144: The Far-Right and the SPLC Indictment
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 105 minutes
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Summary
Daniel presents Jack with a bevvy of clips of far-right figures reacting to the Trump admin's indictment of the Southern Policy Law Centre. Features Matt Walsh, Jack Posobiec, John Doyle, and James Edwards of the Political Cesspool. Lies and ironies abound.
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Episode NotesÂ
Associated Press, "Southern Poverty Law Center charged with defrauding donors with payments to extremist informants" https://apnews.com/article/southern-poverty-law-
center-criminal-investigation-db7fdcf9baa0d1b24b8f1e1f2cebc0be
> "The civil rights group faces charges of wire fraud, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering in the case brought in the federal court in Alabama, where the organization is based.
> The indictment came shortly after the SPLC revealed the existence of a criminal investigation into its disbanded informant program to gather intelligence on extremist group activities. The group said the program was used to monitor threats of
violence and the information was often shared with local and federal law enforcement."
NBC News, "The Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on charges that it fraudulently paid informants in extremist groups" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-
department/southern-poverty-law-center-says-targeted-trump-administration-rcna341237
Emptywheel.net, "Kash Patel Just Invited SPLC TO Demonstrate Their Importance (and His Negligence)" https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/24/kash-patel-just-invited-splc-to-demonstrate-their-importance-and-his-negligence/
Emptywheel.net, "Who's Fooling Whom? How the SPLC Indictment Works"
https://emptywheel.net/2026/04/23/whos-fooling-whom-how-the-splc-indictment-works/
Ken Klippenstein, "Assasin Wasn't on FBI's Radar, Sources Say"
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/assassin-wasnt-on-fbis-radar-sources
Eric Garland, "Who Trained the SPLC Spies in the KKK?"
https://ericgarland.substack.com/p/who-trained-the-splc-spies-in-the
Posting Through It, "Strange People on the Hill" (Discusses Hayden's time at the SPLCÂ in some detail) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/096-strange-people-on-the-hill-
live-in-dc-4-11-26/id1348573415?i=1000761090083
Michael Edison Hayden, "I Know the SPLC's Flaws Better Than Most"
https://michaeledisonhayden.substack.com/p/i-know-the-splcs-flaws-better-than
hbomberguy, "Woke Brands." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06yy88tLWlg
Weird Little Guys, "The Southern Poverty Law Center Did Not Plan Unite the Right" https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-weird-little-guys-201395214/episode/the-southern-
poverty-law-center-did-333608009/
Weird Little Guys, "Murder on Fourth Street" (A retrospective on the car attack at Unite the Right) https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-weird-little-guys-
201395214/episode/murder-on-fourth-street-281861018/
The Intruder (1962) (Full Film, directed by Roger Corman)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDaTc3bFWIg
The Intruder (1962) "Hate Speech" scene from William Shatner.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH0NJxQrDYI
Jessie Gender, "The Manipulations of Matt Walsh's 'What is a Woman?'"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jJty8Dcmuk
Lisa Loeb, "Stay", on Pop-Up Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEc6DtAofo4
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| 0:00.0 | Alliance. We all know the alt-right was created by Steve Ben and Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 0:04.4 | Yeah, right. Not the SPLC. I mean, it wasn't created by the ESPLC. The SPLC reacted to it and found |
| 0:09.3 | like some dummies and scumbags that were involved in it and one of them took money. And |
| 0:15.0 | yeah. |
| 0:39.1 | Yeah. Okay, and welcome back to IDSG, the podcast that inadvertently lays heavened the world to the brink of disaster. |
| 0:45.8 | I really should have checked that I didn't have any genies lamps lying around before I started doing this podcast. |
| 0:47.4 | Sorry about that, everybody. |
| 0:48.9 | Daniel, how is everything over there? |
| 0:51.5 | Well, I... |
| 0:52.8 | In America, specifically. |
| 0:55.7 | In America? Well, I mean, it's America in 20 twenty 26 and i'm of the left so i mean if i were a wealthy banker's class or an ars dealer |
| 1:01.0 | um i'd be doing peachy cane right now but um yeah or an oil corporation or an old corporation |
| 1:06.4 | you know i mean you know a sentient oil corporation, the best kind, really. |
| 1:11.4 | They are legally people. |
| 1:13.1 | I do live in a blue state, which does help. |
| 1:16.2 | I am very likely to live in a blue state because people that I care about do not and are |
| 1:20.7 | dealing with things much, much worse than I do. |
| 1:22.8 | So, you know, I have resources available to me that other people do not. |
| 1:27.5 | So it's better than it could be. |
| 1:29.8 | Absolutely. |
| 1:30.9 | Okay. |
| 1:31.1 | So this episode is going to be largely, I think, about the SPLC thing. |
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