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The Southern Poverty Law Center [SPLC] has not yet posted its Audited Financial Statement and IRS Form 990 for the year ending October 31 2025, delaying at least three months later than usual. This is an abrupt departure from the meticulous housekeeping under the regime of founder Morris Dees and President & CEO J. Richard Cohen (who resigned alongside Dees in 2019).

And the SPLC has also switched auditors: it is now using the Atlanta-based firm of CRI (Carr, Riggs & Ingram, L.L.C.), whereas for many years it used Jackson Thornton & Co., P.C. based in its hometown of Montgomery AL.

At commercial bank credit school many years ago, I was trained to regard any change of auditors as raising a red flag.

Is something going on?

The SPLC, long America’s leading anti-white vigilante outfit, has certainly been generating some interesting news this year. The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against it, initially in April, amended in June. The core of the original indictment:

6 counts of wire fraud (18 U.S.C. § 1343)

4 counts of false statements to a federally insured bank (18 U.S.C. § 1014)

1 count of conspiracy to commit concealment money laundering (18 U.S.C. § 1956(h))

(Not primarily for paying monies to questionable groups, as often misrepresented, including, alarmingly, by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche at the DOJ Press Conference.)

These financial fraud charges will be extremely difficult to defeat, as chillingly laid out in the middle part of Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud (Bits about Money, May 1st, 2026.)

Financial fraud laws are exceptionally savage, a hangover from the War on Drugs and the War On Terror. Under them, the only thing that matters is that a bank was misled. Why and to whom the money was paid does not matter.

The SPLC’s best chance is probably nullification by a Leftist judge or jury—admittedly all too possible in such a high-profile political case as this.

Consequently it is a puzzle to me why the DOJ is laying so much emphasis on the marginally relevant but headline-grabbing issue of the curious payments to supposed right-wingers for information or perhaps influence. DOJ is asserting this defrauded the SPLC’s donors. This may be be more of a stretch legally.

And a July 7, 2026, Washington Examiner story SPLC arraigned on superseding charges of donor fraud by Mia Cathell added the disturbing fact:

For the charged offenses, the SPLC faces up to 30 years in federal prison, a $1 million fine, and any applicable order of restitution. U.S. attorney Kevin Davidson, however, noted during the arraignment hearing that the SPLC is “a corporate defendant” and would not be subject to imprisonment as the federal statute stipulates in most fraud cases.

This very much puzzles old VDARE.com hands like myself. New York Attorney General Letitia James in her effort to destroy VDARE has filed against both the VDARE Foundation and Lydia and Peter Brimelow personally. (She is not alleging bank fraud. It’s a civil case).

The Federal financial fraud laws are intentionally designed to victimize individuals as well as institutions. In fact, their basic operational method is to terrify individuals into betraying their associates.

That the individuals pseudonymously named in the complaint are not being sued personally raises alarming questions about the seriousness of the DOJ. Merely fining the $829 million-asset SPLC a trivial $1 million is a bad joke.

Of course, these periphery charges have unquestionably hurt the SPLC’s public image. One of the startling stories arising from the DOJ’s legal offensive was summarized in the New York Post (SPLC boss funneled $1.2 million to lover in neo-Nazi group — pair even had joint bank account, By Chadwick Moore and Isabel Vincent, June 16, 2026):

Based on the details in the June 2 superseding indictment, “Employee-2” is believed to be Heidi Beirich, a 58-year-old fascism expert who was the director of intelligence at the Alabama-based anti-extremism nonprofit between 2012 and 2019.

“[Beirich] was also in a romantic relationship with F-9. During this relationship, [Beirich] and F-9 shared a house and two bank accounts,” the indictment alleges.

“Between 2015 and 2021, approximately $140,000 in donors’ money flowed from the SPLC operating account … and was ultimately deposited into the joint bank accounts held by F-9 and [Beirich].”

Heidi Beirich, now Chief Strategy Officer & Co-Founder of Global Project Against Hate And Extremism.

Some may find this amusing. But Heidi Beirich was for years one of the $PLC’s main thugs. See Hideous Heidi Beirich’s Bullying Laid Bare.

Perhaps some lawyer out there can explain why an apparent perpetrator—Beirich personally opened some of the fake accounts—who is also the beneficiary of bank fraud would not be charged.

On May 22 2026, I posted Why VDARE called Southern Poverty Law Center the “$PLC”

This recapitulated the $PLC’s astonishing financial success story and reported on its subsequent fall from grace, including founder Morris Dees’s abrupt firing in March 2019 for reasons never fully made public.

I also noted that, over the last few years, a Black takeover of the SPLC has seemingly taken place.

Judging from a screenshot from March 29 2024, posted below, now only four of the 13 Board Members are White (at least three apparently Jewish) and Blacks are in a majority.

In contrast, as recently as 2018, there only three Black members out of 13 and at least eight members appeared to be Jewish.

Moreover, in June 16 the SPLC website posted SPLC Announces Ryan P. Haygood as New President and CEO

Haygood, by an amazing coincidence, is black. Previously for ten years he was President of the New Jersey Institute For Social Justice, an outfit so obscure that it has not earned (or bothered to create) a Wikipedia page (neither has Haygood). The only news stories he has generated appear to be honorific.

The website of Haygood’s New Jersey Institute For Social Justice is as secretive as the SPLC’s. But it does disclose it was

established in 1999 by Alan V. and Amy Lowenstein and a group of visionaries steeped in the Civil Rights Movement.

and that it has appointed an Indian woman, Henal Patel, Interim President & CEO of the Institute.

(Senior Counsel, Nuzhat Chowdhury, and Senior Counsel “Democracy and Justice Reform” Rupal Motwani, are also obviously Indian—three out of the nine officers.)

So basically the Institute For Social Justice is an anti-white advocacy operation which is being forced to utilize “Blacks with Brains” to keep the shop operating.

Symbolically, the longstanding $PLC logo was changed in 2023. The new one dispensed with the Scales of Justice and is straightforwardly Black and White.

These changes at the SPLC have been accompanied by a radical reduction of transparency on the its website, which was historically quite informative. In particular, information about its Directors and Officers has been suppressed.

Yet the changes at the SPLC are significant. I noted in my May 2026 that, starting in 2020, invasions of the SPLC’s fabled “Endowment Fund”—not actually an Endowment Fund as usually understood in charity law but just a pile of money that Morris Dees seemed to like sitting on—had begun.

From Footnote 13 of the 2024 Consolidated Financial Statements (which reported the Endowment Fund at $787 Mm):

During the year ended October 31, 2020, the Board of Directors approved $30 million from the Endowment Fund for the Vote Your Voice initiative…the Board of Directors approved a $100 million investment from the Endowment Fund over the next decade to support voter outreach…The commitment…marks a more-than-threefold increase…pledged in 2020.

The total Vote Your Voice expense for the year ended October 31, 2024, was $14,068,100 (total $41,964,614 for four years).

Footnote 13 does not directly state when the “investment,” which of course is just a subsidy to black political activists, was voted. But I do not believe that any distributions from the “Endowment Fund” were ever allowed when Morris Dees was in control (ended 2019).

It is axiomatic, and has been underlined by the recent Somali and BLM funding scandals (see here and here and here), that showering money on Black-controlled outfits just enables fraud.

If anyone is dubious of the political importance of the $SPLC case, or of the organization’s tremendous power of the $PLC, I commend the section Data products and mechanistic decisioning in Bits about Money’s definitive essay Notes on a non-profit indicted for bank fraud mentioned above.

This nauseatingly explains that from 2017

The SPLC formed a coalition to gain account- and transaction-level decisionmaking capability at tech companies, financial infrastructure firms, and banks through a coordinated pressure campaign… Industry participants describe the coalition participants as threatening their employers, openly and by implication.

In effect, the SPLC effectively gained veto power of access to financial services over an amazingly wide range of institutions. Political opponents were systematically targeted. This may well explain the tremendous loss of services that VDARE.com suffered in those years.

The Biden totalitarian coup was communist in content, because it was egalitarian and anti-identitarian, but fascist in form, because like Mussolini it co-opted corporate insititutions.

Bits about Money points out that the SPLC’s ludicrous reputation for holiness amongst the sheeple was key to this:

Industry participants… when the cameras are not rolling, when there is nothing to gain, repeatedly described the SPLC to me as being on the side of the angels.

Destroying this totally fallacious reputation is of course definitely in the interest of Americans. And there has already been some evidence this process has started.

But will the process be completed? The redoubtable Sam E. Antar, without whom the Letitia James mortgage fraud case would never have been assembled, suspects Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche of having sabotaged that litigation.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche

Is Blanche, a former Democrat, reluctant to charge home against Democratic icons?

For my own part, having closely observed VDARE’s litigation experiences (and for that matter President Trump’s) has eliminated any confidence in the integrity of the American judicial system. Especially when any whiff of politics is involved.

However I do have confidence in Black behavior in financial matters.

Consequently, I have been eagerly awaiting the posting of the SPLC’s Audited Financial Statement and IRS Form 990 for their FY ended 10-30-2025.

Hurry up, $PLC!

p.s. For the record, my major, exhaustive but still-relevant, VDARE.com analyses of the SPLC phenomenon were

https://joefriedcpa.substack.com/p/trump-claims-election-fraud-was-covered

We have all heard it many times. According to “journalists,” claims made by President Trump regarding election cheating are “unfounded,” “disproven,” and/or “debunked.” However, irrefutable evidence of large-scale 2020 election fraud exists.

On Thursday night, the President outlined four specific areas of election concern. I’d like to address one of them: Corrupt Michigan voter registrations in the 2020 election. Trump said: “Even when significant evidence of fraud has been detected, it has been buried and covered up.”

The President is correct: Wide-spread evidence of Michigan fraud was detected before the 2020 election. After it was discovered and reviewed by the FBI, it was concealed by the Biden DOJ. I know this because I had access to the numerous DOJ email communications pertaining to this subterfuge.

The scandal is discovered

Shortly before the 2020 election, a woman walked into a Muskegon County (MI) election office and submitted 8 to 10 thousand voter registration applications. An alert election clerk named Ann Meisch noticed that many of the applications were extremely suspicious, with birth-dates, addresses, and signatures that did not match the information on related drivers licenses.

Meisch and co-workers made a largely unsuccessful effort to verify the information by calling phone numbers on questionable applications. The matter was then turned over to Muskegon local police and state authorities.

The police noted that “numerous forms appeared to have been completed by the same writer…” and “phone numbers on multiple forms were erroneous and signatures on multiple forms didn’t appear to match signatures on file….” They briefly investigated the matter before the probe was turned over to the FBI. It was then squelched, almost immediately, by the Biden Department of Justice.

The story went dark for almost 3 years until the Gateway Pundit (GP) published a series of articles based upon state and city police reports. Here is a short recap of the GP reporting, followed by some confidential information that has not been widely reported.

The woman who submitted the registration applications has the name Brianna Hawkins, and was paid $1150 per week, given a rental car, and a “reloadable pay card.” Her job was to register voters and help them use the registrations to get ballots.

The company she worked for was a Tennessee organization with the name, GBI Strategies. It had numerous branches and activities in many areas of Michigan, and in other locations in the United States.

GBI had very close ties to high-ranking Democrats and left-leaning groups. A police investigation stated or implied that, in 2018, GBI was paid $188,000 by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, $1,571,000 by the Doug Jones for Senate Committee, and $657,000 by the left-wing New American Jobs Fund.

During their investigation, the police found several “semi-automatic rifles joined with suppressors and optics and customized pistols.” Why they were there is a mystery.

The police also found “dozens of new phones” and hundreds of “prepaid payment cards.” [Why hundreds? Were people being paid with the cards if they registered and voted?]

GBI employees told police investigators that they never advocated that people vote for Joe Biden or any particular candidate. However, police saw a script in the GBI office that encouraged people to vote for Joe Biden. For example, it asked, “can I count on you to vote for Joe Biden?”

City police went door-to-door to confirm that the registration forms possessed by GBI were fraudulent.

Ruth Johnson, a former state senator and former secretary of state stated: “My estimate is over 800,000 ballot applications were sent to non-qualified voters in Michigan.”

Phony registrations, no ID, and no signature checking

To fully understand the scale of this corruption, and the significance of the phony registrations, you need to know how easily they can be converted into votes.

Although Michigan law required a voter to request a ballot application, Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson ignored the law, and she automatically mailed out 7.7 million ballot applications to everyone who was registered, including 4 million who were not planning to vote absentee, and those with the phony registrations obtained by GBI. No ID was required.

The only voting safeguard in Michigan (a weak one at that) was signature matching. However, Secretary Benson unlawfully told election clerks throughout Michigan to “presume” signatures matched, and most did. Fortunately, Ann Meisch, the woman who discovered the scandal, ignored Benson’s unlawful instructions.

Four months after the election, Benson’s instructions were ruled to be invalid by a state judge. The mainstream media ignored that ruling. No appeal was filed by Secretary Benson.

The Biden Department of Justice kills the investigation

Before the 2020 election, FBI agents knew that the real number of phony registrations could be several times larger than the 8,000 to 10,000 registrations originally reported. I read the emails and have the specific names of those agents. I will not name them here because they may still be government-restricted.

At least one official reported that the number of phony registrations could change the election results. Another agent proposed interviewing 100 individuals who served as canvassers of 2020 registration information.

Nevertheless, Richard Pilger, the man in charge of the DOJ’s Election Crimes Branch, blocked any investigation of the matter prior to election certification. He claimed that he was blocking the action based on a long-standing government policy (Justice Manual 95-85.300). However, a careful reading of the manual shows that investigations should be delayed only when they are “overt” — meaning that they would become widely known by the public and could influence the election. Interviews of individual canvassers, examination of documents, and other investigatory actions would not be barred. Pilger must have known that.

Conclusion

Registration applications were obtained by GBI in multiple cities in Michigan and elsewhere. It is clear that some of the registrations were fabricated or obtained by trickery.

In some instances, legitimate registrations may have been obtained, but via illegal financial inducements.

When the Secretary of State auto-mailed ballot applications to 7.7 million registrants, the people with phony registrations also received ballot applications.

Because 4 million voters did not expect to receive a ballot application (because they never asked for one), those applications ended up in trash cans and landfills where they were easily available to political operatives.

The registrants (the real ones and the phony ones) could fill out the application forms and obtained ballots – without showing identification.

Because of the unlawful instructions of Jocelyn Benson, all signatures on ballot applications were “presumed” to be legitimate.

A review of FBI/DOJ correspondence shows that some officials were very concerned about GBI, and wanted to investigate before the 2020 election. However, Richard Pilger, the Director of the Election Crimes Branch, blocked any such investigation until after the election. Perhaps he feared that such an investigation would give credibility to President Trump’s claims of election fraud.

How many Michigan votes were created by GBI? How many were produced by Jocelyn Benson’s unlawful mass mailing of ballot applications and by her unlawful signature instructions? It is impossible to know.

That is why it was wrong to certify the 2020 Michigan election.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/biohacker-bryan-johnson-claims-he-cloned-himself-to-aid-longevity-quest/?utm_source=featured-news

Wealthy entrepreneur and extreme “biohacker” Bryan Johnson claimed Tuesday that he just cloned himself as a “newborn” for the purpose of providing him blood and cells.

“This baby-bryan lives in a petri dish for now,” Johnson said on X, explaining that the so-called “clone” will be used to provide malleable “pluripotent” cells that “can be differentiated into hundreds of cell types.”

The biohacker appears to use the word “clone” loosely to refer to the process of reprogramming some of his cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). In his post, he said the process involved drawing his blood; extracting his cells; applying “yamanaka factors,” which are four proteins that can reprogram mature adult cells into stem cell-like cells; resetting “epigenetic age”; and “restoring” the cells to “an embryonic-like state.”

He stated this “clone” can also be used to “grow organs for transplantation.” Johnson’s allegation that a self “clone” can be used for organ harvesting is reminiscent of the 2005 novel Never Let Me Go as well as the 2005 film The Island, both of which featured human clones bred for organ harvesting.

Johnson, who is known for the drastic lengths he goes to in the hopes of never dying, recently announced that he has developed autoimmune gastritis (AIG), a rare, “incurable” disease that he says is causing his stomach to “eat itself.”

He suggested on Tuesday that this “clone” was created in an attempt to heal himself from this stomach disease.

“I mentioned getting diagnosed with an incurable disease is one of the best things that has happened to me in a long time,” Johnson wrote. “It’s opened up a frontier of new paths to repair and strengthen the body. This is the first example.”

Johnson is the founder and former CEO of Kernel, which creates devices that monitor and measure brain activity, and was also founder of online payments company Braintree.

However, he is best known for his anti-aging efforts that involve a strict lifestyle regimen: He rises at 4:30 a.m., eats all of his meals before 11 a.m., and goes to bed at 8:30 p.m. every day, according to a September 2023 report from The Guardian. According to a Fortune report, “Every day he also takes two dozen medicines at 5 a.m., consumes 1,977 ‘vegan calories,’ and exercises for an hour before using blue-light-evasive glasses and hitting the hay.”

He has also had himself injected with “gene therapy,” regularly receives red-light therapy, and meticulously tracks a variety of biological metrics daily.

His stated philosophy is “Don’t die.”

In a quest to achieve immortality, Johnson has received blood from his teenage son and other young persons. In 2023, news emerged that Johnson had recruited his then-17-year-old son, Talmage, to provide a full liter of his blood that was separated into a batch of liquid plasma and then a batch of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets, according to a Bloomberg report.

His son’s plasma was then infused into his veins.

Since early last year, Netflix has streamed a 1.5-hour documentary about Johnson’s longevity quest titled Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever.

Johnson claims that through his “Project Blueprint” he has achieved metabolic health equal to the top 1.5% of 18-year-olds, inflammation 66% lower than the average 10-year-old, and reduced his speed of aging by the equivalent of 31 years.

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