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@Tyler2ONeil
Apr 24 • 9 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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🚨WHAT DID SHE KNOW?

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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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.

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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.

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This exaggeration of hate is the reason SPLC might fund Klansmen-to make a defunct hate movement appear relevant. That’s what the indictment suggests: SPLC supervised the Charlottesville organizer’s “racist postings” & helped get more ppl to the rally.

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Benson interned at the SPLC early in her career, but the key fact here is that she was on the board during this time, from 2014 to 2019.

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What did she know and when did she know it? She touted going “undercover” to interview Klansmen with the SPLC. Later, she helped oversee the group. Did the board of directors know about funding Klansmen?

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Ultimately, Benson left the board amid a racial discrimination & sexual harassment scandal in 2019.

The Secretary of State’s office suggested Benson told SPLC she’d leave upon becoming SOS, but the SPLC website touted her title before her name vanished from the site.

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The SPLC fired its co-founder and brought in Michelle Obama’s fixer Tina Tchen to “investigate”- but no public report was ever published. That’s one of the main reasons I wrote my first book, “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center.”

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Benson has touted her SPLC history on the campaign trail, so it’s only fair to ask what she knew. I’m sure Michiganders want to know.

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Jun 8
SNEAKY

How does corporate America blacklist conservatives? Companies don't do it outright. Instead, they outsource it: to the very same leftist "hate watchdog" that allegedly paid for KKK hoods and cross burnings😲

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Meet Benevity. This software companies connects nearly 1K companies to 513K nonprofits, managing $16B in grants and 99M employee volunteer hours. It's the middleman between companies and the charities they voluntarily support.

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But Benevity also systematically excludes mainstream conservative and Christian nonprofits. Its former CO bragged about using the Southern Poverty Law Center's "hate list" to "vet" nonprofits.

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Jun 5
'CONSERVATIVE' GROUP DEFENDING SPLC?🤔

Today, Society for the Rule of Law moved to file an amicus brief in U.S. v. SPLC, suggesting the DOJ engaged in vindictive prosecution. I can't help but wonder, what sort of conservative group takes the SPLC's side?

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The society claims it wants to protect prosecution from "political influence." The group says it "has not always concurred with" the SPLC's rhetoric, action, or tactics, but "opposes vindictive prosecution of any target."

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The society notes: @FBIDirectorKash condemned the SPLC as a "partisan smear machine" (it is), @Jim_Jordan asked the AG to examine the SPLC's influence under Biden, Pam Bondi was fired reportedly in part for not being aggressive enough, and Trump attacked SPLC.

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Jun 3
🚨READ IT

The Justice Department just secured a superseding indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, and it reveals some new bombshells

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Reminder: the SPLC raises money by claiming it exists to "dismantle white supremacy," but DOJ says the SPLC was actually propping up the hate it told donors it aimed to destroy. SPLC paid "field sources," whom SPLC says were merely informants.

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Yet the field sources used the SPLC's $ to:

1⃣Attend extremist rallies
2⃣Host rallies
3⃣Grow existing chapters
4⃣Create new chapters
5⃣Recruit individuals
6⃣Donate to extremist leaders
7⃣Purchase cross-burning material
8⃣Create racist paraphernalia
9⃣Pay living expenses

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May 20
🚨DEEP STATE ALERT

What if I told you an EPA lawyer who is also a union leader signed a document explicitly stating that she is "opposing this administration’s policies," but still seems to have kept her job?

Meet Nicole Cantello

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On June 30, 2025, Cantello signed a "Declaration of Dissent," condemning the Trump "administration’s focus on harmful deregulation, mischaracterization of previous EPA actions, and disregard for scientific expertise."

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As a citizen, she has every right to take this stand. But as an executive branch employee, she needs to follow lawful orders from the president on down.

This mentality captures the essence of the deep state—opposition to the president's agenda from within the gov't.

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May 15
🚨DEMONIZING DISSENT

The SPLC, which now faces a federal indictment for allegedly funding members of the hate groups it claims it exists to oppose, is once again attacking @donoharm for the sin of disagreeing with the SPLC's transgender and CRT agenda.

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SPLC is trying to shame Google into blacklisting Do No Harm from its grants program (available to most 501(c)(3) nonprofits). The SPLC demonizes "'detransitioner' rehtoric" as if people like @ChloeCole are not real victims of "gender-affirming care."

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But it gets worse! @DoNoHarm rightly opposes CRT in medicine, but the SPLC claims its efforts are rooted in "white supremacist conspiracy theories." Do No Harm is concerned about high standards in medicine, but the SPLC claims it's only about "white people's health."

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May 14
🚨EXCLUSIVE

The New York Supreme Court's ethics commission refused to investigate NJ Gov. Mikie Sherrill—because she hasn't been convicted of a crime. Neither had @RudyGiuliani... So the watchdog group that filed the complaint is appealing.

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In March, @SecureUSA filed a complaint against Sherrill, claiming that she had violated the ethics code for NY attorneys when she claimed @Jack4NJ "went on to kill tens of thousands of people in New Jersey, including children."😲

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Sherrill also urged Garden State residents to report on ICE activity—which the Center to Advance Security in America claimed amounted to combatting the lawful detention of illegal aliens.

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