SPLC Defends Inclusion of Turning Point USA in 2025 Hate and Extremism Report
House committee probes SPLC over claims it paid informants in white supremacist groups; organization denies allegations and defers to counsel.
- The Southern Poverty Law Center interim president Bryan Fair defended listing Turning Point USA on the 2025 Hate Map, stating TPUSA vilifies people based on immutable characteristics.
- During a House Judiciary Committee hearing, Republican lawmakers questioned Fair about SPLC's classification of TPUSA as a hate group amid an indictment accusing SPLC of financial crimes.
- The SPLC's report described TPUSA as a hard right group infiltrating college campuses and listed it alongside white nationalist groups.
- A coalition including TPUSA called on corporate platform Benevity to stop using SPLC's hate lists, arguing the labels target dissent from progressive views rather than violence or extremism.
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A stake in hate
Yesterday on Capitol Hill, Southern Poverty Law Center leaders sidestepped questions about allegations that the organization helped sustain the very extremist groups it claimed to fight. Investigative journalist Tyler O’Neil examines what lawmakers wanted to know—and why the answers mattered.
“Add Me to Your Hate Map” – Rep. Lance Gooden Torches SPLC CEO For Protecting Antifa Terrorists And Jane’s Revenge Church Arsonists While Labeling Turning Point USA And Family Research Council As ‘Hate Groups’ * The Gateway Pundit * by Jim Hᴏft
In a blistering exchange Monday during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s partisan influence, Rep.
SPLC chief doubles down on placing Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA on 'hate map'
SPLC interim head Bryan Fair defended listing Turning Point USA on the group's 'hate map' alongside White supremacist organizations during a heated congressional hearing.

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