This week, the Justice Department filed a complaint alleging not only that the “anti-racism” organization Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is running a spy ring, but that it has actually paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to the white supremacist groups it claims to be fighting.
It really could be a Dave Chappelle sketch, right down to the fact that the SPLC partially funded the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, which gave birth to the lie about President Donald Trump calling neo-Nazis “very fine people.”
Trump never called white supremacists “very fine people,” but it turns out the SPLC handed them bags of cash.
The biggest takeaway from this scandal is that actual racism is so scarce in our society that the SPLC has to fund it to find it.
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche spoke at a press conference alongside FBI Director Kash Patel at the Department of Justice on April 21, 2026, following the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center on money laundering-related charges. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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But even without the payoffs, they have been little more than an ideological vigilante group for decades.
There may have been a time in the 1970s when the SPLC did important work infiltrating and exposing racist organizations, but since at least the turn of the century the group’s main goal has been to denounce conservatives — often through dubious connections.
The way this works is that the SPLC maintains a watchlist of individuals or organizations that they say are hateful. Mind you, there is actually no real definition given of what is and is not a hate group; it’s just what they say it is. And it’s almost always conservative.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has released its 2022 map showing hate and anti-government groups in the United States. (Southern Poverty Law Center)
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Once a person or group ends up on this blacklist, the consequences are serious. In some professions, such as academia or publishing, being labeled hateful by the SPLC is a clear barrier to employment.
Likewise, any organization – even one as innocuous as Moms for Liberty – that is labeled a hate group is always introduced or mentioned in the media with the stern warning: “… has been labeled a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
What makes this ideological quirk is that while the First Amendment protects Americans from the state that punishes our freedom of speech, the SPLC, through the countless institutions it has conquered, regularly metes out punishments for speech.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) building seen in March 2020 in Montgomery, Alabama. (Barry Lewis/InPictures via Getty Images)
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For more than 25 years, this group has operated as a kind of private thought police — the rent-a-cops of American discourse — banishing conservatives from the conversation by vilifying them, while progressives like Hasan Piker talk on podcasts about killing the rich.
Calling someone a bigot, hateful, or white supremacist is a social scarlet letter in our culture. It doesn’t just mean that the person shouldn’t get a job or publish a book; it means they should be shunned in their personal and professional lives.
At worst, the SPLC’s vilification of everyday conservatives as racists can even contribute to violence. After all, the organization absurdly labeled Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA as hateful before a gunman silenced Charlie forever.
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You see, the mission of the SPLC was once to protect those who were dehumanized in our society, but today they are doing the dehumanizing. Appearing on their watchlists doesn’t just put a black mark on someone’s resume. It puts a target on someone’s back.
Whether the SPLC’s pranks turn out to be criminal or not, the organization has been exposed as a fraud company. The SPLC does not crack open cases against criminal organizations. It’s just censoring ideas.
Outside of prisons, there is no large network of white supremacists for the SPLC to infiltrate and investigate. It’s all stuff and nonsense.
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The SPLC has been riding on its once excellent reputation for decades. Pundits pretend it’s nonpartisan, when in fact it only exists today to silence conservative voices.
Unfortunately, the organization no longer deserves the trust our institutions have placed in it as a fair arbiter of racism and bigotry. In fact, it may be responsible for more racism than it actually combats.
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It is time for the SPLC and all its malicious smears to take their place in the dustbin of history and for Americans of good will to have free conversations without being punished by a bogus civil rights organization.
And honestly, it really shows how far our nation has come in overcoming bigotry.
