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

The Trump administration’s DOJ has dropped a staggering 11-count federal indictment against the SPLC, alleging that the organization did not dismantle extremist groups, but instead manufactured the very extremism it purports to oppose.

The accusations are as explosive as they are bizarre: federal prosecutors claim the SPLC funded KKK chapters and Aryan Nation networks, not to infiltrate them for law enforcement purposes, but to stoke racial violence to fuel their own multi-million dollar fundraising machine. But as the case moves into a federal courtroom in Alabama, a different story is emerging—one that suggests the “manufacturing” might be happening inside the DOJ itself.