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Tyler O’Neil Lays Out How Organizations Like the SPLC, CHIRLA, and Antifa Fuel Violence and Riots
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220,049 views Jun 13, 2025 Real Talk with Marissa Streit
Investigative journalist and author Tyler O’Neil joins PragerU CEO @realtalkwithmarissa to explain how the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), brands mainstream conservative and Christian groups as “hate groups” while defending groups like Antifa. He exposes how the SPLC’s so-called “hate map” has inspired real-world violence, shaped government policy, and been weaponized by Big Tech and the media to suppress dissent. He also draws concerning connections between radical activist groups like Antifa and CHIRLA, showing how these organizations fueled anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles all while receiving taxpayer funding. If you thought the SPLC was just another civil rights nonprofit, this conversation will shock you.
What is the SPLC?
A Hate Map That Inspired Violenc
Media, Lawsuits & the SPLC Agend
Charlottesville, Big Tech & Corporate Influenc
Why Mainstream Groups Are Now on the Hate Ma
SPLC Scandals: Racism, Sexism, Offshore Mone
The Union Revolt & Culture of Corruptio
How the SPLC Weaponizes Intersectionalit
Dark Money, Immigration, and the Woke Agend
What You Can Do to Fight Back
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"Oh, Trump is hateful. His organizations advising him are hateful. They're on the hate map because they hate immigrants.
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They hate LGBTQ people. They hate yada yada yada." Really, they're on the map because they disagree with the the SPLC's agenda. I mean, the SPLC, and we
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should get into this too, they are far off the edge of the map when it comes to transgender stuff, when it comes to race
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baiting, when they're using critical race theory to say that there's inherent structural racism to everything, they
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they will apply this racist lens and then connect it to every issue under the sun. I mean, we you've covered intersectionality a lot, right? Well,
Chapter 8: How the SPLC Weaponizes Intersectionality
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this is this whole intersectionality thing has become one of the things that I think Americans really need to understand because when they don't understand this like, you know, from the
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river to the sea, free Palestine commentary and and and people with kafias walking around in the meantime
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while rioting and an anti-ICE riot in Los Angeles combined with BLM and groups like the SPLC and frankly BLM and really
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also the Anti-Defamation League, the ADL. What they will do is they will prey on people's natural concerns and fears.
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The good-hearted people who really don't want anti-semitism, don't want racism, and they'll use this language of saying,
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"We're going to help you avoid horrible things in our society." But in order for
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the SPLC and the BLM and ADL to thrive, they need to manufacture more of it. And that is essentially what we're doing. So
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that's when you see these hired people who are dressed up as you know KKK members or or um you know supposed
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anti-semites ironically the same day they are the these are the ones who are you know rioting in these pro Palestine
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anti-semitic riots right and so it's this bizarre convolution that I think people are just kind of waking up to and are saying well what's going on here and
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the the short answer to it is intersectionality Right? It's this oppressor versus the oppressed. The West
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is bad. The successful is bad. Um the oppressed, the the underdog is always on the right. And and therefore, by all
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means necessary, including violence, real violence, there they must correct
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things. What what I don't understand is you look at the riots in Los Angeles and
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you know that organizations like the SPLC maybe not the SPLC directly but again we talked about CHRA and you know
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the SEIU which you can explain that organization and you know even Becky Pringle who runs one of the largest teachers unions in America is goating
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people on and basically saying fight against ICE.
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What are they trying to do? Like really, what are they trying to do? Is this how you're going to help immigrants by by
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showing us that they're violent? I mean, the the the the mom and dad in Los Angeles is sitting at home and watching
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these videos and they're seeing the messaging that you have a bunch of riots and destruction in Los Angeles and they
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are associating that with the immigrants. So, how are these nonprofits that are supposed to hate help fight
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against hate, how are they helping these people? Becky Pringle and Chura and the SE SEIU, if they really wanted to help
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05/19/2026
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The Justice Department’s recent wrongful indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center for using paid informants to gather intelligence about violent extremist groups—a tactic routinely employed by the FBI—was widely recognized as a transparently corrupt political attack.
By targeting a nonprofit group with a long record of defending civil rights and criticizing right-wing peddlers of hate and misinformation, the Trump DOJ signaled the lengths to which this regime will go to try to intimidate and silence its critics. House Republicans have now moved to amplify those smears with a hearing featuring right-wing leaders who have tried for years to squelch the SPLC’s work.
The two announced Republican witnesses scheduled to speak at Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee charging the SPLC with “manufacturing hate” have records of hostility toward the SPLC.
Tyler O’Neil is senior editor of The Daily Signal, which was the Heritage Foundation’s news and commentary platform until it went independent in 2024 while pledging “to continue to adhere to the same conservative principles that have guided our journalism for the past 10 years.” O’Neil wrote a 2023 book attacking the SPLC. In previous congressional testimony deriding the SPLC, he used “air quotes” around “domestic terrorism threat,” previewing recent propaganda that the indictment somehow proves that racism and violent right-wing extremism are not real. Not surprisingly, O’Neil’s coverage of the recent indictment reads as cheerleading for the DOJ. The Washington Blade has also called attention to his stridently anti-LGBTQ record.
Carol Swainis a former law professor who has made what Right Wing Watch called in 2017 “a long, strange journey from respected academic to culture-war propagandist.” More information about Swain:
Right Wing Watch noted that Swain employs inflammatory language about immigration, Muslims and other culture war topics. Swain, for example, told a right-wing publication that President Barack Obama “did everything to start a race war.” In 2024, after Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts, Swain lamented that "for the first time in my life, I am ashamed of my nation."
Swain has apparently nursed a grudge against the Southern Poverty Law Center since a former staffer called her an “apologist” for a white supremacist after she praised a documentary made by a filmmaker who SPLC said had regularly referred to black men as “EVIL monkeys who are DESTROYING” America.
Swain narrated a 2017 Prager U propaganda video portraying the Republican Party’s well-documented racial “Southern Strategy” as a myth, a video Candace Owens later cited when challenged on her own claims that the Southern Strategy “never happened.” That year RWW noted, “Carol Swain claims that the GOP's ‘Southern Strategy’ had nothing to do with race. History begs to differ.”
Swain slammed Black Lives Matter but defended people who questioned President Obama’s faith and citizenship. She suggested that natural disasters could be divine punishment for rejecting “biblical injunctions against abortion, greed, homosexuality, fornication, and adultery.”
Back in 2017 and 2018, during one of the organized right-wing campaigns against the SPLC, Swain claimed it had “declared itself an enemy of Christians loyal to biblical teaching, and it fights a no-holds-barred propaganda war against them.” Speaking at Family Research Council (FRC) in 2017, she called liberal churches “agents of Marxism” that have “hijacked the civil rights movement.” She told the FRC audience, “We are at war.”
Honorable Mention to Rep. Harriet Hageman
It’s noteworthy that one Republican member of the Judiciary Committee, Rep. Harriet Hageman, responded to the indictment by telling FRC head Tony Perkins and viewers of his Washington Watch program that SPLC staffers should be “thrown in jail for life.” At a time when racism, white nationalism, and antisemitism are raging on the far-right, Hageman has insisted that racism on the right does not exist.
As Right Wing Watch has reported, the claims from far-right figures that the SPLC indictment proves that racism is not real or that the SPLC organized the deadly white supremacist event in Charlottesville, Virginia, are so ridiculous that they have been debunked by the actual white nationalists who are proud of having organized it.
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05/20/2026
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At a press conference outside the U.S. Capitol Wednesday morning, Rep. Clay Fuller (R-GA) may have unwittingly revealed a basic truth about recent right-wing attacks on the Southern Poverty Law Center: they are part of a broader authoritarian assault by the Trump regime on civil rights groups and the progressive community, or in Rep. Fuller’s words, “this nonprofit-industrial complex that is seeking to destroy our country each and every day.”
The press conference was a prelude to the House Judiciary Committee hearing in which Republicans accused the SPLC of “manufacturing hate.” Speaking to a handful of right-wing media outlets were representatives of right-wing organizations complaining about having been designated as hate groups or included in extremism reporting by the Southern Poverty Law Center, including the Family Research Council, Alliance Defending Freedom, Moms for Liberty, Turning Point USA, and Awake Illinois. Joining them was right-wing journalist Tyler O’Neil, author of an anti-SPLC book.
Before the event started, a correspondent for the Real America’s Voice network could be heard falsely telling listeners that SPLC had “staged” the 2017 Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a claim commonly heard in right-wing propaganda promoting and going well beyond the claims in the Justice Department’s bogus indictment of the SPLC for using paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.
Speaking for the Family Research Council was its executive vice president Jerry Boykin, who falsely claimed that SPLC’s hate map is based on “no criteria” except what might help make money for the group. In reality, whether or not you agree with any particular designation SPLC makes, you can find their reasoning on the website—for example, its report on FRC’s demonization of LGBTQ people and more.
While most of the speakers complained that there were dire consequences for being placed on SPLC’s hate map, the representative of TPUSA’s George Washington University chapter was a bit off-message, dismissing it as a “silly little map” and vowing that his group would not be intimidated by the “lunatic left.”
At the hearing itself—the second one focused on the SPLC—Republican members of the Judiciary Committee trotted out expected claims about SPLC’s paid informants being used to “manufacture hate” and to allege that the SPLC smears Christians and “good pro-family organizations,” in Rep. Jim Jordan’s words. Reflecting that level of discourse was Rep. Glenn Grothman, who sighed, “They just hate Christianity, don’t they?” Rep. Michael Baumgartner said he had favorable memories of the SPLC playing a role in helping people in eastern Washington respond to an Aryan Nations compound, but he charged that the group has now become “an almost militant weaponized arm of a progressive Marxist political project.”
Right-wing witnesses also made clear that their goal is broader than taking down a single organization. Family Research Council President Tony Perkins argued that investigations should not stop with the SPLC, which he called a “hub,” but should expand to other organizations and companies that made decisions about groups based on their SPLC designations—the “spokes.” Tyler O’Neil, a reporter at The Daily Signal, which started as the Heritage Foundation’s news and commentary platform, called for a broader investigation of SPLC “and its offshoots,” naming specifically the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, which was started by a former SPLC staffer.
Judiciary Committee Democrats, led by Rep. Jamie Raskin, portrayed the DOJ prosecution as outrageous political persecution, in the memorable words of Rep. Lucy McBath, “charges so flimsy they would make Bull Connor and George Wallace blush.”
While Republicans suggested that the SPLC was somehow responsible for the violence in Charlottesville, several Democrats noted that before the Unite the Right rally, the SPLC gave the FBI a 45-page dossier warning that violence could erupt, and that SPLC had also shared information from informants that led to the conviction of members of the neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Division.
Committee Democrats also effectively used some of their time to focus on the scandalous corruption revealed this week: the DOJ’s creation of a nearly two billion dollar slush fund for the president to dole out to insurrectionists and other allies; and acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s apparently related agreement in connection to Trump’s bogus lawsuit against the IRS to drop any current audits or investigations and grant a permanent blanket of immunity for any wrongdoing by Trump, his family, or their massive business networks at any time in the past. Rep. Raskin moved for the committee to subpoena administration officials involved in the creation of the slush fund, but Republicans voted to table his motion.
More than one Democratic member of Congress referred to Monday’s shooting at a San Diego mosque, in which teenagers who bonded online over white supremacist hatred killed three people before killing themselves, as evidence that far-right violent extremism deserves more attention from the committee.
Maya Wiley, head of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, was the witness called by Democrats. She delivered a powerful opening statement calling the campaign against the SPLC part of “a coordinated attack on civil rights non-profits that work to ensure voters can vote, children can learn history, and unions can protect workers,” and she deftly responded to GOP members’ often ridiculous questions. Here’s more from her opening statement:
But this case and today’s hearing aren’t about how to protect people from violent hate and extremist groups or better understand how we can prevent hate and bias. They are about using the powers of prosecution as a weapon, with the sole aim of stopping speech and activities that this administration dislikes and denying the real threats that we should all be concerned about.
In the past year, we have seen countless examples of this weaponization. This administration is coercing law firms, universities, and media companies. It is threatening to brand advocates as “domestic terrorists.” It is cutting off billions in federal grants to non-profits that do important work to track and prevent hate and bias. It is letting law enforcement off the hook for systemic misconduct that violates rights of people who need protection. It is letting violence and even extrajudicial killings by federal agents go unpunished. In all of this and more, the President has not even tried to hide his motives. And for the past year, he has also been open about his willingness to weaponize criminal law. So cases like this were inevitable. And our concern is that no organization seen as dissenting from administration policy, large or small, will ultimately be safe. …
Each year, the SPLC issues a report on hate and extremism in our country. This report is so important because it tracks organizations promoting the ideologies that brought us the Charlottesville riot that left Heather Heyer dead, and the massacres at the Tree of Life synagogue, the Emanuel AME church, and the El Paso Walmart. It is sadly part of the reason SPLC is being targeted. It is uncomfortable for an administration that has backed away from and cut grants for tracking white nationalism, which the Department of Homeland Security in the first Trump administration defined as our greatest domestic threat.
The SPLC is far too busy fighting hate to “manufacture” it. You don’t have to like or agree with all of its strategies for doing so. But the fact that SPLC is now being criminally charged for its work only shows how much more work it has to do.
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12/12/2025
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- Rep. Chip Roy says that Republicans in the House of Representatives will be holding hearings to expose how George Soros, NGOs, and the United Nations have been using the SPLC and antifa to promote "Marxists and Islamists who want to take this country over."
- "Prophet" Mark Taylor fumes that "Susie Wiles and her people are the ones responsible for single handedly KILLING the America First Agenda!": "She is a demonic infiltrator in the highest order sent in to destroy the President and the America First Agenda."
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Rep. Chip Roy Highlights the latest on the Defense Bill & Looks Ahead to 2025 Agenda
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And here we have Texas Congressman Chip
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Roy who has joined us here in the media
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center at the Family Research Council.
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Uh a familiar face and voice on
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Washington watch. Uh Congressman, thanks
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so much for running off the hill and
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coming down here and joining us.
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about something. You are hosting or
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actually you're chairing, I should say,
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a subcommittee hearing next week. You
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chaired the constitution committee in
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the judiciary committee on the southern
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poverty law center that has in fact when
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you walk out the door of this room you
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will see the bullet holes in the wall
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that was inspired a gunman to come into
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this building. Uh Congress is ready to
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act on that. They're ready to move to
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expose these this long-term relationship
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that SPLC was had has had with
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government agencies.
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Well, I'm certainly ready to do that. I
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think uh Congressman uh and chairman
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Jordan uh rightly agreed that we should
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have this hearing in the subcommittee on
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the Constitution. And so we're going to
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be doing this next week. Uh Tony will be
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one of the witnesses. Uh uh Tyler Boyer
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from TPUSA is going to be one of the
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witnesses. Uh as well as an individual
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who's pretty knowledgeable here in town,
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a journalist named Tyler O'Neal about
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all of the dot connecting of all the
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money. Now, there's a lot to unpack
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here, which we probably don't have
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enough time to do in full, but the short
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version is anybody who loves and is
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familiar with with with F FRC knows what
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Southern Poverty Law Center meant with
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respect to the attack here over a decade
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ago uh here in this building. Um, but
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and now we've seen the connection to
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what happened with Charlie and and the
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extent to which your, you know,
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crosshairs are put on you. Heck, my name
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is now getting put in the crosshairs
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because I'm daring to call out the
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Islamification of America. So what we're
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going to do in this hearing is expose
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that, demonstrate what's actually
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happening, but I want to take that a
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step further so people understand the
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vast array of networks that are funding
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all of it. The Soros operation, uh,
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Arabella, all of the groups and all of
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the operatives that are involved, the
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Islamification funding, the open borders
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groups, the NOS's, the United Nations,
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your taxpayer dollars, all of it coming
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together in this vast network to have a
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red green alliance where you've got the
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Marxists and the Islamists who want to
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take our country over. and it's all
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related and SPLC is right at the center
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of it. Antifa is at the center of it.
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All of these groups need to be exposed
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and we're going to be doing that next
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week and we're just getting started and
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I've had some great conversation with
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Secretary Bessant with people in the
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administration. Um I think there's a
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hunger to go break this network down
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because it's attacking our way of life.
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Well, it's it's
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finninging violence and it's and it's
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it's leading to death. Yep.
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And it's chilling our First Amendment
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freedoms. Chip Roy, always great to see
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you. Thanks so much for joining us. Look
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forward to seeing you next week.
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Tyler O'Neil of The Daily Signal reports that he has been speaking with member of Congress about launching investigations into the Southern Poverty Law Center, which MAGA has been targeting in the wake of the murder of Charlie Kirk.
TONY PERKINS SPLC WORKING WITH ANTIFA
Tyler O’Neil, Managing Editor of The Daily Signal, covers the breaking news about the FBI’s decision to cut all ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Our friends over at the Daily Signal
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reported some very, very welcome news to
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get our Friday off and running.
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According to their exclusive reporting,
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the FBI confirmed that it has severed
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all ties with the Southern Poverty Law
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Center. Now, you may recall that just
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before the assassination of Charlie
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Kirk, the SPLC actually had placed his
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organization Turning Point USA on their
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so-called hate map, which by the way,
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FRC is also on their list as well. But
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now, the FBI is severing relationships
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with the SPLC. And what does all that
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mean in practice? Well, here now to
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discuss more is Tyler O'Neal. He is
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actually the one who broke this story.
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He's a senior editor at the Daily Signal
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and author of Making Hate Pay, the
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corruption of the Southern Poverty Law
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Center. Tyler, welcome back to
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Washington Watch. We appreciate you
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joining us.
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Thanks again for having me, Jody.
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All right, this is this has been a long
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time coming. Uh so for those who may not
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be aware, share with us the impact that
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the SPLC has had on the FBI and others
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for that matter. Yeah. So I think many
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of your viewers will probably remember
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when the FBI's Richmond office released
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that memo targeting radical traditional
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Catholics and telling agents to develop
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sources inside houses of worship. uh
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particularly targeting those specific
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Catholics, more traditional Catholics.
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They were citing the Southern Poverty
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Law Center in that memo. And this is
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just one of many instances where the
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Biden Justice Department had been
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working closely with the Southern
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Poverty Law Center. Uh just today, uh
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actually, America First Legal MILLER is out
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with even more evidence, more documents
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showing this relationship. One of the
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things that really stood out to me most
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was that RG Craravens, who is a staffer
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at the SPLC, who recently was the guy
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they picked to defend their decision to
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add Focus on the Family to the hate map
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earlier this year. RG Cravens was
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himself advising the Department of
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Justice and prosecutors at one of these
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Department of Justice gatherings under
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the Biden administration. So the SPLC
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has had tremendous impact in the Biden
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administration and now we are finally
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seeing I mean thank god Cash Patel is
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coming out there and saying this. By the
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way the statement is not just that they
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cut off ties with the SPLC now but that
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they have not been using SPLC data or
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engaging with the SPLC since the
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beginning of the administration.
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So this is this is a great step forward.
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This reminds me of when Attorney
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General, then Attorney General Jeff
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Sessions, told a group of us who had
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gathered for a free religious freedom
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summit with ADF back in 2018 that the
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DOJ would never work with the SPLC
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again. Unfortunately, that promise was
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broken by the succeeding administration.
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But hopefully we can see a DOJ and an
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FBI that will completely distance
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themselves and remain distanced from
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such a horrific organization.
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Absolutely. Tyler, do you think that the
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assassination of Charlie Kirk was uh the
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the straw that broke the camel's back,
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so to speak, in regard to finally
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removing the SPLC influence from the
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FBI?
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Yes. I think that the fact that and I
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mean, you know, talking with you about
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this, the Family Research Council was
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first targeted after the SPLC put it on
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the hate map and then you had the
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horrific terrorist attack against you.
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Then of course there was the act of
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violence at the congressional baseball
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game where the shooter had liked the
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SPLC on Facebook and now the SPLC puts
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Turning Point USA on the hate map and
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then a couple months later Charlie Kirk
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is assassinated. I mean, this this
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really raises important questions and I
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think the Southern Poverty Law Center
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needs to stop defaming conservatives and
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Christians and this moment have of has
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been an awakening of how dangerous the
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SPLC is and the FBI is now officially se
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separated ties from them. By the way,
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this is also when the FBI is cutting
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ties with the Anti-Defamation League,
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which I I don't know if you'll remember
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this, but back in 2024,
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u they had they were doing a report on
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terrorism in the past year, and they
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said that the transgender shooter who
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targeted the Nashville uh that Nashville
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church was not the Nashville school,
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sorry, the Christian school in
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Nashville, uh was not an instance of
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left-wing terrorism. and they really
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bent over backwards to rewrite history.
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Meanwhile, the ADL was also saying that
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critics of gender ideology are a threat
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to other Americans and they were going
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and going to the FBI and other law
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enforcement saying you need to monitor
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these critics of gender ideology.
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Wow. Really is great great news. We've
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got less than a minute. Uh what happens
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next? What do you think needs to happen
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next?
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Well, I've already been speaking with
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senators and with congressmen who are
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reiterating uh concern that Senator Tom
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Cotton had back in 2019. Tom Cotton
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wrote a letter to the IRS asking them to
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revisit the SPLC's tax status. We also
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have more evidence of the SPLC uh
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working kind of hand in handinand glove
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with Antifa. uh not just keeping Antifa
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off their hate map, but also hiring a
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woman who was described as Antifa's
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secret weapon. And then of course, an
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SPLC attorney was arrested at an Antifa
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riot in 2023 and charged with domestic
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terrorism. So, we might be hearing an
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investigation into the SPLC. And I'm I'm
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hoping that we can have some real
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accountability and some real answers to
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what else they're doing.
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We are all hoping that and I think your
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idea of an investigation is in big
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order. Tyler O'Neal, senior editor,
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Daily Signal.
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Oct 4, 2025 -
Politics & Policy
MAGA wages campaign to redefine "hate" after Kirk killing
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Charlie Kirk speaking at a Turning Point USA Believers Summit conference in July 2024.
MAGA activists have launched a crusade against two of the nation's most storied civil rights watchdogs, accusing them of smearing conservatives as extremists.
Why it matters: For decades, the Anti-Defamation League and Southern Poverty Law Center have shaped America's understanding of hate. MAGA leaders — backed by the Trump administration and Elon Musk — are now trying to strip them of that influence.
Zoom in: FBI Director Kash Patel severed ties this week between the bureau and both the ADL and SPLC, the government's decades-long partners in tracking extremist networks, training FBI agents and consulting on hate-crime enforcement.
The rupture followed MAGA outrage that both organizations had listed Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA in their online resources about hate groups.}:
The ADL accused Kirk's group of drawing "support from anti-Muslim bigots, alt-lite activists and some corners of the white supremacist alt-right," while the SPLC included the group on its "hate map," saying it has ties to "hard-right extremists."}:
Both pages predated Kirk's assassination, which MAGA activists argue was incited by the left's use of charged labels such as "fascist" and "Nazi." The ADL and SPLC both condemned the assassination.
Amid the backlash, the ADL removed its "Glossary of Extremism," saying some of the entries were outdated and were being "intentionally misrepresented and misused."}:
The SPLC kept its page posted, telling Axios: "We remain committed to exposing hate and extremism as we work to equip communities with knowledge and defend the rights and safety of marginalized people."}:
What they're saying: MAGA influencers have accused the groups of embodying the type of hate they were founded to combat.
"They are both part of an ecosystem leveraged by radical left vigilantes to dehumanize conservatives and stoke political violence. They provide the sheen of legitimacy for the left's violent foot soldiers," posted Kirk spokesman Andrew Kolvet.}:
Musk, who previously blamed the ADL for advertisers fleeing X over anti-semitic content, called both organizations "evil" and guilty of inciting Kirk's slaying.}:
"ADL has deep respect for the Federal Bureau of Investigation and law enforcement officers at all levels across the country who work tirelessly every single day to protect all Americans regardless of their ancestry, religion, ethnicity, faith, political affiliation or any other point of difference," the ADL said in a statement.
"In light of an unprecedented surge of antisemitism, we remain more committed than ever to our core purpose to protect the Jewish people."}:
Between the lines: Kirk drew scrutiny for comments about Islam being "incompatible with the West" and warnings about the "great replacement" of whites — rhetoric the watchdogs saw as echoing extremist talking points.
To many conservatives, that rhetoric doesn't merit a "hate" label: Its rejection by the mainstream is evidence that liberal elites are steering America away from what they see as its white Christian foundations.}:
MAGA sees the clash with the ADL and SPLC as less about Kirk than the freedom to debate politics and demographics without being branded hateful.}:
In other words, a movement consumed with fighting "cancel culture" is seeking to redraw the boundaries of permissible speech by targeting the referees.
"Charlie never believed in speech codes, and neither do we," said Jack Posobiec, a MAGA podcaster and longtime Kirk friend who has helped lead the campaigns against the ADL and SPLC.}:
Context: MAGA's backlash to the civil rights groups comes as the number of hate crimes in the past few years hit record levels. Analysts say antisemitic crimes rose again last year.
More than half of hate crimes recorded last year involved attacks motivated by race or ethnicity, the FBI Crime Data Explorer database showed.}:
Black Americans were the most targeted group, followed by Jewish Americans, then gay men, according to the data.}:
What to watch: MAGA's efforts to take down the ADL and SPLC go beyond just government partnerships.
Activists are now pressuring PayPal over its use of ADL and SPLC research to bar "extremists" from its platforms, and Google for prioritizing the groups' resource pages on search.}:
"America will be greater when these hate factories are discredited and disbanded," Posobiec said.}:
Axios' Russell Contreras contributed to this article.
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Making Hate Pay’: Why It Makes Sense the SPLC Was Funding the Very Hate It Claims It Exists to Oppose The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate Testimony before The Committee on the Judiciary United States House of Representatives Wednesday, May 20, 2026
Wednesday, May 20, 2026 Tyler O’Neil Author, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center” (Updated 2026) and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government
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:{:{‘Making Hate Pay’: Why It Makes Sense the SPLC Was Funding the Very Hate It Claims It Exists to Oppose The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate Testimony before The Committee on the Judiciary United States House of Representatives Wednesday, May 20, 2026 Tyler O’Neil Author, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center” (Updated 2026) and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government” ‘Making Hate Pay’: Why It Makes Sense the SPLC Was Funding the Very Hate It Claims It Exists to Oppose}:
My name is Tyler O’Neil.1 I write commentary and investigative reporting for The Daily Signal. I wrote two books, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center” (updated May 2026) and “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.”
:{:{The views I express in this testimony are my own. Chairman Jordan, Ranking Member Raskin, members of the committee, I am honored to be invited to testify before you today. This testimony argues that the Southern Poverty Law Center has strong financial and institutional incentives to exaggerate hate, such that the conduct alleged in the federal indictment against the SPLC is consistent with those incentives.}:
A federal grand jury indicted the SPLC on wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy charges for a scheme to fund the very hate that the SPLC claims it exists to oppose. While fundraising on its mission of combatting hate, the SPLC allegedly sent $3 million to members of the Ku Klux Klan and other groups. 2 The indictment alleges that the SPLC misled donors and a bank about how it used donor funds, in order to deceive donors and raise more money. My years of research and reporting on the SPLC have led me to suspect it is true—because it matches the SPLC’s modus operandi of exaggerating hate to scare donors into ponying up cash. To be clear, the SPLC has not denied the payments in question.
The group merely claims that it bankrolled Klan members as part of an “informant program,” to learn about potential threats ahead of time and prevent them. The SPLC has highlighted two federal prosecutions it claims resulted from the SPLC informant program.3
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Indictment. United States v. Southern Poverty Law Center. Filed in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, April 21, 2026. 3
O’Neil, Tyler. “DOJ Responds to SPLC Claim That Todd Blanche Lied About Informant Program.” The Daily Signal. April 28, 2026. Accessed May 15, 2026. https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/04/28/doj-responds-splcclaim-todd-blanche-lied-informant-program/ }:
:{:{The indictment suggests these “field sources” weren’t just informants, however, and the SPLC’s recent history lends credence to the idea that these payments may have helped the group exaggerate hate, to raise money. The SPLC made its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy, and donors rightly flocked to this cause. When the center ran out of grand dragons to slay, however, it expanded the definition of “hate” to keep the donor money flowing.}:
Today, the SPLC maintains a “hate map” that plots mainstream conservative and Christian organizations—including Turning Point USA, PragerU, Alliance Defending Freedom, and Focus on the Family—alongside Klan chapters, suggesting they all form the “organizational infrastructure upholding white supremacy in the U.S.”4 }:
I analyzed the SPLC’s “hate map” in 2023 and concluded that the center inflates “hate” by at least 267%. Considering the fact that the SPLC counts each “chapter” of an organization as a separate group, that it includes mainstream conservatives and Christians, and that it includes groups that no longer exist, I culled the list of 1,225 groups down to 459 groups that might plausibly be “hate groups.” I did not analyze each of those, however, so even that number is likely inflated. 5 This nefarious strategy achieves two disparate objectives at one stroke: it systematically demonizes conservatives who disagree with the SPLC’s agenda, and it exaggerates “hate” by suggesting that Klan-style animus is more mainstream than it is.
Former SPLC stafer Bob Moser put it well when he recalled the group’s “hyperbolic fundraising appeals, and the fact that, though the center claimed to be efective in fighting extremism, ‘hate’ always continued to be on the rise, more dangerous than ever, with each year’s report on hate groups.” “‘The S.P.L.C.—making hate pay,’ we’d say.”6 4
:{:{“The Year in Hate and Extremism 2023.” Southern Poverty Law Center. June 4, 2024. Accessed May 15, 2026. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/guides/year-hate-extremism-2023/}:
Claim repeated in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 17, 2024. https://www.splcactionfund.org/wpcontent/uploads/sites/2/files/statement-hearing-stemming-tide-hate-crimes-america.pdf 5 }:
:{:{O’Neil, Tyler. “ANALYSIS: Just How Deceptive Is the SPLC’s ‘Hate Map’?” The Daily Signal. June 13, 2023. Accessed May 17, 2026. https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/06/13/exposed-far-left-smear-factory-attackedmoms-liberty-exaggerates-hate-groups-267/ 6}:
Moser, Bob. “The Reckoning of Morris Dees and the Southern Poverty Law Center.”}:
The New Yorker. March 21, 2019. Accessed May 15, ,2026. https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-reckoning-of-morrisdees-and-the-southern-poverty-law-center
Hate pays rather well. As of October 2024, the SPLC had more than $822 million in assets, with more than $30 million in investments in Central America and the Caribbean. 7 The SPLC pads the numbers by highlighting as “hate groups” entities that barely exist. The “hate map” previously included Wildman’s Civil War Surplus and Herb Shop, because it sold Confederate memorabilia. As of the 2024 version, the map still includes Catholic Apologetics International, which has reportedly dissolved.
The map also includes Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Town of Richmond, New Hampshire, a convent full of nuns. 8 The SPLC also lists each chapter of an organization as a separate “hate group.”
A full 251 of the 1,371 organizations on the “hate map” are chapters of Moms for Liberty, making up 18.2% of the map. Nathan J. Robinson, the editor of Current Afairs and no conservative, noted that SPLC staf “have to know that they’re inflating the danger.” He wrote that the SPLC’s hate exaggerations are “a scam bordering on criminal mail fraud.” 9
The Charlottesville Pay Day Americans were rightly horrified to see marchers with tiki torches chant, “Jews will not replace us” at the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The event took place amid demands that Charlottesville remove its statue commemorating Confederate general Robert E. Lee.
Yet many of us suspected there was something fishy going on. The indictment against the SPLC alleges that one of the organizers of the “Unite the Right” rally was on the SPLC’s payroll. If so, this was probably one of the SPLC’s most lucrative investments ever. According to the indictment, “field source” 37 helped plan the event “and attended the event at the direction of the SPLC.” This person “made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees.” Between 2015 and 2023, the SPLC paid this person more than $270,000. 7
Southern Poverty Law Center Form 990 for the year ending Oct. 2024. Part I, Schedule F Part I. EIN: 63- 0598743 Accessed via ProPublica May 15, 2026.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/630598743/202511199349300716/full 8 O’Neil, Tyler. “FOREBODING: SPLC ‘Laying the Groundwork’ for Government to Silence Conservatives, Traditional Catholic Warns.” The Daily Signal. May 14, 2023. Accessed May 15, 2026. https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/05/14/hate-group-leader-condemns-fbi-memo-exposes-splcs-crusadetraditional-catholics/ 9 Robinson, Nathan. “The Southern Poverty Law Center Is Everything That’s Wrong With Liberalism.” Current AJairs. March 26, 2019. Accessed May 15, 2026.
https://www.currentaJairs.org/news/2019/03/the-southernpoverty-law-center-is-everything-thats-wrong-with-liberalism
Let’s get this straight. The SPLC says it was paying informants to prevent violence, but in this instance, it not only allegedly paid one of the organizers of the most notorious white supremacist event in recent history but also directed the organizer’s activities. In the lead-up to Charlottesville, the SPLC also arguably enflamed tensions.
It published a “hate map” of Confederate monuments, warning that these might spark “turmoil and bloodshed.” The map included military bases, high schools, and middle schools. Antifa agitators had mobilized to knock these monuments down. Carol Swain, a black former professor at Vanderbilt University who has studied white nationalist movements, told me that the SPLC likely knew that attacking these monuments would inspire an event like Charlottesville.
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In the wake of the rally, Apple’s CEO pledged to give $1 million to the SPLC.10 JPMorgan Chase also pledged $1 million to the SPLC.11 While the SPLC raised more than $50 million in contributions and grants in the year before October 2016, donations spiked to $132 million in the following year, and remained higher than $111 million in the year following.12 }:
:{:{Also following the rally, Facebook’s board voted to crack down on postings from hate groups, Spotify pledged to take down music tracks with “hate lyrics,” and Airbnb blacklisted hate groups. Meanwhile, CNN uncritically published the “hate map” online. The indictment also mentions that other “field sources” received SPLC cash while the SPLC featured them on “Extremist File” web pages.}:
10 “Apple CEO Tim Cook’s message to his employees after the Charlottesville violence.” The World Economic Forum. Aug. 17, 2017. Accessed May 15, 2026.}:
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2017/08/apple-ceo-timcooks-message-to-his-employees-after-the-charlottesville-violence/ 11 Cone, Allen. “JPMorgan pledges $2M to anti-hate groups after Charlottesville.” UPI. Aug. 21, 2017. Accessed May 15, 2026. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/08/21/JPMorgan-pledges-2M-to-anti-hate-groupsafter-Charlottesville/6251503333746/ 12 Southern Poverty Law Center Form 990 for the year ending Oct. 2017. Part I. EIN: 63-0598743 Accessed via ProPublica May 15, 2026. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/630598743/201830739349300308/full Form 990 for the year ending Oct. 2018. Part I. Accessed via ProPublica May 15, 2026. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/630598743/201900309349301030/full
The indictment also charges the SPLC with bank fraud. An SPLC stafer allegedly opened four bank accounts while stating that he or she was the “sole owner” of the company. A few years later, SPLC President Margaret Huang stated that the accounts in question “were opened for the benefit of Southern Poverty Law Center operations and operated under the Center’s authority.”
In other words, the SPLC set up shell companies to hide its payments to Klan members and allegedly lied to the bank in doing so. The SPLC notes that its ofices were firebombed in 1983 and claims the informant program “saved lives,” but it also ended the program.13 It stands to reason that the SPLC launched the program to monitor threats from potentially violent groups, but it also stands to reason that, once this program existed, the SPLC might use it to prop up the supposed strength of hate across America.
The incentive structure to do so already existed. SPLC’s Funding Sources Morris Dees, the SPLC’s co-founder, created a massive donor network, in part utilizing the list of contributors to the 1972 George McGovern campaign. This makes the SPLC less dependent on large gifts from the Left’s mega donors, such as George Soros. Even so, some of the larger dark money engines on the Left have also contributed to the SPLC.
New Venture Fund, which previously worked with the company Arabella Advisors and now partners with Sunflower Services, gave the SPLC $20,000 in 2022.14 The Proteus Fund directed $30,000 to the SPLC between 2018 and 2021.15 Between 2018 and 2022, the Tides Foundation sent the SPLC more than $1 million.16 13
O’Neil, Tyler. “SPLC Under Criminal Investigation for Paid Informant Program.” The Daily Signal. April 21, 2026. Accessed May 15, 2026. https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/04/21/breaking-splc-under-criminalinvestigation-paid-informant-program/ 14 “New Venture Fund.” Form 990, Schedule I for 2022, accessed May 1, 2024, via ProPublica.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/205806345/202323149349302362/IRS990Schedule I 15 “Proteus Fund.” Form 990, Schedule I for 2018, 2020, 2021, accessed May 1, 2024, via ProPublica.
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/43243004/201923199349310907/IRS990ScheduleI (2018) https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/43243004/202103159349307825/IRS990ScheduleI (2020) https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/43243004/202213199349310211/IRS990ScheduleI (2021) 16 The precise figure is $1,038,381. “Tides Foundation” Form 990 Schedule I for 2018-2022, accessed April 26, 2024, via ProPublica.
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:{:{The Foundation to Promote Open Society awarded the SPLC a $75,000 grant to convene an “Anti-Hate Table” in 2016.17}:
Influence in the Biden Administration
Despite the SPLC’s many scandals, President Joe Biden’s administration welcomed this morally bankrupt smear factory with open arms.}:
:{:{My second book, “The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government,” exposed much of this influence. The Biden White House had hosted SPLC leaders and staf at least 18 times;}:
Biden nominated an SPLC attorney, Nancy Abudu, to a top federal judgeship; SPLC staf had a cozy relationship with leaders in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division; and the FBI cited the SPLC in its memo targeting “radical-traditional Catholics.”18}:
:{ :{Since I published the book last year, however, America First Legal and the Oversight Project }:have revealed even more SPLC ties with the Biden administration.19
Kristen Clarke, the assistant attorney general who led the Civil Rights Division, reached out to then-SPLC President Margaret Huang for a phone call in October 2022, seeking to hear from Huang “if there are federal civil rights matters of concern we should be tracking.” Michael Lieberman, senior policy counsel for “hate & extremism” at the SPLC, met multiple times with Robert Moossy Jr., deputy assistant attorney general at the Civil Rights Division. Lieberman shared with Moossy an embargoed copy of the SPLC’s “hate map” ahead of its release in June 2023, and Moossy sent an embargoed copy of the FBI’s “hate crimes” report I (2018) }:
:{:{https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/510198509/202043149349304239/IRS990Schedule I (2019) https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/510198509/202133149349300708/IRS990Schedule I (2020) https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/510198509/202233189349313898/IRS990Schedule I (2021) https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/510198509/202400469349300305/IRS990Schedule I (2022) 17 Open Society Foundations Grants Database. Accessed May 15, 2026. https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/grants/past?filter_keyword=Southern+Poverty+Law+Center&grant_ id=OR2016-30974 18 O’Neil, Tyler. The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government. New York: Bombardier Books, 2025. pp. 197-212. 19}:
O’Neil, Tyler. “However Bad You Think Biden’s DOJ Was, New Documents Show It Was Even Worse.” The Daily Signal. Oct. 12, 2025. Accessed April 30, 2026. https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/10/12/biden-dojsought-direction-splc-leftist-group-that-put-turning-point-usa-hate-map-shortly-before-charlie-kirksassassination/ to Lieberman in December 2023. }:
:{:{Lieberman also appears to have taken part in a “Quarterly Civil Rights Meeting” with the DOJ. Other documents showed that R.G. Cravens, manager of research and analysis at the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, spoke at a conference for Justice Department prosecutors on Nov. 7, 2023.}:
A program for the event noted that Cravens would focus on “the anti-LGBTQ movement” and “help investigators and prosecutors identify potential evidence and motivations for bias crime.”
Under President Donald Trump, the FBI has oficially distanced itself from the SPLC. FBI Director Kash Patel told The Daily Signal that the SPLC’s “disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership.”20 }:
:{:{The True Threat of Violence in America}:
The SPLC provides a useful tool for the Left when it comes to demonizing the Right and suggesting the true threat of political violence comes from the Right. While some political violence does come from the Right, Americans have experienced a torrent of political violence from leftist causes in recent years. The 2020 riots following the death of George Floyd, for example, caused an estimated $2 billion in damage, as measured by insurance payouts,21 and took the lives of 26 people. 22 }:
President Trump has faced three serious attempts on his life in the last three years. 23 The SPLC had placed Kirk’s Turning Point USA on the “hate map” mere months before the assassination. In 2012, a since-convicted terrorist used the SPLC “hate map” to target the Family Research Council in an attempted mass shooting. A judge ultimately sentenced Floyd Lee Corkins II to 25 years in prison for the attack.24 20
O’Neil, Tyler. “BREAKING: Kash Patel’s FBI Cuts All Ties to Southern Poverty Law Center.” The Daily Signal. Oct. 3, 2025. Accessed April 30, 2026.
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21 Johansmeyer, Thomas. “How 2020 protests changed insurance forever.” World Economic Forum. Feb. 22, 2021. Accessed May 15, 2026. https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/02/2020-protests-changed-insuranceforever/
:{:{22 O’Neil, Tyler. “Say Their Names: 26 People Killed in the George Floyd Riots.” PJ Media. July 5, 2020. Accessed May 15, 2026. https://pjmedia.com/tyler-o-neil/2020/07/05/say-their-names-20-people-killed-inthe-george-floyd-riots-n592577}:
23 Justice Department Press Release. “Suspect in White House Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting Charged with Attempt to Assassinate the President.” April 27, 2026. Accessed May 15, 2026. }:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/suspect-white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-charged-attemptassassinate-president 24 Justice Department Press Release. “Virginia Man Sentenced To 25 Years In Prison In Shooting Of Security Guard at Family Research Council.” Sept. 19, 2013. Accessed May 15, 2026. https://www.justice.gov/usaodc/pr/virginia-man-sentenced-25-years-prison-shooting-security-guard-family-research
CatholicVote has catalogued 395 attacks on Catholic churches25 and 96 attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers and pro-life groups26 since the leak of the Dobbs decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022.
The SPLC has not only turned a blind eye to the violence of Antifa and the pro-abortion vandalism of Jane’s Revenge, but it has carried water for Antifa and worked with a researcher who passed along information to Antifa. An SPLC attorney also faces charges for his role in a Molotov-cocktail riot.27 Conclusion The SPLC derives much of its legitimacy, and a great deal of its financial success, from the idea that “hate” is on the march, and that it is almost exclusively a phenomenon of the Right.
It has all the incentives to exaggerate “hate,” and since it was operating an “informant” program with members of the Ku Klux Klan anyway, it stands to reason that it may have used that program to bolster the Klan’s image as a threat—to raise more money. There is likely a great deal more evidence behind the indictment. The SPLC will get its day in court, and I hope the Justice Department plays everything by the book.
I do not know whether the SPLC is guilty of wire fraud, but my experience covering this smear factory tells me that the SPLC had every incentive to exaggerate hate, so the Justice Department’s argument aligns with the key takeaways from my years of research into the SPLC. 25
Valentine, Tommy. “Tracker: 500 Attacks on U.S. Catholic Churches Since May 2020.” Catholic Vote. April 15, 2026. Accessed May 15, 2026. https://catholicvote.org/tracker-church-attacks/ 26 CatholicVote. “Tracking Attacks on Pregnancy Centers & Pro-Life Groups.” June 9, 2022. Updated Jan. 21, 2025. Accessed May 15, 2026. https://catholicvote.org/pregnancy-center-attack-tracker/ 27 O’Neil, Tyler. “The Disturbing Ties Between the SPLC and Antifa.” Sept. 22, 2025. Accessed May 15, 2026. https://www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/22/splc-leftist-group-targeted-turning-point-usa-has-long-carriedwater-antifa/}:}:
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Say Their Names: 26 People Killed in the George Floyd Riots
Tyler O'Neil | July 05, 2020
David Dorn, image credit St. Louis police.*
This story has been updated and will be updated again if necessary.
Black lives matter, and that should include the lives tragically lost in the riots following the horrific police killing of George Floyd. The riots have destroyed black lives, black livelihoods, and black monuments. As Black Lives Matter activists continue to repeat the names of unarmed black men and women killed by police, Americans should respond with the litany of victims killed in the George Floyd riots.
Some of these victims died at the hands of police, but in every case, the riots created the tense situations that led to their deaths. Left-leaning commentators continue to insist the protests were “mostly peaceful,” and it is true that the vast majority of people in the streets — especially during the day — were peaceful protesters. However, many instigators used large crowds as an opportunity to loot, vandalize, and destroy. Portland journalist Andy Ngo has explained how antifa instigators weaponize such situations, and some “Boogaloo” extremists may have done the same.
While the protests were peaceful, extensive riots across America emphatically were not. These riots came with a death toll of at least 21 people.
Say their names!
1. David Dorn
David Dorn, image credit St. Louis police.
Looters who broke into a pawn shop ran into David Dorn, a 77-year-old retired St. Louis police captain, on June 2. Dorn was checking on a burglar alarm. That night in St. Louis, rioters shot four officers, burned and looted businesses, and threw rocks at police.
St. Louis police arrested Stephan Cannon, 24, charging the suspect with first-degree murder, first-degree robbery, first-degree burglary, felon in possession of a firearm.
2. David McAtee
😢Louisville Barbecue Owner Killed in Police Shooting Fed a Food Desert. David McAtee is remembered as a man who reached out to his mostly black community through his cooking. https://t.co/gFs4cwifJP via @LolisEricElie pic.twitter.com/6ZORBQ6aQ4
— soulPhoodie (@soulphoodie) June 29, 2020
Police and National Guard troops were trying to clear a crowd in Louisville, Ky., when they heard gunshots and returned fire on May 31. David McAtee, the 53-year-old owner of a barbecue restaurant, was shot and killed. Police said a surveillance camera captured McAtee firing a gun as officers approached.
Police released a video of the shooting. “We are releasing it to provide transparency. It does not answer every question,” Interim Louisville Metro Police Chief Robert Schroeder said of the video. “Why did (McAtee) fire? And where were police at the time he fired? We know these are questions the community is asking, and we are asking these same questions ourselves.”
*Andy Ngo: Do Politicians Really Want Police to ‘Let the Rioters Destroy and Kill’ With Impunity?
3. Chris Beaty
His name is Chris Beaty. He was a 38 year old former football standout at Indiana University. He was a prominent businessman in Indianapolis. He was MURDERED while saving two women from being mugged during the riots! Again, no suspects have been arrested. HIS LIFE MATTERED! R/T pic.twitter.com/5q2U74Fc91
— Marines Love Trump 🇺🇸 (@SteveMotley) June 12, 2020
Chris Beaty, 38, played football for Indiana University and was known as “Mr. Indianapolis.” He was shot and killed on the street in downtown Indianapolis on May 30 during a protest.
Jared Thomas, Beaty’s nephew, said Mr. Indianapolis was helping two women who were being mugged when he was shot, the Indianapolis Star reported.
4. Dorian Murrell
Also on May 30 in Indianapolis, 29-year-old Tyler Newby shot and killed 18-year-old Dorian Murrell, Fox 59 Indianapolis reported. Newby told police he had shot Murrell after Newby and a friend picked up a gas canister on the ground as they walked downtown after the protests. Newby claimed they were approached by a group of about 10 men. He said he was pushed to the ground and found Murrell standing over him, so he shot Murrell.
Newby has been charged with murder.
5. Italia Marie Kelly.
On May 31, 22-year-old Italia Marie Kelly was trying to get into a friend’s car to leave a George Floyd protest in a Walmart parking lot in Davenport, Iowa. She got shot and died later that evening. The Davenport Police Department arrested 21-year-old Parker Marlin Belz and charged him with first-degree murder in the case, the *Des Moines Register* reported.
6. Marquis Tousant
Marquis Tousant, 23, was shot and died that same night in Davenport. He was found dead near where police said one or more persons fired 13 shots at an unmarked police truck investigating a suspicious car in an alley, the *Des Moines Register* reported. The officer who drove the truck was shot in the leg.
Police reportedly found a semi-automatic handgun under Tousant’s body.
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7. Patrick Underwood
Patrick Underwood. Photo credit Angela Underwood Jacobs.
Fifty-three-year-old federal officer Patrick Underwood was working security at a U.S. courthouse in Oakland, Calif., during a protest when someone opened fire from a vehicle. The shooting critically wounded another officer. The building’s glass doors were mashed and the front entrance sprayed with anti-police graffiti.
Police arrested Air Force Staff Sgt. Stephen Carrillo, 32, charging him with murder and attempted murder, NBC News reported. Police reportedly found symbols associated with the far-right extremist “Boogaloo” movement, which aims to spark an impending civil war.
8. Calvin Horton Jr.
Calvin Horton Jr., a 43-year-old black man, was fatally shot outside a Minneapolis pawn shop on May 27. The 59-year-old owner was booked into jail on suspicion of murder but later released, the *Minneapolis Star-Tribune* reported.
9. James Scurlock
Twenty-two-year-old black man James Scurlock reportedly shoved bar owner Jake Gardner to the ground on Saturday, June 6 in Omaha, Neb., Fox 6 reported. Gardner fired shots into the air as people shoved him to the ground. Scurlock jumped on Gardner, who fired the gun over his shoulder, hitting Scurlock. Authorities declined to press charges in the death, calling the shooting self-defense. However, Gardner may still face misdemeanor gun charges because his concealed carry permit for the gun had expired.
The ACLU Nebraska helped to orchestrate a billboard calling for “Justice for James.”
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10. Javar Harrell
Twenty-one-year-old black man Javar Harrell was reportedly sitting in the driver’s seat of a car in a parking lot with two others when someone fired shots into his vehicle and then ran away during a protest in Detroit on June 5. Detroit police released photos of the suspected killer, a man in a surgical mask with a dark hooded sweater.
11. Barry Perkins III
In St. Louis on May 30, 29-year-old Barry Perkins III died after climbing between two trailers of a FedEx truck during a protest on the highway, I-44. Protesters stopped the driver, but the driver took off when people began looting one of his trailers. Lawyers for Perkins’ family said he was peacefully protesting Floyd’s death, rather than looting.
12. Jorge Gomez
On June 1, police broke up a protest in downtown Las Vegas, fatally shooting 25-year-old Jorge Gomez. Police said the officers opened fire after Gomez pointed a gun at them. Gomez had recently shared anti-Trump conspiracies on Facebook.
Hours before the protest started, he wrote, “Be ready for war. Do not cower in the face of revolution,” the *Las Vegas Sun* reported. Unlike other protesters, Gomez was reportedly carrying several guns and wearing body armor. LIKE RW MILITIA AT EVERY PROTEST?
13. Jose Gutierrez
Amid rioting in Chicago on June 1, people started breaking into businesses in the Cicero neighborhood. As looters ransacked local businesses, 28-year-old Jose Gutierrez was fatally shot. Police have charged Zion Haygood with first-degree murder in the shooting, the *Chicago Sun-Times* reported. Police said Gutierrez was a bystander, not involved in the looting.
14. Victor Cazares Jr.
That same night in Chicago, someone shot 27-year-old Victor Cazares Jr. in a separate incident near a grocery store.
15. Marvin Francois
On May 31 in Kansas City, Mo., three carjackers attempted to steal a car. In the process, they shot 50-year-old Marvin Francois, Fox 4 KC reported.
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16-17. Two unidentified looters
On June 2, a suspected looter attempted to break into a gun shop in Philadelphia. Greg Isabella, the owner of the shop, shot and killed the man after seeing a group of looters on his surveillance video. The looters had broken a padlock on his gate, using bolt cutters.
“The facts we know and the law are clear that the business owner’s use of force while inside his own property against a burglar accompanied by others who was entering with a gun in his hand was justified,” Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said. “It is fortunate for the City of Philadelphia that this large cache of guns and ammunitions were not taken and sold on the street.”
That same night, a 24-year-old looter died while trying to blow up a sidewalk ATM in Philadelphia.
18. Horace Lorenzo Anderson
CHOP barricades. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
On Saturday, June 20, a shooting around the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) Occupied Protest (CHOP) in Seattle, Wash., claimed the life of 19-year-old Horace Lorenzo Anderson. The man’s father, who shares the same name with his late son, called for the National Guard to put an end to CHOP following his son’s tragic death.
19. Antonio Mays Jr.
On June 28, 16-year-old Antonio Mays Jr. drove a Jeep to CHOP, seeking safety after having carjacked the vehicle. A friend told him he would find “safety” at the cop-free zone. Instead, CHOP “security” fired into the vehicle, killing Mays and injuring his passenger, a 14-year-old boy. Both the teens are black.
Mayor Jenny Durkan (D-Seattle) finally sent in police to break up CHOP on July 1. In her order, Durkan acknowledged that CHOP — which she had originally defended as a peaceful protest and even praised as a potential “Summer of Love” — had caused a spike in coronavirus cases and a crime wave. Following the establishment of CHAZ/CHOP, Seattle saw “an increase of 525%, 22 additional incidents, in person-related crime in the area, to include two additional homicides, 6 additional robberies, and 16 additional aggravated assaults (to include 2 additional non-fatal shootings) between June 2nd and June 30th, 2020, compared to the same period of time in 2019.”
20. Summer Taylor
On Friday evening, July 3, protesters in Seattle thought it would be a good idea to block a highway. On Saturday morning, a car careened into protesters, striking 24-year-old Summer Taylor, who died that evening at Harborview Medical Center, NPR reported. Another protester, 32-year-old Diaz Love, remains in serious condition.
Police arrested the driver of the white Jaguar sedan that careened into protesters, but officers said the suspect was not impaired.
21. Secoriea Turner
On Saturday, July 4, 8-year-old Secoriea Turner fatally shot as her mother attempted to park a car near a group of protesters close to the Wendy’s where Rayshard Brooks was killed by police in Atlanta, CNN reported. Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms (D-Atlanta) said enough was enough.
“We’ve had over 75 shootings in the city over the past several weeks,” Bottoms said. “You can’t blame that on APD [Atlanta Police Department].”
“Our hearts absolutely break for this precious life senselessly taken,” Gov. Brian Kemp (R-Ga.) tweeted. “Marty, the girls, and I are praying for the Lord’s comfort over Secoriea’s family and loved ones in the face of this tragedy. Please contact [the Atlanta Police Department] immediately if you can help their investigation.”
22. Jessica Doty Whitaker 2 YRS Later no suspects?
Black Lives Matter supporters reportedly shot 24-year-old Jessica Doty Whitaker, the mother of a 3-year-old boy, on July 5 in Indianapolis. Whitaker’s father confirmed to The Daily Wire that when the Black Lives Matter activists confronted Whitaker’s group, shouting, “Black Lives Matter!” Whitaker had responded, “All lives matter!”
While the two groups split up, the Black Lives Matter activists reportedly waited for Whitaker’s group to return and later ambushed them, shooting Whitaker. Local news reports do not mention the Black Lives Matter connection in their coverage of the shooting.
“She shouldn’t have lost her life. She’s got a 3-year-old son she loved dearly,” Jose Ramirez, Whitaker’s fiance, told the local Fox affiliate. Family members say the 3-year-old cannot process the horrific death of his mother.
23. Joseph Rosenbaum
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On August 25, 17-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse armed himself and left his home in Antioch, Ill., and traveled 15 miles to Kenosha, which was suffering a spate of looting, rioting, and arson following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. The teen had gone to protect property amid the riots. Rittenhouse should not have traveled armed to Kenosha, but once he arrived, he reportedly gave rioters medical aid after police had used pepper spray on them. no evidence
Later in the night, rioters chased Rittenhouse and one man behind him opened fire. Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, was chasing the teen and Rittenhouse opened fire, apparently in an attempt at self-defense.
Rosenbaum died at the scene. A Texas native, he moved to Kenosha within the last year, the Milwaukee *Journal-Sentinel* reported. He left behind a fiancée and a young daughter.
He was also a registered sex offender. Earlier in the night, Rosenbaum taunted armed black civilians, saying, “shoot me, n***a.”
24. Anthony Huber
Rioters chased after Rittenhouse again after the first shooting. When they knocked him over, he opened fire again, apparently to defend himself. In this second shooting, Rittenhouse injured 26-year-old Gaige Grosskreutz MEDIC, HANDS UP] and killed 26-year-old Athony Huber, best known as a skateboarder. [domest vio?]
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25. Aaron Danielson
On August 29, a pro-Trump caravan of about 600 trucks drove by Portland in protest against the antifa and Black Lives Matter riots. One of the rioters who had gotten arrested in previous riots, 48-year-old Michael Forest Reinoehl, is suspected of killing Aaron “Jay” Danielson, a Trump supporter with the caravan. Danielson died on the street that evening.
After the man’s death, antifa rioters appeared to celebrate. “Our community can hold its own without the police. We can take out the trash on our own!” a woman holding a bullhorn shouted at an antifa gathering. “I am not sad that a f***ing Fascist died tonight.” NOTE NO SOURCE, NOR COP EXTRA-JUDEXECUTION OOPS
26. Michael Reinoehl
After authorities investigated the shooting, Portland police issued a warrant for Reinoehl’s arrest. Reinoehl had been arrested on July 5 amid a violent riot, but the Multnomah County District Attorney dropped the charges. Reinoehl also failed to appear for a court date after state police arrested him and his 17-year-old son in a June 8 speed-racing case in eastern Oregon. Reinoehl also faced allegations of driving under the influence of a controlled substance, recklessly endangering another, unlawful possession of a gun, and driving while suspended and uninsured.
Perhaps understandably, Reinoehl was hesitant to turn himself in. “I feel that they’re trying to, you know, put other charges on me. They’ll find another way to keep me in,” he told freelance journalist Donovan Farley in the interview Vice published.
The man who likely shot Danielson died in a shootout with U.S. Marshals as they sought to arrest him.
*Portland Antifa Rioters to Police: ‘You Murdered Michael Reinoehl… the Best Ally Ever’
Some of these people were victims pure and simple, either defending their own property (as in the case of David Dorn) or just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Others took part in the lawless acts of rioters, and that lawlessness led to their own deaths.
It may be impossible to capture every single life lost in the George Floyd riots, and this list will be updated as new cases arise. This list also does not include the deaths across the country from an uptick in crime following the withdrawal of police in various cities.
Yet these twenty-one deaths are notable. Journalists, politicians, and activists should consider the potentially tragic results of lawless rioting.
Tyler O’Neil is the author of Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Follow him on Twitter at @Tyler2ONeil.
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{Second Man Dead in CHOP Shooting as Antifa Leaders Plan to Move Into Police Station*}:
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*Michael Forest Reinoehl, the self-described antifa member who allegedly shot Aaron Danielson.
This past Saturday, someone shot and killed Trump supporter Aaron Danielson as a pro-police caravan of cars and trucks drove through Portland protesting the violent antifa riots that had ravaged the city for about 90 nights. On Thursday, Vice News published an interview with 48-year-old Michael Forest Reinoehl, a man who matched the footage of the shooter. Reinoehl had attended the Portland riots nightly, had been arrested multiple times, identified himself as “ANTIFA,” and warned online that antifa stands for a violent revolution. Late Thursday evening, federal officials told The New York Times that Reinoehl died as federal agents closed in on his location in Lacey, Wash.
In the interview with freelance journalist Donovan Farley which Vice published, Reinoehl claimed that he acted in self-defense and to protect his friend “of color.” He did not exactly confess to having shot Danielson, but the interview heavily implied it.
“You know, lots of lawyers suggest that I shouldn’t even be saying anything, but I feel it’s important that the world at least gets a little bit of what’s really going on,” Reinoehl told Farley. “I had no choice. I mean, I, I had a choice. I could have sat there and watched them kill a friend of mine of color. But I wasn’t going to do that.”
The pro-antifa likely shooter’s side of the story
Footage from the shooting shows someone shout, “We’ve got a couple here,” shortly before shots ring out. The shooter flees the scene as Danielson falls on the ground. Later on in the night, antifa rioters identified the victim as a supporter of the police, and celebrated that a “Fascist died tonight.” AGAIN NO EVID
“I was confident that I did not hit anyone innocent and I made my exit,” Reinoehl said of the shooting.
He said he became aware of the pro-Trump caravan while driving around the city with his son earlier in the day. After he returned home, friends called him, asking him to serve as “security.”
“I’m seeing all these vehicles with hatred, people in the backs of the trucks yelling and screaming and swinging bats and sticks at protesters that are just standing there yelling at them,” Reinoehl recalled. He said that at 8:45 p.m., he went to help a friend surrounded by trucks in the caravan. He insisted that the truck drivers were armed with far more than just paintball guns.
“I saw someone that is a dear and close friend of mine in the movement by himself basically confronting all these vehicles,” Reinhoel told Farley. “And so I let him know that I’m here, parked my vehicle and joined up with him, found myself in the intersection in front of the food trucks surrounded by trucks and cars that had weapons.”
He claimed that a man, presumably Danielson, threatened him and another protester with a knife. “Had I stepped forward, he would have maced or stabbed me,” Reinoehl argued.
Reinoehl insisted that he spoke with attorneys. “I’ve got a viable case for self-defense and protection because there’s a definite threat to my life,” he said.
Although he had posted on Instagram his identification with antifa, Reinoehl told Farley he was not a member of antifa. “They want to paint a picture of antifa having major involvement,” he said. “I am 100 percent anti-fascist. I’m not a member of antifa. I’m not a member of anything.”
Farley asked Reinoehl why he had not turned himself in to police.
“I feel that they’re trying to, you know, put other charges on me. They’ll find another way to keep me in,” Reinoehl answered. “Honestly, I hate to say it, but I see a civil war right around the corner. That that shot felt like the beginning of a war.”
*‘I Am 100% ANTIFA All the Way,’ Portland Shooting Suspect Said, Warning of ‘War’ to Come
A civil war?
The “civil war” talk seems reminiscent of an Instagram post Reinoehl published in June.
“Every revolution needs people that are willing and ready to fight,” Reinoehl wrote. “There are many of us protesters that are just protesting without a clue of where that will lead. That’s just the beginning that’s where the fight starts. If that’s as far and you can take it thank you for your participation but please stand aside and support the ones that are willing to fight.”
“I am 100% ANTIFA all the way! I am willing to fight for my brothers and sisters! Even if some of them are too ignorant to realize what antifa truly stands for,” he added. “We are currently living through a crucial point in Humanities [sic] evolution. We truly have an opportunity right now to fix everything. But it will be a fight like no other! It will be a war and like all wars there will be casualties.”
The pro-antifa likely shooter dies
Reinoehl told Farley that someone shot at his house just hours after the incident. He had gone into hiding and had moved his children to a safe place.
“They’re out hunting me,” he said. “There’s nightly posts of the hunt and where they’re going to be hunting. They made a post saying the deer are going to feel lucky this year because it’s open season on Michael right now.”
Late Thursday evening, *The New York Times* reported that Reinoehl “was killed on Thursday night when authorities moved to arrest him, according to three law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation.” A federal fugitive task force had moved to apprehend him after Portland police issued an arrest warrant on Thursday.
Reinoehl’s death is tragic, not just because all death is tragic but also because it makes it less likely the police will discover exactly what happened in the shooting. Antifa may also see Reinoehl as a martyr to the cause and ratchet up the violence in response to his death.
Now, the shooting of Aaron Danielson has left two potential martyrs: Danielson and Reinoehl.
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Tyler O’Neil ’12 makes a convincing case that the Southern Poverty Law Center hustles donors and should not be trusted to determine what a “hate group” is in his new book, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center.”
The book gets its name from an article published in the New Yorker by Bob Moser, a former writer at the SPLC. In the article, Moser accuses the SPLC of portraying itself as an underfunded organization representing the poor to solicit donations from wealthy liberals, despite having an endowment of more than $450 million.
“We were part of the con, and we knew it,” Moser wrote in that article.
O’Neil picks up where Moser left off and gives the topic the book-length treatment it deserves. The history of the SPLC, briefly covered in Moser’s article, is given in more detail and is more damning in O’Neil’s hands.
O’Neil dives into SPLC founder Morris Dees’s background as a mail-order cake salesman and vividly portrays him as a man desperate to get rich by any means. The best support for O’Neil’s characterization of Dees came from Dees’ own mouth. O’Neil includes a blurb about the time Dees told a reporter that at the SPLC, “We just run our business like a business. Whether you’re selling cakes or causes, it’s all the same.”
O’Neil gives a short account of the good work done by the SPLC fighting for civil rights in the 1970s and against the Ku Klux Klan in the 1980s, which resulted in SPLC offices being burned by the Klan. He argues the SPLC made the transition from upstanding legal nonprofit to partisan attack dog when it began focusing on “hate groups.”
The book is at its best when it is skewering the SPLC’s annual list of hate groups. Conservatives have frequently criticized the list for being biased against them, and these sections of the book offer them an intellectual harbor from which to launch their attacks on the SPLC and its list.
One problem O’Neil found in the list was how inflated the number of hate groups is. In two memorable examples, O’Neil found that the SPLC listed an antiques shop and an individual with a website as hate groups. O’Neil’s presentation of these errors undermines the credibility of the list.
A more serious problem with the list is its bias against conservatives. O’Neil describes an instance where Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson was labeled an “extremist” by the SPLC for his stance on gay marriage. The SPLC later retracted the categorization and apologized.
O’Neil also points out that the FBI defines a hate group as an organization that’s primary purpose is promoting hostility against a protected group. He reviews the doctrine of some right-wing organizations and argues that having traditional ideas about sex and gender does not make them hate groups.
“These ideas may be wrong, but they are not enough to prove that an organization is a ‘hate group,’ especially when the SPLC lists such groups along with the Ku Klux Klan,” O’Neil writes.
O’Neil argues this bias is dangerous because the stated purpose of the list is to destroy the organizations on it. He proves this assertion by quoting Mark Potok, a spokesperson for the SPLC, who said, “Sometimes the press will describe us as monitoring hate groups, I want to say plainly that our aim in life is to destroy these groups, completely destroy them.”
These arguments make it impossible for any conservative to read “Making Hate Pay” and not be filled with indignation. Unfortunately, the book’s message gets watered down by a lack of focus.
One silly diversion the book explores is a professor’s claim that the SPLC might hire actors to portray members of hate groups at protests to increase interest in their hate group list. Contrary to most of the book, this tale is not fleshed out by any reporting whatsoever. O’Neil doesn’t even bother to vouch for its veracity. It was a poor decision to include an unfounded accusation more suitable for an Alex Jones broadcast in an otherwise fact-driven book.
Another diversion is the section titled “Fighting Back,” which includes a history of defamation cases filed against the SPLC. This part reads like an encyclopedia.
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Racial discrimination. Sexual harassment. Off-shore accounts. Inflated and biased attacks on “hate.” These are some of the many reasons Americans should mistrust the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Updated April 2026—includes a new chapter on the federal indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and the collapse of SPLC's influence over Big Tech.
The Southern Poverty Law Center started with noble intentions and has done much good over the years, but a pernicious corruption has undermined the organization’s original mission and contributed to a climate of fear and hostility in America. Hotels, web platforms, and credit card companies have blacklisted law-abiding Americans because the SPLC disagrees with their political views. The SPLC’s false accusations have done concrete harm, costing the organization millions in lawsuits. A deranged man even attempted to commit mass murder, having been inspired by the SPLC’s rhetoric.
How did a civil rights group dedicated to saving the innocent from the death penalty become a pernicious threat to America’s free speech culture? How did an organization dedicated to fighting poverty wind up with millions in the Cayman Islands? How did a civil rights stalwart find itself accused of racism and sexism?
Making Hate Pay tells the inside story of how the SPLC yielded to many forms of corruption, and what it means for free speech in America today. It also explains why Corporate America, Big Tech, government, and the media are wrong to take the SPLC’s disingenuous tactics at face value, and the serious damage they cause by trusting this corrupt organization.
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Tyler O’Neil is a husband, father, and Eagle Scout. He graduated from Hillsdale College in 2012 and has written and edited articles for numerous conservative outlets, including the Christian Post, PJ Media, Fox News, and the Daily Signal. His first book, Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center, exposed how a civil rights organization became a threat to America’s free speech culture. He enjoys board games, Indian food, and talking ceaselessly about politics, religion, and culture.
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He graduated in 2012 with a bachelor's degree in history at Hillsdale College. He interned with the National Journalism Center and studied journalism at the Leadership Institute.
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The same left-wing dark money foundations that supported the anti-Israel protests are funding a radical cabal, manipulating the administrative state on education, unions, transgender orthodoxy, elections, and the weaponization of law enforcement to silence their critics.
Why did the Biden White House celebrate Transgender Day of Visibility on Easter Sunday? Why is the bureaucracy prioritizing electric vehicles and less reliable forms of energy when Americans struggle to pay the bills amid historic inflation and higher gas prices?
America’s bureaucrats appear to live on a different planet from the working class in this country, and that’s no accident. The Woketopus explains how America’s elites are pulling the strings in Washington to prioritize their pet projects over the needs of the American people. O’Neil’s prose reveals how the left’s NGO apparatus pursues its woke agenda, maneuvering like an octopus by circumventing Congress and entrenching its interests in the federal government.
Discover how the donors who helped prop up the anti-Israel protests on college campuses are impacting policy in Washington; pull back the curtain on how federal agencies became engines of cultural change; and find out how the Left’s dark money influences federal law enforcement to demonize conservatives in an attempt to silence anyone who wants to criticize this agenda.
“Tyler O’Neil, talented when he was a college student, has now immersed himself in the troubled civic affairs of our time. In this insightful analysis, he has compared the contemporary distortions of our Constitution against its text and its proper and hallowed operation. If your eyes are closed, it will open them. At the end, Tyler recommends what to do. I hope we do it.” —Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College
“Tyler O’Neil’s book The Woketopus provides a definitive account of how the Left’s vast patronage network funds the woke pressure groups manipulating the administrative state. O’Neil pulls back the curtain on how America’s elites promote far-left ideologies like Critical Race Theory using the federal government, and how to combat this effort. This book will be a useful guide as the next conservative administration seeks to reign in the sprawling, radical bureaucracy of the federal government.” —Christopher F. Rufo
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Senior Editor of PJ Media, Tyler O'Neil is an author and conservative commentator. He has written for numerous publications, including The Christian Post, National Review, The Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Signal, AEI's Values & Capitalism, and the Colson Center's Breakpoint. He enjoys Indian food, board games, and talking ceaselessly about politics, religion, and culture. He has appeared on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight." He is the author of Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Follow him on Twitter at @Tyler2ONeil.
Racial discrimination. Sexual harassment. Off-shore accounts. Inflated and biased attacks on “hate.” These are some of the many reasons Americans should mistrust the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Southern Poverty Law Center started with noble intentions and has done much good over the years, but a pernicious corruption has undermined the organization’s original mission and contributed to a climate of fear and hostility in America. Hotels, web platforms, and credit card companies haveblacklisted law-abiding Americansbecause the SPLC disagrees with their political views. The SPLC’s false accusations have done concrete harm, costing the organization millions in lawsuits. A deranged man even attempted to commit mass murder, having been inspired by the SPLC’s rhetoric.
How did a civil rights group dedicated to saving the innocent from the death penalty become a pernicious threat to America’s free speech culture? How did an organization dedicated to fighting poverty wind up with millions in the Cayman Islands? How did a civil rights stalwart find itself accused of racism and sexism?
Making Hate Pay tells the inside story of how the SPLC yielded to many forms of corruption, and what it means for free speech in America today. It also explains why Corporate America, Big Tech, government, and the media are wrong to take the SPLC’s disingenuous tactics at face value, and the serious damage they cause by trusting this corrupt organization.
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POLITICSCOMMENTARY President Joe Biden salutes in a blue suit
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Tyler O'Neil / July 28, 2023
The U.S. Senate passed its version of the House of Representatives’ military spending bill, the National Defense Authorization Act, on Thursday, but omitting two amendments… Read More
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Secret Service Refuses to Hand Over ‘Known Pool of Individuals’ List in White House Cocaine Incident
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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Secret Service has refused to turn over the list of individuals who may have accessed the area of the White… Read More
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Bureaucrats ‘Don’t Give a Damn’: Ted Cruz EVISCERATES Chevron Deference in New Supreme Court Filing
Tyler O'Neil / July 27, 2023
Sen. Ted Cruz took aim Thursday at a Supreme Court precedent that empowers the administrative state at the expense of the people’s will and the… Read More
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Put You ‘IN THE GROUND’: Grad Student Threatens State Senator Over Vote to Protect Kids From Trans Drugs
Tyler O'Neil / July 26, 2023
A Louisiana state senator says he is undeterred despite receiving a death threat after he voted to override a governor’s veto on a bill protecting… Read More
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‘NEVER WHAT FOUNDERS INTENDED’: Supreme Court Should Strike Down Chevron Deference, Conservatives Say
Tyler O'Neil / July 24, 2023
FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A conservative nonprofit launched by former Vice President Mike Pence is representing 11 conservative groups in supporting fishermen challenging the extensive… Read More
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Here’s the Real Reason Obama Went Out of His Way to Defend Librarians in a ‘Banned Books’ Letter
Tyler O'Neil / July 18, 2023
Former President Barack Obama just came out in favor of porn in schools. Sure, the former president didn’t say that outright. He released a letter… Read More
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GASLIGHTING 101: How Biden and the Left Create Their Own Villains
Tyler O'Neil / July 17, 2023
Hate is on the rise! Not only are hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan in every state in America, but antigovernment groups lurk… Read More
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Secret Service Closes White House Cocaine Probe. Heritage Isn’t Giving Up So Easily
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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project is demanding that the Secret Service turn over the list of individuals who may have accessed… Read More
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These 49 Senators Voted to Confirm Biden EEOC Pick Seen as Likely to Force Transgender Ideology on Employers
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The U.S. Senate narrowly confirmed Kalpana Kotagal, President Joe Biden’s pick to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in a move critics warn will… Read More
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TRANS TAKEOVER? Biden EEOC Pick Will Force Gender Ideology on Employers, Critics Warn
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The Senate will vote Wednesday on Kalpana Kotagal, whom President Joe Biden appointed to serve on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in a move critics… Read More
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EXCLUSIVE: Pew Backs Away From Crackdown on ‘Payday Loans’ After Conservative Group’s Reports
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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—The Pew Charitable Trusts appears to have backed away from touting affordable small loans and attacking “payday loans”—often the only form… Read More
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Social Media Censorship BACKFIRES: Biden Admin Flags Itself, Pro-Ukraine Accounts as Russian Disinformation, Docs Reveal
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Using the power of the federal government to pressure Big Tech into censoring “disinformation” is a modern Pandora’s box. Sure, the Biden administration may decrease… Read More
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UPDATE July 11, 2023: Judge Terry Doughty in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana on Monday rejected the Biden administration’s motion… Read More
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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Todd McMurtry, the lawyer who secured settlements from CNN, NBC Universal, and The Washington Post on behalf of Covington Catholic High… Read More
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Images in this article contain swear words. FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Moms for Liberty has received countless death threats, but the messages spiked after the… Read More
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Last week, a federal judge ordered the Biden administration to stop strong-arming Big Tech into silencing Americans’ free speech online in a first-of-its-kind temporary injunction…. Read More
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More than 180,000 Americans sent in comments on the Biden administration’s stringent emissions rule, which threatens to remove cheaper and more reliable gas cars from… Read More
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FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A conservative nonprofit launched by former Vice President Mike Pence is representing 11 conservative groups in supporting fishermen challenging the extensive power of the federal bureaucracy.}:
Advancing American Freedom, which plays no role in Pence’s 2024 presidential campaign, filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, in which the court will revisit the longstanding precedent of Chevron deference. The group exclusively gave The Daily Signal a copy of the brief.
In Chevron v. National Resources Defense Council (1984), the Supreme Court held that whenever a law is ambiguous, a federal agency has the authority to interpret the scope and content of that ambiguity to achieve its ends, so long as the interpretation is “reasonable.”
This precedent granted executive agencies tremendous power to effectively rewrite the law, critics like Advancing American Freedom claim.
“The Left has used Chevron Deference to grow the administrative state and circumvent the approval of Congress to push their own agenda,” J. Marc Wheat, Advancing American Freedom’s general counsel, told The Daily Signal. “This is never what the Founders intended; unelected bureaucrats at various agencies do not have the power to legislate and we hope that the Supreme Court checks the Chevron Deference once and for all.”
In Loper Bright, fishermen are challenging the National Marine Fisheries Service—represented by Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. Federal law forces fishermen to carry inspectors aboard their vessels. A new Fisheries Service rule forces the fishermen to pay the salaries of these federal inspectors. The federal law requiring the inspections does not stipulate that fishermen must pay inspectors’ salaries, but the Fisheries Service insists that it has the power to demand payment under Chevron.
A divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit sided with the Fisheries Service in August 2022, noting that the statute leaves “room for agency discretion.” Yet Judge Justin Walker dissented.
“Did Congress authorize the National Marine Fisheries Service to make herring fishermen in the Atlantic pay the wages of federal monitors who inspect them at sea?” he asks in his dissent. “Congress unambiguously did not.”
“Fishing is a hard way to earn a living,” he notes. While “Congress can make profitable fishing even harder by forcing fishermen to spend a fifth of their revenue on the wages of federal monitors embedded by regulation onto their ships,” it has not done so. “Until Congress does that, the Fisheries Service cannot.”
Advancing American Freedom filed the amicus brief on Monday, representing itself and ten other conservative organizations. Eagle Forum, the National Center for Public Policy Research, Project 21 Black Leadership Network, Students for Life of America, and Young America’s Foundation joined the brief.
The brief begins by quoting the Declaration of Independence, noting that the Founders faulted King George III for erecting “New Offices… to harass” them “and eat out their substance.”
“Here, a New England fishing business is threatened with insolvency because a Federal agency seeks to swarm the industry with bureaucrats to consume the proceeds of some 20% of the daily catch,” the petitioners write. “Bureaucracies that have grown smug and fat through Chevron deference should reacquaint themselves with their country’s history.”
“This case presents the question of Chevron deference dead on without any need to tack, offering an excellent opportunity to abandon this sinking ship and to offer lower courts a more seaworthy vessel for judicial review,” the petitioners write.
Conservative Supreme Court justices have criticized Chevron deference in recent years. Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in his concurrence in Michigan v. EPA (2015) that Chevron “wrests from Courts the ultimate interpretative authority ‘to say what the law is,’ and hands it over to” the executive branch. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote last fall that the court should acknowledge “that Chevron did not undo, and could not have undone, the judicial duty to provide an independent judgment of the law’s meaning.”
Federal agencies have used Chevron deference to justify many controversial policies.
When the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last year, President Joe Biden directed his administration to “protect and expand access to abortion care.” Following the prompting of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued guidance claiming to find an abortion mandate in a law that had never been interpreted as mandating abortion.
The federal agency interpreted the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, which requires health care providers to provide “stabilizing treatment” in certain circumstances, as mandating abortion. If a health care provider determines that abortion is necessary to protect the mother’s life, he or she must either perform the abortion or refer the woman to a medical facility that would perform it, regardless of the relevant state law.
Advancing American Freedom, representing 25 other conservative and pro-life groups, filed an amicus brief challenging this interpretation of the law. The brief argues that this interpretation “would expand the meaning of the 1986 statute to include abortions as a form of treatment and would illegally overwrite legitimate state laws designed to protect women and the unborn.”
As in Loper Bright, Advancing American Freedom urges the Supreme Court to overturn Chevron.
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