Fidelity and Vanguard, two of the top three investment companies managing trillions of dollars of assets, have stopped facilitating customers’ donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as a result of the Justice Department’s indictment of the nonprofit that purports to identify and combat “hate” in the name of social justice. The philanthropic arms of the two companies, Fidelity Charitable and Vanguard Charitable, allow their customers to donate to a list of nonprofits via donor-advised funds (DAF). Fidelity Charitable, which has about 350,000 donation accounts, describes DAF on its website: “A donor-advised fund, or DAF, is like a charitable investment account for the sole purpose of supporting charitable organizations you care about.  “When you contribute cash, securities, or other assets to a donor-advised fund at a public charity, like Fidelity Charitable, you are generally eligible to take an immediate tax deduction. Then those funds can be invested for tax-free growth, and you can recommend grants to any eligible IRS-qualified public charity.” However, both of the asset management giants have a policy of disallowing donations to organizations if those potential recipients are under indictment for a crime – as SPLC has been since last week. “The SPLC allegedly engaged in a massive fraud operation to deceive their donors, enrich themselves, and hide their deceptive operations from the public," FBI Director Kash Patel said on April 23, announcing that a grand jury had returned an 11-count indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). “The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche explained in a press release. Between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in donated funds to individuals who were associated with various violent extremist groups including the Ku Klux Klan, Aryan Nations, and National Socialist Party of America, Patel and Blanche alleged at a press conference. In response, Fidelity and Vanguard notified customers that they could no longer donate to SPLC, due to the criminal indictment, pending resolution of the case.  “The organization has had allegations and/or charges brought against them for activities that may call into question their ability to carry out their tax-exempt charitable purpose,” Vanguard Charitable told customers. “If we become aware an organization has been charged with a crime by state or federal authorities, we pause grant-making while the matter is pending.” Ironically, customers had been able to donate to SPLC through the two firms’ charitable programs – even though SPLC in 2023 branded both Vanguard Charitable and Fidelity Charitable as donor advised funds from which “hate- and extremism-related nonprofits were receiving funding.” A “Hatewatch” page currently on SPLC’s website is titled “Extremists Get Boost From Donor-Advised Funds, Bitcoin.” The page lists funding received by – what SPLC considers “hate” and “extremist” nonprofits – from “six popular donor-advised funds.” Listed among the so-called hate groups receiving funding from Fidelity Charitable are: Turning Point USA. Parents Defending Education. American Family Association. Family Research Council. Alliance Defending Freedom. Liberty Counsel. For its part, Vanguard is condemned by SPLC for allowing customers to donate to nonprofits such as: Moms for America. Project Veritas. Turning Point USA. Parents Defending Education. American Family Association. Family Research Council. Alliance Defending Freedom. Liberty Counsel.

On Lawrence O’Donnell’s The Last Word on Tuesday night after King Charles’s address to Congress, the MS NOW host ended his monologue with a comparison of the current Trump presidency to the American Revolution from the English and the “insane” King George III. O’Donnell also took the moment to praise the current king for his “humiliation” of Trump and made him feel “akin to gratitude to a British monarch.” The MS NOW host’s monologue was mostly a repetition of points heard on cable and broadcast news after the King’s eloquent speech, which many media hosts framed as full of veiled attacks against Trump, which they, of course, enjoyed. O’Donnell’s continuation of those points was on display as he said the King “played an unprecedented part in another desperately humiliating day for Donald Trump's Washington.”   In response to King Charles's address on Tuesday, MS NOW's Lawrence O'Donnell took the moment to compare Trump to "insane" King George III, as he seemingly compared this moment in the Trump presidency to the American Revolution from the mad King George. pic.twitter.com/NGTWNgu0PQ — Nick (@nspin310) April 29, 2026   He, full of ‘No Kings’ pride against Trump, said “for the first time in my life, made me feel something akin to gratitude to a British monarch and outright awe for his speechwriters.” That’s a lot different for someone who had cried out against an alleged king’s rule of the U.S. O’Donnell continued on to compare the King’s Speech to a certain former president, as he said the speech “reads like a Biden State of the Union address,” but still Republicans clapped since it was read in a “posh British accent.” He went on, “This was the day that I hoped at least some high school kids were watching. American high school kids who have grown up in the dark shadow of Donald Trump.” Of course, O’Donnell overlooked other portions of the speech like the jokes and references to the U.S.’s and U.K.’s foundation of Christian faith, along with more unifying messages from the King.  Finally, the MS NOW host wrapped his monologue as he said the King made an Epstein acknowledgment in his speech, something that Trump supposedly did not do. The King’s line of, “to support victims of some of the ills that so tragically exist in both our societies today” was supposedly that acknowledgment, according to a royal report he quoted. O’Donnell wrapped his monologue with an interesting comparison of the moment of Trump's second term to the American Revolution from the “insane” and “mad” King George III: And here we are, 250 years after the madness of King George the Third helped drive the American colonies into revolution against the crown, and when Charles became the first British king to address the Congress today, he found the madness on this side of the Atlantic.  O’Donnell may have just described the moment of the King’s visit and Trump’s presidency as similar to the U.S. Revolution from the British Monarchy. His comparison was somewhat veiled, but he has consistently referred to Trump as insane over the past months and years.  The “dark shadow” he described is just another exaggeration, and references to revolutions only inflated the situation amid the aftermath of Trump’s third assassination attempt. The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s The Last Word w/ Lawrence O’Donnell April 28, 2026 10:04:40 PM Eastern (...) LAWRENCE O’DONNELL: And in that county today stepped the King of England, who played an unprecedented part in another desperately humiliating day for Donald Trump's Washington. And for once, the King himself was not the humiliated one. No one humiliates Trump lawyers more than Donald Trump, and he could not have done more to humiliate the already humiliated Todd Blanche than he did today. By getting the goofiest indictment America has ever seen out of Todd Blanche after literally years of Donald Trump urging the indictment of James Comey. And Donald Trump's humiliation today was delivered to him by his guest of honor, the King of England, who, for the first time in my life, made me feel something akin to gratitude to a British monarch and outright awe for his speechwriters. The speechwriters had the task of telling the truth in a chamber where half of the members applaud and cheer Donald Trump's pathological lies. And today, the King of England and his speechwriters had those same Republicans applauding sharp criticism and complete disagreement with Donald Trump. (...) 10:07:25 PM Eastern O’DONNELL: And now we know. We know you can get the Republicans in that room to applaud what reads like a Biden State of the Union address. You can get the Republicans in that room to applaud a speech that completely contradicts Donald Trump if the speech is delivered in a posh British accent.  This was the day that I hope at least some high school kids were watching. American high school kids who have grown up in the dark shadow of Donald Trump. High school kids who in most of their lifetimes now have been living under a Donald Trump presidency filled with uncouth public profanity and rank stupidity and an inability to simply read the words put in front of him by his speechwriters and skip the idiotic ad libs. (...) 10:16:52 PM Eastern KING CHARLES III: In both of our countries. It is the very fact of our vibrant, diverse, and free societies that gives us our collective strength, including to support victims of some of the ills that so tragically exist in both our societies today. O’DONNELL: In his reporting today, Jack Royston quotes a royal aide saying that that line was about the Epstein survivors, quote, “it was certainly in his majesty's mind to acknowledge victims of abuse. So they are naturally incorporated in this line.”  It's not much. In fact, it is very, very little. It couldn't be smaller. It's the smallest and most indirect acknowledgment of the Epstein survivors' suffering that the speechwriters could have come up with, but it's something. It is more than Donald Trump has ever said about them.  Charles's fifth great-grandfather was the King of England during the American Revolution. King George lost his mind during his rule. He was literally insane, which was dramatized in the wonderful 1991 play by the British playwright Alan Bennett, titled “The Madness of George the Third.”  And here we are, 250 years after the madness of King George the Third helped drive the American colonies into revolution against the crown, and when Charles became the first British King to address the Congress today, he found the madness on this side of the Atlantic.  (...)

ABC News doesn’t care about facts and just wants to feed their viewers a steady diet of inflammatory and incendiary nonsense that kept them in a state of politically motivates hatred. That much of obvious during Thursday’s The View when moderator Whoopi Goldberg insanely claimed that white people were “still” shooting and siccing dogs on black people who went to the polls. At no point did the ABC News program provide evidence of this claim. They also put a target on the back of Justice Samuel Alito. Near the top of the show, Goldberg suggested that the ruling for the latest in the “chipping away” at voting rights. She claimed it was all part of a plot to make it so that blacks and then women wouldn’t be allowed to vote: We are seeing -- we know what's happening and it's happening -- it's going to start happening to women as well, because all these changes in voting where they're saying you can't use your married name, you got to go your birth certificate, so this is -- this is going to affect a lot of people. Right now, it sounds like it's just affecting people of color. We know better. We knew this was coming, so this is meant to discourage you from voting. This is meant to make you feel like you don't have a voice. You do have a voice. Do not forget that. “The courts said, you know, there's no problem with race anymore and yet we're fighting every day talking about Project 2025,” she chided.   ABC News moderator Whoopi Goldberg suggests the SCOTUS ruling barring using race to draw congressional districts is "a step backwards" and about keeping black people from voting. She claims soon women won't be able to vote either: "You know, this decision, we knew this was… pic.twitter.com/3dKsEfN2dC — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 30, 2026   Goldberg’s lies were bookends of the conversation. As they were nearing the commercial break, she chimed in again to insist that the Jim Crow era never actually ended and that whites were still killing blacks who tried to vote: Here's the other problem, you know, we make laws to fix problems. We put the voting rights act together, because there was an issue, because they were keeping people from voting! They were literally shooting people! They were running them down with dogs to keep them from voting! Okay? Let's start with that. So when they say that problem is gone, it's not gone, because you're still doing it! You're still doing it! Whoopi, who is the “you” in the “you’re” you’re screaming about?   "You're still doing it!" Whoopi claims that white people are "still" chasing black people away from polling locations with dogs and shooting them when they try to vote: GOLDBERG: Here's the other problem, you know, we make laws to fix problems. We put the voting rights act… pic.twitter.com/wwiMljosqP — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 30, 2026   At no point did she provide evidence of blacks being chased off or gunned down at polling places. But what they did have was chronically aggrieved co-host Sunny Hostin putting a target on Alito’s back. According to her, he was trying to strip away the rights of blacks and women. “People are saying, well, [the Voting Rights Act] hasn't really been gutted. It has been, and that is because the majority opinion was written by Samuel Alito, the same judge that wrote the decision that took away a lot of women's rights,” she declared. Hostin said she was “devastated” by the “disgusting, despicable” ruling. She then claimed she needed to tell her kids that they have fewer rights today than she did: I can tell you as a black woman that my father was born in 1949. He remembers segregated schools. He remembers second get grated water fountains, he remember that's couldn't -- that he did not have full civil rights. And he told me when I turned 40 years old that I was the first person in his family to enjoy full civil rights, and he is still alive today, and I am still alive today and I have been discriminated against. And now I have to tell my children that they have less civil rights than I did when I was born.   Using incendiary rhetoric that could endanger Justice Alito's life, Sunny Hostin claims he's trying to take away the rights of black people and women. She claims her kids now have fewer civil rights than her: SUNNY HOSTIN: I think it's a huge step back. I mean the 1965 Voting… pic.twitter.com/nxDjpBpMS0 — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 30, 2026   Her comments came at a time following when another liberal extremist tried to assassinate President Trump for the third time. Hosting led a gaggle, including co-hosts Joy Behar and faux conservative Alyssa Farah Griffin in suggesting that Republicans could only win by cheating and that they were the first to gerrymander (Click “expand”): HOSTIN: Well, you have to rig the game when you don’t have the numbers and you don't have the policy. BEHAR: That's the only way that they can win. HOSTIN: You got to cheat if you don't have the policies and the numbers. GOLDBERG: The other thing -- FARAH GRIFFIN: It is both sides though. I have to say they that. They drew Adam Kinzinger's district out in Illinois. GOLDBERG: Yeah, they - been doing - Listen -- HOSTIN: But the Republican did start this! They started this! FARAH GRIFFIN: I totally concede that but it takes one side to lead or it's a race to the bottom.   "I totally concede that." Historically ignorant, Farah Griffin agrees with Hostin's revisionist history that Republicans invented gerrymandering (the Democratic-Republican Party, which eventually became the Democratic Party were the originators of gerrymandering): HAINES:… pic.twitter.com/M1AQ3STPwU — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 30, 2026   Their claims were lies and revisionist history. The first party to gerrymander was the Democratic-Republican Party, which would later become the Democratic Party. Farah Griffin also clownishly argued that  And for her own ridiculous part, Behar teed up Goldberg and Hostin to suggest Justice Clarence Thomas was a race traitor: BEHAR: Wait a second. What about Clarence Thomas? Didn't he stick up for his own? GOLDBERG: No, he didn't. No. HOSTIN: No, he did not. He is part of the majority here.   The View suggest Justice Clarence Thomas is a race traitor. Liberal white woman Joy Behar, who once said Thomas and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) didn't know what it was like to be black in America, sparks the hate against the Justice: BEHAR: Wait a second. What about Clarence… pic.twitter.com/ZkVoTQtC8P — Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) April 30, 2026   This was reminiscent of when Behar, a liberal white woman, proclaimed that Thomas and Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) didn’t know what it was like to be black in America. ABC News considers The View news program akin to Good Morning America. The show was where facts went to die. The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: ABC’s The View April 30, 2025 11:03:08 a.m. Eastern (…) WHOOPI GOLDBERG: [Sigh] You know, this decision, we knew this was coming because they've been chipping away at this for a long time. The courts said, you know, there's no problem with race anymore and yet we're fighting every day talking about Project 2025. We are seeing -- we know what's happening and it's happening -- it's going to start happening to women as well, because all these changes in voting where they're saying you can't use your married name, you got to go your birth certificate, so this is -- this is going to affect a lot of people. Right now, it sounds like it's just affecting people of color. We know better. We knew this was coming, so this is meant to discourage you from voting. This is meant to make you feel like you don't have a voice. You do have a voice. Do not forget that. But do you see it as a step backwards also? SUNNY HOSTIN: I think it's a huge step back. I mean the 1965 Voting Rights Act was the most important piece of legislation in United States history. GOLDBERG: People died for that. HOSTIN: Yes, actually Justice Kagan in her 48-page dissent said that it was the most important piece because it was borne of the literal blood of Union soldiers and civil rights marchers. GOLDBERG: Yeah. HOSTIN: She wrote that. And it has been gutted. People are saying, well, it hasn't really been gutted. It has been, and that is because the majority opinion was written by Samuel Alito, the same judge that wrote the decision that took away a lot of women's rights. GOLDBERG: Uh-huh. HOSTIN: Two key points, states can no longer use race as a factor in redistricting but states can use party politics, they can use party politics in redistricting. JOY BEHAR: What does that mean? HOSTIN: Meaning -- SARA HAINES: Draw the line based on Republican, Democrat -- HOSTIN: You can draw the line based on Republican and Democrat. ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN: It's okay to discriminate in that that case. HOSTIN: It's okay to discriminate there. Number two, the Voting Rights Act only protects against intentional discrimination. The problem with that is, I don't know about you but there aren't that many racists that say, 'hi, I'm a racist.' There aren't that many legislators that write in legislation, we are going to discriminate against black people. So, it's almost impossible to prove intentional discrimination. And that is why in my view this is gutted. What is most troubling to me and I think you'll -- you and I, Whoopi, have discussed this, Alito argued that the vast social change has occurred throughout the country and particularly in the south indicating that racism no longer exists in this country. I can tell you as a black woman that my father was born in 1949. He remembers segregated schools. He remembers second get grated water fountains, he remember that's couldn't -- that he did not have full civil rights. And he told me when I turned 40 years old that I was the first person in his family to enjoy full civil rights, and he is still alive today, and I am still alive today and I have been discriminated against. And now I have to tell my children that they have less civil rights than I did when I was born. BEHAR: That's true. HOSTIN: That is disgusting, despicable and I am devastated by this particular Supreme Court decision even though, Whoopi, we did know this was coming. BEHAR: Wait a second. What about Clarence Thomas? Didn't he stick up for his own? GOLDBERG: No, he didn't. No. HOSTIN: No, he did not. He is part of the majority here. GOLDBERG: yeah. FARAH GRIFFIN: And by the way, this has repercussions that are bad for the whole country. GOLDBERG: Yes! FARAH GRIFFIN: Regardless of the color of your skin. So, if you think Congress is wildly ineffective, if you think Congress is incapable of tackling big issues like healthcare, the rise of A.I., regulating tech, speech - HAINES: They are. FARAH GRIFFIN: They are. Everyone I think agrees they are. This will make it so much worse. Partisan gerrymandering makes districts safe for the parties that are in power. It makes it so more extreme people on the left and the right are elected rather than moderates, than pragmatists, than people who are willing to work across the aisle. And right now people are already gerrymandering. So, in Texas, Texas went then California voted and decided to. Florida is next. HOSTIN: Hours after this decision, Florida gerrymandered it’s districts. FARAH GRIFFIN: And now -- in Marsha Blackburn in Tennessee said let's redraw our maps. But my caution to Republicans who think this is a big win because we're going to get more seats, no, no, no, California down the road could decide to draw out all Republican districts because of this. HOSTIN: They should. FARAH GRIFFIN: Northern state, Illinois, New York, are going to do the same thing. It’s going to further divide the country, polarize us further, make it impossible to get things done. (…) 11:08:16 a.m. Eastern HAINES: They're so busy rigging the game that they're not actually winning. [Applause] HOSTIN: Well, you have to rig the game when you don’t have the numbers and you don't have the policy. BEHAR: That's the only way that they can win. HOSTIN: You got to cheat if you don't have the policies and the numbers. GOLDBERG: The other thing -- FARAH GRIFFIN: It is both sides though. I have to say they that. They drew Adam Kinzinger's district out in Illinois. GOLDBERG: Yeah, they - been doing - Listen -- HOSTIN: But the Republican did start this! They started this! FARAH GRIFFIN: I totally concede that but it takes one side to lead or it's a race to the bottom. GOLDBERG: Here's the other problem, you know, we make laws to fix problems. We put the voting rights act together, because there was an issue, because they were keeping people from voting! HOSTIN: Right. GOLDBERG: They were literally shooting people! They were running them down with dogs to keep them from voting! Okay? Let's start with that. So when they say that problem is gone, it's not gone, because you're still doing it! You're still doing it! And what I don't understand is, what is everybody so afraid of, because I always thought, I was raised to believe that you and I don't have to agree, that's all right. But now suddenly your argument doesn't hold water, so you're cheating! See, that -- we're a two-party system. We're not just Democrats, we're not just Republicans, we're a two-party system. [Reading from a card] So, Ruth Bader Ginsburg said throwing out the preclearance when it worked and it’s continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you're not getting wet. HOSTIN: Yeah. GOLDBERG [reading from a card]: The other thing I want to say is, voting in local elections matters more now than ever before. [Applause] Think nationally, work locally. HOSTIN: That's correct. GOLDBERG: Think nationally. Work locally. One more time. ALL: Think nationally, work locally. GOLDBERG: We'll be right back.

POLL: What was the worst media quote of the week? (Vote below)   Watch the worst quotes here, presented by @Schineman pic.twitter.com/ivUZ3PuoCj — Media Research Center (@theMRC) April 30, 2026   NOMINEES:    Jimmy Kimmel: First Lady Has a “Glow Like an Expectant Widow” “Our First Lady Melania is here. Look at Mel, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.”— Host Jimmy Kimmel during a mock version of the White House Correspondents’ Dinner as aired on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, April 23.    Chuck Todd Whines: I’m Not Going to Any More Trump Events, Chaos Follows Him “I’m not going to any more events where Trump is at them. I don’t feel safe….Chaos follows him and you are less safe, right? If you decide to go into his orbit, you have become less safe.…He’s more likely to have you be the target of Iranian assassins….The guy doesn’t care when people commit violence in his name, he only cares when the violence is committed against him, and he does not see that he is a contributor to the atmospherics of the world we’re living in.” — Former NBC’s Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd on the So What with Chris Cillizza? podcast, April 27.    Joy Reid Suggests Assassination Attempt Was Staged “Donald Trump is allegedly shot in the ear [in Butler, Pennsylvania], although no one’s ever shown us any medical records….There’s just odd things that keep happening around Trump. And we know that Viktor Orbán allegedly, allegedly, according to Washington Post’s reporting, there was a plot by the Russians to stage an assassination, fake assassination for Orbán….When something seems too perfect, people, they don’t – they don’t believe in it. And Donald Trump now again gets victimized by an alleged would-be assassin in front of the perfect witnesses – the press.”— Former MSNBC host Joy Reid on her podcast The Joy Reid Show, April 27.     Sponsored by James P. Jimirro

On Wednesday afternoon, Media Research Center (MRC) President David Bozell joined The Scott Jennings Show with guest host Jeff Vaughan to dismantle the elitist media’s role in fueling a dangerous political climate. While the press continues to pay lip service to "lowering the temperature," Bozell exposed how the industry’s top networks are simultaneously building a "permission structure" for extremist hostility. The segment kicked off with a rare moment of clarity from sports commentator Stephen A. Smith, who called on leaders to stop talking about dialing down the rhetoric and actually do it by returning to policy debates. Vaughan noted the "common sense" in Smith’s plea, but Bozell was quick to highlight why that goal remains out of reach: the media refuse to police even the most insane rhetoric. MRC's @DavidBozell slams ABC's extensive history of leftist bias and how it goes much deeper than Jimmy Kimmel David Muir's coverage of Trump during the campaign was 100% negative; George Stephanopoulos claimed Trump was guilty of rape, and that doesn't even count The View! pic.twitter.com/vQMoGAvQQ1 — Media Research Center (@theMRC) April 29, 2026 Bozell shredded the broadcast giants—specifically ABC—for creating a media environment that inflames "nutcases." He pointed to the manifesto of Cole Allen, the individual recently arrested for attempting to shoot the President, noting that the suspect's rhetoric mirrored the nightly output of ABC News. Bozell cited MRC data showing that ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir’s coverage of the presidential campaign was 100% negative, yet Muir was still tapped to host a presidential debate where he spent the evening erroneously "fact-checking" Donald Trump. The conversation turned to the systemic bias across the ABC dial, from Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night attacks to George Stephanopoulos, whom Bozell noted recently cost the network $15 million for falsely suggesting the President had been found guilty of rape. Vaughan added that The View serves as another pillar in this "hard-left" echo chamber, ensuring that vitriol is served at every hour of the day. MRC President @DavidBozell on what the mainstream media needs to do before proper debate could happen with the Left. "If we could just get the media to stop calling President Trump, Hitler, then maybe we could discuss policy."@JenningsShow pic.twitter.com/r30qDakLWr — Media Research Center (@theMRC) April 29, 2026 Bozell concluded by warning that as long as networks like ABC continue to mainstream narratives that label political opponents as "pedophiles, rapists, and traitors," the cycle of violence will only escalate. The takeaway is clear: the elitist media aren't just reporting on the political violence; they are the ones feeding it. Watch the full segment below: