PFS’s Doug French last year exposed the Southern Poverty Law Center and similar huxters in “How Movements Turn Into Rackets,” chapter 1 of his book When Movements Become Rackets and Other Swindles: The PFS Trilogy, Stephan Kinsella, ed. (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press and Property and Freedom Society, 2025).¹ In his chapter, Doug wrote about

the Southern Poverty Law Center, founded in 1971 by Morris Dees. Dees was a “super-salesman and master fundraiser” who viewed civil-rights work mainly as a marketing tool for bilking gullible Northern liberals out of their money.

Now the SPLC is under siege and perhaps on its last legs. See: Devlin Barrett, “Justice Dept. Charges Prominent Civil Rights Group With Financial Crimes,” New York Times (April 21, 2026):

At a news conference announcing the charges, Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, said that from 2014 to 2023, the group made payments totaling more than $3 million to people who were affiliated with extremist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Party of America. The law center, he added, was “doing the exact opposite of what it told its donors it was doing — not dismantling extremism, but funding it.”

BREAKING: DOJ charges the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) with wire fraud, false statements, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

The SPLC secretly funneled $3M+ in donor funds to violent racist extremist groups:

-Ku Klux Klan
-American Nazi Party
-Aryan Nation… pic.twitter.com/0hcf2sH9LZ

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) April 21, 2026

This is stunning: the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA, the most notorious of all the extremist displays of the last ten years, tiki torches and all, was actually a subsidized racket funded by the supposedly anti-hate SPLC. The DOJ has all the receipts. I’m not…

— Jeffrey A Tucker (@jeffreytucker) April 21, 2026

2) The SPLC paid the leader of the American Nazi Party — a former KKK member and Aryan Nations director — $70,000, while listing him as an extremist on their own website, from which they solicited donations.

Any questions? pic.twitter.com/PIJnruUJzC

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) April 22, 2026

Federal Grand Jury Charges Southern Poverty Law Center for Wire Fraud, False Statements, and Conspiracy to Commit Money Launderinghttps://t.co/C7CH82Yfjw

— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) April 21, 2026

1. Chapter 1 is based on PFP236 | Doug French, How Movements are Turned into Rackets (PFS 2022) and Sean Ring, “How Movements are Turned into Rackets,” The Rude Awakening (Sept. 16, 2022).

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