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- Dismantling White Supremacy
From screens to schools: Male supremacy’s impact and prevention tactics
In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, misogynistic content was rampant across social media. Posts using the phrase “your body, my choice” increased by 4,600% on X just 24 hours after the election. While these posts aimed to undermine women’s ability to freely and safely navigate online platforms, such hate is not detached from…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
The false fear of ‘white genocide’
In 2024, one of the most influential anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups, the Family Research Council (FRC), focused its animus on immigrants, pushing what were once considered fringe, racist beliefs into mainstream political narratives. Not surprisingly, much of the rhetoric and conspiracy theories about immigrants mirrored what was said during the 2024 elections by candidates, social media…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Director’s Note: Remember, Focus, Hope
In 2024, the Southern Poverty Law Center documented 1,371 hate and antigovernment extremist groups across the United States. These groups use a range of tactics. There are those that manipulate our political system, while others use violence and propaganda, and some take advantage of online platforms. All of these tactics are part of a larger…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Alabama Advocacy Institute fellows foster strength in their communities
Before 2005, Pearlington, Mississippi, wasn’t known for much — if at all. The small riverside town, population 1,153, hugs the southern corner of the state’s western border with Louisiana near the mouth of the Pearl River. When Warren Tidwell arrived that fall, it was mostly rubble. After Hurricane Katrina made its second landfall a couple…
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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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- 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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- 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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- Dismantling White Supremacy
‘Whose Heritage?’ report spotlights ‘triumphs even in the darkest of times’
When Donald Trump won a second term in the White House, he made very clear that he would be fighting to overturn what he saw as injustices done in the name of “woke.” His executive orders, the fiat he has used to fuel a campaign of attacks on his perceived foes and their successes, are…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
SPLC staff recommend these films and TV shows to celebrate AAPI Heritage Month
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, which commemorates the contributions of a vibrant, diverse and culturally rich community. The AAPI community represents 20.6 million people in the U.S., encompassing a wide array of languages, religions and cultural traditions. The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Asian American and Pacific Islander Affinity Group recommends the…