(Daily Signal)—The Southern Poverty Law Center is comparing the largest conservative grassroots youth organization to the Ku Klux Klan, adding Turning Point USA to its “hate map” that plots KKK chapters and claims to expose “the groups upholding white supremacy in the United States.”
The latest version of the SPLC hate map, released Thursday, lists Turning Point USA for the first time, categorizing the group as an “anti-government extremist group.” The hate map also includes PragerU, a nonprofit that uses digital media to spread conservative ideas, putting it in the same category as Turning Point USA.
Critics have long accused the SPLC of liberal bias in applying its “hate” accusations, though the SPLC contests these claims.
PragerU told The Daily Signal that the SPLC did not reach out to them before putting the group on the “hate map.”
“No, they did not notify us and if they’d like to know how we feel about SPLC, we actually have an entire 5 minute video about them titled The “Anti-Hate” Group That Is a Hate Group,” a PragerU representative said.
Turning Point describes itself as “the largest and fastest-growing youth organization in America,” touting a presence on “over 3,500 campuses.” It has more than 800 college chapters and over 1,000 high school chapters. It aims “to build the most organized, active, and powerful conservative grassroots activist network on high school and college campuses across the country.”
“I founded Turning Point USA to take the fight for ideological diversity directly to a progressive stronghold: the nation’s leading colleges and universities,” Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk said in 2019.
Here’s Turning Point on the “hate map.”
Reminder: This is the same hate map that a terrorist used to target the Family Research Council for an attempted mass shooting in 2012.😲 (SPLC condemned the shooting but kept FRC on the map)
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“I know many young conservatives all across the country that are isolated and ostracized due to their beliefs,” he wrote in 2013. “They are portrayed as bigots, misogynists and ignorant just because they are conservative.”
In the SPLC’s “Year in Hate and Extremism” report, released with the 2024 version of the “hate map,” the SPLC describes Turning Point USA as “a 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.”
The SPLC states that Turning Point Action, the group’s sister 501(c)(4) nonprofit, “led Trump’s 2024 campaign efforts in key battleground states and played a vital role in the election of far-right candidates in Arizona, while TPUSA participated on the advisory board of Project 2025, a blueprint to radically reshape the federal government.”
“Turning Point USA’s primary strategy is sowing and exploiting fear that white Christian supremacy is under attack by nefarious actors, including immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community and civil rights activists,” claims the SPLC.
“TPUSA and its spokespeople often warn their audience that their children, wives, religion, way of life and they themselves are under attack by various constructed enemies,” the report asserts. “TPUSA exploits complicated feelings of insecurity and anxiety to manufacture rage and mobilize support to revive and maintain a white-dominated, male supremacist, Christian social order.”
The SPLC notes that while Kirk once urged conservatives to adopt a “secular worldview,” he has championed Christianity in recent years, aiming to “restore America’s biblical values.”
The SPLC’s report claims to have “documented 1,371 hate and antigovernment extremist groups” in 2024, a decrease from the 2023 number of 1,430.
A domestic terrorist used the SPLC “hate map” to target the Family Research Council in Washington, D.C., in 2012. While the SPLC condemned the attack and insisted that it never intended to inspire violence against anyone, it has kept the council on the “hate map” since.
The SPLC has faced multiple defamation lawsuits over its “hate group” claims.
The “hate map” includes various groups with influence on American conservatism. Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative Christian law firm the SPLC calls an “anti-LGBTQ hate group,” has won multiple cases before the Supreme Court and drafted model legislation. Gays Against Groomers, which the SPLC calls an “anti-LGBTQ hate group,” has organized lesbian, gay, and bisexual people against what it describes as the sexualization of children.
Moms for Liberty, which the SPLC calls an “antigovernment extremist group,” has organized a parental rights movement across the country, training school board candidates.
While the SPLC claims these groups demonize LGBTQ people, the groups claim the SPLC targets them because they oppose its agenda on political issues.
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The SPLC needs investigated and prosecuted as a hate group. They are comprised of godless/globalists/democrats. They are a threat to our Republic.p and henchmen for the Democratic Party. The democratic party is a domestic enemy and a terrorist organization hell-bent on the destruction of the Republic of the United States of America and mean tremendous harm to its people. The leaders of the Democratic Party are all traitors. Their actions, past and present, undeniably prove this fact. They speak lies to the truth! They cheat and murder. They are godless and violent. They need prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law!
SPLC should be designated as a domestic terrorist group. And the ACLU isn’t far behind them.
I was going to post but it appears that you have already knocked it out of the park.
Who voted for and supported THIS brain-dead segregationist until half a cup of coffee ago? While calling Trump racist without evidence?
Joe Biden worked and caucused with, (officially pledged to vote with under Senate rules), segregationists James O. Eastland and Herman Talmadge who were fellow Democrats and avowed white supremacists. (Eastland was a literal southern cotton plantation owner, (over 6000 acres!!!)… Governor Talmage ordered all state schools closed, rather than allow integration)
“The new integration plans being offered are really just quota systems to assure a certain number of blacks, Chicanos, or whatever in each school. That, to me, is the most racist concept you can come up with,” Biden said in a interview highlighted by the Post. “What it says is, ‘In order for your child with curly black hair, brown eyes, and dark skin to be able to learn anything, he needs to sit next to my blond-haired, blue-eyed son.’ That’s racist! Who the hell do we think we are, that the only way a black man or woman can learn is if they rub shoulders with my white child?”
“Unless we do something about this, my children are going to grow up in a jungle, the jungle being a racial jungle with tensions built so high that it is going to explode at some point. We have got to make some move on this.” – Joe Biden
Biden also went much further than just opposing integration policies instituted by the Department of Education, calling it an “asinine concept” and saying, “I’ve gotten to the point where I think our only recourse may be a constitutional amendment.”
Joe Biden voted to restore Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s citizenship over 100 years after his death…
“Poor kids are just as bright and just as talented as white kids” – Joe Biden August, 2019
Quite right. The SPLC bias is so leftist racist as to be palpable. They should not be ‘non-profit’ since it acts as a media terrorist for the democrat, fascist party.
Sue SPLC for defamation. This is a perfect case for it. Take SPLC for every Soros dollar they receive.
Not surprised because SPLC is a hate group itself, so that is all they recognize. If it was a love group, then they would consider Uprager and Turning Point USA as a LOVE group. See how it wokes?
it should be refered to as southern communist poverty lawless junta.
Who cares? Nobody takes the SPLC seriously?
You can’t possibly be surprised by this.
What are SPLC so afraid of? That Charlie Kirk is going to ask a bunch of questions to some college kids and trigger their critical thinking skills? Expose what they’ve been taught to be nothing more than political brainwashing?
The SPLC should be declared a DOMESTIC TERRORIST ORGANIZATION.
We need to defund this group of liars. They have been at it far too long!