Hatewatch
Tuesday’s midterm elections saw candidates who held extremist anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant, election-denying and anti-abortion positions widely rebuffed by voters around the country.
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November 07, 2022
ATLANTA – The Cobb County Superior Court issued an emergency ruling today to ensure that hundreds of Cobb County voters who had requested absentee ballots – but not yet received them – can still vote. As part of the ruling, the...
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The Southern Poverty Law Center and its allies filed an emergency lawsuit to ensure that nearly 1,000 absentee voters in Cobb County, Georgia, have enough time to cast their votes in the 2022 midterm elections.
The lawsuit, filed less than 48 hours before Election Day, seeks to send...
November 06, 2022
ATLANTA – The American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia (ACLU of Georgia) , American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) , the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and Dechert LLP filed a lawsuit today seeking emergency relief so that...
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Hatewatch
Conspiracy theories about the home invasion and hammer attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, continue to spread across conservative media, social media and “alt-tech” sites, even as a federal criminal complaint appears to debunk false narratives extremists and right-wing influencers have spread.
Hatewatch
Newsweek positioned political activist Josh Hammer to run their opinion pages during the runup to the 2020 presidential election, and since that time, the publication has taken a marked radical right turn by buoying extremists and promoting authoritarian leaders.
November 04, 2022
WASHINGTON – The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Hatewatch released a new analysis today that documents how Newsweek’s opinion pages have embraced the radical right since Opinion Page Editor Josh Hammer took the reins in the...
November 04, 2022
GEORGIA – Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), National Education Association (NEA) and Georgia Association of Educators (GAE) announced plans to file a federal lawsuit challenging Georgia’s classroom censorship law –...
