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.
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The Underrepresented in Medicine Physicians of Tomorrow Scholarship... has vanished.
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The Patricia L. Austin Family Physicians of Tomorrow Scholarship... also gone.
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AMA didn't comment. Do No Harm isn't fully satisfied:
“We believe the government is still obligated to investigate to confirm that these programs have truly been eliminated and not simply rebranded and reconstituted,” Miceli added.
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.
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."
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.
This story is familiar to me because it involves the case of Glen Keith Allen, because the SPLC used the stolen documents to destroy his reputation.
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.
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.
As a piece of damage control, Fair's announcement is very interesting.
He acknowledges that SPLC paid informants to monitor "extremely violent groups." He claims this program is over. He frames it in terms of the civil rights movement and the 1984 bombing of SPLC HQ.
One of the strongest defamation lawsuits against the Southern Poverty Law Center has a new lease on life. The Dustin Inman Society legal team—@todd_mcmurtry @libertycounsel & more—filed an appeal at the 11th Circuit
DA King founded the Dustin Inman Society to oppose illegal immigration, but his sister is a legal immigrant and legal immigrants are on the society's board.
Even so, SPLC said the group "focuses on vilifying all immigrants." King sued for defamation.