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In April, a news investigation revealed Moms for Liberty is paying its local chapters to attend Zoom calls with the group’s national leadership.1 This comes amid internal strife within the hard-right anti-student inclusion group, leading to chapters closing, leaders resigning, legal scandals and accusations of shifting priorities. Moms for Liberty rapidly rose to prominence because of fights at the school level over COVID-19 health measures, curricula, books and LGBTQ+ inclusion.

ATLANTA — In response to the outpouring of concern from Georgia voters and voting rights advocates, leaders in the Georgia Legislature announced earlier today that they will not move forward with redistricting efforts during the current special legislative session. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) is pleased that lawmakers have chosen to listen to Georgia’s voters and, for now, deny Gov. Brian Kemp’s request to redraw congressional and state maps for the 2028 elections.

When the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Georgia state office held listening sessions with communities across the state last year, Isabel Otero and her colleagues kept hearing a recurring concern in session after session — overly harsh discipline practices were disproportionately pushing Black students, and other students of color, out of schools.

Natural disasters and extreme weather will shape our lives even more in the years to come. Safety should always come first, but civil rights matter too, including your right to vote. Under the Radar, a Southern Poverty Law Center report, explores how natural disasters can impact voting across the Deep South. In January 2025, extreme weather in Louisiana led to a shortened early-voting process.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Following a robust yearlong national search, and as the nation prepares to celebrate Juneteenth, the board of directors for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has unanimously selected Ryan P. Haygood as the new president and CEO.

Congress passed the ICE First Families Law Act this month that supercharges U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP) with an additional $70 billion without any safeguards to curb those agencies’ documented abuses. And while the bill no longer includes the egregious $1 billion for the White House ballroom or the $1.8 billion slush fund for Trump allies, the negotiations around the bill shined a light on backward priorities of this administration.

In an opinion piece published April 9 by The Washington Stand, the online outlet of the anti-LGBTQ+ hate group Family Research Council (FRC), writer S.A. McCarthy praises young men for keeping Jean Raspail’s racist book The Camp of the Saints alive. McCarthy made the comment as part of criticism of content moderation of social media platforms.[1] The 1973 book is a dystopian fantasy about an invasion of France and the white Western world by dark-skinned and non-Christian refugees.

Jonathan Singleton met Micah West, a senior supervising attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center, while Singleton was holding up a sign in midtown Montgomery, Alabama. The sign read, “Homeless. Today, it is me. Tomorrow, it could be you.” That day, a police officer was harassing Singleton, a Montgomery resident, because he was asking his fellow residents for charitable assistance.

GiveSendGo, a self-described “Christian crowdfunding site” that serves as the hard-right fundraising platform alternative to GoFundMe, appears to be a lucrative source of financial support for the anti-trans movement.[1] A Hatewatch review of GiveSendGo search results for anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric found numerous campaigns that were requesting funds for lobbying efforts, legal battles, detransitioner travel expenses, anti-trans documentaries, detransition lawsuits and speaking engagements.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released its annual Year in Hate & Extremism report, which chronicles trends in hard-right activity, exposes the players who are driving extremism, and equips communities with data and tools to prevent radicalization.