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February 25, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Lecia Brooks, chief of staff for the Southern Poverty Law Center, testified before the House Committee on Financial Services about how far-right extremists and white supremacists fund operations like the...
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February 23, 2021
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) today released the 2020 year-end update to its Whose Heritage? report data and map, which tracks public symbols of the Confederacy across the United States. The Whose...
February 04, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) President and CEO Margaret Huang welcomed Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III’s early initiative to address the dangerous and disturbing trend of extremism in the U.S...
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January 15, 2021
WASHINGTON, DC — Chief of Staff Lecia Brooks released the following statement in response to the arrest of the man who carried the Confederate flag into the Capitol during the insurrection on January 6. “Just as defeated...
January 06, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C. – At President Trump’s prodding, thousands of extremists have stormed the Capitol complex in Washington D.C. to prevent lawmakers from certifying President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. Lecia...
December 11, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) by an overwhelming, veto-proof majority of 84 to 13. President Trump has threatened to veto the bill because it will rename ten military...
