Has the Department of Justice just dropped a bombshell on what was considered one of the leading

civil rights organizations in the country?

Or does the Southern Poverty Law Center actually have a pretty good explanation for why they

were doing the things that they're doing?

That's what we're going to be talking about today.

First things first, let's talk

about what the actual accusations were by the Department of Justice, because it's pretty extensive.

So if you look at it here, the Justice Department announces an indictment against the Southern

Poverty Law Center. So you've heard the phrase before, you can indict a ham sandwich. The idea

behind that is that it's actually easy to get an indictment, in part because the grand jury is not determining guilt.

What they're determining is whether or not there's a sufficient evidence for something to actually go to trial.

And if you look at that, you know, I can understand why they would be concerned about it. Because the indictment

alleges that between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled 3 million in donated funds

to white supremacist and extremist groups. Now, again, if you remember, the SPLC is the organization

kind of holding itself up as the arbiter of what a hate group is or what a hate crime is.

They're the guys you're supposed to go to to not only get legal representation for this stuff, but they've become incredibly involved in the activist world when it comes to crafting legislation, when it comes to educating students on these things.

SPLC holds themselves up as the gold standard. And so obviously,

an indictment like this could theoretically destroy the organization. And seriously,

calling the question why the organization exists. So here's some of the examples that led to the

indictment.

So the SPLC sequel to paid members of white supremacist groups and extremist groups,

including National Alliance affiliate, which they paid $1 million to,

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