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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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Apr 24
🚨DISAPPEARED

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.

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“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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Apr 22
🚨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.

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.

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Apr 21
🚨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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Apr 21
🚨BREAKING

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.

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.

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Apr 20
🚨FILED

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

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First, some background:

SPLC puts conservative & Christian groups on a "hate map" w/ the KKK

This "hate map" inspired a terrorist attack against @FRCdc in 2012

Even so, the Biden admin worked closely with SPLC. @FBIDirectorKash reversed.

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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.

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