After years of an uncomfortably cozy partnership, the FBI has finally severed ties with two of the Left’s most notorious smear factories: the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC).
For decades, these groups have masqueraded as “watchdogs,” while in reality functioning as partisan hit squads, labeling mainstream conservatives as extremists and weaponizing identity politics to silence dissent.
“James Comey wrote ‘love letters’ to the ADL and embedded FBI agents with them – a group that ran disgraceful ops spying on Americans. That era is OVER. This FBI won’t partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs,” FBI Director Kash Patel announced Wednesday.
Finally. Long overdue for the ADL, a terrible, dishonest and harmful organization that always put leftism and Democrat power above actually fighting real anti-semitism (i.e. backing BLM, Women's March, etc.) – extremely damaging on many fronts. https://t.co/QJog8eBUUq
— Katie Pavlich (@KatiePavlich) October 1, 2025
On Friday, Patel announced that the FBI was cutting ties with the SPLC as well.
“The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine. Their so-called “hate map” has been used to defame mainstream Americans and even inspired violence. That disgraceful record makes them unfit for any FBI partnership,” Patel said.
“In April, during our Anti-Christian Bias Panel, I made it clear that the FBI will never rely on politicized or agenda-driven intelligence from outside groups — and certainly not from the SPLC. Under this FBI, all ties with the SPLC have officially been terminated,” he added.
Both groups have spent years waging smear campaigns against mainstream conservative organizations, slapping them onto so-called “hate maps” that function as political hit lists for the Left. Far from being objective watchdogs, the ADL and SPLC have acted as enablers of harassment and intimidation, providing a ready-made target list for radical activists and would-be political enforcers.
Chillingly, just one day before his assassination, Charlie Kirk’s name was circulated in an SPLC “hate watch” bulletin — a grim reminder of how reckless labeling can make conservatives into marked men.
According to @1819News, 'Charlie's name is mentioned on the Southern Poverty Law Center's website in 38 posts. In a report entitled "The Year in Hate and Extremism 2024," Charlie's name appears 18 times.'
In a post one day before Charlie was shot and killed, he was mentioned in…
— MONICA PAIGE?TPUSA (@MonicaPaigeTV) October 2, 2025
In 2012, the Family Research Council office in Washington D.C. was shot up by a violent progressive after SPLC listed the conservative organization on their “hate map.”
