THE WAR ON WATCHDOGS: Inside the Federal Indictment of the SPLC and the Battle for the American Soul

MONTGOMERY, AL — In a legal maneuver that has sent a tectonic shockwave through the American judicial system, the United States Department of Justice has launched an unprecedented criminal prosecution against one of the nation’s oldest and most formidable civil rights organizations. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a group that has spent fifty-five years as the primary tracker of the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazi cells, now finds itself in the crosshairs of the very government it once assisted.