project against a host of agencies in the Biden administration for their failure to comply with Freedom of Information Act requests regarding Moms for Liberty, its co-founders, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Moms for Liberty may sue the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). By labeling Moms for Liberty as “extremist” and “antigovernment,” the SPLC “put a target on the back of every American parent, every American mom.” The Moms are pushing back.
In order to win a defamation lawsuit, the person suing must convince the court and ultimately the jury that the slanderer didn’t just publish something false, but that he did so even while suspecting that the attack was false.
Immigration enforcement activist D.A. King’s lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center made it to the discovery process while so many other lawsuits have failed precisely because King showed that the SPLC had reason to doubt the truth of its claim that his organization, the Dustin Inman Society, was an “anti-immigrant hate group.” In fact, the SPLC had explicitly stated that the society was not a “hate group” in 2011, but it reversed course in 2018, right after registering a lobbyist to oppose a bill the society supported.
