The Southern Poverty Law Center—which tracks hate groups—faces federal fraud charges for paying informants to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan, while Trump’s Justice Department systematically dismantles civil rights enforcement and appoints white nationalists to key positions. The same administration that called neo-Nazis “very fine people” is now criminalizing surveillance of violent extremists. They’re prosecuting the watchdog instead of the terrorists.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/21/doj-southern-poverty-law-center-investigation