SPLC Fraud Indictment: Inside the Manufactured Hate Machine │ Tina Descovich

Guest: Tina Descovich is the CEO and co-founder of Moms for Liberty, a national parental rights organization defending the rights of parents to direct their children's education. A former elected school board member in Brevard County, Florida, Tina has built Moms for Liberty into one of the most influential grassroots parental rights movements in the country. Key Topics Covered: The federal grand jury indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center on fraud and money laundering charges How the SPLC allegedly funneled funds to the KKK and neo-Nazi groups while smearing parents and Christians as hate groups The 125-page documentation of harms Moms for Liberty submitted to the House Judiciary Committee Real-world consequences: custody battles, swatting incidents, doxxing, harassment, and assassination attempts tied to SPLC labeling The Family Research Council shooter and his stated motivation How federal agencies, state governments, banks, and donor-advised funds still use the SPLC hate map The nearly billion-dollar endowment that has shielded the SPLC from accountability The Moms for Liberty D-Day celebration on the USS Midway in San Diego, June 6th   Timestamped Topic Breakdown: 00:14 — Cold open and welcome 00:17 — Federal grand jury indicts SPLC on fraud and money laundering charges 00:47 — Why Tina held a press conference before the congressional hearing 01:10 — Moms for Liberty placed on the SPLC hate map in June 2023 02:37 — Jenny Beth on the SPLC's escalation from labeling to infiltration 03:30 — The Judiciary Committee calls it "manufactured hate" 04:08 — 125 pages of documented harms: the Maryland custody case 05:09 — Defining "swatting" and "doxxing" for the audience 06:35 — The New Jersey mom whose family was swatted 06:45 — Massachusetts: 20,000 police officers trained using SPLC materials 07:46 — Jenny Beth on protesters at the only-citizens-voting bus tour 08:56 — Jenny Beth's photo on the SPLC homepage during the Charlie Kirk assassination 10:26 — The SPLC as the real hate machine 11:47 — Federal and state government reliance on the SPLC 12:46 — Iowa: 7 of 10 listed hate groups are Moms for Liberty chapters 13:28 — How the SPLC's billion-dollar endowment crushes legal challenges 15:36 — Gays Against Groomers and other small groups with no recourse 16:42 — The first House Judiciary hearing and three key witnesses 18:24 — The second hearing on July 9th or 10th with SPLC leadership testifying 19:14 — The Chick-fil-A Foundation's 2017 donation to the SPLC 20:29 — The cost of grassroots resistance: cyberattacks and Philadelphia 21:59 — Defining real hate vs. exercising the First Amendment 23:29 — Standing up for donors who stand with us 24:03 — Donate to Moms for Liberty 24:38 — The Moms for Liberty D-Day celebration on the USS Midway, June 6th 25:23 — Closing thanks and steel spine 25:35 — Subscribe and where to find the show 25:53 — Narrator outro   Links Mentioned: momsforliberty.org/splc jennybethshow.com teapartypatriots.org Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121