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This administration is literally the Klan.
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pwb
(12,786 posts).
orangecrush
(30,763 posts)Masks are the new hoods.
Lovie777
(23,411 posts)Klarkashton
(5,384 posts)This comes as no surprise.
lostincalifornia
(5,476 posts)These are the worst of the worst.
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Liberty Belle
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yobrault1
(206 posts)MONTGOMERY, Ala. - The Southern Poverty Law Center faces federal fraud and money laundering charges after investigators alleged the group secretly funded the same extremist organizations it claimed to oppose.
What we know:
A Montgomery grand jury returned an 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) for wire fraud, conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering, and making false statements to a bank.
Federal officials say that between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly sent more than $3 million to people associated with violent extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the National Socialist Movement, and the American Nazi Party.
The indictment alleges the SPLC used bank accounts tied to fictitious entities to hide the source and control of the money.
What they're saying:
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the SPLC is "manufacturing racism to justify its existence."
FBI Director Kash Patel added that the organization allegedly lied to donors while paying leaders of extremist groups to facilitate crimes.
Acting United States Attorney Kevin Davidson noted that donors believed they were supporting a fight against extremism, but their money was instead diverted to benefit groups the SPLC publicly denounced.
The Source: Information in this article comes from a release by the United States Department of Justice
mountain grammy
(29,125 posts)Manufacturing racism! My god! These people! Garbage people. This is sickening.
calimary
(90,484 posts)then I have a moral and civic duty to push back, AGAINST their efforts.
bsiebs
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BaronChocula
(4,673 posts)On what grounds is a judge is going to buy the illegality of infiltrating hate groups???
paleotn
(22,516 posts)“To prove wire fraud, you have to show that the defendant had intent to defraud. That’s hard to do even when you’re talking about an individual person. To establish that an entire corporate entity had intent to defraud seems exceptionally difficult,” he said. “Same goes for bank fraud. Difficult crime to prove because you have to prove what is going on inside someone’s head at the moment they are conducting the financial transactions. Easier to do with an individual because you can get the context from other witnesses and sometimes emails or texts.”
“I don’t think they can prove their case at trial,” he added.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/doj-southern-poverty-law-center-investigation
Marcuse
(9,065 posts)Last edited Wed Apr 22, 2026, 03:57 AM - Edit history (1)
They must have been thinking of COINTELPRO.
hvn_nbr_2
(6,808 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(181,210 posts)The administration’s vindictive targeting of the Southern Poverty Law Center is yet another mask-off moment.
The Justice Department Sides With the Ku Klux Klan
— Jon Cooper (@joncooper-us.bsky.social) 2026-04-24T15:42:01.876Z
The administration’s vindictive targeting of the Southern Poverty Law Center is yet another mask-off moment.
https://newrepublic.com/article/209432/justice-department-klan-splc-suit
The Southern Poverty Law Center, or SPLC, is one of the most influential civil rights groups in the nation. Founded in 1971, it has spent the last five decades monitoring, documenting, and exposing hate groups and violent extremists. The group rose to national fame in the 1980s by financially breaking the modern Klan through strategic lawsuits on behalf of its victims. The SPLC’s most persistent targets have been white nationalist groups like the Klan and various neo-Nazi gangs, but its work has expanded over the years, as well. (More on that later.)....
That brings us back to Blanche’s claims that the organization was “paying sources to stoke racial hatred.” A cynical observer might suspect that the Trump Justice Department’s goal is to blame the work of white nationalist groups on the civil rights groups that oppose them. There is a long history of Klan denialism in this country that minimizes the actions of violent white supremacists, often by blaming their actions on their victims and opponents.
It is horrifying to see the Justice Department, whose original mission was to fight the Klan, engage in similar denialism. At least some conservative commentators appear to be buying it too. “Given the small and marginal nature of these groups, the obvious conclusion is that the SPLC found that demand for racism outstripped the supply, so it had to spread cash around to keep talking up these fringe groups,” McLaughlin wrote.
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In reality, there has been an alarming resurgence in white supremacist organizations since Trump first captured the presidency in 2016. White nationalist rhetoric, which was politically fatal 10 years ago, is now regularly espoused by Trump administration officials and even by official government publications. Now the Justice Department is throwing its full weight behind a flimsy prosecution in an effort to destroy one of the Klan’s greatest opponents. There is no subtlety about what is happening here.