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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Georgia hate group describes Jewish senator’s supporters as ‘God-haters’
In a fundraising email to its supporters, Frontline Policy Action (FPA) describes supporters of Jon Ossoff, Georgia’s first Jewish U.S. senator, as “God-haters.”1 FPA is a social-welfare nonprofit that can engage in limited political advocacy. It shares many of its senior leaders, board members and staff with anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Frontline Policy Council (FPC). In…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
AAPI communities and the Civil Rights Movement
This Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, we consider how the fate of the Asian American community in the United States has always been intertwined with the nation’s Black movement for liberation. Activist Scot Nakagawa has pointed to three key ways in which the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s radically changed Asian America. …
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
For these hard-right influencers, empathy is a vice
In 2019, the year before protests in Minneapolis formed in response to the unlawful killing of George Floyd by white police officers, a local, white, Christian nationalist seminary professor named Joe Rigney began a campaign to popularize a concept he referred to as the “sin of empathy.”[1] The strategy licenses white nationalism and male supremacy…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
San Diego mosque shooters left document revealing racist, neo-Nazi beliefs
Seven years after a neo-Nazi executed 51 worshippers at a mosque in New Zealand, two teenagers — seeking to follow in his footsteps — killed three people at a mosque in San Diego, California, on May 18. Then, they turned their guns on themselves.
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
‘No Jim Crow Maps’: Voters push back against gerrymandering at ‘All Roads’ rally
Thousands of people massed in front of the white marble steps leading up to the Alabama Capitol. Demonstrators stretched down Dexter Avenue in Montgomery, looking for shade as the warm spring sun passed its apex, eliminating the cool shadows on the street. But this wasn’t the height of the Civil Rights Movement, the launch of…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Vote Free From Fear: 2026
Check out the SPLC’s top tips to help you vote safely and successfully this election. Remember: It is illegal for the federal government to deploy armed agents to polling places for the purpose of interfering with your right to vote.
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Days of Democracy elevates Alabama election activity to championship levels
Earlier this year, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Alabama state office held listening sessions about democracy across the state. Residents vocalized their concern for the integrity of democracy on a state and federal level as a top issue. Audience members cited examples ranging from ongoing purges of voter rolls to anemic turnout rates when citizens…
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McElroy, et al. v. Houston County, Alabama, et al.
On May 13, 2026, attorneys with the Southern Poverty Law Center, Pregnancy Justice and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in Alabama on behalf of Tiffany McElroy and her infant daughter. In May 2024, McElroy was just days into her detention at the Houston County Jail in Dothan, Alabama, for a pregnancy-related charge when her…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Neo-Nazi activists continue to inspire attacks on electrical infrastructure
When law student Dawson Maloney, 23, died in February of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound at an energy facility in Nevada, his car carrying multiple firearms and a flamethrower, he didn’t leave a manifesto. But while his exact motives are unknown, his tactics and some of the materials he possessed resembled those of a subset…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Google subsidizing hate group’s anti-transgender and anti-diversity ads
Google’s Ad Grants program subsidizes advertisements by the anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Do No Harm, including sponsored search results for the group’s so-called “Detransitioner Bill of Rights,” according to a search of Google’s ad transparency data.1 Do No Harm’s model policy, the “Detransitioner Bill of Rights,” wrongly suggests that gender-affirming healthcare can “contribute” to distress among…














