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Mar 11, 2020 13 tweets 6 min read Read on X
The SPLC and CAIR are pressuring donor-advised funds to blacklist conservative and Christian "hate groups" in an attempt to defund their political opponents. DAFs had $121 billion in 2018. /1
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In calling for this blacklisting, the report praises #ChangeTheTerms, a coalition of Soros-funded groups that pressure #BigTech to silence conservatives on the SPLC "hate group" list. /2 pjmedia.com/trending/splc-…
The entire report is very circular. In addition to citing Change the Terms, it cites a CAIR report from last year, urging philanthropic groups to blacklist "anti-Muslim hate groups," citing — once again — the SPLC "hate group" list. /3 pjmedia.com/trending/anti-…
The SPLC/CAIR report also cites Amalgamated Bank's "Hate Is Not Charitable" campaign, which is — sorry if I'm sounding like a broken record here — an attempt to blacklist SPLC-accused "hate groups." /4 pjmedia.com/trending/25-do…
Oh, and the report praises GuideStar for smearing groups like @FRCdc, @AllianceDefends, @CIS_org, @securefreedom, @ACTforAmerica, and others as "hate groups." GuideStar later recanted, but SPLC and CAIR wish it hadn't. /5 pjmedia.com/faith/2017/06/…
Urging donor-advised funds to blacklist these groups is a huge deal. DAFs represent a huge chunk of philanthropy in America today, and they allow donors some degree of anonymity with their giving. Leftists like to demonize donors to conservative groups, as @AFPhq knows well. /6
The SPLC "hate group" list is also notoriously corrupt and unreliable. Former employees have called it a "scam" because it exaggerates hate and is intended to destroy political opponents. A huge chunk of my book, #MakingHatePay, focuses on this. /7
To its credit(?), the report acknowledges that blacklisting falsely-accused "hate groups" might seem "controversial," but it claims this is important for "public safety," which is ironic since the SPLC "hate map" inspired an attempted terrorist attack in 2012. /8
The SPLC routinely peppers reports like this w/ references to white supremacist terror, the El Paso shooter (a radical environmentalist as well), and white supremacist groups, giving the impression that "hate group" has KKK connotations, which it does. /9 pjmedia.com/trending/splc-…
Yet the SPLC routinely argues in court that its "hate group" accusation is mere meaningless opinion. This report, like so many others, gives the lie to that claim — they cite the number of "hate groups" as a statistically significant measure for white supremacy. /10
It is important to note that this report praises iTunes, PayPal, and AmazonSmile for taking "measures to screen out hate from their platforms." What does this mean? These #BigTech firms have allowed themselves to be weaponized by the SPLC. /11 pjmedia.com/trending/its-b…
Make no mistake: the SPLC is an engine of defamation, fundraising, and political warfare. It aims to destroy the reputations of conservative and Christian groups, even going after their funding, while making wads of cash by exaggerating hate. /12
Donor-advised funds that are tempted to take this report seriously should check out my book, #MakingHatePay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Don't become a tool for the SPLC to further bilk its donors, defame law-abiding Americans, and worsen polarization. /13

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Michigan Sec of State Jocelyn Benson was on the SPLC board when it was funding white nationalists. She’s touted her history with SPLC while running for governor. I asked her campaign for comment: no response.

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Most scholarships are still on the website, but the ones Do No Harm flagged have disappeared.

The Association of Black Cardiologists Scholarship is now gone.

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🚨VINDICATION

In 2020, I wrote "Making Hate Pay" about the SPLC's corruption. I knew they scammed donors by inflating "hate," and I suspected they were planting racists...

Now @FBIDirectorKash and @DAGToddBlanche confirmed my suspicions.

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As I testified before @JudiciaryGOP last year, the SPLC publishes a "hate map" that it claims reveals the "infrastructure of white supremacy" in America.

The hate map includes:

1⃣ random people with no impact
2⃣mainstream conservatives
3⃣people on SPLC payroll.

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I've been analyzing this hate map for years, noting that the SPLC pads the numbers, partly by including groups for no reason other than their disagreement with the SPLC's hard-left agenda, and partly by listing every single chapter of an org as a "hate group."

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Apr 22
🚨SECRET INFORMANT NETWORK

DOJ explains exactly what the SPLC was paying the "informants" to do.

It may make sense for SPLC to cultivate informants if they're tipping SPLC off to real violent threats. That's not what this shows.

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1⃣UNITE THE RIGHT

The paid informant at the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville didn't just tip SPLC off. The SPLC supervised his r*cist postings and helped coordinate transportation, boosting the white nationalist side. SPLC paid him $270K between 2015 and 2023.

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2⃣NATIONAL ALLIANCE

SPLC paid a neo-Nazi leader more than $1M between 2014 and 2023.

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🚨READ IT

Today, @DAGToddBlanche & @FBIDirectorKash announced an 11-count indictment against the SPLC.

While SPLC raises money by claiming to oppose white supremacy, the indictment accuses the SPLC of paying the Ku Klux Klan😲



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The indictment includes six counts of wire fraud, because the SPLC claimed that it aims to "dismantle white supremacy" but it actually funded a broad swath of white nationalist groups.

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Beginning in the 1980s—the decade when SPLC's offices got firebombed—the SPLC cultivated a network of informants with violent extremist groups. It maintained those informants as recently as 2023, according to the indictment. SPLC funneled more than $3 million to them.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center says it is under "criminal investigation" for its paid informant program😲

Journalists like me have long expected SPLC might have cultivated informants, but this explicit confirmation is new.

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Bryan Fair, the SPLC's CEO, was kind enough to mention my congressional testimony in his video. He also mentioned my exclusive on @FBIDirectorKash separating the FBI from the SPLC last year.

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As a piece of damage control, Fair's announcement is very interesting.

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