Category: Southern Poverty Law Center

Smears for Money

Commentary The Southern Poverty Law Center just released a report claiming there are 1,225 hate and anti-government groups in America. These groups cause “fear and pain (in) Black, brown, and LGBTQ communities.” The SPLC lists such groups on its “hate map.” I once believed in the center. Well-meaning people still do. Apple once gave them…


Moms for Liberty Labeled ‘Extremist’ Group by SPLC: Co-Founder Tiffany Justice on the Battle for Our Kids

Moms for Liberty is a civil rights organization founded by mothers. The nonprofit often speaks out against sex-education policies that target children. Yet this moms’ association was recently labeled an extremist organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). We speak with Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, on their fight for parents’ rights….


Parental Rights Groups Respond to Southern Poverty Law Center ‘Hate’ Designation

Parental rights organizations, many with chapters in Virginia, responded to The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), labeling them “hate” and “extremist group.” Groups including Parents Rights in Education, Moms For Liberty, and Parents Against CRT were all on the SPLC’s new hate map. Suzanne Gallagher, national executive director of Parents Rights in Education, told The…


Far-Left Group Puts Moms for Liberty on Map With KKK Chapters

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which brands mainstream conservative and Christian organizations as “hate groups,” placing them on a map with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, added a slew of parental rights organizations to that “hate map” for 2022 and labeled them “antigovernment groups.” “Schools, especially, have been on the receiving end of ramped-up…


Conservatives Object as SPLC Designates Moms for Liberty ‘Extremist Group’

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has branded parental rights organization Moms for Liberty an anti-government “extremist group” on its 2022 map of “hate groups” in the United States. The move drew sharp reactions from some Republican lawmakers and conservative figures, with Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Fla.) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) calling it “ludicrous” and “absurd.”…


Compromised: SPLC Whistleblower’s History Makes Groundbreaking Defamation Case Even Stronger

Commentary 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…


Southern Poverty Law Center’s Self-Serving Double Standard

Commentary Two lawyers with the notorious Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) have been in the news in recent weeks. One is facing domestic terrorism charges; the other is votes away from a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. The SPLC fully supports both lawyers: Thomas Webb Jurgens, a suspected Antifa terrorist arrested and charged for…


Defamation Lawsuit Against Southern Poverty Law Center Moves Forward

A federal judge is allowing a defamation lawsuit against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to move forward after the SPLC labeled an immigration reform advocacy group as an “anti-immigrant hate group.” Judge William Keith Watkins of Alabama’s Middle District Federal Court denied the SPLC’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the Dustin Inman…


23 Face Domestic Terror Charges Over Attack on New Georgia Police Training Center

The Atlanta Police Department arrested and charged 23 individuals with domestic terrorism after they set fire to construction equipment at a new police training facility and threw rocks, bricks, and fireworks at police officers on Sunday. Among those arrested was Thomas Jurgens, a lawyer and employee of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a non-profit…


Supreme Court Justice Thomas Suggests Suing Media for Defamation Should Be Less Difficult

It should be easier to sue media organizations for defamation, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said on June 27 as he dissented from the court’s decision not to take up a defamation case. Former President Donald Trump has also said the legal bar is currently set too high in media defamation lawsuits. Thomas’s comments came…