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Southern Poverty Law Center Racket Collapsing

PFS’s Doug French last year exposed the Southern Poverty Law Center and similar huxters in “How Movements Turn Into Rackets,” chapter 1 of his book When Movements Become Rackets and Other Swindles: The PFS Trilogy, Stephan Kinsella, ed. (Houston, Texas: Papinian Press and Property and Freedom Society, 2025).1 In his chapter, Doug wrote about

the Southern Poverty Law Center, founded in 1971 by Morris Dees. Dees was a “super-salesman and master fundraiser” who viewed civil-rights work mainly as a marketing tool for bilking gullible Northern liberals out of their money.

Now the SPLC is under siege and perhaps on its last legs. See: Devlin Barrett, “Justice Dept. Charges Prominent Civil Rights Group With Financial Crimes,” New York Times (April 21, 2026):

At a news conference announcing the charges, Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, said that from 2014 to 2023, the group made payments totaling more than $3 million to people who were affiliated with extremist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan and the National Socialist Party of America. The law center, he added, was “doing the exact opposite of what it told its donors it was doing — not dismantling extremism, but funding it.”

  1. Chapter 1 is based on PFP236 | Doug French, How Movements are Turned into Rackets (PFS 2022) and Sean Ring, “How Movements are Turned into Rackets,” The Rude Awakening (Sept. 16, 2022). []

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