With the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) having now been indicted by a federal Grand Jury in Montgomery, Alabama, we have been using this timely topic to share with our readers my own unpleasant experiences with that despicable organization. Some of this blog is taken from my Feed My Sheep monthly publication dated November 2025.
Since last month’s (October 2025) FMS went to press there has been a highly significant and welcome change in some government agencies. Therefore, we interrupt our regular serialization of my series on Covenants of the Bible to add this update because it relates to my personal testimony featured last month.
Recall that I related how Stone Kingdom Ministries and I personally were attacked back in 1996 by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an attack which was amplified by the Asheville Citizen Times in a front-page, top-of-the-fold headline about “Hate Groups in Western North Carolina?”
Now look at what just happened! Here is the latest about the SPLC and the threats they have posed to Christian liberty over the decades. We have culled the remainder of this issue from numerous sources and from our own files.
In all the quoted sources below, all emphases and comments within [brackets] are mine unless otherwise noted. First up: Here is Kash Patel’s post on X (formerly Twitter) on October 3, 2025. QUOTE:
The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine. Their so-called “hate map” has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence.
That disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership. In April, during our Anti-Christian Bias Panel, I made it clear that the FBI will never rely on politicized or agenda-driven intelligence from outside groups — and certainly not from the SPLC. Under this FBI, all ties with the SPLC have officially been terminated. END QUOTE
There were many responses to Patel’s post. Here are a few:
Response from Publius@OcrazioCornPop October 3, 2025. QUOTE:
The FBI’s collaboration with SPLC on “hate and extremism” began at least in the late 1990s and formal partnerships were announced in the 2000s. In a 2007 speech, FBI Director Robert Mueller highlighted the SPLC as a key partner in the effort to “bring justice to the oppressed”.
In 2023, a leaked FBI memo that relied on SPLC material identified so-called “radical traditionalist Catholics” as potential domestic terrorists. SPLC, who put Turning Point USA on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan a few months before Kirk’s assassination, has connections to Antifa. SPLC also directly coordinates with Google and Amazon. Is the FBI salvageable at this point in history? END QUOTE
Next is this response from Andrew Kolvet, who describes himself @AndrewKolvet Christian. Proud husband and father. TPUSA Spokesman. Executive Producer of The Charlie Kirk Show. Son of Nevada. American. QUOTE:
The SPLC’s hate list is really a hit list. [Then Mr. Kolvet copies from Charlie Kirk’s post dated May 25, 2025:]
The SPLC has added Turning Point to their ridiculous “hate group” list, right next to the KKK and neo-Nazis, a cheap smear from a washed-up org that’s been fleecing scared grandmas for decades.
They somehow still rake in over $100 million a year peddling their “hate map” nonsense, sitting pretty in their Montgomery “Poverty Palace” while crying about “hate” to line their pockets. Even former staffers called their racket a “con.”
Their game plan? Scare financial institutions into debanking us, pressure schools to cancel us, and demonize us so some unhinged lunatic feels justified targeting us. Remember the Family Research Council? An SPLC-inspired gunman went after them.
They’d love nothing more than to see TPUSA in the crosshairs. But it’s 2025, and nobody with a functioning brain buys their garbage anymore. The SPLC is a laughingstock, a hollowed-out husk of an organization that’s been exposed as a grift time and time again.
[Oh, it is much more than just a grift, in our opinion. We suspect it plays a much larger role than just scamming scared grandmothers. We look forward to a much deeper investigation by Kash and company. They need to see if, in reality, it might be another far-Left money-laundering operation. And indeed, as I suspected, this is exactly what the “FBI 2.0” under Kash is now investigating.]
They’re not just irrelevant—they’re a cautionary tale of how to torch your own credibility. Maybe someone should take a hard look at where all that “nonprofit” money’s really going?
Being on their list is a badge of honor. It means they’re terrified that we’re so effective. Keep crying, SPLC—America’s done with your scam. END QUOTE
Someone named @TonySeruga posted this on X October 2, 2025.
QUOTE: The “Poverty Palace” is a nickname given to the headquarters of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a prominent U.S. nonprofit organization based in Montgomery, Alabama.
The term highlights the irony of the group’s opulent, modern glass-and-steel building—completed in 2001 and featuring high-security elements like bulletproof glass and a moat-like water feature—contrasting sharply with the SPLC’s name and stated mission to combat poverty, racism, and hate groups.
The building, often described as flashy and extravagant, symbolizes broader criticisms of the organization’s wealth accumulation while it solicits donations by portraying itself as under-resourced.
[Here is a link to a page of images of the “Poverty Palace.” We would critique it differently. To us it is garish and grotesquely ugly. It would have made an appropriate prison in the film of George Orwell’s 1984.]
The SPLC was founded in 1971 by civil rights lawyer Morris Dees, along with Joseph J. Levin Jr. and Julian Bond, initially to provide legal representation for victims of violence by groups like the Ku Klux Klan.
It gained fame through high-profile lawsuits, such as bankrupting the United Klans of America in 1987 after securing a $7 million judgment for the family of a lynching victim, and similar actions against the Aryan Nations and White Aryan Resistance.
The group expanded into monitoring hate groups via its “Hate Map” and Intelligence Report publications, amassing a donor base through aggressive direct-mail campaigns that emphasized urgent threats, like Ben Carson [who is black], Dennis Prager [who is Jewish], Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA!
By 2024, the SPLC reported net assets close to one BILLION and annual revenues around $129 million, largely from individual contributions spurred by events like the 2017 Charlottesville rally spurred on by legacy media lies that have never been corrected.
The SPLC has faced mounting scrutiny over decades, particularly regarding its operations, ethics, and impact. Key issues include:
- Financial Practices and Wealth Hoarding: Critics, including former staff and investigative journalists, have accused the SPLC of functioning more as a fundraising machine than a poverty-fighting entity.
A 1995 Pulitzer Prize finalist series by the Montgomery Advertiser revealed that by the mid-1990s, the group had amassed over $120 million in assets while spending minimally on direct aid (e.g., just 31% of funds on programs in one year).
- High executive salaries—Dees earned over $1 million in 2017—fueled jokes among employees that the organization was a “highly profitable scam.” In response to 2019 scandals, the SPLC restructured, closing its direct services arm and pledging to spend more on programs, but skeptics argue the endowment remains bloated relative to its output.
- Bias and Overreach in Labeling: The SPLC’s “hate group” designations have been criticized as politically motivated, often targeting mainstream conservative organizations (e.g., Family Research Council) while ignoring dozens of violent left-wing extremists.
This led to lawsuits, including a 2012 shooting at the Family Research Council partly blamed on the SPLC’s labeling, and defamation suits dismissed but highlighting reputational harm.
A 2019 internal review acknowledged “toxic” culture and overbroad categorizations.
- Internal Culture and Harassment: In March 2019, co-founder Morris Dees was abruptly fired amid allegations of sexual harassment, racial discrimination, and mistreatment of nonwhite and female staff—a culmination of long-simmering complaints.
The board hired external consultants to investigate, leading to apologies and diversity reforms, but it exposed a leadership style prioritizing fundraising over equity.
- Financial controversies center on transparency and allocation: the group’s offshore investments (e.g., in the Cayman Islands via its donor-advised fund) have raised eyebrows about tax efficiency and donor intent.
Critics like Ken Silverstein in Harper’s (2000) described it as a “marketing tool for bilking gullible Northern liberals,” implying ethical lapses in solicitation rather than criminal laundering. END QUOTE
While Silverstein’s characterizing it as a marketing tool etc. may be true, that, in my studied and professional opinion (having worked in the field of Public Relations) is a well-known PR tactic whereby one (or one’s agents) admit to a lesser charge to deflect attention from the worse allegations, such as money laundering.
I hope the cleansed FBI under Patel finds the time and resources to follow the money trail at SPLC—the outgoing millions as much as the incoming.
Insofar as the latter is concerned, the anonymous economic and political analyst, Dave, (for whom we have high regard) has said this in regard to the SPLC. It was on his X22 Report, episode #3747, dated October 7, 2025. Dave can be found at X22Report.com QUOTE:
Who funds SPLC? It receives grants from progressive and philanthropic foundations: Open Society Foundation (George Soros), Ford Foundation [which was taken over by antichrists during the mid-1900’s], and the Tides Foundation. END QUOTE
The Tides Foundation has been closely connected with Obama and his rise from “community organizer”; (read: radical Leftist agitator), to being the “President” of the corporation known as THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. For those in Carthagena, the ALL CAPS is a legal indicator of a corporation. But that’s another story. Another story about which we began to teach in yesterday’s blog Has King Charles Been “Flipped”?
Then, there is this from America First Legal @America1stLegal. QUOTE:
BREAKING — AFL has obtained thousands of pages of records exposing Biden DOJ’s SHOCKING partnership and coordination with the radical SPLC to WEAPONIZE civil rights enforcement. No daylight between DOJ and SPLC. END QUOTE
Things are changing now as the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is headed by Trump loyalist, Harmeet Dhillon. She is vigorously going after many states to clean their voter rolls of illegal aliens and dead persons still on the voter rolls.
Here is how Dave responded to all this on his X22 Report. QUOTE:
Basically, they [America First Legal] received this information via a FOIA request and it reveals that Biden’s DOJ gave SPLC unprecedented access to influence federal civil rights enforcement. They weren’t just at the table; they were helping run the show!
Quarterly meetings, coffee and Danish meet-ups, training DOJ prosecutors. SPLC, known for smearing groups like Moms for Liberty and Turning Point USA as “hate groups” alongside the KKK, got early access to the FBI’s “hate crimes” data, drafted DOJ talking points, and even trained federal prosecutors.
Biden’s DOJ invited SPLC to join standing quarterly Civil Rights Division meetings alongside other radical groups like Color of Change and the Human Rights Campaign.
Kristen Clarke, then Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division personally asked the SPLC to flag civil rights matters for DOJ to track. This is a blatant outsourcing of federal power to a group whose mission is to destroy its political opponents.
At 2023’s Hate Crimes Symposium, SPLC’s R. G. Cravens equated viewpoint diversity with white nationalism, and falsely described AFL’s lawsuit against Target [the big box store] to bomb threats! …ignoring that Leftists made those threats. END QUOTE
By the way, back in the 1990’s, in my own research into the SPLC, and its founder, Morris Dees, I noticed that his middle name is Seligman. Sounds like a family name, right? Further, I wondered, why was the SPLC headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama?
Could it be possible that Morris Seligman Dees is a descendant of the famous Seligman family which first operated in Alabama and then in New York? Here is a brief excerpt from the Jewish Encyclopedia under “Seligman,” in the section concerning Joseph Seligman. QUOTE:
Founder of the firm of Seligman Brothers; born at Baiersdorf, Bavaria, Nov. 22, 1819; died at New Orleans April 25, 1880. He was educated at the gymnasium of Erlangen, from which he graduated in 1838.
He then studied medicine, and in the same year went to the United States, where he acted as cashier and private secretary to Judge Asa Packer, president of the Lehigh Valley Railway.
Establishing himself as a dry-goods merchant at Greensboro, Ala., [which is only 80 miles from Montgomery—JWB] he was joined by his brothers, and soon acquired sufficient capital to open an importing house in New York (1848).
At the outbreak of the Civil war he founded the banking-house of J. & W. Seligman & Co., New York, having visited Germany in order to acquire financial connections in that country. In large measure the financing of the Civil war, so far as European capital was concerned, was managed by the Seligman firm. END QUOTE Source.
Is that why the Seligman’s became known in some circles as “the Rothschilds of the South?”
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