Reports
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
Cause Unknown: Tracking Deaths in Mississippi’s Prison System
The Department of Public Safety in Mississippi reported 148 deaths in its jails and prisons in 2025, an unacceptable tragedy considering that simply being involved in the criminal legal system should not be a death sentence. Deaths in custody should be rare, and when they occur, it is critical that robust data is available to…
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- Ending Unjust Imprisonment
The Harsh School Discipline Policies of Richmond County in Six Graphs
When the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) Georgia state office held listening sessions with communities across the state last year, Isabel Otero and her colleagues kept hearing a recurring concern in session after session — overly harsh discipline practices were disproportionately pushing Black students, and other students of color, out of schools. While the SPLC…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
The Year in Hate & Extremism 2025
In 2025 both the federal government and the private tech sector embraced the ideas of the hard right and advanced its agenda. The Year in Hate and Extremism 2025: From Extreme to Establishment is an annual exclusive report on hate and extremist antigovernment groups in the United States. The Southern Poverty Law Center documented 1,263 hate and…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Afterword
Hate and authoritarianism are increasingly driven by extremist groups and hard-right influencers, whose rhetoric normalizes anti-immigrant sentiment, white supremacy, scapegoating, misogyny and contempt for inclusive democracy. When hard-right actors exploit economic politics, spread disinformation and delegitimize institutions, they create conditions for violence and white supremacy to rule. 2025 Year in Hate & Extremism A successful…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
A Look Back at Suit-and-Tie Extremism in Washington, D.C.
In 2025, President Donald Trump’s administration and far-right members of Congress worked to enact and enforce a regressive, anti-democracy agenda. Hate and antigovernment groups, along with other hard-right actors, worked in coordination with them to support this agenda through such efforts as Project 2025. 2025 Year in Hate & Extremism Contrasted with the shaved heads…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
When the hard right comes to campus
The nation’s college campuses are some of the hard right’s most frequent targets. This movement — which rejects equality and pluralism, instead embracing an authoritarian brand of politics alongside racism, sexism and other forms of bigotry — focuses on institutions of higher learning because of the critical role they play in our society and the…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Crypto Financing Hate
Neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin’s harassment campaign against Montana real estate agent Tanya Gersh drew national attention for its viciousness — but the aftermath revealed another, quieter battlefield. Even after a federal court ordered Anglin to pay more than $14 million in damages, the publisher of The Daily Stormer — once one of the most influential neo-Nazi…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Empowering Extremists
Since President Donald Trump took office for a second term, his administration has radically transformed government policy in favor of far-right interests and individuals.
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
An influential time
President Donald Trump’s return to office emboldened hard-right social media influencers to take more extreme positions on issues of race, antisemitism, women’s rights and LGBTQ+ issues — all while providing them with unprecedented access to political power. Throughout 2025, the administration and its allies leaned on an increasingly extreme set of influencers to sell their…
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- Dismantling White Supremacy
Director’s Note
2025 was a turbulent year marked by injustice, social upheaval and stark new threats from a hard-right movement rapidly establishing its power across institutions. Both the federal government and the private tech sector embraced the ideas of the hard right and advanced its agenda. The hard right effectively seized the power of government as a…