by jmerritt | May 26, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — House Republicans held a hearing last week to attack one of the country’s oldest civil rights organizations, the right’s favorite disinformation shop testified before Congress to smear environmental nonprofits, and the House’s self-proclaimed...
by jmerritt | May 20, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington, D.C. — The House Judiciary Committee today held a hearing titled “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate,” the latest installment in House Republicans’ ongoing campaign to attack a legacy civil rights organization and strike fear into any...
by jmerritt | May 20, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Jim Jordan’s SPLC Hearing Today Will Make the Same Bogus Case as DOJ’s Ridiculous Charges and Will Amount to a Defense of the KKK and other White Nationalist Groups Last month, Trump’s DOJ charged the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with fraud and misuse of funds,...
by jmerritt | May 19, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Tomorrow, House Republicans in the Judiciary Committee are holding a hearing attacking the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) after the Trump DOJ indicted the group as part of Trump’s vindictive weaponization campaign. The witnesses for the Majority at the hearing...
by jmerritt | May 19, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
The Advocate: Anti-LGBTQ+ activist to testify before Congress against Southern Poverty Law Center As U.S. House Republicans scrutinize one of the nation’s most prominent anti-hate groups, they will bring in a right-wing commentator who spent years villainizing LGBTQ+...
by jmerritt | May 19, 2026 | Press Releases & Statements
Washington Blade: Anti-LGBTQ commentator Tyler O’Neil to testify in Southern Poverty Law Center probe The man behind some of the strongest push against the Southern Poverty Law Center, who has an extensive anti-LGBTQ history, is being asked to speak before the House...
