~ Dedication ~

This article is dedicated to two people, unjustly targeted by the SPLC. Jackie Juntti (Grassroots Granny) was targeted by the SPLC because of her defense of Glenn Spencer, of the American Border Patrol.

Jackie was portrayed, by the hate-mongering SPLC, to be a “hard-core nativist” while Glen Spencer was portrayed as a “vitriolic Mexican-basher”; both because they stood against the illegal alien invasion of the United States.

Both Jackie and Glenn are no longer with us; but may they see the justice against the SPLC they never got to see while among us.

The SPLC Faces Accountability for Years of Manufacturing Hate

On Apirl 21, 2026, the Department of Justice filed a 14-page (Link Below) indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization with a very checkered, and very questionable history.

The corporate media, of course, has come to the defense of this profligate bunch of money-grubbing hate-mongers. In an article, published by KHQ (Q6) in Spokane, WA, that seems to have no source, and is only to be found if one does a search for “SPLC” on their website, accusations are made, along the lines that this is just revenge by President Trump.

Before his time, at the SPLC, Dees was engaged in direct-marketing schemes while practicing law. In 1998 he was inducted into the Direct Marketing Association Hall of Fame (Silverstein, Ken; The The Church of Morris Dees; Harper’s Magazine; Spring 2010). Silverstein’s article notes the words of Millard Fuller, Dees former business partner in the direct marketing arena, regarding Dees,

“Morris and I…shared the overriding purpose of making a pile of money. We were not particular about how we did it; we just wanted to be independently rich. … We were not particular about how we did it; we just wanted to be independently rich.”

Fuller sold out to Dees in 1965, donated the proceeds to charity, and started Habitat for Humanity.

In a 1996 letter to Dees, Stephen Bright, head of the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights, wrote,

“You are a fraud and a conman … your failure to respond to the most desperate needs of the poor and powerless despite your millions upon millions, your fund-raising techniques, the fact that you spend so much, accomplish so little, and promote yourself shamelessly.”

Dees was fired from the SPLC, in 2019, over allegations regarding “minority and female staffers”, a nice way of saying sexual improprieties.

It would not be the first time that allegations of sexual impropriety were made.

In a document, uploaded on SCRIBD, in 2010, regarding Maureeene Bass Dees vs Morris S Dees, Case No. Civ. 2114, are allegations of affairs and improper sexual conduct with Morris Dees’ step-daughter and future daughter-in-law. This can also be found at Internet Archive as the first document listed there.

On the first page, of the DOJ indictment, is this …

INTRODUCTION

“The Southern Poverty Law Center’s (“SPLC”) stated mission included the dismantling of white supremacy and confronting hate across the county. However, unbeknownst to donors, some of their donated money was being used to fund the leaders and organizers of racist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nation, and the National Alliance. The SPLC’s paid informants (“field sources”) engaged in the active promotion of racist groups at the same time that the SPLC was denouncing the same groups on its website. The SP:C also had a field source who was a member of the online leadership chat group that planned the 2017 “Unite the Right” event in Charlottesville, Virginia. That field source made racist postings under the supervision of the SPLC and helped coordinate transportation to the event for several attendees. In order to covertly pay its field sources, the SPLC opened bank accounts connected to a series of fictitious entities. The covert nature of the accounts allowed the SPLC to disguise the true nature, source, ownership, and control of the fraudulently obtained donated money the SPLC paid the field sources. In order to keep the scheme going, the SPLC made a series of false statements related to the operation of the accounts.”

The unsourced KHQ article article claims the funding of “leaders and organizers of racist groups” was for “confidential informants”. The indictment, however, tells a different story; one of stolen documents; people paid, by the SPLC, to post racist comments on websites of groups the SPLC was targeting; people paid by the SPLC to do fund-raising for racist groups; people the SPLC was paying for their activities in hate groups, being used to solicit donations on the SPLC website, etc.

It is of note that the FBI, who headed the investigation resulting in the indictment, severed all ties with the SPLC and the ADL in October 2025.

To now discover that the SPLC was paying operatives to incite violence, such as happened at Charlottesville, Virginia; to gin up hate on websites; to commit illegal acts; to fund-raise for racist groups; puts a whole new face on claims made by the SPLC against groups they claim are “hate groups”.

© April 24, 2026 – Lynn M Finney – All Rights Reserved.

Indictment – 2026 04 21(pdf)

Letter to the Spokane Media

Spokane Media,

This is hilarious! You all were sent the DOJ indictment of the profligate, hate-mongering organization, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), as soon as it hit the internet.

Only one of you, KHQ, posted anything; and, at that, the KHQ piece, unsigned, unattributed, had the temerity to claim that the SPLC was simply paying informants; further that the lawsuit was “Trump revenge”; both of which are the biggest bunch of BS imagineable given what is in the indictment.

But not unexpected, given that the SPLC, and their hate-mongering to raise money, has been used by Spokane Media, for years, to smear people.

It’s fun watching all you carefully avoid printing anything about this indictment, which links the SPLC to the Unite the Right activity in Charlottesville, VA, actions which the mockingbird media has tried to claim Trump approved of.

Where are all your apologies to the people you targeted because of your reliance on the hate-mongering-for-fund-raising bilge of the SPLC?

Lynn Finney

Submitted for publication to the Federal Observer by the author.

~ About the Author ~
Lynn M. Finney: Activist and researcher, has spent the last many years researching systems theory and systems philosophy with a particular emphasis on education as it pertains to achieving the sustainable global environment. She home schooled two daughters. She has worked with legislators, both state and federal, on issues pertaining to systems governance, the sustainable global environment and education reform. She networks nationwide with other researchers and a growing body of citizens concerned about the transformation of our nation from a Constitutional Republic to a participatory democracy. She has traveled the United States and lived overseas.