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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Florida’s Gulf Correctional Institution
Head strikes, body slams, stabbings, chemical agents sprayed within inches of the face — this isn’t a dramatized portrayal of prison violence for a splashy television series. This is the daily reality for incarcerated people at Gulf Correctional Institution and many other Florida prisons. Gulf is one of the most brutal prisons run by the…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
10 great reads that highlight Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott
On Dec. 1, 1955 — 70 years ago today — Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. Parks’ arrest led to the 381-day Montgomery bus boycott, the first major event of the Civil Rights Movement. The boycott began on Dec.…
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Breaking the Myths: The truth about immigration under the Big ‘Beautiful’ Bill
“When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. … They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists.” These horrific words from then-presidential candidate Donald Trump have fueled dangerous stereotypes about immigrants. As the proud daughter of Mexican immigrants, I have seen how anti-immigrant rhetoric has haunted my community with lies. The recently passed…
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Alabama youth used advocacy to rise above after unjust school suspension
There aren’t many people who can say that they’ve had an audience at the United Nations. But at 20 years old, CJ Jones has done it twice — on two different continents. Last year, he flew from Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Geneva, Switzerland, to address the U.N. Permanent Forum on People of African Descent with a delegation…
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New York politics used to promote misinformation, hard-right war against Muslims
Investigative Update Summer 2025 A War of Ideas: The unrelenting propaganda of the Lost Cause mythology Missouri Minutemen and white nationalist Active Club learning from each other Sovereign citizens put public servants and safety professionals at risk Anti-Muslim and hard-right activists used Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign and subsequent election as mayor of New York City…
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Goyim Defense League spreads hate through disruption and harassment
The Goyim Defense League (GDL) spreads virulent antisemitic and racist harassment through stunts that it characterizes as pranks. Nevertheless, its members have sometimes faced civil and criminal charges in the United States and Europe related to their targeting of religious, ethnic and sexual minorities. GDL founder Jon Minadeo II, who also uses the pseudonym “Handsome…
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Goyim Defense League
Goyim Defense League (GDL) is a white supremacist group that engages in antisemitic harassment that it casts as pranks. Its members have harassed Jewish people in the streets, “zoombombed” public meetings with antisemitic slurs and rhetoric, filmed themselves with antisemitic signs outside a Nazi concentration camp, used racial slurs against children, marched alongside other white…
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Appeal to Heaven: The flag of Christian supremacy
The Appeal to Heaven flag has a long history in the United States. Commissioned by George Washington, it has flown in front of government buildings. Today it is a major symbol and internet meme among Christian supremacists, as well as opportunists in and out of government. Right-wing politicians took up this symbol after its use…
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November 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. Conspiracy propagandists Anti-LGBTQ+ movement Anti-immigrant/anti-Muslim activity Male supremacy Confederate monuments Militia…
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