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🚨 The Southern Poverty Law Center — one of America’s largest “anti-racism” organizations — was caught funding the KKK and neo-Nazi groups with millions of dollars.

In this explosive Based Camp episode, Malcolm and Simone Collins break down the shocking DOJ indictment revealing how the SPLC used money laundering, fake entities, and paid plants to keep cartoonish racist organizations alive. Why? Because the “racism industrial complex” needs visible villains to keep the donations flowing.

Topics covered:

• How the SPLC funded the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally

• The economics of fear-based nonprofits

• Why much of today’s “far-right” extremism appears AstroTurfed

• Nick Fuentes botting & relevance farming

• The difference between real policy discussion and performative racism

• How genuine conversation on race, immigration, and culture gets sabotaged

This is must-watch content for anyone tired of the endless outrage cycle.

Show Notes

The Department of Justice’s Bombshell News

The Indictment

* According to the indictment, some Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) donor funds were used to secretly pay leaders and members of racist, violent extremist groups, and at least part of that money was used to support their organizing and activities, including the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally.

* The indictment alleges that, contrary to donor-facing representations about “dismantling” hate groups, SPLC used donor funds to pay a covert network of informants (“field sources” or “Fs”) who were themselves leaders or members of extremist racist organizations.

Key uses of funds described:

* Covert payments to informants embedded in or leading groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, National Alliance, National Socialist Movement, and American Front.

* More than $3 million in SPLC funds were secretly funneled between 2014 and 2023 to these Fs associated with various violent extremist groups.

* Funds were routed through fictitious entities and disguised bank accounts (Center Investigative Agency, Fox Photography, North West Technologies, Tech Writers Group, Rare Books Warehouse) to conceal that the money came from SPLC donor funds.

* After those accounts were shut down, SPLC allegedly continued to pay Fs via ACH transfers labeled with disguised monikers such as “Rarebooks050” and “IPResearchCON050.”

Examples of specific racist/extremist activities supported

The document gives concrete examples where SPLC funds allegedly enabled or facilitated racist organizing or demonstrations, not just passive “information gathering.”

* Unite the Right rally (Charlottesville, 2017)

* F‑37 was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville.

* F‑37 attended the event at SPLC’s direction, made racist postings under SPLC supervision, and helped coordinate transportation for several attendees.

* SPLC secretly paid F‑37 more than $270,000 between 2015 and 2023.

* This means SPLC funds, as alleged, were used to pay someone who actively participated in planning and logistics for a major racist demonstration.

* Support to the National Alliance (neo‑Nazi organization)

* F‑9 was affiliated with the neo‑Nazi National Alliance and served as an SPLC F for more than 20 years.

* F‑9’s activities included fundraising for the National Alliance, while being paid more than $1,000,000 by SPLC between 2014 and 2023.

* The indictment states that SPLC donation money was used “for the benefit of the individuals as well as the violent extremist groups,” which in this case includes a fundraiser for a neo‑Nazi organization.

* Payments to leaders of other racist groups

* F‑27: reported officer in the National Socialist Movement and Aryan Nations‑affil