The Grand Jury charges:
INTRODUCTION
The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (“SPLC”) stated mission included the dismantling of white supremacy and confronting hate across the country. However, unbeknownst to donors, some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, and the National Alliance. The SPLC’s paid informants (field sources”) engaged in the active promotion of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website. The SPLC also had a field source who was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, Virginia. That field source made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees. In order to covertly pay its field sources, the SPLC opened bank accounts connected to a series of fictitious entities.
The covert nature of the accounts allowed the SPLC to disguise the true nature, source, ownership, and control of the fraudulently obtained donated money the SPLC paid the field sources. In order to keep the scheme going, the SPL made a series of false statements related to the operation of the accounts.
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Yes. Funded, planned, coordinated and executed.
Well, this story isn’t going to get any coverage in the majority of media. The Southern Poverty Law Center played a major role in organizing the Charlottesville Unite the Right rally, which was falsely used as a political knife against Trump for years.
SPLC tax filing & compensation.
How did the SPLC get a half-billion dollar plus offshore endowment in the Cayman Islands?
Name a more perfect representation of 21st-century America. It’s like owning shares in Nestle and Novo Nordisk. Selling the cure and the disease.
Their game plan? Scare financial institutions into debanking us, pressure schools to cancel us, and demonize us so some unhinged lunatic feels justified targeting us. Remember the Family Research Council? An SPLC-inspired gunman went after them. They’d love nothing more than to see TPUSA in the crosshairs.
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Also, the SPLCs “Behavior & Mindset” Standards are required for all K-12 students through the American School Counselor Association! x.com/jenn_mcw/statu…
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WI DPI has sooo many interesting resources from Southern Poverty Law Center.
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But here’s what the SPLC headlines are missing:
- The indictment describes a paid informant in the leadership chat that PLANNED Unite the Right
- That informant “helped coordinate transportation” to the rally… at SPLC’s direction
- There is ONE publicly identified organizer whose documented role was transportation coordinator
- His Discord posts about running over protesters were made 26 DAYS before Heather Heyer was killed by a car
- The indictment says postings were made “under the supervision of the SPLC”
- Charlottesville then became the founding event for a billion-dollar political machine
- SPLC installed itself as that machine’s definitional gatekeeper
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It’s a delicate balance to be distrusting of most things without wandering into paranoia.
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The rise of white supremacy was a media generated narrative. This is observable:
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Paying millions of dollars to Nazis and Klansmen would be bad enough. But the indictment alleges that the SPLC went beyond that, actually underwriting the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017, providing material support and supervision to what the Left turned into the symbol of Right-wing hate.
One of the people the SPLC was working with was a leading planner of the rally and attended the event “at the direction of the SPLC.” He also “made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees.”
For his pains, he was paid $270,000.
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Kudos to the New York Post for being the only major outlet to get this right. The SPLC were paying the leaders. By definition, leaders cannot be informants. They run the operation. It is like paying the leader of Auschwitz to inform on who is carrying out the gassings instead of paying him to stop the gassings. It is perhaps the most grotesque, cynical, and pernicious racket ever devised. Of course, plenty of groups extract money from taxpayers and well-meaning donors off problems they inflate, but this is far worse because it breeds real hatred and manufactures racial division to keep the grift alive.
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In a 2021 statement still on their website, WEAC President Ron Martin defended the “Learning for Justice Curriculum of the Southern Poverty Law Center” by name, calling any limits on it “bullying” and vowing to keep teaching “systemic racial inequality” and “the roots of U.S. racism.”
They also list Teaching Tolerance (SPLC’s K-12 program, now Learning for Justice) on their official “High Quality Enrichment Resources” page right now. Same organization. Same materials. Same commitment.
This is what they recommend to WI teachers — even after SPLC’s leaders were federally indicted this week for wire fraud, bank fraud & money laundering.
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The Southern Poverty Law Center paid the National Education Association hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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The CBS News segment on SPLC defrauding its donors and paying hate groups is wild.
“The SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.”
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From 2016 through 2024, USAID granted $27 million to the Tides Network to “strengthen global civil society organizations, promote transparency, accountability, citizen engagement, and serve as fiscal agent for USAID’s Civil Society Innovation Initiative.”
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Looking back.
SPLC revenue before Charlotesville – $51,871,438
SPLC revenue after Charlotesville – $133,463,398
The SPLC paid $270,000 to a Unite the Right Rally leader.