by Alex Newman,Liberty Sentinel:

While the nation digests the bombshell federal indictment handed down against the Southern Poverty Law Center on April 21, 2026, most Americans are rightly focused on the hypocrisy. But the SPLC’s giant and malign influence in U.S. “education” should be under the microscope, too.

A grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, just charged the self-styled “civil rights” outfit with 11 counts for secretly funneling more than $3 million in donor funds to key figures within the very groups it claims to monitor. The Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and even the National Socialist Party of America benefited from the largess.

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Criminal charges so far include wire fraud, false statements to banks, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. In short, prosecutors say the SPLC defrauded its donors by paying extremists to “infiltrate” and then promote the very organizations it publicly denounced. Regular critics of the SPLC were not surprised.

The irony is thicker than the SPLC’s own smear dossiers. For decades, the far-left organization has positioned itself as the nation’s moral arbiter, branding Christian conservatives, pro-family groups, and even concerned parents as “hate” organizations while raking in hundreds of millions from gullible corporations and foundations.

Yet as investigative reporting has long documented—and as the indictment now confirms in court filings—the SPLC wasn’t just funding hate on the side. That was key to what its mission as it worked to delegitimize, dehumanize, and destroy mainstream figures and groups standing for God, faith, and country.

But just as troubling, if not more, is the fact that the SPLC was using donor money to target the hearts and minds of children nationwide. Indeed, the disgraced group was systematically weaponizing America’s classrooms to advance the same radical, anti-American ideology that animated the Weather Underground bombers of the 1970s.

Consider its flagship “Teaching Tolerance” program, later rebranded as “Learning for Justice” after years of scandal. This radical program has reached hundreds of thousands of public-school teachers with free curricula, magazines, and training materials that amount to cultural Marxism dressed up as “anti-bias” education.

This is not speculation. It is the same pattern this writer has exposed for years in outlets likeThe New American: the deliberate infiltration of K-12 education by far-left extremists who view schools not as places of learning, but as indoctrination centers for “social change.”

Source: SGT Report