The SPLC Funded the Klan. Then Tripled Its Revenue.

The Southern Poverty Law Center was just indicted by a federal grand jury for fraud, money laundering, and paying the people it told its donors it was fighting. A Klan-affiliated informant got over a million dollars. The Unite the Right coordinator got $270,000. The money moved through shell companies with names like "Fox Photography" and "Rare Books Warehouse."And in the fiscal year after Charlottesville — the rally their paid informant helped coordinate — SPLC donations jumped from $50 million to $132 million.But the SPLC is not the story. The SPLC is the clearest possible view of a much bigger machine.In this episode, Matt Carano walks through three cases of the same structural model operating at three different scales:— The SPLC and the manufactured domestic extremism it fundraises off of — The National Endowment for Democracy, USAID, and the US regime change apparatus that replaced what the CIA used to do covertly — with Ukraine 2013–14 as the worked example — Benjamin Netanyahu's decade-long strategy of propping up Hamas to prevent a Palestinian state, in his own wordsOne machine. Three scales. The threat is the product.