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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Alabama continues fight against court-ordered state Senate district voting map
Editor’s note: This is the second story in the “Crossing the Line” series about conservative efforts in the Deep South to redraw voting districts in a way that disenfranchises Black and Brown voters. In federal and state courts over the six decades since passage of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, Alabama and its…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Florida Decides Healthcare Inc., et al. v. Byrd, et al.
On Sunday, May 4, 2025 — two days after Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida House Bill 1205 (HB 1205) into law — a law geared toward eliminating the ability of all but the most wealthy and powerful from accessing Florida’s ballot initiative process — the Southern Poverty Law Center filed a federal lawsuit seeking…
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- Strengthening Democracy & Voting Rights
Redistricting war pales in shadow of pending Supreme Court ‘Callais’ decision
Editor’s note: This is the first story in the “Crossing the Line” series about conservative efforts in the Deep South to redraw voting districts in a way that disenfranchises Black and Brown voters. When the Texas Legislature called a special session in the aftermath of deadly floods last year, there was plenty on the agenda,…
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‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ spells trouble for Florida food assistance
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the nation’s largest anti-hunger program. It provides essential food assistance to people with low incomes across the United States. As the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Florida policy intern, I researched the implications of recent SNAP cuts for everyday Floridians to inform our advocacy in the upcoming legislative session.…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Affordable Care Act Credits Toolkit for Advocates in the Deep South
Learn more about the importance of the Affordable Care Act enhanced premium tax credits and the impact of the Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
December 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 Anti-immigrant/anti-Muslim activity Militia and antigovernment movement activity Anti-LGBTQ+ movement…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
SPLC Alabama screening of ‘The Quilters’ highlights power of restorative justice
In the opening scenes of The Quilters, a 30-minute short film Netflix released last year, a man named Ricky wheels a pallet of quilted blankets and fabric swatches past high barbed wire fencing. Another man, wearing a gray uniform shirt, unspools bright orange thread wrapped around a silver bobbin. Yet another drops the presser foot…
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Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family (FotF) has long relied on its biblical worldview strategy to push back against LGBTQ+ progress and reproductive rights. The organization’s Daily Citizen website demonizes LGBTQ+ people, claiming they are unnatural and un-Christian, and promotes anti-trans pseudoscience, such as conversion therapy that seeks to change the sexual or gender identities of LGBTQ…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Tax targeting Gullah-Geechee landowners on Sapelo Island could force land loss
A community of Gullah-Geechee descendants on Sapelo Island, Georgia, are potentially facing a massive property tax increase that threatens to push them off their ancestral land and kick open the doors to massive development of the island into a vacation community for the wealthy. At its regular meeting on Dec. 3, the McIntosh County Board…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Lawsuit, investigation target Mississippi’s special education service failures
E.J. was diagnosed with dyslexia while she was in the first grade. She repeated the academic year, but without ever receiving specific dyslexia reading help, the sixth grader now reads at a second-grade level. B.W., an 11th grader, was diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the second grade. His marks began nosediving two years ago…
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