The SPLC was putting people on its hate group fundraising page and secretly paying those same people at the same time.
Jim Jordan just read the indictment and started asking questions about January 6.
The House Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena this week – and the question Jordan is asking should terrify Democrats.
The SPLC Paid Informants While Listing Them as Hate Group Threats
A federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama indicted the Southern Poverty Law Center in April on 11 counts of wire fraud, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
The charge: the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donor money to individuals inside the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and the National Socialist Party of America between 2014 and 2023.
The detail buried in the indictment is worse than the dollar figure.
One informant – identified as F-42 – was the former chairman of the National Alliance neo-Nazi group.
The SPLC listed F-42 on its public "Extremist Files" webpage and used that listing to raise money from donors who believed they were fighting people like him.
At the same time, the SPLC was secretly cutting F-42 checks totaling more than $140,000.
A second informant inside the National Alliance – F-9 – collected more than $1 million over nine years, broke into an extremist group's headquarters, stole 25 boxes of documents, and handed them to SPLC staff.
The SPLC then paid a third person $6,000 to take the blame for the theft.
Acting AG Todd Blanche put it plainly at the April 21 press conference: the SPLC was "manufacturing the extremism it purports to oppose."
Jordan Connects the SPLC Indictment to the 26 FBI Informants at the Capitol
The House Judiciary Committee has been building this case since the indictment dropped in April.
Jordan's team already documented that the Biden DOJ gave the SPLC regular access to federal law enforcement data, let SPLC employees train federal prosecutors, and held scheduled meetings with SPLC leadership throughout the administration.
At least 13 internal FBI documents – including the retracted Richmond memo that labeled traditional Catholics as violent extremists – cited SPLC research as a source.
The FBI wasn't just cooperating with the SPLC.
It was treating the SPLC as an intelligence partner.
Jim, Jordan went one step further on Fox News' America's Newsroom, telling host Bill Hemmer the new subpoena is aimed at one specific question.
"Were any of the guys they were paying – was the Biden Justice Department paying these same guys? Confidential human sources. We know 26 confidential human sources were at the Capitol on January 6th. Four went in the Capitol. They weren't authorized to do so. I want to know if any of these guys were double-dipping and taking money from the government and from the Southern Poverty Law Center."
What This Means for Every January 6 Defendant Biden's DOJ Prosecuted
Biden's DOJ prosecuted more than 1,200 Americans over January 6.
People lost jobs, families, and years of their lives while Democrats called it the worst attack on democracy since the Civil War.
The whole time, 26 federally-paid informants were in that crowd – four of them inside the building without authorization – and nobody told the public, the defendants, or their lawyers.
Now Jordan is asking whether those same informants were also on the SPLC's secret payroll.
The same group that was training Biden's federal prosecutors and feeding research into FBI systems that labeled Catholics as violent extremists.
The same group that was paying a neo-Nazi $1 million while publicly fundraising off his name.
If one person in that crowd was collecting checks from both the Biden DOJ and the SPLC, every single January 6 prosecution deserves a second look.
Jordan isn't just investigating the SPLC.
He's pulling the thread that unravels four years of lies.
Sources:
- Department of Justice, "Federal Grand Jury Charges Southern Poverty Law Center for Wire Fraud, False Statements, and Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering," Justice.gov, April 21, 2026.
- House Judiciary Committee Republicans, "Chairman Jordan Requests Documents about Southern Poverty Law Center Paying Extremists," Judiciary.house.gov, April 2026.
- Washington Examiner, "Rep. Jim Jordan asks whether Southern Poverty Law Center paid Jan. 6 confidential sources," May 21, 2026.
- Washington Examiner, "SPLC allegedly spent over $1 million infiltrating hate group it publicly claimed was 'almost irrelevant,'" April 2026.
- Washington Times, "SPLC's troubles mount as Republicans probe Biden administration ties," April 25, 2026.
