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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Trump’s Executive Order Worsening Homelessness Crisis, Explained
SPLC is using every tool at our disposal to fight attacks on people experiencing homelessness. SPLC is standing up for an America where everyone has safe and affordable housing. We hope you’ll join us. For more information, please visit Together We Fight or contact Theresa Lau. Image at top: (Credit: Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Defamation suit highlights anti-trans rhetoric that often targets Black women
A recent lawsuit filed by the French president and his wife accusing far-right conspiracy propagandist Candace Owens of defamation due to her repeated claims that the French first lady was born male highlights how such attacks enforce a male supremacist gender binary and restrict what it means to be a woman. The 22-count defamation lawsuit…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
SPLC forms partnership to make data publicly available in gerrymandering fights
Gerrymandering is one of the most entrenched obstacles to fair and representative democracy in the United States. To fight its spread, experts analyze proposed voting district maps and provide testimony in legal challenges. They identify places with diverse populations where councils or legislatures create at-large districts, pack voters of one ethnic group into a single…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Louisiana fight for fair voting map is a beacon of hope for Deep South residents
Voting district lines equal political power. This is why communities redistricted after the 2020 U.S. census results were released, creating new district maps to reflect demographic changes. But five years after the census, the city of Abbeville, Louisiana, is still on its first attempt at drawing new districts. As an attorney for voting rights with…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Critical Memory Project explores history and how we can’t avoid the past
As part of an ongoing multinational effort, members of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s leadership toured sites across Germany, including the massive parade grounds in Munich, the Dachau concentration camp, the courthouse in Nuremberg and Tempelhof Airport in Berlin. The trip was the first part of the Critical Memory Project, a program designed to explore…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
MassResistance traffics pseudoscience to spread anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric
MassResistance (MR) is a chapter-based organization that demonizes LGBTQ+ people, strategically organizing and coordinating disinformation campaigns against inclusive policies at libraries and schools. MR uses anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience to incite disgust and hysteria toward LGBTQ+ events, literature and public policy, often generating aggressive anti-LGBTQ opposition at local and state levels. This group is known for its…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
MassResistance
MassResistance has spent the last 30 years attempting to cast LGBTQ+ people as dangerous to society, themselves and children. This group traffics in anti-LGBTQ+ pseudoscience that links homosexuality to pedophilia, violence and disease and portrays trans women as sexual predators. Founder Brian Camenker has a history of infiltrating LGBTQ+ events to record and film participants,…
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Gab
Gab is an alt-tech social media platform that provides digital infrastructure to far-right extremist groups and their supporters, some of whom have been banned from mainstream social media platforms and payment processors for violating terms of service. The company’s founder and CEO, Andrew Torba, welcomes these groups and other well-known white supremacist activists onto Gab,…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Gab provides an online home for far-right groups and their supporters
Gab provides an online home for far-right groups and their supporters Andrew Torba, the founder of Gab, has described his social media platform as an incubator for a “parallel Christian economy.” The company provides digital services to far-right extremist groups and their supporters, including perpetrators of terroristic violence, many of whom have been banned from…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
August 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. Anti-democracy efforts A central figure of Turning Point USA’s political arm…
