PAYTRIOTS INFLATE THE HATE
Making Hate Pay’: Why It Makes Sense the SPLC Was Funding the Very Hate It Claims
It Exists to Oppose
The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate
Testimony before
The Committee on the Judiciary
United States House of Representatives
Wednesday, May 20, 2026
The indictment suggests these “field sources” weren’t just informants, however, and the
SPLC’s recent history lends credence to the idea that these payments may have helped the
group exaggerate hate, to raise money.
The SPLC made its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy, and donors
rightly flocked to this cause. When the center ran out of grand dragons to slay, however, it
expanded the definition of “hate” to keep the donor money flowing.
Today, the SPLC maintains a “hate map” that plots mainstream conservative and Christian
organizations—including Turning Point USA, PragerU, Alliance Defending Freedom, and
Focus on the Family—alongside Klan chapters, suggesting they all form the “organizational
infrastructure upholding white supremacy in the U.S.
https://www.congress.gov/119/meeting/house/119311/witnesses/HHRG-119-JU00-Wstate-ONeilT-20260520.pdf
The indictment suggests these “field sources” weren’t just informants, however, and the
SPLC’s recent history lends credence to the idea that these payments may have helped the
group exaggerate hate, to raise money.
The SPLC made its reputation by suing Ku Klux Klan groups into bankruptcy, and donors
rightly flocked to this cause. When the center ran out of grand dragons to slay, however, it
expanded the definition of “hate” to keep the donor money flowing.
Today, the SPLC maintains a “hate map” that plots mainstream conservative and Christian
organizations—including Turning Point USA, PragerU, Alliance Defending Freedom, and
Focus on the Family—alongside Klan chapters, suggesting they all form the “organizational
infrastructure upholding white supremacy in the U.S.”4