Friend,

In 2021, the SPLC documented 1,221 active hate and antigovernment
extremist groups across the United States.

That alarming figure comes from our just-released Year in Hate and
Extremism report for 2021, now available on our website
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. The full report suggests a worrying trend: While the absolute
numbers of hate and antigovernment extremist groups are declining, the
overall power of the far right is not. Instead, their extremist ideas
now operate more openly in the political mainstream.

READ THE REPORT
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Extremist organizing doesn't need to take place in fringe hate
groups when right-wing extremist narratives circulate widely and their
proponents hold real institutional and social power. The aftermath of
the U.S. Capitol insurrection is a telling example. Polls show roughly
half of likely voters believe that the Jan. 6 insurrectionists who
were arrested and jailed are "political prisoners" -
an idea that was promoted by such groups as the Proud Boys in the
months following the siege and was then advanced by some Republican
elected officials and conservative media pundits.

But the continued ascent of the hard right is not inevitable, and the
full Year in Hate & Extremism report includes examples of
inspiring unity and resilience

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. Pushing back against rising authoritarianism will require a holistic
approach - and to stop organized hate for good, we need to
understand where, why and how it is spreading. That's why we
continue to produce our Year in Hate report year after year.

We hope you are able to take some time to dive into the full Year in
Hate & Extremism 2021 report
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, including our interactive Hate Map
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tracking hate groups in communities across the country. The report
also features a section dedicated to policy recommendations answering
the question "What do we do now?"

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Map showing active antigovernment and hate groups in the U.S. in 2021.

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The SPLC has published the Year in Hate & Extremism, an annual
census and analysis of hate groups and extremist organizations, each
year since 1990. The SPLC tracks both hate groups and antigovernment
extremist groups - which, combined, make up some of the most
extreme elements of the hard right. Hate groups vilify others based on
such immutable characteristics as race, religion and gender identity,
while groups in the antigovernment movement believe that the federal
government is tyrannical, and traffic in conspiracy theories that
often malign the same marginalized communities that hate groups
target. These groups often overlap and work alongside one another.

In solidarity,

Your friends and allies at the Southern Poverty Law Center

 


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