Southern Poverty Law Center

U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., gives a thumbs down during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address during a joint meeting of Congress in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Feb.07, 2023, in Washington, D.C. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Hate groups’ political influence growing, watchdog says

BY: - June 8, 2023

WASHINGTON — More than 1,200 hate and anti-government extremist groups were active across the United States in 2022, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s latest report on the nationwide prevalence of extremists who target people of color, LGBTQ people, Jewish communities and other religious minorities. While the overall number of hate and anti-government groups tracked by […]

Sherrod Brown, U.S. Senate Dems to Trump: Fire Stephen Miller

BY: - December 10, 2019

U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) joined 26 other senators on Monday demanding that President Trump fire White House immigration adviser Stephen Miller.   “Recent reports confirm that he advanced white nationalist, anti-immigrant ideologies,” the senators said of Miller. “Continuing to employ him as the senior architect of your immigration policies ensures that those policies discriminate against […]