The SPLC has spent fifty years claiming Martin Luther King Jr's legacy.
His niece sat under oath in Congress this week and told them what that legacy actually looks like from inside her family.
And Jamie Raskin told her she'd better have evidence.
The House Judiciary Committee held its second hearing Tuesday on whether the Southern Poverty Law Center manufactured the racial hatred it spent decades fundraising off — and MLK Jr.'s niece blew the whole thing wide open.
The DOJ indicted the SPLC in April on 11 counts — wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The core allegation: the SPLC raised hundreds of millions telling donors they were dismantling white supremacy, then secretly funneled more than $3 million of that money to white supremacist groups.
Not to fight them. To pay their members.
The SPLC Indictment Jim Jordan Laid Out at Tuesday's Hearing
Committee Chair Jim Jordan spelled out the mechanism. The SPLC used five fake shell companies to cut checks to informants inside the KKK, the neo-Nazi National Alliance, and Aryan Nations.
One informant was paid $1.2 million — and shared a bank account with the SPLC staffer handling him.
A convicted cross-burner got $19,000.
A third informant was paid $300,000 and helped coordinate transportation to the 2017 Charlottesville Unite the Right rally.
The SPLC's fundraising exploded after Charlottesville.
Jordan also confirmed that Biden's DOJ made the SPLC the official standard for identifying hate groups — having it train federal prosecutors, scheduling regular White House meetings, and letting its "hate map" determine which Americans could access banking and payment systems.
SPLC CEO Bryan Fair Refused to Answer Seven Specific Indictment Allegations
SPLC interim CEO Bryan Fair showed up with one answer and used it on everything: we'll address this in court.
Jordan pressed him on at least seven specific indictment allegations. Fair deflected on all of them. Rep. Tom McClintock asked about foreign donations. Deflected. Rep. Darrell Issa invited him to recant the SPLC's hate designation for Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA — a label applied just months before Kirk was murdered.
Fair refused.
Under oath, in front of Congress, with a federal indictment pending, the SPLC's acting CEO wouldn't take the label off a martyred conservative's name.
Rep. Lance Gooden made it plain: "So destroying pregnancy resource centers and Catholic churches doesn't qualify as hate under your definition? But God forbid Turning Point holds a rally."
Fair had nothing.
Alveda King's Testimony Turned the Hearing Into a Confrontation
King came in representing the America First Policy Institute. She didn't come to be diplomatic.
She told the committee the SPLC is using money to "stir up racism" and pit Americans against each other by skin color.
She said she'd been personally flagged by the SPLC and claimed multiple times she was on a domestic terrorist list — apparently for her pro-life advocacy. Fair later said he had no idea what she was talking about, that no such list exists.
One of them is lying under oath.
Then Raskin pressed her for evidence — reminding her, pointedly, that she was under oath.
She didn't flinch. She told him about 1963.
"Outside agitators did bomb our house in '63 and then ran back and took off the Ku Klux Klan sheets and put on police things and ran up in the yard," King said. "Y'all pay both of them to do double jobs, SPLC does. You hire 'em to do the bombing, then you hire them to fix the bombing? That's weird."
Raskin asked for evidence again. King told him she'd get him some.
A Democrat congressman — defending an indicted organization that paid a neo-Nazi $1.2 million — was warning Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece about perjury.
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How the SPLC Hate Map Became a Weapon to Debank Conservative Groups
The FBI cut ties with the SPLC in October 2025 under Kash Patel, calling it a partisan smear machine. That was the first serious institutional break in the group's half-century run as the left's preferred arbiter of who counts as a hate group.
The con works like this. The hate map kept expanding — Family Research Council, Alliance Defending Freedom, Moms for Liberty, PragerU, Charlie Kirk's organization — groups that disagree with the left on abortion, parenting, faith, and free speech, all listed alongside actual neo-Nazis. Financial institutions used that list to decide who got bank accounts. Tech platforms used it to decide who got audiences.
ADF's Ryan Bangert testified Tuesday that the SPLC's labels drove mainstream conservatives out of banking and payment systems entirely — a shadow censorship regime outsourced to a private organization that was, at the same moment, allegedly writing checks to the Aryan Nations.
The indictment says the SPLC kept one informant inside a white supremacist group even after he tried to leave — because the threat had to stay real to keep the donations coming.
That is the organization Jamie Raskin spent Tuesday defending. That is the organization Alveda King says has been running the same double game her family lived through in 1963.
She said it under oath. And she's not backing down.
Sources:
- Greg Piper, "Democrat leader warns MLK Jr.'s niece Alveda King for claims against SPLC: 'you're under oath,'" Just the News, June 9, 2026.
- House Judiciary Committee Republicans, "The Southern Poverty Law Center: Manufacturing Hate, Part II," hearing page, June 9, 2026.
- "SPLC Head Doubles Down On Calling TPUSA 'Hate' Group Before Charlie Kirk's Murder," Daily Caller, June 9, 2026.
- "WATCH: SPLC chief doubles down on placing Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA on 'hate map,'" Fox News, June 9, 2026.
- "Southern Poverty Law Center indicted on federal fraud charges," Fox News, April 22, 2026.
- "The FBI — Finally — Kicks the SPLC to the Curb," Alliance Defending Freedom, October 14, 2025.
- "How Southern Poverty Law Center donations to fight racism allegedly funded it instead," Deseret News, April 22, 2026.
