Apparently, one of the most powerful leftist charities in the world has been donating money to groups like the Ku Klux Klan.<\/span><\/p>\n The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a left-wing agitprop organization that raises roughly $100 million every year, has been handing money to white supremacists.<\/span><\/p>\n Why in the world would they do that? What the hell is going on?<\/span><\/p>\n Let\u2019s begin with this premise. The demand for white supremacy on the Left outstrips the supply.<\/span><\/p>\n What do I mean by this?<\/span><\/p>\n I mean that people on the Left think, broadly speaking, that Americans are horrible racists. Then they look around at the world, and it turns out that Americans are some of the least racist people in history.<\/span><\/p>\n Americans basically rank dead last in racism on the planet right now. If you go to any other country on planet Earth, you will notice significantly more racism than there is in the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n If you go to Japan, there\u2019s a fair bit of racism, as in South Korea, as in India.<\/span><\/p>\n But when you come to the United States, the polls suggest that the vast majority of Americans are fine with living next to people of different races and fine with intermarrying with people of other races. We have very high rates of ethnic intermarriage in America. We are an extraordinarily tolerant and diverse people.<\/span><\/p>\n But for the Left to make its play for a communitarian, centralized government, they have to constantly suggest that the government must be there to ram decency and goodness down the throats of those evil racists.<\/span><\/p>\n And the only way that you can sell that proposition is to create a false supply of racism, which brings us to the Southern Poverty Law Center.<\/span><\/p>\n The Southern Poverty Law Center is one of the most powerful left-wing groups in America. It\u2019s a supposedly civil rights nonprofit originally founded in 1971, in Montgomery, Alabama. It built a reputation on using litigation and \u201cresearch\u201d \u2014 pretty shoddy \u201cresearch\u201d \u2014 to combat <\/span>what they have called white supremacists and other domestic extremist groups while advocating for marginalized communities as their stated purpose. Over time, that turned into monitoring so-called extremist movements. They published a hate group list<\/a>, a <\/span>hate map<\/span><\/a>, and they pushed programs on bias and intolerance.<\/span><\/p>\n This was used to mainline their intel into everything from media to education to law enforcement. The FBI, up until October 2025, was using inputs from the SPLC to determine the kinds of people to monitor.<\/span><\/p>\n Even in the private sector, SPLC data was being used. Amazon, under Jeff Bezos, said that it used SPLC data to decide whom to exclude from its Amazon Smile charity programs.<\/span><\/p>\n How prominent has the SPLC been? Since 2010, a search of The New York Times pulls up 711 instances where the SPLC is cited as an authority on hate or discrimination statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n They are the go-to. The New York Times sees a Jussie Smollett story, and they call up somebody from the SPLC to talk about it. There\u2019s a Nick Fuentes story; they call the SPLC to talk about it. There\u2019s a Charlie Kirk story, and they call the SPLC to talk about it.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The New York Times repeatedly quoted the SPLC data in its coverage of the 2017 \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where the media routinely claimed that President Trump said there were \u201cfine people on both sides,\u201d which was not what he actually said. They lied about that, but the \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally has been the calling card for entire swaths of the Left for a very, very long time. The New York Times even quoted the SPLC leadership to provide historical context for the rise of the alt-right.<\/span><\/p>\n In fact, a Google Gemini search of The New York Times, Washington Post, and USA Today shows that 20 to 25% of all analytical pieces on the \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally referenced data or quoted directly from the SPLC.<\/span><\/p>\n Why is this relevant?<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It turns out that the SPLC provided some of the funding for the \u201cUnite the Right\u201d rally. Yesterday, the acting attorney general, Todd Blanch, announced criminal charges for the Southern Poverty Law Center. <\/span><\/p>\n He said:<\/span><\/p>\n Today, a few minutes ago, in the Middle District of Alabama, a grand jury returned an 11 count indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. According to the charges in the indictment, the SPLC is a nonprofit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement groups with the goal of dismantling these groups. As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The DOJ is saying that the Southern Poverty Law Center was basically paying all sorts of white supremacists and extremists to generate more white supremacy so that they could continue fundraising.<\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s what\u2019s true virtually everywhere in the nonprofit world \u2014 they exist, theoretically, to solve problems. You give money to a nonprofit to solve a problem. If the problem goes away, you no longer give to that nonprofit.<\/span><\/p>\n Let\u2019s say that you are the leader of a nonprofit or your leadership class of a nonprofit, and it turns out the thing you\u2019re trying to solve has been pretty much solved in the United States \u2014 such as the \u201cracism of the American population.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n When you launched in 1971, racism was a very, very real and ever-present part of American life. But today, racism is not even a blip on most Americans\u2019 radar.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"DailyWire+\"](\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2025\/09\/511983dad25841c8b1ec058d75769bbe-1024x171.webp\")
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