Southern Poverty Law Center

Deception & Misdirection
Southern Poverty Law Center is the subject of House Judiciary hearing tomorrow
Tomorrow afternoon the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government will hold a hearing titled "Partisan and Profitable: The SPLC's Influence on Federal Civil Rights Policy.”…
on December 15, 2025

Deception & Misdirection
The Southern Poverty Law Center is biased — and extraordinarily wealthy
Editorial note: This essay was originally posted by The Hill on September 4. The Southern Poverty Law Center is perhaps most notorious for its “hate…
by Robert Stilson on September 22, 2025

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #372: The Left’s Big Bully
The Southern Poverty Law Center, trading on a reputation it earned suing the remnants of the organized Ku Klux Klan in the 1980s, claims to be an honest watchdog of…
by Robert Stilson, Michael Watson on July 22, 2025

Philanthropy
Local Philanthropy Isn’t Local for ‘Citizens of the World’
America’s liberal plutocrats’ “philanthropy” is more political than charitable and utterly disconnected from its roots in Christianity’s love for one’s fellow man. It isn’t only the Ford Foundation or George…
by Hayden Ludwig on August 11, 2021

Philanthropy
Big Philanthropy is Not America’s Friend
When considering big liberal donors, most people tend to think of George Soros or the Ford Foundation. Forgotten are scores of megadonors that few non-philanthropoids have heard of. Yet these…
by Hayden Ludwig on July 13, 2021

Organization Trends
States Newsroom: A Tip of the “Dark Money” Iceberg
If the 2020 election proved anything, it’s that so-called mainstream media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, and even Fox News are little more than Democratic Party activists posing as serious journalists.
by Hayden Ludwig on January 7, 2021

Organization Trends
Department of Defense Purges SPLC Information from its Training Material
The Department of Defense (DOD) has recently removed all its material related to extremist groups that came from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The DOD infamously used the discredited…
by Jacob Grandstaff on October 6, 2017

Foundation Watch
Young Conservative Flagged on SPLC “Hatewatch” List
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) treats itself as the nonideological arbiter of who is and is not a hate group—but in reality, the SPLC pursues anyone who doesn’t share…
by Jacob Grandstaff on October 3, 2017

Deception & Misdirection
SPLC Won’t Label Antifa a Hate Group
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) president Richard Cohen offered the Washington Examiner the SPLC’s views on Antifa, a violent, far-left movement responsible for many recent attacks on free speech.
by Chace Paulson on September 12, 2017

Deception & Misdirection
The Ivory Spires of the SPLC “Poverty Palace”
The Washington Free Beacon exposed the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a self-appointed hate group monitor infamous for lumping mainstream conservative nonprofits alongside legitimate hate groups like the Ku Klux Klan, keeps…
by Jacob Grandstaff on September 11, 2017