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Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche listens during a news conference at the Justice Department, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Southern Poverty Law Center says its informant program was not kept secret from law enforcement

By Collin Binkley - Associated Press

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins speaks during an anti-abortion rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Family Research Council helping feds take on Southern Poverty Law Center

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Southern Poverty Law Center fraud illustration by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Southern Poverty Law Center has been a fraud for decades

By Everett Piper

Southern Poverty Law Center attack dog muzzled illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Progressivism’s attack dog SPLC blows itself up

By Robert Knight

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche listens during a news conference at the Justice Department, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

SPLC’s troubles mount as Republicans probe Biden administration ties

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Cornerstone of the Southern Poverty Law Center in downtown Montgomery, Alabama. File photo credit: Mccallk69 via Shutterstock.

SPLC funded the racism it claimed to fight

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche listens during a news conference at the Justice Department, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

The manufactured boogeyman of White supremacy

By Kelly Sadler - The Washington Times

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche speaks as FBI Director Kash Patel listens during a news conference at the Justice Department, Tuesday, April 21, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Civil rights groups condemn Southern Poverty Law Center’s indictment and prepare for legal fights

By Matt Brown - Associated Press

In this Aug. 12, 2017, file photo, a vehicle drives into a group of protesters demonstrating against a White nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va. Bill Burke says he was struck by a car driven by James Alex Fields Jr., in a crash that killed counterprotester Heather Heyer, during the August 2017 rally in Charlottesville. (Ryan M. Kelly/The Daily Progress via AP) ** FILE **

SPLC raked in donations after Unite the Right rally allegedly facilitated by its paid informant

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche holds a news conference at the Justice Department in Washington, April 7, 2026. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

What to know about the Southern Poverty Law Center

By Rebecca Boone - Associated Press

Family members of fallen civil rights activists view the Civil Rights Memorial at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala., during a private family viewing on Nov. 5, 1989. (AP Photo/Dave Martin) **FILE**

Justice Department indicts Southern Poverty Law Center on fraud charges

By Valerie Richardson and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Law enforcement respond to a call at Temple Israel synagogue Thursday, March 12, 2026, in West Bloomfield Township, Mich. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Jewish communities boost security and continue observances amid rise in hateful incidents

By Matt Brown - Associated Press

Illustration on Biden's ties and the influence of the Southern Poverty Law Center by Linas Garsys/ The Washington Times

Ties between Biden and left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center are alarming

By Tom McClusky

SPLC employees seek to unionize

Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, file photo, Morris Dees (right) with the Southern Poverty Law Center, right, listens during a news conference, at the Hinds County Courthouse in Jackson, Miss. The Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center, a nationally known nonprofit that monitors hate organizations, said Thursday, March 14, 2019, it had fired co-founder Morris Dees, who once won a lawsuit that bankrupted a leading Ku Klux Klan group. (Joe Ellis/The Clarion-Ledger via AP, File)

High-profile firing adds to troubles for watchdog group

By JAY REEVES - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2011, file photo, Morris Dees (right) with the Southern Poverty Law Center, right, listens during a news conference, at the Hinds County Courthouse in Jackson, Miss. The Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center, a nationally known nonprofit that monitors hate organizations, said Thursday, March 14, 2019, it had fired co-founder Morris Dees, who once won a lawsuit that bankrupted a leading Ku Klux Klan group. (Joe Ellis/The Clarion-Ledger via AP, File)

Civil rights organization announces dismissal of founder

By KIM CHANDLER - Associated Press

Stuart, Parker compete in chief justice primary

Associated Press

Judge orders release of woman in Alabama debtors prison case

By CHEVEL JOHNSON - Associated Press

Study: Pa. gets “D” in civil rights teaching

By J.D. PROSE - Associated Press

The seal of the Department of Homeland Security

DHS employee’s website: ‘We are going to have to kill a lot of whites’

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times