It’s a great day for Alabama.
It’s a great day for Alabama.
SPLC President Richard Cohen testified today before the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security about the need to focus on domestic terrorism from the radical right.
As we feared, the FBI’s hate crime report for 2016 shows a second straight year of increases – the first time that’s happened in a decade. It means that in the last two years, the number of reported hate crimes has risen by nearly 12 percent.
SPLC President Richard Cohen testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions about the responsibility of universities to uphold the Fourteenth Amendment as well as the First Amendment.
As expected, the annual “Values Voter Summit” in Washington this past weekend featured a rogue’s gallery of far-right extremists. But something extraordinary happened this year.
By appearing at the Values Voter Summit, President Trump is lending the legitimacy of his office to a hate group that relentlessly demonizes LGBT people and works to deny them of their equal rights.
As events in Charlottesville last month reflect, President Trump’s incendiary rhetoric has energized the white supremacist movement.
As Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the termination of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program this week, he said, “We are a people of compassion.”
The SPLC is currently facing a coordinated attack by far-right extremist groups we’ve named as hate groups because they vilify the LGBT community, immigrants and Muslims. Their latest megaphone is none other than FOX News.