>SPLC Wikifag page re coordinating with FBI

The Southern Poverty Law Center has provided information on hate groups to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other law enforcement agencies as part of its monitoring of extremist organizations.[7][8] In October 2025, FBI Director Kash Patel formally ended the bureau's relationship with the organization, stating that the SPLC’s “hate map” and related designations had been used to defame some mainstream groups and, in certain cases, had been cited in connection with acts of violence.[9]

>Check footnote 8 for the citation and the quote is gone from the actual link and the wayback archive is shoahed

"What We Investigate: Hate Crimes: The FBI's Role: Public Outreach". www.fbi.gov. Archived from the original on May 19, 2017. Retrieved May 20, 2017. "The FBI has forged partnerships nationally and locally with many civil rights organizations to establish rapport, share information, address concerns, and cooperate in solving problems….The FBI has forged partnerships nationally and locally with many civil rights organizations to establish rapport, share information, address concerns, and cooperate in solving problems. These groups include such organizations as the…Southern Poverty Law Center."

>Archive.is has one close to the date. Check out this list of other "Civil Rights Non-Profits"

https://archive.is/plyvK#selection-1031.0-1033.835

Defining a Hate Crime

A hate crime is a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias. For the purposes of collecting statistics, the FBI has defined a hate crime as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity.” Hate itself is not a crime—and the FBI is mindful of protecting freedom of speech and other civil liberties.

These efforts serve as a backstop for investigations by state and local authorities, which handle the vast majority of hate crime cases throughout the country.

The FBI’s Role

As part of its responsibility to uphold the civil rights of the American people, the FBI takes a number of steps to combat the problem of hate crimes. The following efforts serve as a backstop to investigations conducted by state and local law enforcement agencies, which handle the vast majority of bias crime investigations throughout the country.

Investigative Activities: The FBI is the lead investigative agency for criminal violations of federal civil rights statutes. The Bureau works closely with its local, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement partners around the country in many of these cases.

Law Enforcement Support: The FBI works closely with state/local/tribal authorities on investigations, even when federal charges are not brought. FBI resources, forensic expertise, and experience in identification and proof of hate-based motivations often provide an invaluable complement to local law enforcement. Many cases are also prosecuted under state statutes such as murder, arson, or more recent local ethnic intimidation laws. Once the state prosecution begins, the Department of Justice monitors the proceedings in order to ensure that the federal interest is vindicated and the law is applied equally among the 95 U.S. Judicial Districts.

Prosecutive Decision: The FBI forwards results of completed investigations to local U.S. Attorneys Offices and the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice, which decide whether a federal prosecution is warranted. Prosecution of these crimes may move forward, for example, if local authorities are unwilling or unable to prosecute a crime of bias.

Hate Crimes Working Groups (HCWGs): The majority of the FBI’s field offices participate in local Hate Crime Working Groups. These Working Groups combine community and law enforcement resources to develop strategies to address local hate crime problems.

Public Outreach: The FBI has forged partnerships nationally and locally with many civil rights organizations to establish rapport, share information, address concerns, and cooperate in solving problems. These groups include such organizations as the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, American Association of University Women, Anti-Defamation League, Asian American Justice Center, Hindu American Foundation, Human Rights Campaign, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Center for Transgender Equality, National Council of Jewish Women, National Disability Rights Network, National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, National Organization for Women, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, The Sikh Coalition, Southern Poverty Law Center, and many others.

>>24526940 Dims say SPLC was innocently paying informants

>>24527228

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>>24527423

muh charlottesville

https://www.splcenter.org/wp-content/uploads/files/com_splc_annual_report_2017_web_final-1.pdf

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Hatewatch

QAnon Conspiracy Increasingly Popular with Antigovernment Extremists

April 23, 2019

Brendan Joel Kelley, Hatewatch Staff

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Antigovernment extremists, including some who’ve committed violent acts, are increasingly subscribing to and propagating the QAnon conspiracy theory, which asserts that pro-Trump forces will soon take down the so-called deep state.

A series of events linked to QAnon supporters includes:

The capture of nearly 300 migrants at gunpoint on the U.S.-Mexico border

The firebombing of a Minnesota mosque and attempted firebombing of a Champaign, Illinois women’s health center by an Illinois militia

An armed Nevada man’s blocking of traffic with an armored vehicle on a bridge near Hoover Dam

The arson by a California man of the Washington, D.C., restaurant Comet Ping Pong, which is at the center of the patently false Pizzagate conspiracy theory

Sovereign citizens, border militias and antigovernment Three Percenter groups have latched on to Q as well.

QAnon followers posit that Q, an anonymous user of the internet forum 8chan (and previously 4chan), is a government agent with a top security clearance who’s battling the deep state and the shadowy cabal which really runs the government ­­– including Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and James Comey – on behalf of President Trump.

The QAnon faithful await “The Storm,” a coming purge of deep state operatives, who will be shipped off to Guantanamo Bay.

“The interesting thing about QAnon is it actually has an extraordinary amount of faith in the government and legal processes,” Travis View, a QAnon researcher and co-host of the QAnon Anonymous Podcast, told Hatewatch. “It sounds incompatible with the sovereigns or the antigovernment stuff, but they imagine that there’s going to be a perfectly clean and legal process to have an extraordinary revolution. I think that’s where the overlap is ­– a deep distrust in the normal institutions of the federal government, obviously the alphabet agencies and all that. They think that the military – and they think Q is military intelligence – is going to enforce the true law of the land to get rid of the deep state.”

QAnon-related violence

Three members of the “White Rabbit Three Percent Illinois Patriot Freedom Fighters Militia” faced federal hate crime charges for firebombing the Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota, on August 5, 2017, and the attempted firebombing of the Women’s Health Practice in Champaign, Illinois on November 7, 2017.

Q first appeared online in October 2017, but the charged militia members ­­– Michael Hari, Michael McWhorter and Joe Morris ­– appear to have adopted the militia’s “white rabbit” name in homage to Q. QAnon followers encourage one another to “follow the white rabbit,” and the same month that Q appeared, Hari, the militia’s ringleader, published a document called “The White Rabbit Handbook” on Amazon.

In January, McWhorter and Morris pleaded guilty to the charges; Hari’s trial is set for fall 2019.

In July 2018, Matthew P. Wright, an unemployed Marine veteran, used a homemade armored vehicle to block traffic for 90 minutes on the Mike O’Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge leading to the Hoover Dam, resulting in a 90-minute standoff with law enforcement before Wright was apprehended. Wright was armed with an AR-15 rifle, a handgun, multiple magazines of ammunition and a flash-bang device.

From the Mohave County (Ariz.) jail, Wright sent letters to President Trump and other elected officials that sign off with “where we go one, we go all” ­– the QAnon motto (hashtagged #WWG1WGA on social media). The letter to Trump also references the “Great Awakening,” another name for “The Storm” that Q followers believe will bring down the deep state. On both letters, Wright affixed his fingerprint over his signature, a method frequently used by sovereign citizens.

Wright’s trial on terrorism and weapons charges is pending.

And in January of this year, 22-year-old Californian Ryan Jaselkis reposted a QAnon video on his parents’ YouTube account – pushing the theory that the world is run by a Satanic pedophile ring under the control of Hillary Clinton and other celebrities – before he attempted to burn down Comet Ping Pong, the pizzeria at the center of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory.

https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/qanon-conspiracy-increasingly-popular-antigovernment-extremists/

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>Hatewatch

>QAnon Conspiracy Increasingly Popular with Antigovernment Extremists

Sovereigns and other antigovernment groups

“There is plenty of sovereign citizen/QAnon crossover,” QAnon researcher View told Hatewatch, citing tweets that show QAnon followers alleging information from Q means admiralty law, which sovereigns are against, as opposed to common law, which is supported by sovereigns, will soon end.

“The interesting thing about sovereign citizens is they always imagine they know about certain legal loopholes, they know about the deeper law or something,” View said. “You see that a lot in QAnon, too. They think they understand the law on a level that most people don’t or most experts don’t understand, and when the true law is followed, that will lead to the purge or the new government that they imagine should happen.”

At least one sovereign citizen guru, self-proclaimed “Judge” Anna von Reitz, has recently peppered her online missives with QAnon references, likely because of QAnon’s popularity and ability to attract viewers.

“The people that follow Q have a lot of free time, they’re super online, they’re willing to watch and read and engage a whole lot,” said View. “I think a lot of people, the leaders of these kinds of movements, realized that there’s an audience here.”

Veterans on Patrol (VOP), a group originally run by longtime antigovernment advocate Michael Lewis Arthur Meyers, became full-fledged conspiracists in 2018 when members stumbled upon a skull, a tree with straps attached to it, and other items they believed were used for immigrant child sex trafficking in the Arizona desert.

Meyers later claimed that the trafficking was part of a conspiracy perpetrated by the Cemex company, Hillary Clinton, Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, the local FBI and others. Law enforcement investigated and deduced that the skull and the other items were not sex trafficking related, but before their claims were thoroughly debunked, VOP put out a call to action, inviting individuals to join them in the desert.

Among those who deployed to VOP’s base of operations were members of the antigovernment extremist group Oath Keepers and a number of Q supporters, who also supported their efforts online. VOP and its successor group AZ Desert Guardians harnessed Q’s appeal, using similar speech and hashtagging their social media posts with the Q salutation WWG1WGA.

United Constitutional Patriots (UCP) is an armed group situated along the U.S./Mexico border, detaining undocumented migrants and claiming that the unchecked invasion of immigrants will lead to an impending civil war in the U.S.

The group is led by Johnny Horton Jr., aka Larry Hopkins, whose criminal past includes impersonating a police officer. Hopkins was arrested by the FBI last weekend following UCP’s latest migrant roundup for being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition.

The group regularly disseminates Q’s messages on UCP’s official YouTube livestream. Members toss off remarks like “thank God for Q and Q+, that’s Trump,” actively look for Q messages and claim that real news is based those messages.

Q recently played a prominent role in another antigovernment livestream from American Patriots III% leader Scot Seddon. During the Facebook Live video on April 6, 2018, Seddon had member Shana Veillette from Washington State on the show, who identified herself as a QAnon follower. Seddon is not, but his response, rather than denouncing it, was to say, “I know lots of smart people that believe in Q.”

Q supporters also appeared at rallies organized by Chris Hill and his III% Security Force militia, in Nevada and North Carolina.

While QAnon seems, for now, to be a commonality rather than a motivating cause for antigovernment extremists, the online community of QAnon supporters is fertile recruiting ground. “The thing about QAnon is it’s very attractive to people who are isolated, and I think that’s a trend you’re going to continue to see,” said View.

Photo credit PAUL RATJE/AFP/Getty Images

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Introduction

“Those who betray or subvert the Constitution are guilty of sedition and/or treason, are domestic

enemies and should and will be punished accordingly… I have sworn to uphold and defend the

Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic and I will.”1

– Oklahoma City Bomber, 1995.

On January 6, 2021, an organized group forcibly breached the United States (U.S.) Capitol – a nearly

unprecedented event in American history. However, rather than British soldiers in 1814 or Puerto Rican

Nationalists in 1954, the individuals who perpetrated the January 6th Capitol attack were Americans

driven by conspiracies of fraud in the 2020 election.

The certification of the 2020 election drew a substantial crowd of far-right extremists, with 13% of

individuals arrested for crimes committed at the Capitol on January 6th having ties to militia groups.2

Even before the 2020 election, a 2019 report highlighted the increasing popularity of QAnon conspiracy

theories among militia members, a trend which only grew more prevalent as the COVID-19 pandemic

brought together a collection of extremist actors.3During and following the 2020 election, militia

members incorporatedQAnonelection fraud conspiracies as a central belief, and these conspiracies

served as the main mobilizing factor driving militia members to the Capitol on January 6th. This paper

will explore why QAnon 2020 election conspiracies appealed so strongly to QAnon-adhering militia

members. It will further examine connections between QAnon 2020 election conspiracies and existing

ideological foundations within militias, as well as how the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated and

cemented these convergences.

QAnon is a spectrum of conspiracies that has been connected to acts of ideologically motivated violent

extremism and has permeated a range of far-right extremist groups. QAnon emerged on 4chan in 2017

within a thread written by a user calling themselves “Q.” The name “Q” references the highest security

clearance level in the United States Department of Energy, implying that Q is an anonymous, high-

ranking official in the Department of Energy leaking top-secret information.4

Since its inception, QAnon has become an umbrella over a large web of loosely-interconnected

conspiracy theories, focusing mainly on the “central belief that a cabal of powerful elites control the

world, using their power to covertly abuse children.”5 QAnon supporters urge members of their

3 Kelley, Brendan Joel and Hatewatch Staff. “QAnon Conspiracy Increasingly Popular with Antigovernment Extremists.”

Southern Poverty Law Center. April 23, 2019. https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/04/23/qanon-conspiracy-

increasingly-popular-antigovernment-extremists.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has documented QAnon as a significant far-right conspiracy theory and a driving force behind modern extremist ideologies in various Intelligence Report articles and annual "Year in Hate & Extremism" reports. The SPLC notes that QAnon has merged with, and often subsumed, traditional anti-government militias, white nationalist groups, and anti-LGBTQ+ efforts.

Key SPLC Findings on QAnon:

Expansion & Influence: The SPLC has documented how QAnon expanded beyond its online roots to influence mainstream politics, particularly around anti-LGBTQ+ activism and hard-right political campaigns.

2020 and Beyond: Intelligence reports, including "Into the Abyss: QAnon and the Militia Sphere in the 2020," have tracked the intersection of QAnon with militia groups.

Hate & Extremism Focus: The SPLC argues that QAnon conspiracists are frequently present at, or affiliated with, anti-government extremist groups, which are categorized in their annual hate maps.

Latest SPLC Reports & Context (as of 2025-2026):

2024-2025 Trends: The SPLC has noted in late 2025 that far-right movements continue to embed themselves into mainstream politics using disinformation.

2026 Developments: Reports indicate that in early 2026, the SPLC has faced its own scrutiny regarding its investigative techniques.

Note: The search results mention a purported indictment of the SPLC in April 2026 in social media posts, but in the context of academic or research sourcing, the SPLC's primary focus remains tracking QAnon as a key driver of modern hate movements

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they used this shit for everything

muh science

. 2025 Nov 26;12:80. doi: 10.1186/s40621-025-00626-5

Militancy in the military: military service and support for political violence and right-wing extremism

Elizabeth A Tomsich 1,✉, Garen J Wintemute 1

PMCID: PMC12659064 PMID: 41299721

Abstract

Background

Political violence constitutes an increasing threat to individual and population-level health in the United States, with military service identified as a potential risk factor. The current study examines the association between military service, combat experience, and support for and willingness to engage in political violence and approval of extremist organizations and movements.

Methods

A nationally representative sample of 12,947 US adult members of the Ipsos KnowledgePanel completed the 2022 Life in America Survey. Outcomes are presented as weighted proportions and adjusted prevalence differences. The analytic sample comprised 2,255 respondents with military backgrounds; 1,105, including an augment of 415 respondents, reported combat experience.

Results

Military respondents were less likely than others to perceive the use of political violence “to keep our borders open” as usually or always justified (adjusted prevalence difference (aPD) -3.1%, 95% confidence interval (CI) -5.6, -0.7, q = 0.049). By contrast, they demonstrated a greater willingness to “use force or violence on your own as an individual” (aPD 5.0%, 95% CI 2.5%, 7.5%, q = .001) and to “organize a group of people who share your beliefs to use force or violence” (aPD 2.8%, 95% CI 0.7%, 4.8%, q = .029) to advance a political objective. They were also more likely to report that it would be very or extremely likely that they would be armed with a gun (aPD 6.3%, 95% CI 3.5%, 9.2%, q = .001) or carry a gun openly (aPD 6.5%, 95% CI 3.1%, 10.0%, q = .001) in a situation where they thought force or violence was justified to advance an important political objective; however, there were no differences with respect to threatening or shooting someone with a gun. Additionally, military respondents were more likely to strongly or very strongly approve of the Oath Keepers (aPD 4.1%, 95% CI 0.7%, 7.6%, q = .037). There were no significant differences by combat experience.

Conclusions

Keywords: Military, Extremism, Political violence

Introduction

The January 6th, 2021 insurrection exposed the stark reality of political violence in the United States. Concurrently, disquieting findings from public opinion polling [14, 46, 48], survey research [30, 58], and the report of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol [24] indicate democracy may be increasingly under duress. Evidence-based intervention against this threat to individual and population-level health [63] requires an understanding of which populations may be at greater risk for political violence, as well as the circumstances that elicit the use of force or violence for political objectives. A widely circulated report examining those charged for their role in the Capitol Hill siege focused on one factor disproportionately present among arrestees relative to the general population—military experience [38]. Whereas 7% of American adults are military veterans [57] and 0.4% are on active duty [44], approximately 15% of defendants charged for their involvement in the insurrection have a military background [40]. The aim of this study is to investigate links between military service and political violence.

>>24527545

>they used this shit for everything

>muh science

Despite these links between military background and extremism, there appears to be only two studies of the endorsement of political violence among a general population of service members and veterans. The RAND Corporation conducted a nationally representative survey of almost 1,000 veterans in the U.S. [22]. Results indicated generally lower rates of support for extremist ideologies and groups among veterans compared to rates generated from prior representative surveys of the general population, including white supremacism (0.8% vs 7.0%) and the Proud Boys (4.2% vs 9.0%). Relative to the general population, support for QAnon (a far-right conspiracy theory alleging the world is controlled by a secret cabal of Democratic Satan-worshipping pedophiles)(13.5% vs 17.0%) and the Great Replacement theory (the belief that left-leaning elites are intentionally replacing native-born populations with immigrants for political gain) (28.8% vs 34.0%) among veterans were lower, while support for political violence (17.7% vs 19.0%) was similar. Conversely, Pape et al. [43] found that veterans were nearly twice as likely as non-veterans to endorse high insurrectionist statements (“The use of force is justified to restore Donald Trump to the presidency” , “I would personally use force to restore Donald Trump to the presidency”) in a nationally representative survey conducted in 2021 and 2022.

23.Holthouse D. Several high profile racist extremists serve in the US military. Southern Poverty Law Center Intelligence Report [Internet]. (Summer). Available from: https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2006/several-high-profile-racist-extremists-serve-us-military (2006)

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12659064/

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Q/Potus 11 min delta

Patriot

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[Profile picture from source site (X Post/Truth Social)] Donald J. Trump / @realDonaldTrump06/11/2018 18:04:01

ID: Twitter for iPhone

Twitter: 1006296018210603008

The fact that I am having a meeting is a major loss for the U.S., say the haters & losers. We have our hostages, testing, research and all missle launches havestoped, and these pundits, who have called me wrong from the beginning, have nothing else they can say! We will be fine!

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>missle launches havestoped

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>>24527652

p = 16

April 06

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From Wednesday, April 22, 2026

Subtracted 16 days

Result: Monday, April 6, 2026

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[Profile picture from source site (X Post/Truth Social)] Donald J. Trump / @realDonaldTrump 04/06/2026 00:57:00

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Truth Social: 116355984273646320

It’s too bad that the Supreme Court can’t watch and study the Mark Levin Show tonight on the Birthright Citizenship Scam. If they saw it they would never allow that money making HOAX to continue. THEY SHOULD USE THEIR POWERS OF COMMON SENSE FOR THE GOOD OF OUR COUNTRY. They failed miserably on Tariffs, needlessly costing the USA Hundreds of Billions of Dollars in potential rebatesfor the benefit haters and scammers. Why??? Don’t do it again! The Country can only withstand so many bad decisions from a Court that just doesn’t seem to care.

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>p = 16

>April 06

>Missing 'of' or missing 'to'/extra 'the'

>From Wednesday, April 22, 2026

>Subtracted 16 days

>Result: Monday, April 6, 2026