Name: “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II”
Uploaded: 2026-06-09T14:00:00+00:00
Duration: 14155 s

10:30 - 11:03

Speaker 2

Committee will come to order.

11:03 - 11:16

Speaker 3

Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We welcome everyone to today's hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center. The chair now recognizes the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Nehls, to lead us all in the pledge. Please stand and join us in the pledge of allegiance.

11:16 - 11:44

Speaker 4

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

11:44 - 14:03

Speaker 3

Thank you. Thank you, gentlemen. We'll start with opening statements. The chair now recognizes himself for an opening statement. It's always worse than we thought.

The one thing we get wrong when we start these investigations, when we start this oversight, is it's always worse than we thought. We now have the superseding indictment from the Justice Department. It wasn't three million dollars that they were paying these field sources. It was actually four million dollars the Southern Poverty Law Center paid to field sources. And they didn't just pay them to foment the hate they told their donors they were fighting.

They actually dated them. That's right, Southern Poverty Law Center employee was in a romantic relationship with field source number nine, a member of the racist National Alliance. This SPLC employee, who was supposed to be dismantling hate groups with the Intelligence Project, was dating the field source that they were paying. And in fact, they had a joint bank account. Wow.

And guess what the SPLC paid this individual? One point two million dollars to, again, create and foment the hate they told their donors they were fighting. Now, it gets worse. An individual who led the National Socialist Party, a faction of the Aryan Nations, reached out to SPLC. He wanted out.

He wanted help in leaving this racist group. And what'd the SPLC do? They said, no, no, no. Stay in the group. We'll pay you a monthly salary.

We'll reimburse you for hosting rallies, purchasing racist materials. And of course, that was field source number thirty. How about F-thirty-seven, field source thirty-seven? This person's the one who coordinated transportation and attended the twenty-seventeen rally in Charlottesville. The Southern Poverty Law Center paid him three hundred thousand dollars to the guy who helped put together the event where a young lady was killed.

F-twenty-seven. He was paid three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. What'd he do? He ran the Aryan Nations Motorcycle Club. F-forty-three, president of some crazy group, was previously convicted of cross-burning, but the SPLC thought he was worth nineteen thousand dollars of their donors' money.