On Tuesday, another news item dropped that will have conservatives (and probably a fair number of moderates) chuckling for the rest of the day. The Southern Policy Law Center, or SPLC, is fond of screaming about racists and white supremacists; they are vocally part of the school of thought on the left that a white supremacist is lurking around every corner, when in reality, they are pretty thin on the ground.
Now, we learn that the SPLC has not only been encouraging real white supremacist and racist groups, but they have been funding them. And now, they have been indicted on 11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Acting AG Blanche and FBI Director Patel made the announcement:
🚨 BREAKING: Acting AG Blanche and FBI Director Patel announce a grand jury has INDICTED leftist NGO Southern Poverty Law Center on 11 COUNTS
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) April 21, 2026
This is MASSIVE!
SPLC said they were "fighting white supremacy," but they were "MANUFACTURING the extremism it purports to expose" by… pic.twitter.com/WtyvBUuwrW
Here's an interesting and revealing excerpt from Acting AG Blanche's remarks:
Good afternoon. Today, a few minutes ago in the Middle District of Alabama, a grand jury returned an 11-count indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
According to the charges and the indictment, the SPLC is a non-profit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial hatred by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement groups with the goal of dismantling these groups.
As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred.
The indictment describes this conduct in detail. But one troubling example is that the SPLC was paying a member of the leadership group that planned the Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 that resulted in the death of one person and injured dozens more.
This particular person, being paid by the SPLC, allegedly received approximately two hundred and seventy thousand dollars over the course of eight years.
Did you get that? The SPLC was acting, of course, in accordance with a fundamental law of the universe, widely known as Clark's Law of Social Issues Degradation: "Every social movement will continue until it reaches absurdity." The SPLC was seeing their cause dry up, along with their donations; they had to keep up the appearance that there were hate groups in every town and white supremacist booger-men hiding in every closet, so they paid the few racist shouters they could find, to not only keep up their activities, but presumably inform the SPLC, who could then use them as fundraising tools. And they didn't stint; Action AG Blanche continues:
In total, according to the indictment, between 2014 and 2023, SPLC paid at least three million dollars to eight individuals at least. These individuals were affiliated with the Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of America, National Socialist Movement, Aryan Nations-affiliated, Sadistic Souls Motorcycle Club, the Nationalist Socialist Party of America, Nazis, and the American Front.
Now, as the indictment lays out, after SPLC paid members of these extremist groups, it created work product that reported on these activities that members participated in or contributed to. And to that end, it was doing the exact opposite of what it told its donors it was doing.
Irony, thy name is SPLC.
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You can read the Justice Department's official press release on this here. That release states in part:
According to the indictment starting in the 1980s, the SPLC began operating a covert network of individuals who were either associated with violent and extremist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, or who had infiltrated violent extremist groups at the SPLC’s direction. Unbeknownst to donors, some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website.
In other words, these people have been committing this fraud for right around forty years. It's a pretty safe bet that they'll find their donations drying up now, though. Honestly, though, the sheer nerve of these people. Not only did they clearly think they were going to get away with it, but they did get away with it for four decades. But there's a new sheriff in town, and he's tossing fraudsters in the hoosegow.
We will be following developments in this affair with great interest, and no small amount of schadenfreude. Stay tuned!
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