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Creative Combat: 10 steps for resistance in an age of crisis and chaos
We live in chaotic times. Yet much of the political, legal and activist response is shackled to the ways of the past. The recent “Hands Off” demonstrations are indicative of the problem. The protests brought groups together and motivated (mostly older and white) liberals but did little to change the status quo. How, then, to…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Letter opposing confirmation of Joe Kent to serve as director of the National Counterterrorism Center
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Antigovernment leader Ammon Bundy loses pandemic-era court case in Idaho
In August 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, antigovernment leader Ammon Bundy and his supporters stormed the Idaho Capitol during a special session of the state’s Legislature to protest pandemic health measures. Bundy and others were charged with misdemeanors for trespassing and resisting and obstructing officers. When he refused to leave the premises,…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
2025 Federal Policy Priorities
For over five decades, the Southern Poverty Law Center has worked to build a more just and equitable America, ensuring that all people — especially Black and Brown communities — can thrive. Through litigation, community mobilization and advocacy in Washington and across the Deep South, we advance policies that protect civil rights, provide opportunity and…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
May 2025 Intelligence Project Dispatch: Trends and incidents of the hard right
The Southern Poverty Law Center works to dismantle white supremacy in public forums and online, exposes hate and anti-democracy extremism and counters disinformation and conspiracy theories with research and community resources. The Intelligence Project monitors and exposes white supremacy and its impact on communities. Attacks on education White nationalist and neo-Nazi movement activity Confederate monuments…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Patriot Front secretly using the active clubs network to sustain its influence
The white nationalist hate group Patriot Front is trying to boost recruitment by secretly controlling a large swath of the active clubs network, according to audio messages and a leaked document posted to Telegram that Hatewatch verified. The audio messages and leaked document reveal that Patriot Front is the hidden hand behind about a dozen…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Power of the People: The SAVE Act and its threat to American democracy
At our democracy’s imperfect founding, only white men who owned property could vote. Through significant struggle and sacrifice, we’ve made progress. The Reconstruction amendments, the 19th Amendment, the Indian Citizenship Act, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 — over time, these landmark developments have made voting rights real for people of color, women, language minorities…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Baez v. Dixon
The Southern Poverty Law Center and Florida Justice Institute filed federal and state lawsuits on behalf of an incarcerated man who suffered abuse at the hands of the Florida Department of Corrections (FDC). Following a settlement awarded to the man for his injuries, FDC enforced a six-figure lien against him. The suits argue that FDC’s…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Anti-Muslim hate group leader attacks migrant aid contractors as ‘treasonous’
Brigitte Gabriel, the leader of ACT for America, one of the most active anti-Muslim groups in the nation, praised the Trump administration’s defunding of an international relief agency, effectively cutting money from nongovernmental contractors aiding migrants and refugees — groups she described as “treasonous organizations” helping “criminals break into our country.” In the subhead to…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
SPLC president and CEO speaks out on SAVE Act’s danger to our democracy
While the nation watches the slow-rolling car crash that has been the Trump tariff policy, Republicans in Congress have been moving forward on another part of the Project 2025 agenda: making it more difficult to vote. The House passed its version of the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act last month, with every Republican representative…
