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New data released by a national organization centered on peace and equality reveals the cold, hard facts about hundreds of U.S. organizations that are hell-bent on racially-motivated death and destruction.
On a regular basis, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) monitors the activities of hate groups in America and reports those activities to law enforcement. In the interest of public awareness and safety, the SPLC publishes sobering data on its official website. On this site, there is a resource called the Hate Map, which tracks the growing number of white supremacist groups in the U.S.
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“The SPLC is the premier U.S. organization monitoring the activities of domestic hate groups and other extremists – including the Ku Klux Klan, white nationalists, the neo-Nazi movement, antigovernment militias, and others. We track more than 1,600 extremist groups operating across the country,” reads a message from an SPLC webpage titled “Hate and Extremism.”
“Our work fighting hate and extremism began in the early 1980s, amid a resurgence of Klan violence that began several years after the end of the civil rights movement. Each year since 1990, we have released an annual census of U.S. hate groups. In the mid-1990s, we also began documenting the number of radical, antigovernment militias and other organizations that comprise the far-right “Patriot” movement,” the message also reads.
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center’s ‘Hate Map’ Shows Increase in Armed White Supremacist Groups
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