Holder was notorious for weaponizing DOJ under Obama: pushing CRT, dropping the Black Panthers election intimidation case, withholding docs from Congress.
Holder more or less mainstreamed the idea that voter ID laws are discriminatory, by suing Texas over a voter ID law. The DOJ ultimately settled the case, admitting no "discriminatory effect or intent."
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Holder claimed that policies with "the appearance of being race-neutral" nonetheless "disproportionately disenfranchise African-Americans, Hispanics, other communities of color and vulnerable populations such as the elderly.”
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After he left the role of attorney general in 2015, he took the reins at the National Democratic Redistricting Committee, which challenges maps and helps Democrats win elections.
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Meet Tina Thomas. She's an assistant U.S. attorney at DOJ.
According to her LinkedIN bio, she worked closely with Holder during her time at Covington & Burling (2015-2021), particularly on Holder's redistricting work.🤔
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Both LinkedIn and her old Covington bio mention she did pro-bono work with the National Redistricting Foundation, a nonprofit aligned with Holder's committee.
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Thomas is a "burrower." President Biden appointed her to a political position in the DOJ Office of Legal Policy, but she took a job in the DC U.S. attorney's office in August 2024.
As best I can tell, she's still working in Trump's DOJ.
This is the latest entry in my ongoing series on burrowers from the Biden administration. You can check out some of the series below, and if you have any tips, add me on Signal at tyler2oneil.22
The Justice Department just released its report on eradicating anti-Christian bias in the federal government, and it shows that the Biden administration was worse than we knew.
“The Biden admin generally tolerated religious beliefs that were privately held but zealously pursued actions to limit Christians’ ability to act in accordance with their faith,” the report states.
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1⃣ANTI-CHRISTIAN ENFORCEMENT
The Biden DOJ targeted pro-lifers, FBI cited the SPLC to go after Catholics, IRS denied a church tax-exempt status for "Republican" beliefs, and the Department of Education brought hefty fines against Christian colleges.
In 2020 I published "Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center." My basic thesis: SPLC raised money by fighting the Klan, but ran out of grand dragons to slay. So it juices the numbers to exaggerate "hate."
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The SPLC publishes a "hate map" & exaggerates hate 3 ways:
1⃣Highlighting groups that barely exist
2⃣Listing different chapters as a different "hate group"
3⃣Including mainstream conservative and Christian groups, suggesting they're a threat like the KKK once was.
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.
According to the DOJ, SPLC sent $3M to KKK members, neo-Nazis, a Charlottesville “Unite the Right” organizer, and more. SPLC didn’t deny this-it claimed these people were “informants,” helping SPLC foil violent plots.
While the KKK firebombed the SPLC’s offices in 1983, the indictment covers 2014-2023. During that time, SPLC exaggerated hate by putting mainstream conservatives and Christians on a “hate map” with Klan chapters.
Multiple race-based scholarships have disappeared from the American Medical Association Foundation's website after @donoharm sent a letter to the IRS warning about potential racial discrimination.
“The AMA Foundation appears to have removed the discriminatory scholarships at the heart of our IRS complaint—a tacit admission that our concerns were warranted,” Do No Harm Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kurt Miceli told me.
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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.
The DOJ indictment doesn't just reveal that the SPLC was paying a Charlottesville organizer—it helps flip the Left's whole narrative about the "Unite the Right" rally.
We now know that the SPLC paid one of the Charlottesville organizers $270K between 2015 and 2023, that they allegedly supervised this person's "racist postings" and helped coordinate transportation for white nationalists😲 That's new.
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But before the rally, the SPLC also arguably enflamed passions and sparked white nationalists by releasing a map with every Confederate monument across the U.S.—including schools and military bases named after Confederates.
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.
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."