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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Affordable Care Act Credits Toolkit for Advocates in the Deep South
Learn more about the importance of the Affordable Care Act enhanced premium tax credits and the impact of the Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
December 2025 Intelligence Project Dispatch: Trends and incidents of the hard right
The Southern Poverty Law Center works to dismantle white supremacy in public forums and online, exposes hate and anti-democracy extremism and counters disinformation and conspiracy theories with research and community resources. The Intelligence Project monitors and exposes white supremacy and its impact on communities. Anti-democracy efforts Anti-immigrant/anti-Muslim activity Militia and antigovernment movement activity Anti-LGBTQ+ movement…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
SPLC Alabama screening of ‘The Quilters’ highlights power of restorative justice
In the opening scenes of The Quilters, a 30-minute short film Netflix released last year, a man named Ricky wheels a pallet of quilted blankets and fabric swatches past high barbed wire fencing. Another man, wearing a gray uniform shirt, unspools bright orange thread wrapped around a silver bobbin. Yet another drops the presser foot…
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Focus on the Family
Focus on the Family (FotF) has long relied on its biblical worldview strategy to push back against LGBTQ+ progress and reproductive rights. The organization’s Daily Citizen website demonizes LGBTQ+ people, claiming they are unnatural and un-Christian, and promotes anti-trans pseudoscience, such as conversion therapy that seeks to change the sexual or gender identities of LGBTQ…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Tax targeting Gullah-Geechee landowners on Sapelo Island could force land loss
A community of Gullah-Geechee descendants on Sapelo Island, Georgia, are potentially facing a massive property tax increase that threatens to push them off their ancestral land and kick open the doors to massive development of the island into a vacation community for the wealthy. At its regular meeting on Dec. 3, the McIntosh County Board…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Lawsuit, investigation target Mississippi’s special education service failures
E.J. was diagnosed with dyslexia while she was in the first grade. She repeated the academic year, but without ever receiving specific dyslexia reading help, the sixth grader now reads at a second-grade level. B.W., an 11th grader, was diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the second grade. His marks began nosediving two years ago…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
10 ways you can safeguard our inclusive libraries and fight book banning
As book banning becomes normalized, attacks on public and school libraries continue to escalate nationwide. The past few years have seen an unprecedented rise in challenges and removals of library books, with many targeting books that explore themes related to LGBTQ+ identities, race, gender and disability. The Southern Poverty Law Center and Read Freely Alabama…
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Objection to provisions in the Fiscal Year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Rosa Parks’ defiance — and the boycott it fueled — can teach us in this moment
Each year hundreds of visitors, many of them young students, travel to Montgomery, Alabama, to visit the Rosa Parks Museum at Troy University. There they learn how, on Dec. 1, 1955, Parks’ refusal to vacate her seat for a white passenger on a crowded city bus would spark a movement, one that helped usher in…











