OSA is one of many anti-abortion groups that engage in protests at clinics, harassing supporters, providers and people seeking medical care. The group is a rebrand of Operation Rescue, a militant anti-abortion organization that, in the 1980s and 1990s, …
In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, upending a half-century of precedent. Since then, 14 states have outlawed abortion, three others have effectively banned the procedure by …
[1] National Abortion Federation, “2022 Violence and Disruption Statistics,” 2023. https://prochoice.org/our-work/provider-security/. [2] Karissa Haugeberg, Women Against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century ( …
Without abortion clinics to protest in states that have outlawed the procedure, anti-abortion activists have flocked to those where it is protected. The movement has long coordinated protests, encouraging people to target specific clinics and arranging …
In Alabama, reproductive justice activists are concerned about providing even basic information to people considering an out-of-state abortion. Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has threatened to use anti-conspiracy laws to prosecute individuals and …
The goal of ending abortion is ultimately a male supremacist political project: the far right believes that women should be afforded fewer rights and opportunities than men, and that their primary roles in society – as dictated through cultural norms as …
MONTGOMERY — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) launched its bilingual voting campaign, The South’s Got Now / Decidimos in Alabama. Designed to mobilize and unite voters of color across the South, the campaign will help voters create the change …
The Southern Poverty Law Center and its partners filed a lawsuit on behalf of parents of public school students facing discrimination under a state law that fails to provide them with a process for appealing decisions banning books from school libraries …
Every week, we highlight stories on extremism and the radical right from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project. Here are stories that caught our attention through June 7.
As a queer and trans kid growing up in a queerphobic home decades ago in the South, I had little access to LGBTQ+ representation. I relied on the glimpses of queer people and gender nonconformity in books so that I might find myself and know that other …
In 2020, Patrick Braxton was sworn in as the first Black mayor of Newbern, Alabama, in its 170-year history. He ran unopposed, the only candidate who filed the necessary paperwork and fee to qualify for mayor. No one, neither incumbent nor challenger, …
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Today, parents of Florida public school students sued the DeSantis administration’s Board of Education for violating their First Amendment rights through the implementation of H.B. 1069. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court …
2019: Patrick Braxton, considering a run for office in Newbern, Alabama, rents a house within the town boundaries to establish residency. June 2020: Braxton approaches Newbern Mayor Haywood Stokes III to ask for information to qualify for the Aug. 25, 2020 …
(Lealo en Español en la parte de abajo) WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, President Biden announced a proclamation and interim final rule which together will severely restrict access to the asylum process. The new proclamation and rule will deny asylum to …
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released The Year in Hate & Extremism 2023, a comprehensive analysis of the groups and organizational infrastructure upholding white supremacy in the United States. The new report …
When historian Carter G. Woodson wrote, “When you can control a man’s thinking, you don’t have to worry about his actions. … He will find his ‘proper place’ and stay in it,” he was speaking to the necessity of Black education to truly gain knowledge to …
The law is a blunt instrument against hate and extremism. With a record number of white nationalist groups and incidents, record numbers of anti-LGBTQ+ groups, surging antisemitism and all-time-high levels of reported hate crimes, it is clear that hate and …
Male supremacist beliefs continued to encroach on the popular consciousness in 2023. This year, the SPLC documented nine male supremacist hate groups, including several abortion abolitionist groups, a popular misogynist incel community, and the National …
Aug. 3, 2023, marked the four-year anniversary of the racially motivated shooting in El Paso, Texas, where 23 people were killed and 22 wounded at a Walmart. The shooter left behind a manifesto blaming a “Hispanic invasion of Texas” as the basis for the …
Dominionism originated on the fringes of Reformed Christianity largely through the writing of R.J. Rushdoony and his Christian Reconstruction movement. The new brand of dominionism took the idea of Christian supremacy from such theologians as Rushdoony and …
