The Left eats its own, and it seems the Southern Poverty Law Center is no exception. The SPLC—a far-left smear factory notorious for demonizing conservatives and Christians as being as hateful as the KKK and for spreading woke dogma in schools—has its own labor union, and members of that union overwhelmingly cast a vote of “no confidence” in SPLC President and CEO Margaret Huang. The vast majority of the SPLC Union’s voting members (141 of 156, or 90.4%) cast ballots urging the SPLC to find a new CEO. The union presented this demand to the SPLC Board of Directors on Aug. 30, and one week later, SPLC Board Chair Karen Baynes-Dunning denied the request. According to a union press release, its members expressed a “lack of confidence in Margaret Huang and want SPLC to find a new CEO.” The move comes two months after the SPLC Union broke the news of mass layoffs at the SPLC in June. The SPLC “gutted its staff by a quarter,” laying off more than 60 union members, including five union stewards and the union’s chair. The union also claimed the layoffs will substantially affect various departments, including Learning for Justice (SPLC’s education arm); support staff in the fundraising, media, and legal departments; and “immigrant justice legal teams.” What the Union Says “From the start, the board’s lack of engagement with our union has made them complacent and complicit in all harm Huang and her leadership team create,” Lisa Wright, the SPLC Union chair who was laid off after more than 23 years at the organization, said in the news release Monday. “We believe Baynes-Dunning hired Huang in 2020 to bust our union. Huang has a proven track record of hostility toward unionization.” “The layoffs have been riddled with inconsistencies, errors, and confusion,” Wright added. “We’ve filed multiple grievances regarding contract violations, some of which we expect to progress to arbitration and possibly litigation.” Wright claimed that the SPLC failed to present a plan for transitioning the casework of laid-off lawyers, and that Huang gave conflicting messages about the reasons for the layoffs. The SPLC consists of two entities: a nonprofit under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS code that can’t lobby for bills or political candidates and another nonprofit under Section 501(c)(4) of the code that can engage in lobbying. Huang reportedly told the (c)(4) board that SPLC made the layoffs due to a “$13 million deficit” in the (c)(3) organization’s budget, while she told the (c)(3) board and the union that SPLC made the layoffs for strategic reasons, not financial ones. Baynes-Dunning told the union that board members “unanimously reaffirm our approval of this strategic direction and unanimously support Margaret Huang’s ongoing leadership as president & CEO.” According to the union, SPLC staff had expressed “alarmingly low confidence and trust in SPLC leadership in multiple organization-wide surveys.” In 2022, only 49% of staff expressed confidence in leadership; that number had fallen to 44% shortly before the layoffs. The SPLC’s Response “We respect the bargaining unit’s right to oppose the changes to the SPLC programs and activities, and we empathize with all employees who were impacted by the staff restructure,” the SPLC told The Alabama Reflector, an independent news website. “These decisions are never easy, but necessary to strengthen our strategic framework and focus so that we can meet the challenges of this decade and beyond,” the organization said. The News Guild, the umbrella union organization of which the SPLC Union is a part, urged members of other unions to sign a letter demanding that SPLC’s board remove Huang, bargain with the union to reverse layoffs, and “meaningfully involve the SPLC Union in finding, interviewing, and hiring a new CEO.” As of Wednesday, more than 5,000 people had signed the letter. A More Likely Culprit? After Hamas terrorists slaughtered 1,139 people in Israel in gruesome terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, 2023, the Southern Poverty Law Center remained silent on the issue for nearly a month. Meanwhile, the SPLC Union released a statement condemning Israel’s military response to Hamas in the adjoining Gaza Strip. When the SPLC finally released its own statement, it condemned Hamas but also accused Israel of targeting “Palestinian civilians.” The SPLC then stealth-edited the statement after The Daily Signal drew attention to it. The SPLC’s reticence to take a stand on Israel likely revealed the Left’s fissures—a generational divide between young activists who oppose Israel and an older, pro-Israel donor class. This divide also separates the SPLC Union—which organizes alongside the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace—and the organization’s management. Layoffs and accusations of union busting do explain the SPLC Union’s move against Huang, but the issue of Israel may also play a role. The SPLC did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment on the real reasons behind the layoffs. What Is the SPLC? As I explain in my book “Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center,” the SPLC routinely smears mainstream conservative and Christian organizations by placing them on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan. The SPLC uses the “hate map” as a reputational weapon to silence those who dissent from its woke agenda. While the SPLC’s education arm Learning for Justice pushes critical race theory (a lens teaching kids that white people are oppressors and blacks oppressed) and gender ideology, the “hate map” smears parental rights groups like Moms for Liberty and Parents Defending Education as “extremists.” Conservative Christian groups that advocate religious freedom and define marriage as between one man and one woman appear on the SPLC map as “anti-LGBTQ hate groups.” National security experts who warn against radical Islamist terrorism find themselves branded “anti-Muslim hate groups.” Advocacy groups that call for the enforcement of immigration law and oppose open borders appear on the map as “anti-immigrant hate groups.” This year, the SPLC even added an openly homosexual group—Gays Against Groomers—to its list of “anti-LGBTQ hate groups.” Critics on both the Right and the Left have defended law firms such as Alliance Defending Freedom from the SPLC’s smears. In 2019, the SPLC fired its co-founder and saw its president resign amid a racial discrimination and sexual harassment scandal. At that time, a former employee called the “hate” accusations a “highly profitable scam.” The SPLC currently faces a defamation lawsuit that crossed a major legal hurdle last year. Why Should Americans Care? Many conservatives know the Southern Poverty Law Center has no credibility on hate, and many conservative groups expressed mock outrage at being left off the “hate map” earlier this year. Yet the federal government under President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris appears to have missed the memo. Earlier this year, the FBI’s Richmond office notoriously wrote an internal memo calling for surveillance at Catholic churches. That memo cited the SPLC’s list of “radical traditional Catholic hate groups.” One day after a brave whistleblower exposed the memo, the FBI issued a rare public retraction, saying the memo “does not meet the exacting standards of the FBI.” This one memo was the tip of the iceberg. In the fall of 2021, Huang bragged that the incoming administration had reached out to the SPLC earlier in the year for help in fighting “domestic terrorism.” “I can tell you that we’ve had many agencies in the new Biden administration reaching out to solicit our expertise and our knowledge and information to help shape the policies that the new administration is adopting to counter the domestic terrorism threat,” Huang said in a fundraising video. The SPLC briefed the Justice Department after it released a new version of its “hate map” in 2023. Leaders of the Southern Poverty Law Center met with a high-ranking official of the Department of Education a few months before it added the parental rights group Moms for Liberty to the “hate map.” SPLC leaders and staff have attended White House meetings at least 18 times since January 2021, and Biden appointed an SPLC attorney, Nancy Abudu, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit. The SPLC has long called for charitable institutions to blacklist conservatives on the “hate map,” and companies such as Eventbrite exclude SPLC-accused “hate groups” from their services. The post NO CONFIDENCE: Far-Left Smear Factory’s Union Votes by 90% to Oust President After Mass Layoffs appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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The presidential debate on Tuesday night was a full-scale disgrace. The debate was rigged on behalf of Kamala Harris, soup to nuts, beginning to end. ABC News should be ashamed of themselves. They destroyed any credibility they had. David Muir and Linsey Davis were doing the bidding of the people at the top of the chain of that network. Harris has joked that Dana Walden, a 30-year friend of hers and co-chairman of Disney Entertainment (who owns ABC News), and Walden’s husband are responsible for Harris meeting her husband, Doug Emhoff. The bias is real. Last night was a rigged game, beginning to end. The most significant element of the debate — by far — was the moderators, who did themselves lasting damage. The legacy media made itself appear to be precisely what it is: a Praetorian Guard on behalf of the Democratic Party. David Muir and Linsey Davis were so far up Kamala Harris’ a**, they were performing active colonoscopies with their eyeballs. It is impossible to overstate how far in the tank they were for Kamala Harris. WATCH: THE BEN SHAPIRO SHOW The basic format of the debate was this: The moderators asked Trump a question about how terrible his policies were, and then immediately swiveled to ask Harris how terrible Trump’s policies were. It was unbelievable. There would be a question that effectively amounted to, “Mr. President, when did you stop beating your wife?” He would attempt to defend himself. Then, they would turn to Harris and say, “What do you think of him lying about beating his wife?” It was insane. And the data supports this. There were four active fact-checks last night. Donald Trump was the subject of all four fact-checks. But it wasn’t just the fact-checks. It was also the interruptions in the follow-up, as they would interrupt Trump when he was talking. They always let Kamala Harris finish. They did not interrupt her a single time during the entire debate. Trump would be in the middle of the thought, and they would interrupt him or follow up and push him. They never followed up on Harris. They never pushed her. Not once. They pressed Kamala Harris zero times for follow-ups. Zero. They will claim Trump is dishonest. But Harris lied incessantly. She repeatedly uttered outright, full-scale debunked lies ad nauseam last night. But the media had a game plan, and the game was to follow hers. She laid out her game plan pretty early on, suggesting that it was all going to be about the playbook, the lies, and the grievances. Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. The media picked up on that playbook; they were going to repeat the playbook all night long. What has been apparent for months is that the media are not going to do the job of informing the American people about Harris. If you watched that debate last night, you came away with zero new information about her. You know no more about Kamala Harris and her positions today than you knew yesterday or the day before. Trump’s best moment came on abortion. He pointed out that the Democrats are radical on abortion, which is true. And he pointed out that Harris’ vice presidential pick, Tim Walz, has been in favor of abortion across the board, which is also true. He said Democrats are against legislation like the Born Alive Infant Protection Act, that Democrats want to make it so that if a baby is “accidentally born” due to a botched abortion there will be no criminal liability to let the baby die. That is true. Democrats do want that. That is why Tim Walz opposed a Born Alive Infant Protection Act in Minnesota, and eight babies have been born during botched abortions and died on the table in Minnesota. Trump said that, and he was correct. So what did the moderators do? They lied. Because it turns out the “fact-checkers” are there to lie on behalf of Kamala Harris. “Her vice presidential pick says abortion in the ninth month is absolutely fine,” Trump stated. “He also says execution after birth, its execution, no longer abortion, because the baby is born, is ok. And that’s not ok with me.” “There is no state in this country where it is legal to kill a baby after it’s born,” moderator Linsey Davis interjected. That’s a lie. They fact-checked Trump, and it was a false fact-check. Ralph Northam, the former governor of Virginia, actually said that if a baby is accidentally born alive during an abortion, you put the baby off to the side, and make the baby comfortable until you decide what to do with the baby. They lied about this because Linsey Davis and David Muir are liars, lying on behalf of their preferred political party. I would bet David Muir and Linsey Davis have been saying to each other over coffee and to the rest of their colleagues for years and years, “You know, if I ever get Trump in front of me, here’s what I’m going to ask him. And if he lies, I’m gonna fact-check him so hard, I’ll make his head spin.” They’ve been prepping this for years. Cabot Phillips, who covers election-centered news for The Daily Wire and was actually at the debate with the rest of the media, said the media in the spin room were actively cheering and guffawing during the debate, mocking Trump, actively groaning at him. There is an entire media apparatus that is designed to propagandize on behalf of Harris, and they made themselves apparent last night in that room. Harris lied later, saying Trump would sign a ban on abortion nationwide. Not only is that not true, JD Vance, who is pro-life, has also said that’s not true. So, she lied to the moderators. Fact-checked? Of course not. Of course not. Where were the fact-checkers? Off in the cornfield where no one knows? Trump himself tried to prompt the moderators, asking, “You should ask: Will she allow abortion in the eighth month? Ninth month? Seventh month?” He turned to Harris, “Would you do that?” He turned back to the moderators: “Why don’t you ask her that question? Because under Roe v Wade, you could do abortions in the seventh month, the eighth month, the ninth month, and probably after birth.” Harris responded, “That’s not true.” Yes, it’s true. Yes, it’s true. So where were the fact-checkers? Where were they when Harris repeated the Charlottesville lie? Where were they when she repeated the “bloodbath” lie when Trump was actually talking about an economic bloodbath? If there were a professional guild in charge of moderating debates, these people would be out on their a**es. But of course, there isn’t. So they will be vetted and celebrated by the mainstream media as having done a wonderful job. I do think the American people are smart enough to see through a lot of this. I think the American people can see that the media rigged this debate on behalf of Harris. There are two months to go. That’s still a long time. If the Trump campaign focuses on defining who Harris is — a hard-core leftist — and sticks to that, pummels her on that, Trump can win. But they won’t be fighting just the Harris campaign. They’ll be fighting the legacy media centipede every step of the way.