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MIKE DAVIS: Southern Poverty Law Center: A tale of a racism scam

Acting AG Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel secured the indictment against the civil rights organization

By Mike Davis Fox News

Published April 25, 2026 6:10am EDT

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SPLC accused of funding extremists and pushing false narratives

Steve Harrigan reports on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) being accused of funding extremist groups and facing a DOJ indictment for financial fraud.

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Since the 1970s, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has characterized itself as an organization that combats extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). This week, because of an indictment that Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel secured through stellar leadership, we learned that SPLC wasn’t fighting the Klan — but funding it using generous donations from people who thought they were helping fight racism.

James Alex Fields, a White supremacist, ran over and killed a Jewish woman named Heather Heyer at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.

Following the attack, the SPLC doubled its income, using the event to fundraise and claiming it needed more money to combat racism. Yet, thanks to the indictment, we learned that SPLC allegedly paid people to attend the rally and provided transportation.

The rally also spawned the "very fine people" hoax. Left-wing critics falsely claimed that President Donald Trump called neo-Nazis "very fine people." In reality, the president said that there are very fine people on both sides of the debate over removing statues of historical figures like Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche spoke during a press conference alongside FBI Director Kash Patel at........

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