Jim Jordan

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan dropped a bombshell during a Committee Hearing on Tuesday, revealing how the far-left Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) worked in coordination with the Biden Administration to manufacture right-wing extremism. 

The Judiciary Committee held a hearing titled “The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II,” where the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Interim President and Chief Executive Officer, Bryan Fair, was called to testify.

Previously, the Committee revealed that “between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC allegedly funneled more than $3 million in donor funds to individuals associated with violent extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan, the United Klans of America, and the National Socialist Party of America (American Nazi Party), among others.”

“The SPLC’s informants remained ‘engaged in the active promotion of racist groups’ while receiving money from the SPLC. For instance, one informant who helped to plan the violent rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 ‘made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees,'” the Committee added.

In his opening statement on Tuesday, however, Jim Jordan revealed that it’s worse than they thought, according to an April 21, 2026, federal grand jury indictment. The indictment charges the SPLC with wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.

“The one thing we get wrong when we start these investigations, when we start this oversight, is it’s always worse than we thought,” Jordan said before detailing the allegations against the SPLC.

“It wasn’t $3 million that they were paying these field sources, it was actually $4 million the Southern Poverty Law Center paid to field sources, and they didn’t just pay them to foment the hate they told their donors they were fighting, they actually dated them!”

Jordan went on to reveal that various field sources used by the SPLC were paid millions of dollars to attend, organize, and arrange transportation for far-right “hate groups,” according to the indictment. One of the SPLC employees was even in a relationship with a field source who was being paid $1.2 million to “create and foment the hate they told their donors they were fighting,” said Jordan.

Because of this tactic, Jordan said, “they became the standard, the source for determining who was a hate group” and used their power over the Biden Justice Department and FBI to target conservative groups like Moms for Liberty, Turning Point USA, Alliance Defending Freedom, and pro-life Catholics.

“The Biden DOJ knew all about this scam that they were running. They knew the SPLC was doing this, but they didn’t pursue the case; they dropped the case,” he added.

And with that, the SPLC nearly tripled its donor income. “You run a scam, you become the standard, you don’t get prosecuted, and you make a ton of money. They got 800 million assets, 700 million in an endowment, such a deal,” Jordan said.

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Jordan: It’s always worse than we thought. The one thing we get wrong when we start these investigations, when we start this oversight, is it’s always worse than we thought. We now have the superseding indictment from the Justice Department; it wasn’t $3 million that they were paying these field sources, it was actually $4 million The Southern Poverty Law Center paid to field sources, and they didn’t just pay them to foment the hate they told their donors they were fighting, they actually dated them! That’s right. Southern Poverty Law Center employee was in a romantic relationship with Field Source number nine, a member of the racist National Alliance. This SPLC employee, who was supposed to be dismantling hate groups with the Intelligence Project was dating the Field Source that they were paying, and in fact, they had a joint bank account. Wow.

And guess what the SPLC paid this individual. $1.2 million to, again, create and foment the hate they told their donors they were fighting. Now, it gets worse. An individual who led the Nationalist Socialist Party, a faction of the Aryan nations, reached out to SPLC. He wanted out. He wanted help in leaving this racist group, and what the SPLC do? They said, ‘No, no, no, stay in the group. We’ll pay you a monthly salary. We’ll reimburse you for hosting rallies, purchasing racist materials.’ Of course, that was Field Source number 30.

How about F37, Field source 37? This person is the one who coordinated transportation and attended the 2017 rally in Charlottesville. The Southern Poverty Law Center paid him $300,000 to the guy who helped put together the event where a young lady was killed. F 27, he was paid $350,000. What’d he do? He ran the Aryan Nation motorcycle club. F43, president of some crazy group, was previously convicted of cross burning, but the SPLC thought he was worth $19,000 of their donors’ money.

Again, all told, $4 million to manufacture hate. We said this last hearing. I still remember Rahm Emanuel saying, talking about Democrats, ‘never let a crisis go to waste.’ The SPLC took it a step further. They created the crisis, they manufactured the crisis, and by so doing, they became the standard, the source for determining who was a hate group. They labeled Family Research Council a hate group, Moms for Liberty was labeled a hate group, Turning Point USA labeled a hate group. Alliance Defending Freedom, even though they argued 16 multiple cases, won 16 cases in front of the Supreme Court, they were labeled a hate group, but never Jane’s Revenge, never the group who vandalized crisis pregnancy centers, churches, in the aftermath of the Dobbs decision. They never got labeled, and the Biden Justice Department helped make them the standard.

This is probably the part that bothers me, I think, bothers most people the most. They help make the Southern Poverty the standard in evaluating who’s a hate group, who isn’t, because they consulted with them. They had quarterly meetings. The Deputy Attorney General, Lisa Monaco, quarterly, met with SPLC. They would give SPLC any information they had. The Justice Department, the FBI had to give it to them first. They even used them to train prosecutors, and of course, we know what it resulted in. The now famous memorandum from the FBI field office in Richmond, Virginia, where the FBI said if you’re a pro-life Catholic, you’re an extremist. And, of course, who did they cite for that? You guessed it, the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Southern Poverty Law Center became part of the weaponized Garland Biden Justice Department. Now, here’s what’s interesting, the Biden DOJ knew all about this scam that they were running. They knew the SPLC was doing this, but they didn’t pursue the case; they dropped the case because when you meet with them, when you consult with them, when you have them train your prosecutors, you’re not going to prosecute. Nope, you’re not going to do it because it’s too valuable politically. And here’s the scary part. And I’m sure we’ll have questions for Mr. Fair later on about this. Here’s the scary part. It all worked.

Field source 37, the guy at the Charlottesville rally, helped plan that rally, coordinate transportation there, was paid to attend after the event— again, after the event, where a lady was killed— the Southern Poverty Law Center almost tripled their income, 51 million to 133 million after they were coordinating the hate that took place at that crazy rally. You run a scam, you become the standard, you don’t get prosecuted, and you make a ton of money. They got 800 million assets, 700 million in an endowment, such a deal. And they would have gotten away with it, but for the oversight of Congress and, more importantly, the work of the Justice Department. So, God bless the Attorney General and the work him and his team are doing, and we look forward to hearing from our witnesses today and asking them questions.

Jordan Conradson Jordan Conradson, formerly TGP’s Arizona correspondent, is currently on assignment in Washington DC. Jordan has played a critical role in exposing fraud and corruption in Arizona's elections and elected officials. His reporting on election crimes in Maricopa County led to the resignation of one election official, and he was later banned from the Maricopa County press room for his courage in pursuit of the truth. TGP and Jordan finally gained access after suing Maricopa County, America's fourth largest county, and winning at the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. Conradson looks forward to bringing his aggressive style of journalism to the Swamp.

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