Trump Goes After Civil Rights Groups

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🗓️ 28 April 2026

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Why is a civil rights organization being accused of funding white supremacist groups? On this week’s Insider podcast, Preet Bharara and Joyce Vance break down the Justice Department’s 11-count indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center. This segment is available for free to listeners of Stay Tuned. To hear the full episode, become a member at cafe.com/insider or staytuned.substack.com/subscribe. You’ll also get access to other exclusive content. Topics covered in the full episode include: – The apparent attempted assassination of President Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner and the charges filed; and – DOJ’s decision to drop the investigation into Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell. CAFE Insiders click HERE to listen to the full analysis. Join Preet and Barb McQuade live at the 92NY on May 31st: cafe.com/barb Subscribe to our YouTube channel. This podcast is brought to you by CAFE and Vox Media Podcast Network. Executive Producer: Tamara Sepper; Supervising Producer: Jake Kaplan; Associate Producer: Claudia Hernández; Senior Audio Producer: Matthew Billy; CAFE Team: Celine Rohr, Nat Weiner, Jennifer Indig, and Liana Greenway. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey folks, Joyce Vance here.
0:04.3	Preet and I are out with a new episode of The Insider podcast.
0:07.8	We break down the shooting at the White House Correspondence Dinner,
0:11.2	federal charges filed against the Southern Poverty Law Center,
0:14.8	and DOJ's decision to drop its investigation into Fed Chair Jerome Powell.
0:19.7	Listen to the full conversation now in the Insider Feed.
0:23.5	And if you're not yet a member, we hope you'll join our community to help support our work
0:28.0	and get access to exclusive subscriber benefits.
0:31.1	Head to cafe.com slash insider or stay tuned.substack.com.
0:36.7	Now, enjoy a free excerpt.
0:44.2	There is a storied civil rights organization, and I'm going to defer to you a little bit on
0:50.0	this choice because it's headquartered in your home state where you still live, the state of
0:55.2	Alabama. And the caption in a criminal case reads, United States of America versus Southern
1:01.0	Poverty Law Center, which has been known for close to 50 years. Yeah, more than that.
1:08.1	As one of the leading organizations that has tried to undermine
1:13.5	dismantle wreak havoc on racist organizations in the country, and in particular, the Ku Klux Klan,
1:22.0	also the Aryan Nation and others. And it's been, I think, a widely respected, heralded civil rights organization for a
1:32.3	very long time. This indictment is brought at around the same time that Todd Blanche became the
1:37.9	acting attorney general, which is also around the same time that there is renewed effort on the part of Donald Trump
1:44.7	to have people who are under his command, under his thumb, unlike Pam Bondi, to be a more
1:53.2	aggressive on going after folks that Donald Trump doesn't like or he thinks are political
1:57.5	adversaries. And I don't know where the SPLC falls in that spectrum.
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