The Southern Poverty Law Center gets indicted.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, April 21, the Justice Department announced an 11-count indictment charging the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with financial crimes, including wire fraud and making false statements to a federally insured bank. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the nonprofit organization secretly sent over $3 million to informants inside extremist groups without telling donors what their money was being used for. The SPLC denies any wrongdoing and plans to fight the charges.
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| 0:00.0 | from executive producer isaac saul this is tangle good morning good afternoon and good evening welcome to |
| 0:20.7 | the tango podcast the place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking and a little bit of our take. I'm your host for today. Tango's managing editor, Ari We're going to be covering the recent indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center. It's a really complicated issue with a lot of biases on either side, so |
| 0:38.7 | it's a good fit for us. You'll probably get annoyed by at least one of the things we have to say. Even me. I hope you agree with me, but if you don't, we'll keep it civil. Before I send it over to John to get us started, just wanted to give you a heads up about an interview that we're releasing. Our executive editor, Isaac Saul, recently sat down |
| 0:54.9 | with Republican Steve Hilton, a former Fox News host and British politician who is running for |
| 1:00.3 | governor in California. Hilton knows he's an underdog, but he sat down with Isaac to share why |
| 1:04.8 | he's focusing on deregulation, climate agenda, and housing, and his campaign to turn California |
| 1:09.9 | red. You can listen to that in our show notes. |
| 1:13.3 | And with that said, I'm going to send it over to John for today's topic. |
| 1:23.1 | Thanks, Ari, and welcome, everybody. Here are your quick hits for today. First up, the suspect in the shooting at Saturday's White House Correspondence Dinner |
| 1:30.3 | was formally charged with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump. |
| 1:34.6 | Separately, President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump |
| 1:37.1 | called on ABC to take action against late-night host Jimmy Kimmel |
| 1:41.2 | over a joke he made two days before the dinner, |
| 1:44.1 | referring to the First Lady as having a glow like an expectant widow. |
| 1:48.4 | Number two, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis shared a redrawn map of the state's congressional |
| 1:52.6 | districts that aims to net Republicans for additional seats in the U.S. House. |
| 1:57.0 | The state legislature begins a special session on Tuesday and will consider whether to take up the proposal. |
| 2:02.8 | Number three, four Senate Democrats sent a letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegeseth about the Iranian strike on a U.S. base in Kuwait, |
| 2:09.6 | which killed six service members at the start of the Iran war, raising questions about whether the base had adequate defenses for a potential attack. |
| 2:17.3 | Number four, organizers in California say they have enough signatures to secure a ballot measure |
| 2:21.8 | on an initiative to pass a one-time 5% wealth tax on state residents with net worths over |
| 2:27.7 | $1 billion or more. |
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