Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)

Organization Trends
Grants to SPLC and DEI Demonstrate Federal Spending Against Taxpayer Values
What government funds defines its values, which ideally should mean our values. But tens of millions of dollars in grants shipped out by federal agencies over the last four years…
by Ken Braun on February 3, 2025

Deception & Misdirection
Active Federal Meddling in Elections: “Bidenbucks”
Some of the most notorious leftwing interest groups partnered with federal agencies for what amounted to a taxpayer-sponsored get-out-the-vote campaign under President Biden’s election-meddling executive order. The Biden-Harris administration kept…
by Fred Lucas on October 22, 2024

Deception & Misdirection
Active Federal Meddling in Elections: “Listening Session”
While a who’s who of the far Left attended the July 2021 listening session, only a few gave presentations. Representatives from the White House, Leadership Conference for Civil and Human…
by Fred Lucas on October 22, 2024

Deception & Misdirection
Active Federal Meddling in Elections: Federal Bureau of Prisons
The Federal Bureau of Prisons announced that it aligned with the League of Women Voters, the ACLU, the Campaign Legal Center, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee, Disability Rights DC, and the…
by Fred Lucas on October 22, 2024

Deception & Misdirection
Active Federal Meddling in Elections: Federal Employees
While the Biden administration didn’t give federal employees a whole day off to vote, as Fair Fight Action called for, the Office of Personnel Management adopted a policy to give…
by Fred Lucas on October 22, 2024

Labor Watch, Organization Trends
SPLC and Its Union Get Ready to Rumble
Nonprofit organizations are generally not parliamentary democracies governed by their staffs. That did not stop the Southern Poverty Law Center’s unionized workers from holding a “no-confidence vote” in SPLC president…
by Michael Watson on September 13, 2024

CRC in the News
Left-Wing Hate Lists Skew Funding
Some community foundations have been using a list of hate groups compiled by the Southern Poverty Law Center and Horizon Forum to screen grant recipients. This is problematic because SPLC…
by Robert Stilson on March 5, 2024

Organization Trends
InfluenceWatch Friday
The information compiled in InfluenceWatch gives news outlets and other interested parties to use this research in future reporting on significant topics that are often overlooked by the American public.
by Jonathan Harsh on September 8, 2023

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VIDEO: The Southern Poverty Law Center No Longer Serves Its Original Purpose
The Southern Poverty Law Center is an organization that has so succeeded in pushing bigots out of the mainstream, that now over 40 years after their founding, they need to…
by CRC Staff on August 21, 2023

Organization Trends
SPLC Plus Teachers Union Ideology Equals More Disparagement
This week, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the self-appointed watchdog of extremism and “hate groups,” formally designated 12 conservative parents’ advocacy groups as “anti-government extremist groups.” Two of the most…
by Michael Watson on June 8, 2023