Reports
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- Eliminating Poverty and Economic Inequality
Stepping Into the Gap: Medicaid Expansion in the Deep South as a Lifeline to Care
Tina, a 58-year-old Black woman living in the Delta, is Mississippi born and raised.[1] She raised four children and spent more than two decades working as a machine operator at a catfish plant. While she has Medicaid coverage now, there was a time when she felt she could not see the doctor because she could…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Year in Hate and Extremism report 2024 policy recommendations
For more than half a century, to promote a more fair, equitable and inclusive nation, the Southern Poverty Law Center has tracked domestic extremist groups to identify risks and expose their bigoted actions and beliefs. The 人兽性交鈥檚 2024 Year in Hate and Extremism report exposes far-right extremists and empowers advocates and community members to push…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Frequently asked questions about hate and antigovernment groups
What is the purpose of the hate and antigovernment extremist map? Each year since 1990, the 人兽性交 has published an annual census of hate groups and antigovernment groups operating within the United States. The number is one barometer of the level of hate and antigovernment extremist activity in the country. The hate and antigovernment extremist…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Understanding Telegram鈥檚 2024 toxic recommendations
Telegram is a social media and messaging application that is popular worldwide but was less commonly used in the U.S. until 2019, when extremists adopted it as their go-to social media platform. Following the 2019 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, the 2020 rise of QAnon and the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol,…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Turning Point USA: A case study of the hard right in 2024
Several weeks after the 2024 presidential election, Charlie Kirk, founder and president of Turning Point USA (TPUSA), proudly embraced a white nationalist conspiracy theory while celebrating then-President-elect Donald Trump鈥檚 plans for mass deportation. Kirk accused Democrats of embracing immigration as part of their plot to secure voters, permit crime and enact the 鈥済reat replacement.鈥 He…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Decline of the neo-Confederates
Almost 25 years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center documented 121 neo-Confederate groups and called the movement 鈥渂urgeoning.鈥 For nearly a decade at the beginning of the 21st century, neo-Confederate group numbers across the South hovered near that high. The movement had been building since the 1990s and had returned to the more overt white…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Targeting democracy: Local militias and national sovereign citizens
The militia and sovereign citizen movements continued their efforts to be a substitute for government in 2024, all the while threatening public workers and democracy. Militias sought to frame themselves as emergency-preparedness groups or auxiliary law enforcement, while sovereign citizens continued trying to establish U.S. shadow governments and courts. Both movements continued to make local…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
A Strategic Application of Chaos
The Intelligence Project has raised alarms over the last several years about the mainstreaming of far-right extremist conspiracy theories and extremists themselves. This is a profound cultural and political transformation the right pushes to grasp political control, stifle the possibility for dissent and push a more just future out of reach. The stakes, then, are…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Anti-DEI efforts and the attempted whitewashing of America
In 2024, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives became ground zero for hard-right mobilizations to whitewash American society and protect white supremacy. These efforts built a foundation in 2024 for nationwide policy actions to follow by President Donald Trump. Black Americans have long described a reality different from white Americans, but the police killings in…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
From screens to schools: Male supremacy鈥檚 impact and prevention tactics
In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, misogynistic content was rampant across social media. Posts using the phrase 鈥測our body, my choice鈥 increased by 4,600% on X just 24 hours after the election. While these posts aimed to undermine women鈥檚 ability to freely and safely navigate online platforms, such hate is not detached from…
