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Tyler O'Neil

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Apr 26

One of the worst government abuses I've seen happened in the state where I went to college—Michigan.

It truly is Orwellian.

Michigan AG Dana Nessel launched a "Hate Crimes Unit" citing the SPLC, which compares conservative and Christian groups to the KKK.

One of the targeted groups, @aflc_freedomlaw, sued to block Nessel from placing his group under surveillance.

All this took place in 2019. The last move on the case happened in 2021.😲

Now, AFLC will finally have its day in court—in June.

Here's a thread on the case.

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dailysignal.com/2025/04/25/orw…

The case dates back to February 2019.

The SPLC released its hate map for 2018, and Nessel responded by pledging, "Hate cannot continue to flourish in our state."

"I have seen the appalling, often fatal, results of hate when it is acted upon," she added. "That is why I am establishing a hate-crimes unit in my office—to fight against hate crimes and the many hate groups which have been allowed to proliferate in our state."

That may sound noble, but if you know anything about the SPLC, it should be unnerving, if not downright terrifying.

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You see, the SPLC is no neutral arbiter on hate.

It champions almost every leftist cause you've ever heard of, and accuses those who dare disagree of being driven by "hate."

Do you follow the traditional Jewish or Christian teachings on sexuality? You're an "anti-LGBTQ hate group."

Want our immigration laws enforced? You're an "anti-immigrant hate group"—even if you have legal immigrants on the board.

Are you concerned about radical Islam inspiring terrorism? You're an "anti-Muslim hate group."

Do you think parents should have a say in their kids' education? You're an "anti-government extremist group" and on the hate map.

Last year, the SPLC even added groups of doctors who oppose "gender-affirming care" and @againstgrmrs to the "hate map."

When the FBI was caught citing the SPLC's "hate map" in targeting "radical traditional Catholics," it was rightly a huge scandal.

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Tyler O'Neil

@Tyler2ONeil

Apr 24

🚨DEEP STATE TAKES SHAPE

A shocking new poll from @ScottWRasmussen shows just how many D.C.-based bureaucrats who voted for Kamala Harris say they plan to disobey a lawful Trump order if they consider it bad policy.

Yes, people who work for the taxpayer plan to disobey the people's elected president. This is the key definition of the deep state.

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dailysignal.com/2025/04/24/dee…

RMG Research, Rasmussen's polling firm, identifies federal government managers as federal employees in the DC region who earn at least $75K.

The firm asked this essential question:

"Suppose that President Trump gave an order that was legal but you believed was bad policy. Would you follow the president's order or do what you thought was best?"

THREE QUARTERS—75%—of DC bureaucrats who voted for Kamala Harris said they would "do what I thought was best" rather than follow Trump's order.

Only 16% said they'd do as the people's elected president ordered.😲

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NOTE: This isn't asking if they'd follow Trump over the law.

This is just asking if they place their own opinion of good or bad policy ahead of the person who was elected by the people to lead the executive branch.

It's also worrying that 18% of those who voted for Trump say they'd "do what I thought was best" instead of following the order. That's probably a lot lower than it would have been if the poll was conducted in 2017, however.

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Tyler O'Neil

@Tyler2ONeil

Apr 7

🚨'CROSSED THE RUBICON'

The legacy media seems not to have noticed, but the Colorado🏔️ House passed HB 1312 largely along party lines: 36 for, 20 against, and 9 absent.

Colorado Democrats not only held the vote on Sunday night but they also moved to end debate in a way @RepCaldwell says was premature.

Caldwell says Democrats stifled debate, and that would echo what they did last week...

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dailysignal.com/2025/04/07/cro…

What does the bill do?🤔

“It’s codifying into law that if their ideology confuses your child, and you don’t affirm that delusion, you’re committing child abuse and can lose custody of your child,” Caldwell told me.

“We have now crossed the Rubicon of parental rights with this bill,” he added.

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When Caldwell asked whether parental rights groups had been allowed to weigh in on the legislation, a Democrat—Rep. Yara Zokaie—mocked the very idea.

“A well-stakeholded bill does not need to be discussed with hate groups, and we don’t ask someone passing civil rights legislation to go ask the KKK their opinion,” she quipped last Tuesday.

Zokaie doubled down on the comparison on Friday, explicitly citing the Southern Poverty Law Center.

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Tyler O'Neil

@Tyler2ONeil

Apr 5

🚨BREAKING

Colorado state Rep. Yara Zokaie doubles down on comparing parental rights groups to the KKK, citing the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Zokaie did so while defending a bill that would define "misgendering" and "deadnaming" as "coercive control" and would require courts to consider it in custody battles.😡

So, parents who don't want to trans their kids should have their kids removed from them, and if these parents team up to form a group, they'll be demonized as hateful like the KKK.

Got it.

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dailysignal.com/2025/04/04/col…

Zokaie had first compared parents groups to the KKK in a hearing on Tuesday.

She attempted to explain why parental rights groups had been excluded from discussions on HB 1312, the bill in question.

“A well-stakeholded bill does not need to be discussed with hate groups, and we don’t ask someone passing civil rights legislation to go ask the KKK their opinion,” she quipped.

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Two House Republicans slammed Zokaie's remarks.

“Calling parental advocacy groups ‘hate groups’ is just their excuse to marginalize and ignore them while maintaining a pretense of moral superiority,” @COrepKdeGraaf told me.

@RepCaldwell said the comparison uses “inflammatory labels that are only meant to create division” and “dismisses the valid concerns of parents.”

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Tyler O'Neil

@Tyler2ONeil

Mar 24

🚨FOLLOW THE MONEY💰

The Left is freaking out about President Trump ramping down the Department of Education. Dems say Trump has "declared war on America's students," but the move won't impact kids on the ground.

Who will it harm? Unions that bankroll Democrats and other left-leaning NGOs.

Here's a 🧵 explaining what may actually happen and why the Left can't handle it.

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dailysignal.com/2025/03/23/wha…

WHAT DOES THE DOE DO?🤔

Contrary to the Democrats' suggestions, the Department of Education doesn't actually run schools. Rather, it handles federal funding for schools and enforces certain rules like Title IX.

These functions can arguably be reassigned to other federal agencies, and other actions can be delegated to the states, which actually run public schools in this country.

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WHAT WILL HAPPEN IF DOE DISAPPEARS?

“Teacher unions benefit from access to a central place where they can advocate for programs that benefit them,” @Heritage's @JM_Butcher told me.

“Having access to a central office from which they can lobby for large sums is more cost-effective to them than 50 different states.”

Of course, the unions' power base "is in the states," and "surveys of state and local chapters find that they don’t always approve of what the national office is doing."

If the DOE goes the way of the do-do, it will be harder for national teachers unions to justify their national offices in D.C.

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Tyler O'Neil

@Tyler2ONeil

Mar 7

🚨SURVEILLANCE, BLACKLISTING

Washington state has launched a “Domestic Extremism and Mass Violence Task Force,” which will recommend laws for the Legislature.

The problem? It's stacked with far-left groups, and not just any leftists, but key allies of the SPLC.

Critics warn that it is "self-evident" that this is "very dangerous to people of faith," and they fear that it may result in surveillance and blacklisting of conservatives in the Evergreen State.

Here's why their concerns are valid.

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dailysignal.com/2025/03/06/ver…

1⃣WHO'S ON THE TASK FORCE?

The task force includes quite a few notable leftist groups and no conservatives who might provide some important balance.

Notable names include:

1⃣Western States Center, an affiliate of the SPLC, and Kate Bitz, who has endorsed the SPLC "hate map" (more on this in the next post)

2⃣American University's Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL), the director of which also serves on an SPLC "hate" panel

3⃣ADL Center on Extremism, which has demonized critics of gender ideology

4⃣Black Lives Matter Seattle-King County, which carried water for the Paris Commune-style CHAZ insurrection

5⃣Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho.

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2⃣WHAT'S THE PROBLEM WITH SPLC?

So why do I keep harping on the Southern Poverty Law Center?

You see, the SPLC gained a reputation for monitoring and dismantling hate when it sued KKK groups into bankruptcy. Then it took that reputation and the "hate map" it uses to track the Klan and weaponized it against conservatives.

Today, the SPLC suggests mainstream conservative and Christian groups are a terror threat by putting them on the "hate map" with Klan chapters.

Do you support border security like @FAIRImmigration or @DAKDIS? You're an "anti-immigrant hate group."

Do you support religious freedom like @FRCdc, @ADFLegal, or @AFLC_FreedomLaw? You're an "anti-LGBTQ+ hate group."

Do you support parental rights like @Moms4Liberty or @DefendingEd? You're an "anti-government extremist."

Do you oppose sex changes for minors? Even groups of doctors like @donoharm and @segm_ebm are on the "hate map" now. Even an LGB group, @againstgrmrs, is considered an "anti-LGBTQ+ hate group" by the SPLC.

This all sounds like a joke, right? If only. You see, the Biden FBI cited the SPLC in that notorious anti-Catholic memo. SPLC leaders briefed the DOJ when they were adding Moms for Liberty to the "hate map." A terrorist shot up the Family Research Council in 2012, and he found his target by using the "hate map."

So, I decided to reach out to some of the "hate groups" in Washington state to hear what they think about this task force.

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