Every week, we highlight stories on extremism and the radical right from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. Here are stories that caught our attention through April 5.
In March 2024, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed Senate Bill 1 (SB 1), a sweeping new voter suppression law that targets, restricts and severely punishes civic engagement efforts that encourage voting and enable access to the ballot box.
The following month, a coalition of civil rights, voting...
With the U.S. Supreme Court poised to deliver the most significant ruling in 40 years on the rights of people experiencing homelessness, the Southern Poverty Law Center filed an amicus brief defending their rights.
The amicus brief was filed in Johnson v. Grants Pass, which...
TJ Roberts, a politician from Boone County, Kentucky, claimed Jewish people promote “white genocide” in a private chat from 2017 that Hatewatch obtained.
On March 27, a California judge issued a recommendation that former Trump Campaign attorney John Eastman be disbarred.
A cache of documents related to Texas’ Operation Lone Star reveals that state contractor Wynne Transportation, LLC, paid over $20 million to an antigovernment extremist group to bus migrants in “inhumane” conditions. The documents also reveal the tangled web of limited liability companies that Texas pays to bus immigrants from its border with Mexico.