The Southern Poverty Law Center has been exposing the Klan for 55 years.
Today, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, who defended Donald Trump at his 2024 criminal trial, indicted the civil rights organization for paying those informants. Blanche accused SPLC of “manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.” Paying informants is how SPLC has mapped the American hate group infrastructure since the 1980s.
Seven months after an executive order designated anti-fascism as domestic terrorism, the administration has moved from labeling the opposition to indicting it. Donate to the SPLC now so it can fight this.
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