The True Nature Of The Southern Poverty Law Center

As a victim of its tactics, MassResistance has always known how that disgraceful organization operates.

Arthur Schaper | May 11, 2026

Like many pro-family organizations in the United States, MassResistance celebrates the DOJ’s filing charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center. This hate group masquerading as a civil rights organization has repeatedly targeted us, and it’s good to see them finally facing the legal music.

First, a little background ….

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has long posed as America’s premier watchdog against “hate.” Founded in 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama, it built a massive endowment—topping hundreds of millions—by mailing dire warnings about rising extremism to fearful donors. Yet beneath the polished facade of civil rights heroism always lay a darker agenda: a partisan smear machine designed to delegitimize, defame, and ultimately destroy conservatives who dare defend traditional values, border security, religious liberty, and free speech.

While most pro-family groups cowered or avoided talking about the SPLC, MassResistance has consistently exposed their tactics. With more exposure in a federal criminal case, the institution is facing well-deserved financial and legal freefall. The organization’s recent federal indictment for wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering—alleging it secretly funneled over $3 million in donor funds to informants tied to extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan and Aryan Nations—only confirms what MassResistance has warned about for years: the SPLC was never fighting hate; it was manufacturing it to justify its existence.

For years, MassResistance has endured defamation from this hate group in Alabama. They maligned our President, Brian Camenker, by falsely claiming that he said the Nazis never targeted homosexuals. They have defamed our Field Director, Arthur Schaper, as an anti-immigrant activist and conflated him with white nationalists.

As a result of this smear campaign, local and national newspapers would reference the SPLC when describing our efforts and activism. They insisted on hiding behind the SPLC to smear us as a “hate group.” Local parents and........

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