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- Dismantling White Supremacy
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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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Real Alternatives: Ending Disciplinary Alternative Education
Thomas, a Black ninth grader from Louisiana, was required to transfer to an alternative school after he was shot. At the time of his exclusion, he had not been arrested or charged with any crime; instead, he was a victim of crime. After being discharged from the hospital, his home high school barred him from…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
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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- Dismantling White Supremacy
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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- Dismantling White Supremacy
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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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Making Recovery Last
Power has three faces. The first face — we see who won and who lost. The second face: who decides. To figure that out, you must ask who is benefiting and who is losing: the third face. This is when the deep structural contours of power emerge.” — Marshall Ganz on Steven Lukes’ “three faces…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Exposing Gaps in Disaster Relief
The time is now for federal funding to adequately support communities that are disproportionately impacted by natural disasters and climate change by focusing preparation and recovery efforts on rebuilding communities, not just rebuilding property.” In late August 2005, Hurricane Katrina, a storm with sustained winds of 125 mph when it made landfall, caused widespread destruction…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
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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Active Clubs
Active Clubs are a network of white supremacist groups that operate in Europe, North America, South America and Australia. Robert Rundo, a white nationalist with a long history of racist violence, cofounded the Active Club network in 2020 while in Europe following U.S. federal rioting charges. The group aims to build a hypermasculine white nationalist…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Keeping the Power On
The storm’s impact of displacing thousands of voters depressed voter turnout to 36%, down 10 points from 2002.” Hurricane Katrina brought devastation to the Gulf Coast, with an estimated 1,392 fatalities, 300,000 homes destroyed, and over a million people displaced. The storm was responsible for over $125 billion in damages and an estimated $2.9 billion…
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