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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 2em; font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">October 2015, Kobach was a featured speaker at a “writers’ workshop” put on by<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span><b>The Social Contract Press,</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>a racist publishing house that regularly publishes the writings of white nationalists. TSCP is a project of another foundation, U.S. Inc., created by FAIR’s Tanton.</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>In 2012, Kobach claimed he had not done any legal work for any organization that “expresses or supports racial discrimination.” However, FAIR has received $1.2 million from the Pioneer Fund, an organization founded in 1937 by Nazi sympathizers.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>FAIR’s current president, Dan Stein, said in 1994 that immigration reform in the 1960s was “revengism” against whites and that its supporters wanted to “retaliate against Anglo-Saxon dominance.” He has claimed immigrants are “getting into competitive breeding.”</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>[1] The SPLC has listed FAIR as a hate group since 2007.</b><span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp;</span>It was founded by Michigan ophthalmologist John Tanton, the founder and principal ideologue of the modern anti-immigrant movement in the United States. Tanton spent decades at the heart of the white nationalist movement and corresponded with former Klan lawyers, Holocaust deniers and leading white nationalist intellectuals. He also founded and operated The Social Contract Press, a racist publishing company. FAIR has accepted more than $1 million from the Pioneer Fund, a foundation devoted to proving a connection between race and intelligence. FAIR also has hired as key officials men who were active in white supremacist groups</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2em; font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2em; font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In summer 2009, after taking the helm of PFIR, Durant agreed to be interviewed by Tanton's racist journal&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">The Social Contract</em>, which had earlier run special editions on such topics as "Europhobia." It's unclear how much she knew about the journal, but it was certainly well known in the circles she and other FAIR lawyers traveled in. Peter Gemma conducted the cover story question-and-answer interview with Durant. Although Durant may not have known it, Gemma was for many years the "media coordinator" for the Capital Region of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/council-of-conservative-citizens" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s; background: transparent;">Council of Conservative Citizens</a>&nbsp;(CCC), a white supremacist hate group that has described blacks as "a retrograde species of humanity," once compared the late pop singer Michael Jackson to an ape, and, as part of its basic platform, has long "oppose[d] all efforts to mix the races of mankind." The CCC also has long railed against the immigration of non-whites to America.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 2em; font-size: small; box-sizing: inherit; line-height: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Durant did not respond to repeated phone and E-mail requests for comment this spring. A year earlier, however, she seemed concerned to distance PFIR from Tanton, who founded FAIR, the organization she once worked for. "PFIR has no connection with FAIR, and John Tanton is neither a board member nor founder," she wrote the SPLC, adding, "Also, as an African American, I take offense at being called racist." Apparently, the offense was a slight one. A few months after writing those words, Durant attended Tanton's 33rd annual "Writers Workshop," where she posed for a photo with Gemma and racist&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">Social Contract</em>&nbsp;editor&nbsp;<a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/profiles/wayne-lutton" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; box-sizing: inherit; transition: all 0.3s; background: transparent;">Wayne Lutton</a>.</font></p>