The disgraced Southern Poverty Law Center named Turning Point USA, founded by Charlie Kirk, as a hate group. They said that TPUSA, which has as its mission "to empower citizens of all ages to rise up against the radical left in defense of freedom, free markets, and limited government," was bigoted, hateful, and white supremacist.
They labeled TPUSA as a "hate group," added them to their "hate map," and in May 2025, they called Kirk and the non-profit he founded "hard-right extremists" who wield "a tremendous amount of influence in conservative politics." TPUSA was part of the group's "Year in Hate and Extremism" report.
Under the heading "The politics of fear," the SPLC claimed: "Turning Point USA’s primary strategy is sowing and exploiting fear that white Christian supremacy is under attack by nefarious actors, including immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community and civil rights activists.
"TPUSA and its spokespeople often warn their audience that their children, wives, religion, way of life and they themselves are under attack by various constructed enemies. TPUSA exploits complicated feelings of insecurity and anxiety to manufacture rage and mobilize support to revive and maintain a white-dominated, male supremacist, Christian social order.
"TPUSA is at the forefront of the movement to promote Christian nationalism, the theocratic worldview that the U.S. is a fundamentally Christian country and that Christian values and beliefs should inform the government and wider culture."
Just a few short months later, Kirk was murdered. The man charged with that killing said of Kirk "I had enough of his hatred," he "spreads too much hate," and "some hate can't be negotiated out." Where did murder suspect Tyler Robinson get such an idea?
Kirk knew that the classification from the SPLC put TPUSA college and high school chapters in danger and spoke to Laura Ingraham about it. "They're literally putting high school chapters of ours on a hate group next to the KKK and next to neo Nazi groups." He pointed out that in 2012, a domestic terrorist went to the Family Research Council with the intent of violence because the was inspired by the SPLC's hate map. The SPLC did not remove FRC from their map even after the attempted shooting.
In a May 2025 post, Kirk said "The SPLC has added Turning Point to their ridiculous 'hate group' list, right next to the KKK and neo-Nazis, a cheap smear from a washed up org that's been fleecing scared grandmas for decades. They somehow still rake in over $100 million a year peddling their 'hate map' nonsense, sitting pretty in their Montgomery 'Poverty Palace' while crying about 'hate' to line their pockets. Even former staffers called their racket a 'con.'"
But it turns out that Kirk didn't know the half of it. SPLC sure was a con, as shown by a Grand Jury indictment announced by the Department of Justice just this week. The group was funding the very groups they claimed to be fighting. They claim now it was for "informants," but as Acting AG Todd Blanche said, they paid these members of the KKK and the National Socialists (Nazis) to do the work they were already doing. They funded one of the organizers of the contentious Charlottesville "Unite the Right" rally, even funding transportation.
To most conservatives, the Southern Poverty Law Center's fall comes as no surprise. The corrupt, progressive, organization that has been used as a political strongarm of the Democratic Party has come under fire for running operations that include funding white supremacist, KKK groups to feed off of the divisiveness in the United States.
The same organizations and fringe groups that they claim they were fighting, and fundraised to fear monger against, are the same ones they secretly funded and grifted off of to make the Republican Party and the conservative movement appear hateful.
The great and legendary Charlie Kirk stated, "The SPLC is a hate group," all the way back in 2023. Now more than three years later, once again, he was proven right. The SPLC benefited from the profit they got from causing racial division instead of racial justice.
The SPLC used Charlottesville, which they helped fund to the tune of $270,000, to gain donations and increased its revenue from $55 million to $133 million after the deadly rally.
Inventing hate crimes is not what peaceful organizations do, and it is not what any normal functioning member of American society does. Point blank, the SPLC helped divide and slice America in half by using racial undertones to cause violence. The same organization that claimed that labeling ANTIFA as a hate group was "dangerous" and "threatened civil liberties" was busy funding danger and threatening civil liberties themselves.
The SPLC faked white supremacy to pull the wool over people's eyes to demonize Christians, conservatives, and white people throughout most of the country, and they succeeded. The same attacks that conservatives are still dealing with, and the same language that radicalized people like Charlie Kirk and assassin Tyler Robinson, were caused by the Southern Poverty Law Center. Charlie Kirk knew this danger and tried to warn people three years ago. Now, the truth is out.
As far as we at Human Events are concerned, this indictment is for Charlie.
