The Patriot Post® · The SPLC's Bad Day in the House

By Douglas Andrews ·
https://patriotpost.us/articles/128230-the-splcs-bad-day-in-the-house-2026-06-10

It’s the gift that keeps on giving, this Southern Poverty [sic] Law [sic] Center.

Yesterday, as SPLC interim CEO and President Bryan Fair testified unsteadily and unconvincingly before the House Judiciary Committee, the recently indicted organization released — without a whiff of irony — its annual “Year in Hate and Extremism” report.

And to no one’s surprise, the nation’s foremost purveyor of hate, its most dastardly and diabolical agent provocateur — the SPLC itself — was somehow absent from the list. Think about it: During the past year, those money-grubbing racial arsonists compiled “1,263 hate and extremist antigovernment groups whose movement exploited politics, government, and the private sector,” but they couldn’t be bothered to look in the mirror and tweeze that Wolmanized 2x4 out of their own eye.

Nor was it surprising that the SPLC’s hate map listed such mainstream conservative organizations as the Family Research Council and Moms for Liberty and Turning Point USA and PragerU and Focus on the Family. Conversely, it predictably failed to include leftist fellow-travelers and known thugs such as antifa, the violent abortion absolutists at Jane’s Revenge, or any of the anti-alphabet Islamic groups whose theological hatred of homosexuals somehow keeps getting a free pass.

Asked by Texas Republican Chip Roy about this glaring omission of Muslim groups from their hate map, Fair replied weakly, “We don’t target any group because of its religion.”

Uh-huh. Tell that to the “radical-traditionalist Catholic” groups that were targeted within the FBI’s infamous “Richmond memo.” And where did the SPLC’s friends within the FBI get the idea that Catholics were involved in “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism”? Yep, from an “analysis” conducted by the SPLC. But, no, they don’t target any group because of its religion. Except Christian groups.

Here, I have to marvel at the entrepreneurial audacity of the SPLC. Leftists and Democrats have long made a living by creating crises and then concocting government “solutions” to those crises. But the SPLC has taken this racket to new heights. As Chairman Jim Jordan put it, “They created a crisis, they manufactured the crisis, and by doing so, they became the standard, the source for determining who is a hate group. You run a scam, you become the standard, you don’t get prosecuted, and you make a ton of money.”

It’s great “work” if you can get it.

Indeed, one would think that a federal indictment might have a chilling effect on the SPLC’s fundraising money-grubbing operation. But one would be wrong. Fair testified that donations have actually increased since the indictment. “We fight for the underdog, the poor, the unhoused, the hungry, the incarcerated, the disenfranchised, the immigrants, the outcast, the vilified,” he lied. “We’ve never lost our North Star: a fair and just society for every person. All our programs advance that mission.”

Hmm … I wonder how it advances the mission when the SPLC encourages its field sources to continue on as Klan members even when those sources express a desire to quit? Further, I wonder how it advances that mission when SPLC employees shack up with their well-paid hate-group sources? As Jordan revealed, “A Southern Poverty Law Center employee was in a romantic relationship with Field Source No. 9, a member of the racist National Alliance. This SPLC employee, who was supposed to be dismantling hate groups with the Intelligence Project, was dating the field source that they were paying, and, in fact, they had a joint bank account. Wow.”

“Wow” is right. Interestingly, the DOJ’s original indictment — which included 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering — actually undersold the SPLC’s scheme. The DOJ’s superseding June 2 indictment says the SPLC actually paid out $4.1 million to its hate groups, not the measly $3 million cited within the original indictment.

Amid a day of one devastating revelation after another, The Daily Signal’s Tyler O'Neil captured perhaps the most interesting one of all.

Asked by Chairman Jordan why the SPLC had ended a particular informant program despite its professed success and helpfulness, Fair replied, “Because we believe hate and extremism has migrated significantly online and into government agencies.”

“We don’t fund hate groups,” Fair claimed. Nah, they just fund members of hate groups.

“The SPLC doesn’t foment hate,” Fair added. Nah, they just fund the purchase of “materials for cross burnings” and “Klan robes and hoods.”

I’ll say this: The guy has chutzpah.

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