Southern Poverty Law Center Leader Won’t Take Charlie Kirk Off ‘Hate Map’
The Southern Poverty Law Center stands by its inclusion of mainstream conservative group Turning Point USA on its “hate map.”
Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA (TPUSA) will remain on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map.”
SPLC interim leader Bryan Fair appeared before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday. He is the chairman of the beleaguered nonprofit and also a law professor at the University of Alabama.
The hearing came one week after the Department of Justice filed a superseding indictment against the left-wing group, which included allegations that funds it funneled to the Ku Klux Klan were used to purchase supplies for cross burnings.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) asked Fair if he planned to remove Kirk and his conservative student group from the hate map, particularly since the former TPUSA founder is now dead after being assassinated on Sep. 10, 2025.
Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) asks Fair if the SPLC regrets labeling Charlie Kirk and others as hate leaders
pic.twitter.com/V9Zp6jMtRJ— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 9, 2026
“Your organization has labeled Dr. [Alveda] King and Charlie Kirk and others,” Issa asked.
He continued:
Do you regret that? Will you recant it, or are you going to double down and say that these people, including the martyred Charlie Kirk, in fact, somehow deserve to be on your hate list, for they’re constantly talking about bringing people together, talking about the teachings of the Bible, and the like.
After refusing to answer the direct question, Fair ultimately said: “The SPLC will continue to expose hate and extremism.”
The response drew criticism from Erika Kirk, the widow of the slain TPUSA leader.
“The day before Charlie was murdered, they published a newsletter attacking him and Turning Point USA,” Kirk wrote on X.
She said the goal of the SPLC is to “stoke fear,” while Turning Point promotes unity.
“Turning Point USA has, from the beginning, stood for open conversations and respectful debate regardless of creed or color,” Kirk wrote. “All along, the real hate group is the SPLC, which recklessly sows hate every day with its lies.”
Last year, the SPLC added TPUSA to their so-called “hate map,” placing us alongside neo-Nazi organizations and the Ku Klux Klan. The day before Charlie was murdered, they published a newsletter attacking him and Turning Point USA.
Today, they doubled down and stood by that… pic.twitter.com/NwWQBjOqGr
— Erika Kirk (@MrsErikaKirk) June 9, 2026
Others mocked the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The left-wing group “obviously doesn’t actually believe TPUSA is a KKK/Nazi hate group because SPLC hasn’t funded TPUSA & its leadership,” commentator Guy Benson quipped.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center is itself a Hate organization,” actor Rob Schneider wrote in response to Erika’s post. “Its main whorish money donor grab relies on paying money to creat[e] Hate to keep their unholy scam going.”
The group posted another entry on Turning Point the same day as the hearing.
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Matt Lamb currently works as an associate editor for The College Fix. He also contributes to a variety of websites, including Legal Insurrection, Human Life Review, and AMAC Newsline. His work has been published by The Federalist, Townhall, and The Daily Caller. He has worked for Students for Life of America and Turning Point USA.
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Why do we care what the bank rollers of the KKK think? Why is their existence tolerated? How can we know that they are frauds and still treat them like honest dealers?
Why? Primarily b/c the ideologically captured corporate media use their handy dandy Hate List as gospel. Until recently so did Federal LEO/IC. The Trump 2.0 Admin has Investigated, indicted and is now seeking to hold legally accountable these race hustling grievance grifters.
No, no, this is good. Let them keep Charlie on their list. Encourage them to add others, like Clarence Thomas, Daniel Penny, Riley Gaines, RFKJ, Caesar Chavez, and even the Pope. Make it clear to even the most brain-dead man on the street what a clown school their org is. And as the MSM continues to kiss SPLC’s butt on air, they are welcome to share in all the resulting enshittification.
Exactly!!
“The group posted another entry on Turning Point the same day as the hearing.” The Hard Right going to college campuses. WTF. Bryan Fair spent half his testimony saying they had a 1st Amendment right to label groups, yet to him TPUSA has no 1A on colleges. Sue them for every penny they have and then some, label them a hate group.
Perhaps a new organization can be created whose charter is to track and post grifters. Fair and the SPLC can be two of the first singled out and labeled race grifters. His corporate and charitable sponsors can also be singled out as can sponsor officers and trustees.
“Fair”….projecting much there Fair?
What a misnomer of a name…..
I thought he sounded rather dimwitted when speaking. Is that fair?
These Democrat groups do not give in. They are like their Islamist allies in that regard. Democrats don’t back away or change their behavior simply because they are caught.
See: DEI
Why would they? They still run the institutions and they still get paid.
Bu the students for violence against Jews don’t make the map? Just deceased Charlie Kirk? Yeah that makes them such an unbiased and realiable source doesn’t it?
The SPLC is really all about money for themselves. They are tied into Democrats and various Left leaning groups plus their money is in the Caymans.
Money for themselves and their chicks for free (“Where the white woman at?”)
Good for them! I applaud them for admitting they are nothing more than a well funded weapon of hate.
The SPLC should compromise by omitting Turning Point from its love map.
american patriots are the targeted victims of all the lefts lunacy day -in-day out
“ Southern Poverty Law Center Leader Won’t Take Charlie Kirk Off ‘Hate Map’”
Good. And the SPLC will remain on rational peoples’ hate map, Joseph Goebbels subsection.
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