{"id":2439265,"date":"2025-05-27T02:46:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/southern-poverty-law-center-listed-turning-point-usa-on-its-hate-and-extremism-report-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T02:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T06:47:18","slug":"southern-poverty-law-center-listed-turning-point-usa-on-its-hate-and-extremism-report-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/southern-poverty-law-center-listed-turning-point-usa-on-its-hate-and-extremism-report-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Poverty Law Center listed Turning Point USA on its \u2018hate and extremism\u2019 report &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsouthern-poverty-law-center-listed-turning-point-usa-on-its-hate-and-extremism-report-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2439265&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-ags-battle-woke-law-enforcement\/\" title=\"Republican AGs Battle \u2018Woke\u2019 Law Enforcement\">left-leaning advocacy group<\/a>, has included Turning Point USA (TPUSA) in its &#8220;2024 Year in Hate and Extremism Report,&#8221; categorizing it under the subsection &#8220;Dismantling White Supremacy.&#8221; The SPLC describes TPUSA, a conservative activist association led by Charlie Kirk, as a well-funded group linked to hard-right extremists and influential in conservative politics.The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >report cites specific controversial statements made<\/a> by Kirk,including accusations against Democrats regarding immigration and claims of a &#8220;great replacement&#8221; conspiracy.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie kirk refuted the SPLC&#8217;s claims,labeling the organization as a &#8220;scam&#8221; that unjustly associates TPUSA with hate groups,including the Ku Klux Klan. He asserts that being on the SPLC&#8217;s list is a &#8220;badge of honour,&#8221; indicating the effectiveness of his organization, while expressing disdain for the SPLC&#8217;s credibility and financial practices.High-profile figures, including Elon Musk, also criticized the SPLC, reinforcing the narrative that the organization is out of touch and financially exploitative. The report further alleges that TPUSA promotes Christian nationalism, positioning itself as a meaningful player in that movement.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Southern Poverty Law Center listed Turning Point USA on its &lsquo;hate and extremism&rsquo; report<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2130038\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-cotton-slams-biden-pick-to-lead-doj-civil-rights-division\/\" title=\"Sen. Cotton slams Biden pick to lead DOJ Civil Rights Division\">left-wing advocacy organization<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/southern-poverty-law-center\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a>, listed the conservative Republican activist group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/turning-point-usa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Turning Point USA<\/a>, in its &ldquo;2024 Year in Hate and Extremism Report.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Under the subsection, &ldquo;Dismantling White Supremacy,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/splc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">SPLC<\/a> included a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/resources\/reports\/turning-point-usa-case-study-hard-right-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> titled &ldquo;Turning Point USA: A case study of the hard right in 2024.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3422338\/maryland-congressman-glenn-ivey-kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador\/\">Maryland congressman says he was denied access to constituent Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/3422320\/rahm-emanuel-democratic-party-brand-2028-election\/\">Rahm Emanuel says Democratic Party&#8217;s brand is &#8216;weak and woke&#8217; as he weighs 2028 run<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3422311\/chuck-grassley-trump-sanctions-russia-putin-ukraine\/\">Grassley implores Trump to impose sanctions on Russia<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Describing Turning Point Action as a &ldquo;well-funded, hard-right organization with links to Southern Poverty Law Center-identified hard-right extremists and a tremendous amount of influence in conservative politics,&rdquo; the left-wing SPLC provided multiple examples to justify its classification of Turning Point Action in its report. The organization was particularly critical of Turning Point Founder Charlie Kirk.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Kirk accused Democrats of embracing immigration as part of their plot to secure voters, permit crime and enact the &lsquo;great replacement,&rsquo;&rdquo; read the report. &ldquo;He warned his hundreds of thousands of listeners, &lsquo;We native born Americans are being replaced by foreigners.&rsquo; He then promised Trump will &lsquo;liberate&rsquo; the country from &lsquo;the enemy occupation of the foreigner hordes.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Kirk blasted the SPLC&rsquo;s report in a post on X.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The SPLC has added Turning Point to their ridiculous &ldquo;hate group&rdquo; list, right next to the KKK and neo-Nazis, a cheap smear from a washed-up org that&rsquo;s been fleecing scared grandmas for decades. They somehow still rake in over $100 million a year peddling their &ldquo;hate map&rdquo;&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charliekirk11\/status\/1926750880440693042?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;The SPLC has added Turning Point to their ridiculous &lsquo;hate group&rsquo; list, right next to the KKK and neo-Nazis, a cheap smear from a washed-up org that&rsquo;s been fleecing scared grandmas for decades,&rdquo; Kirk <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/charliekirk11\/status\/1926750880440693042?s=46\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;They somehow still rake in over $100 million a year peddling their &lsquo;hate map&rsquo; nonsense, sitting pretty in their Montgomery &lsquo;Poverty Palace&rsquo; while crying about &lsquo;hate&rsquo; to line their pockets. Even former staffers called their racket a &lsquo;con.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But it&rsquo;s 2025, and nobody with a functioning brain buys their garbage anymore,&rdquo; Kirk added. &ldquo;The SPLC is a laughingstock, a hollowed-out husk of an organization that&rsquo;s been exposed as a grift time and time again. They&rsquo;re not just irrelevant&mdash;they&rsquo;re a cautionary tale of how to torch your own credibility. Maybe someone should take a hard look at where all that &lsquo;nonprofit&rsquo; money&rsquo;s really going?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Presidential adviser and SpaceX Founder Elon Musk also chimed in, criticizing the SPLC.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SPLC is a scam organization<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1926770530658512955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;SPLC is a scam organization,&rdquo; Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1926770530658512955\">posted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The left-wing organization also claimed that Kirk&rsquo;s organization is at the &ldquo;forefront&rdquo; of promoting &ldquo;Christian nationalism&rdquo; in its explanation as to why it added TPUSA to its list. The specific list that the SPLC placed Turning Point USA on includes chapters of the Ku Klux Klan, as Tyler O&rsquo;Neil, senior editor of the <em>Daily Signal<\/em>, pointed out.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#128680;BREAKING<\/p>\n<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center, which trades on its history bankrupting the KKK to smear conservatives as secret supporters of &#8220;white supremacy,&#8221; has put the largest conservative youth org&mdash;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPUSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TPUSA<\/a>&mdash;on the &#8220;hate map&#8221; with Klan chapters.<\/p>\n<p>&#129525;1\/15<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1wIU6FX0m6\">https:\/\/t.co\/1wIU6FX0m6<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pCc3vIm55A\">pic.twitter.com\/pCc3vIm55A<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tyler O&#8217;Neil (@Tyler2ONeil) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tyler2ONeil\/status\/1926367734075470287?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;TPUSA is at the forefront of the movement to promote Christian nationalism, the theocratic worldview that the U.S. is a fundamentally Christian country and that Christian values and beliefs should inform the government and wider culture,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/resources\/reports\/turning-point-usa-case-study-hard-right-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">read<\/a> the SPLC&rsquo;s report.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/restoring-america\/faith-freedom-self-reliance\/3421589\/the-sinister-plot-punish-political-free-speech\/\"><strong>THE SINISTER PLOT TO PUNISH POLITICAL FREE SPEECH<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kirk dismissed the SPLC&rsquo;s categorization of his organization and, like Musk, called the SPLC a &ldquo;scam.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Being on their list is a badge of honor,&rdquo; Kirk said. &ldquo;It means they&rsquo;re terrified that we&rsquo;re so effective. Keep crying, SPLC&mdash;America&rsquo;s done with your scam.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_2130038\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"2130038\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center included Turning Point USA in its &#8220;2024 Year in Hate and Extremism Report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2677,"featured_media":2439266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Trump-TPUSA-scaled-1024x682.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[54219,55964,36420],"class_list":["post-2439265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-hate-2","tag-southern-poverty-law-center","tag-turning-point-usa"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Trump-TPUSA-scaled-1024x682.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2439265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2439269,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439265\/revisions\/2439269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2439266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}