SPLC – Southern Poverty Law Center

I was still learning how to be a father when the Southern Poverty Law Center came after me.

On a winter night during my corporate paternity leave in 2023, my Twitter started blowing up. A couple inconsequential kids were gloating. I had a sense of what it was. Someone from the SPLC had been snooping around my LinkedIn that week. Eventually, I surveyed the damage: The SPLC had published a hit piece targeting me and two better-known conservative figures for our professional relationships with the Danube Institute, a geopolitical think tank in Budapest. The piece suggested we had violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). With the subtlety of a baboon, a D.C. lawyer clearly friendly to the SPLC asserted our contracts “seem to raise significant FARA concerns” and that my contract was the “most likely to require FARA registration.” His law firm even boasted about the analysis on its website.

The Liberals use the same tactics in Canada.

The Biden administration’s Department of Justice and FBI were aware that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying “informants” in the KKK — and according to former Obama official Norm Eisen, that apparently means donors have nothing to be upset about.

“If these allegations are true, there will be consequences,” Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier promised Monday, announcing he has launched a probe into the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) “alleged deceptive and unfair practices related to charitable solicitations and fundraising.”

“The SPLC raises millions in charitable donations every year, while allegedly paying members and leaders within the very groups it purports to fight,” Uthmeier wrote on X.com, linking to a press release. “SPLC appears to be running a deceptive organization that pays informants to manufacture racism on its behalf.”

In recent weeks, I keep coming across new items that need constant double-checking, because they are so absurd that at first glance they appear made up. Last week, this story in particular caught my attention: On April 21, a federal grand jury in Alabama indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) on eleven counts of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The real Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) scandal isn’t just the indictment. The deeper scandal is that the FBI used a highly partisan activist group as an unelected, unvetted intelligence wing of the federal bureaucracy. For years, the bureau didn’t just consult the SPLC. It folded the group’s ideology into its threat assessments and other work products, then used those products to brand Americans as hateful or flag them as potential domestic violent extremists.

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is in the news because the Trump administration has been investigating, and is now prosecuting, it for various kinds of malfeasance.

In 2025, shortly after Charlie Kirk was murdered, Kash Patel’s FBI “cut all ties” to the notorious left-wing espionage organization, which has spent years persecuting conservative groups like Kirk’s TPUSA, my former employer VDARE.com, and all immigration patriot groups, no matter how mainstream they are.

Professionals who have experience with anti-money laundering laws are not shocked by the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). If the facts alleged in the indictment are true, they appear to support charges that are unremarkable and to be expected. Those allegations also strongly suggest the possibility of more indictments.

U.S. — The nation was left in complete disbelief today upon learning that the so-called Patriot Front might have actually been fake.

Despite videos of masked Patriot Front members shouting seemingly unscripted mantras like “we sure don’t like black people, eh fellas?”, new reports suggest that such videos may have actually been staged by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

In the financial world, most frauds are short-lived. Ponzi schemes such as Bernie Madoff’s eventually run out of new suckers to provide enough funds to pay the phony “returns” promised to earlier investors. When the cash flow dries up, the scam collapses.

The con artists at the non-profit Southern Poverty Law Center have a different racket, and a different problem. Instead of swindling the public with promises of unrealistic, too-good-to-be-true investment returns, the fear-mongering SPLC sold “paranoia porn” to credulous donors, convincing them – falsely – that the country is full of dangerous right-wing extremists who need to be identified and brought to heel.

It’s worth noting that the SPLC is getting a full-court defense from Pravda for a reason: the driving narrative about Donald Trump, political violence, and the need for a censorship infrastructure in the United States is largely buttressed by references to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “Hate Map.”

All the major news organizations rely heavily on the SPLC to tell them whom to slander; the US government partnered with the SPLC to determine whom to investigate; social media companies turned to the SPLC for advice on whom to censor; and public school curricula are designed around SPLC talking points.