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The Far Right Exploits Natural Disasters
Hard-right groups use their responses to natural disasters as opportunities to portray themselves in the best possible light, which can open avenues for recruiting new members to their causes. While engaging in relief efforts, hard-right groups also spread conspiracy theories that are foundational to their larger movements. Additionally, they can create hostile environments that slow…
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September 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. Confederate monuments Anti-LGBTQ+ movement Conspiracy propagandists White nationalist and neo-Nazi movement…
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SPLC Condemns Georgia Gov. Kemp’s Decision to Deploy National Guard to Aid Trump-Ordered D.C. Takeover
ATLANTA, Georgia — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), denounces the actions of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in aiding the costly and arbitrary Trump administration takeover of Washington, D.C., by deploying over 300 Georgia National Guard servicemembers. “The National Guard is intended to respond to domestic emergencies or civil unrest—neither of which is currently…
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Black men in Georgia learn how to lead their communities through SPLC program
In June, 10 men walked into a Columbus, Georgia, meeting room as strangers. Seven weeks later, they would leave as allies. Together, they comprise the inaugural class of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Black Male Leadership Institute, an initiative the SPLC’s Georgia state office launched this summer. The theme for the institute emerged for Lakisa…
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SPLC and LDF File Amicus Brief in Support of Challenge to Oklahoma’s Classroom Censorship Law, HB 1775
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and the Legal Defense Fund (LDF) filed an amicus brief in the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Plaintiffs-Appellants challenge to Oklahoma’s HB 1775, a law that severely and impermissibly restricts classroom instruction on certain topics related to race, gender, and systemic inequalities in public schools and…
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Tea Party Patriots bus tour stokes anti-immigrant, election integrity fears
Tea Party Patriots Action (TPPA), an antigovernment group, hit the road in mid-August for a bus tour promoting anti-voter legislation in Congress. The TPPA “Only Citizens Vote Bus Tour” kicked off Aug. 18 in Garden Grove, California, with 20 people in attendance. It is scheduled to stop in about 20 communities before concluding with…
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Active Club network uses propaganda and fitness to promote white nationalism
The Active Clubs are a loose network of white supremacist groups operating within the United States and internationally. The network’s founder and leader, Robert Rundo, has a long history of racist activism and violence. While living in Eastern Europe, he founded the group in close collaboration with Denis Yevgenyevich Kapustin, a neo-Nazi of Russian-German descent…
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Trump’s effort to terminate Lisa Cook is a ‘shameful abuse of executive power’
President Trump’s attempt to fire Lisa Cook — a highly experienced economist and trailblazing Black woman — from the Federal Reserve Board of Governors is another example of his shameful abuse of executive power. After criticizing and threatening Fed Chair Jerome Powell for months but taking no action, Trump has turned his partisan assault on…
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Emmett Till’s sacrifice, memory invoked on 70th anniversary of his murder
Content warning: This article contains graphic descriptions of violence. Reader discretion is advised. Civil rights activist Flonzie Brown Wright was 12 years old in the summer of 1955 and living in Madison County, Mississippi, when her two cousins, ages 15 and 17, came down from Chicago to visit their grandmother in the neighboring, more rural…
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SPLC Denounces Trump Administration’s Directive to Cut Federal Funding From Housing Authorities Working With Immigrant Communities
MONTGOMERY, Alabama — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) condemns the Trump administration’s proposed directive to attack, malign and cut federal funding to every public housing authority in the country that actively protects immigrants. The Trump administration’s Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is demanding public housing authorities report the citizenship status of tenants…