Republicans Accuse SPLC of 'Manufacturing Hate' in Heated Hearing
Republicans say the nonprofit used more than $4 million in donor funds to pay informants inside extremist groups, while Democrats defended the practice.
- On Tuesday, Southern Poverty Law Center interim CEO and President Bryan Fair testified before the House Judiciary Committee regarding the organization's informant practices and alleged financial misconduct.
- Federal prosecutors allege the SPLC covertly transferred more than $4 million in donor funds to extremist groups between 2010 and 2023, prompting the criminal indictment.
- The indictment alleges an employee paid two Klan members $1,200 monthly to remain in the group, while prosecutors claim an informant paid more than $270,000 helped plan the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville.
- Rep. Brandon Gill, R-Texas, questioned the group's use of donor money on Monday, while Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., defended the nonprofit as a leader in confronting white nationalism.
- The SPLC maintains its informant program "prevented violence and saved lives," while House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan continues pursuing documents on the group's alleged coordination with the Biden Justice Department.
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SPLC on hot seat over evidence staffer shacked up with paid neo-Nazi informant
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan blasted the center at a Tuesday hearing over allegations that an SPLC employee who oversaw millions in payments to "field sources" was living with a paid informant, a member of the neo-Nazi group National Alliance.
SPLC president humiliated as room erupts in laughter after Chip Roy exposes far-left group's blatant bias and massive blind spot on Islamic extremism * WorldNetDaily * by Jim Hoft, The Gateway Pundit
SPLC President Bryan Fair and U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas The Southern Poverty Law Center’s Interim President and CEO Bryan Fair got absolutely torched during today’s House Judiciary Committee hearing titled “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II.” As The Gateway Pundit has extensively reported for months, the SPLC has been under federal indictment since April 2026 on charges including wire fraud, bank fraud, and money lau…
SPLC-linked chief faces House grilling over alleged KKK payments
Southern Poverty Law Center interim CEO and President Bryan Fair will be brought before the House to answer for the group’s alleged actions. The House Judiciary Committee will be grilling Fair on Tuesday after the group was hit with an 11-count indictment regarding alleged financial crimes, including “defrauding its donors by concealing payments to members...
SPLC Boss Hauled Before House Judiciary As DOJ Alleges Group Paid Extremists It Claimed To Fight * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Isaac
SPLC interim CEO Bryan Fair testified before House Judiciary as lawmakers pressed the left-wing group over DOJ allegations that donor money secretly went to people tied to extremist groups.
SPLC Boss Hauled Before House Judiciary As DOJ Alleges Group Paid Extremists It Claimed To Fight
The Southern Poverty Law Center spent decades branding conservative and Christian groups as hate. On Tuesday its own leadership was the one answering questions under oath. SPLC interim CEO and President Bryan Fair testified before the House Judiciary Committee at a hearing titled “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II.” The hearing landed less than two months after a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, returned an i…
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