I mean, seriously?
WHODA THUNK IT?
The Southern Poverty Law Center, home to such luminaries over the years as the delightful Richard Cohen.Richard was forced out in the aftermath of SPLC's founder, Morris Dees, being fired for having too good a time with the office help.
President of @splcenter has resigned. This follows resignations of other high-profile leaders amid allegations of workplace racism & sexism. Under his leadership, SPLC has aggressively fundraised hundreds of millions & listed conservatives as extremists. https://t.co/XmehR8S9ww
— Andy Ngo (@MrAndyNgo) March 23, 2019
The SPLC kept on making its little lists and checking them twice, even after the shake-up, enjoying a renaissance of sorts during the Biden years, where full-fledged 'white nationalist' witch hunts and 'anti-disinformation' censorship drives were on the rise.
Never in a million years would anyone have thought these obnoxious, toxic, holier-than-thou Leftists were not only comporting with 'the enemy,' but now we find out they were paying the freight for the very groups rejected across the board by conservatives and regular Americans. Funding the very 'hate' groups whose actions the SPLC routinely assigned to the right in America for blame by 'authorities' on hate groups like the SPLC, with or without conclusive proof.
Guilt by finger-pointing association.
One of the hits on Richard Cohen during the Dees brouhaha was that he cared more about raising money for the organization than the organization itself.
"Richard [Cohen] contributes greatly to the toxicity of the organization," a former SPLC employee wrote. "The organization cares more about raising money than anything else.” You don’t say! they shouldn’t stop with firing Morris Dees. @PJMedia_com https://t.co/XWH9tE4nQh
— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) March 15, 2019
I guess even with him gone, little has changed. We know that now, thanks to a series of indictments just procured by the Justice Department against the SPLC and the bombshells contained therein that dropped with them.
The Southern Poverty Law Center raises money by presenting itself as the expert on combating “hate,” and then exaggerating “hate” to scare donors into ponying up cash.
The problem? The SPLC’s inflated demand for “hate” has long outstripped the supply. Thousands of donors expect the SPLC to prove there’s enough “hate” to justify their donations, and that often leaves the center scrambling to keep up.
A jaw-dropping Justice Department indictment, filed Tuesday, appears to reveal yet another way the SPLC tried to meet this demand.
The SPLC has a clearinghouse for hate, a “hate map” that claims to reveal the “infrastructure of white supremacy.”
The SPLC raises money on hate. Sadly for them and lucky for the country, it really is true that actual hate is in short supply.
So much so that the venerable institution took to manufacturing and maintaining its own staff of bogeymen on call to keep the hate map bucks rolling in.
...The center’s more cunning strategy involves branding mainstream conservatives and Christians as “hate groups” and “anti-government extremists,” putting them on the map for the sin of disagreeing with the SPLC’s agenda.
That has the added bonus of delegitimizing the SPLC’s opponents—but it seems the center is running out of new groups to add. First, it was conservative Christians like the Family Research Council and Alliance Defending Freedom. Then, it was opponents of illegal immigration, like the Federation on American Immigration Reform. Now, it’s Moms for Liberty, PragerU, Focus on the Family, and Turning Point USA. They’re on the cusp of adding the entire conservative movement to the map.
So, what do you do if you can’t keep exaggerating hate? Well, you manufacture your own, of course!
If a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville isn’t quite big enough, you can just pay someone to transport more people to attend.
If your “extremist files” on homegrown Nazis are running a bit sparse, why not just throw a cool seventy grand at the problem?
If Americans are catching on that the Ku Klux Klan basically doesn’t exist anymore, why not bankroll a Klan member’s lawsuit to try to sponsor a highway?
As the Daily Signal article says, the DoJ just busted the SPLC's shell game of paying contractors for hate.
Reminder: the SPLC raises money by claiming it exists to "dismantle white supremacy," but DOJ says the SPLC was actually propping up the hate it told donors it aimed to destroy. SPLC paid "field sources," whom SPLC says were merely informants.
— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) June 3, 2026
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Contractors like the KKK.
Of course, these organizations have their own expenses when it comes to staging a proper hate fest, and the SPLC was only too happy to fork over the bucks to help out.
Needs your cross-burning materials paid for?
KKKOOL - SPLC GOT YOU KKKOVERED
3⃣KKK GETS COLD FEET
— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) June 3, 2026
F-30 wasn't the only one. F-31 & F-32, KKK members, wanted out in 2010.
The SPLC bribed them to stay in the movement. These Fs used the $ to attend extremist rallies and to gain a leadership role.
SPLC reimbursed them for cross-burning materials.
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I kkkid you not.
These shocking revelations are all coming straight from the horses' mouths, apparently, who were paid by the SPLC to stay in white robes in order to kkkeep the SPLC's coffers full.
The SPLC paid for the hooded white robes, too.
The Southern Poverty Law Center paid reluctant white nationalists and Ku Klux Klan members thousands of dollars in donor money to remain in the notorious hate groups — even making them whole for money spent on cross-burnings, the Justice Department alleged in a shocking superseding indictment filed Tuesday.
The feds initially charged the once-venerable civil rights organization in April with 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a bank, and money laundering conspiracy. Tuesday’s superseding indictment, filed in Montgomery, Ala., federal court, lays out some of the stories of informants who were paid in money the SPLC raised from donors on the pretext of “exposing hate and injustice” and “fighting discrimination.”
Two Klan members, identified only as F-31 and F-32, came to the SPLC in 2010 in fear for their safety and wanting to leave the hate group, the indictment alleges.
Instead of helping them find a way out, prosecutors say, the pair were paid $1,200 per month, plus expenses, via a shell corporation called Rare Books Warehouse to remain in the Klan.
Some of that money, according to the indictment, was used to recruit new members and make the Klan’s notorious white robes.
Remember General Milley's bloviating about 'white rage'?
Remember this infamous Reichstag-like setting for the 'white rage' speech POTATUS gave?
Yeah. About that.
I guess a lot of people were frightened out of their wits about the same thing, because the SPLC was cleaning up during the Biden 'scary white nationalist' years.
...Over the same rough period that the informants were paid with laundered money, SPLC’s revenue spiked 233% — “from $38,712,628.00 in 2010 to $129,069,290.00 in 2023,” prosecutors alleged.
The nonprofit’s net assets also ballooned over the same period to more than $786 million in 2023 from more than $238 million in 2010.
(My cynical self wonders if any cut went Biden or Hunter's way.)
I mean, the money was handed out hand over raised Aryan Nation fist.
6⃣NAZI
— Tyler O'Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) June 3, 2026
The SPLC paid $350K to an officer of the National Socialist Movement and Aryan Nations-affiliated Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club.
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While the rest of us were demonized for an American flag and a fading Trump sticker on our bumpers - God forbid there was something about vaccines.
To hell with these people. Sincerely.
The SPLC was paying the very people who infiltrated and debased gatherings to which they were never invited.
...Maybe the SPLC would need an informant to tip them off if a Klansman targeted a church, for example. Instead, it seems the SPLC was supervising a leader at the Unite the Right rally as he made racist posts.
The SPLC hasn’t just been calling out hate—it seems to have been investing in it.
And, judging by the center’s $739.4 million endowment, it’s been paying dividends.
And then using those racist or misogynist posts to raise more money from the vile and disreputable image they cast on an entire event where there had been none.
It's so devious, underhanded, and utterly despicable.
And so on brand.
I can't wait to see what else they have on these degenerates, and I hope every person and organization that has suffered from SPLC-induced opprobium and financial ruin sues the crap out of them.
Take them to the cleaners and beyond.
Okkkay with you?
I thought so.
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