The following is a list of U.S.-based organizations that are classified as hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).[1] The SPLC is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. The SPLC defines a hate group as "an organization that — based on its official statements or principles, the statements of its leaders, or its activities — has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristic."[2] The SPLC states that "Hate group activities can include criminal acts, marches, rallies, speeches, meetings, leafleting or publishing" and adds that inclusion on its hate-group list "does not imply that a group advocates or engages in violence or other criminal activity."[1]
Since 1981, the SPLC's Intelligence Project has published a quarterly Intelligence Report, which monitors hate groups and extremist organizations in the United States.[3] The SPLC began an annual census of hate groups in 1990, releasing this census as part of its annual Year in Hate & Extremism report.[1][2][4][5] The SPLC listed 1,020 hate groups and hate-group chapters on its 2018 list—an all-time high fueled primarily by an increase in radical right groups.[2] The number of SPLC-designated active hate groups and hate-group chapters subsequently declined to 838 in 2020, and 733 in 2021.[4][6] The SPLC welcomed the criminal prosecutions of some of the perpetrators of the January 6 United States Capitol attack, but expressed alarm at the movement of ideas from the antidemocratic hard right into mainstream political discourse, writing: "The reactionary and racist beliefs that propelled a mob into the Capitol that day have not dissipated. Instead, they've coalesced into a political movement that is now one of the most powerful forces shaping politics in the United States."[4][6]
The Intelligence Report provides information regarding the organizational efforts and tactics of these groups, and it is cited by a number of scholars as a reliable and comprehensive source on U.S. hate groups.[7][8][9][10] The SPLC also publishes the HateWatch Weekly newsletter, which documents racism and extremism, and the Hatewatch blog.[11]
- ^ a b c "Hate Map". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved February 24, 2018.
- ^ a b c Beirich, Heidi (Spring 2019). The Year in Hate and Extremism: Rage Against Change (PDF). Intelligence Report (Report). Montgomery, Ala.: Southern Poverty Law Center. OCLC 796223066. Archived (PDF) from the original on October 28, 2020.
- ^ "Intelligence Report". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved December 7, 2015.
- ^ a b c The Year in Hate & Extremism 2021 (PDF) (Report). Southern Poverty Law Center. 2022.
- ^ "The Year in Hate & Extremism 2022". Southern Poverty Law Center. June 6, 2023. Retrieved June 7, 2023. [not specific enough to verify]
- ^ a b N'dea Yancey-Bragg, Hate groups declined in 2021, but fringe ideology is a 'powerful force' shaping US politics, SPLC warns, USA Today (March 9, 2022).
- ^ Rory McVeigh. "Structured Ignorance and Organized Racism in the United States", Social Forces, Vol. 82, No. 3, (March 2004), p. 913
- ^ Chalmers, Mark David (2003). Backfire: how the Ku Klux Klan Helped the civil rights movement, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, ISBN 074252311X p. 188
- ^ Brett A. Barnett (2007). 'Untangling the web of hate: are online "hate sites" deserving of First Amendment Protection?'. Cambria Press. p. 20. ISBN 978-1934043912.
- ^ Montgomery, David (November 8, 2018). "The State of Hate". The Washington Post Magazine. Retrieved December 28, 2018.
- ^ "Hatewatch". Southern Poverty Law Center.
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