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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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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…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
May 2026 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. Antigovernment movement activity Anti-democracy activity Anti-student inclusion and education-focused activity Anti-Muslim…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Civil Rights Memorial Center opens Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley exhibit
Just a few feet into the Emmett Till & Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See exhibit sits an old-fashioned, black rotary telephone on a small, wooden display table. It’s heavy, with creamy white numbers on the shiny black enamel finish of its dial. It feels solid in your hand when you heft the receiver. Putting…
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Critical Condition
A medical emergency can happen to someone at any time or location, but not everyone has equal access to potentially lifesaving care when they need it the most. In 2021, Harmony Stribling died in the middle of the night on the side of the road in rural Mississippi while pregnant and in labor. The hospital…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Five things to know about the ongoing Jackson, Mississippi, water crisis
As the United States celebrates Drinking Water Week this week to recognize the vital role that water plays in our lives, residents of Jackson, Mississippi, are still dealing with the aftermath of a deteriorating water system that completely broke down after decades of strain. Years of disinvestment and neglect exposed critical infrastructure failures. A winter…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
‘Greater Than’ effort revamps anti-LGBTQ+ junk science against marriage equality
On Jan. 28, the anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Them Before Us led the announcement of the “Greater Than” campaign, an effort to repeal marriage equality. The campaign represents an alliance of at least a dozen anti-LGBTQ+ hate groups and other allied organizations to promote the debunked claim that “gay marriage resulted in child victimization.”1 In recent…
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