In 2023, the Southern Poverty Law Center put Army of Parents on their “hate map.” Same list as the Klan. Same list as neo-Nazis. A nonprofit I built to defend children and families — branded an extremist organization by people who, a federal grand jury now alleges, were literally writing checks to the Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America.

Read that again. Slowly.

This week, a federal grand jury indicted the SPLC on 11 counts — wire fraud, bank fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering — alleging they secretly funneled over $3 million in donor money to paid informants inside the KKK, the Aryan Nation, and the National Socialist Party of America. Acting AG Todd Blanche said it plainly: the SPLC was “manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose.” They disguised payments through shell companies with names like “Fox Photography” and “Rare Books Warehouse.” One informant helped coordinate transportation to the 2017 Charlottesville rally — while on the SPLC’s payroll.

This is the organization that labeled us hate groups.

Here in Loudoun County, a group calling itself the “Loudoun Love Warriors” was systematically compiling dossiers on parents who dared speak at school board meetings — a physical book they titled “Chardonnay Antifa’s List of Sketch People,” cataloguing 115 people as “Racist Bigots & Political Operatives.” That intelligence was fed into a network with the SPLC’s platform and institutional reach behind it. The result was predictable. The........

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