The Southern Poverty Law Center leveraged its credibility from fighting the KKK to smear mainstream conservatives — placing them on a “hate map” and “extremist watch list” alongside neo-Nazis and actual Klan chapters.
Targets included:
-Turning Point USA
-PragerU
-Dr. Ben Carson
-Stephen Miller
-Sen. Rand Paul
-Jack Posobiec
-Matt Walsh
-Chaya Raichik
-James Lindsay
-Mike Cernovich
-Moms for Liberty
-David Horowitz
-Franklin Graham
-Charles Murray
-Dennis Prager
-Frank Gaffney
-Heritage Foundation
-The Federalist SocietyThese are mainstream conservative figures—authors, scholars, influencers, elected officials, student organizations, and parent groups—branded as extremists for political disagreement.
Their sole offense was disagreeing with the SPLC’s politics.
Yet the SPLC listed them in the same database as terrorist organizations and white supremacist hate groups.
The real-world consequences followed.
In 2012, a gunman targeted the Family Research Council after using the SPLC’s “hate map” as a guide.
Months before Charlie Kirk’s murder, the SPLC added Turning Point USA to that same map.
One day before his death, it published a Hatewatch article smearing him under “Dismantling White Supremacy.”
When Tyler Robinson was asked by his parents why he killed Charlie, he said, “the guy spreads too much hate.”
For decades, the SPLC exploited its reputation to recast political opposition as hatred — pressuring the federal government, Big Tech, and the American public to treat conservative Americans as domestic enemies.
Yesterday we learned it was also secretly funding the very neo-Nazis and Klan members it claimed to oppose — using donor money to pay the leaders of the same hate groups it was publicly denouncing.
How many reputations and lives did they destroy while secretly funding the very hate groups they claimed to oppose?
The Southern Poverty Law Center leveraged its credibility from fighting the KKK to smear mainstream conservatives — placing them on a “hate map” and “extremist watch list” alongside neo-Nazis and actual Klan chapters.
Targets included:
-Turning Point USA
-PragerU
-Dr. Ben… pic.twitter.com/AH2CNLtYis— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) April 22, 2026
GOOD FOR @AGPamBondi AND @FBIDirectorKash FOR TERMINATING ALL ASSOCIATION WITH THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER.
The SPLC was dropped because of its “Hate Map” that targets Christian and conservative organizations.
“For decades, the SPLC has labeled American Family Association as a “hate group” simply because it espouses conservative and Christian viewpoints. Other groups targeted by the SPLC include Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), Family Research Council (FRC), Focus on the Family, Moms for Liberty, and Turning Point USA.”
GOOD FOR .@AGPamBondi AND .@FBIDirectorKash FOR TERMINATING ALL ASSOCIATION WITH THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER.
The SPLC was dropped because of its “Hate Map” that targets Christian and conservative organizations.
“For decades, the SPLC has labeled American Family… pic.twitter.com/4yLJJreX11
— BelannF (@BelannF) October 25, 2025
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) defines a “hate group” for its Hate Map as follows:
“An organization or collection of individuals that—based on its official statements or principles, the statements of its leaders, or its activities—has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.” (SPLC)
Here is a list of conservatives targeted by the @splcenter. They include such mainstream groups as @adflegal @FRCdc @Moms4Liberty and many others and individuals such as @trevorloudon1 @amymek and many others. pic.twitter.com/E5YSrw0Wqe
— Renee Nal (@ReneeNal) April 22, 2026
The SPLC has been Big Tech’s secret police for silencing conservatives. For YEARS, Google, YouTube, and Facebook used the SPLC to justify bans, demonetization, and blacklisting. Now the same “moral authority” has been caught funneling MILLIONS to extremists. They labeled YOU the threat, while funding the real ones.
The SPLC has been Big Tech’s secret police for silencing conservatives. For YEARS, Google, YouTube, and Facebook used the SPLC to justify bans, demonetization, and blacklisting.
Now the same “moral authority” has been caught funneling MILLIONS to extremists.
They labeled YOU… https://t.co/nRxkMsOwxA pic.twitter.com/2CELC1jb6J
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) April 22, 2026
The SPLC placed all these mainstream conservatives on their “hate map” and “extremist list.”
Right alongside the the neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members they were secretly funding. pic.twitter.com/SlfTTR01S8
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) April 23, 2026
A day before Charlie Kirk was ass*ssinated, the SPLC put him and TPUSA in their “HateWatch Newsletter.”
They effectively put him on a hit list with a target on his back. pic.twitter.com/lKlheM2Vvs
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) April 22, 2026
What few people know is that Google gives certain 501(c)(3) organizations $120,000 per year in free advertising credit, so groups like SPLC can “buy” their way to the top of search results without ever spending a dime. If the SPLC used these grants while actively engaged in… https://t.co/daIxPmWbF1
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) April 22, 2026
They were paying the *leaders* of these extremist groups. It is by definition impossible to call that an informant arrangement. It is like paying an arsonist to report on fires his own operation is setting, instead of paying him not to light the fires in the first place. https://t.co/Xg2mawtHRx
— Hans Mahncke (@HansMahncke) April 23, 2026
Corrupt Black Marxist grifters funding racism.
To get dumb white liberals to fund their grift. https://t.co/CSa7E9rM94
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) April 23, 2026
