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The Southern Poverty Law Center combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation. Founded in 1971. Cover: AP Photo/Matt Rourke

Montgomery, Alabama
Joined August 2009

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  1. "For me, it’s do I consider a car payment or do I pay the gas bill or the phone bill?"—Tomas Kaselionis, FEMA "It really is unfair that because of politics, government employees have to shoulder the burden."—Daniel A. Sobien, National Weather Service

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  2. Educators play a pivotal role in helping children understand race and how to confront racism. To do that, they have to confront their own biases.

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  3. Baker C. Blanding was one of few black students in his Kindergarten in Georgia in 1992. One day, he asked classmates to share their 64-piece set of crayons. "No," they said. He asked why. "Because you’re black," the classmates said.

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  4. Undocumented immigrants are some of the most vulnerable workers in the US. In the aftermath of California’s devastating wildfires, the undocumented workers doing most of the clean-up work in dangerous conditions and are easy targets for wage theft.

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  5. Atomwaffen Division is a terroristic national socialist organization that formed out of Iron March, an influential fascist forum that went offline in September 2017.

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  6. Atomwaffen Division is a neo-Nazi hate group that's been linked to at least 5 murders: a double homicide in Florida, a double homicide in Virginia, & one in California. The group's violence is further proof that hate kills.

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  7. "We must stop the Trump deportation machine, end family separation and anti-immigrant policies, and counter the Trump administration rollback of civil rights protections." — SPLC President Richard Cohen

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  8. We'll keep fighting to end conversion therapy.

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  9. Last March, we filed a motion asking a court to enforce an order requiring the complete dissolution of a fraudulent "conversion therapy" provider that the court ordered to shut down 4 years ago, but that continues to operate under a different name.

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  10. Conversion therapy is junk science that actively harms people.

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  11. One of the most important things we did in 2018 was continue to fight conversion therapy, an abusive, medically discredited practice which has been shown to lead to higher instances of depression, anxiety, substance abuse & suicide.

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  12. This ruling is a slap in the face to dedicated, highly qualified service members who seek only to serve their country.

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  13. We saw a rise in the number of bias incidents, including racist harassment, at schools in the days immediately following the 2016 election. That trend has continued.

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  14. 9 students formed a swastika with their bodies by laying on the ground at a middle school in Ojai, California. This is hardly the first expression of hate, intolerance or antisemitism that's occurred at a school.

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  15. Treaties signed generations ago guaranteed Native American tribes would receive government funding for basic services in exchange for land. But, if the continues to drag on, drying up the money, services like health care will be cut back.

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  16. "The Congress sworn in today must move swiftly and aggressively to investigate the resurgent white supremacist movement in order to take steps to check the rising influence of extremist groups in American life." — SPLC President Richard Cohen

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  17. The framer of a far-right survivalist movement in the Pacific Northwest rang in the new year by warning of religious civil war.

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  18. After the arrest of an undocumented man for the murder of Mollie Tibbetts, Ulises Felix's parents, who were close to the alleged murderer, fled. Ulises stayed. The family of a football teammate took him in. That family? None other than Mollie Tibbetts'.

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  19. Last year, we reported on American politicians' connections to Russia, forged by shared anti-LGBT stances — and extremists, like white nationalist Richard Spencer, who have developed close ties to their Russian counterparts.

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  20. We're suing CoreCivic, another private prison company that runs a detention center where we represent clients in Georgia, for similar practices.

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