The Arsonist on the Payroll: Inside the SPLC Indictment

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The Southern Poverty Law Center spent nearly a decade, prosecutors say, writing checks to the very people it was warning America about. The Alabama nonprofit was charged Tuesday by the Department of Justice with wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering conspiracy. The allegation is simple and startling: between 2014 and 2023, the SPLC quietly routed more than $3 million to at least eight leaders and members of hate groups ā€” including a Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard and a fundraiser for a neo-Nazi outfit ā€” to serve as “field sources” inside violent extremist movements. Donors, the government says, were

The Congresswoman, the Winery, and the Missing Millions

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The smile gave it away. A tight, sarcastic smile, the kind you wear when you’ve decided the question isn’t worth answering and the questioner isn’t worth respecting. Rep. Ilhan Omar flashed it Tuesday when a Lindell TV reporter asked her, politely enough, about the tens of millions of dollars that appear to have wandered off her financial disclosure form. “I think you’re stupid for asking me anything,” she said. “I don’t want to tell you jack sā€”. How about that? Have a good day.” Have a good day. The American cousin of good luck with that. Here is what she

‘Awesome’: Murphy Roots for Tehran as Pentagon Denies Naval Blockade Breach

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Chris Murphy has a new one-word foreign policy: Awesome. The Connecticut Democrat, 52, whose name gets floated for 2028 every time he clears his throat, fired off the reply Monday on X to a Lloyd’s List report claiming 26 Iranian “shadow fleet” vessels had slipped past the U.S. blockade President Trump clamped on Iran last week. The Pentagon says the report is wrong. “First of all this is false,” chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell posted. “Second, a Dem senator cheering on the number one state sponsor of terror is shameful.” awesome https://t.co/nRj1trI3rF — Chris Murphy šŸŸ§ (@ChrisMurphyCT) April 20, 2026

In The Gulf of Oman ā€” A Shot Across the Bow, and Then Into the Engine Room

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In every confrontation between nations, there is a moment when words stop working. The radio crackles. A warning is issued. Then another. Then another. And at some point, when the ship on the other end keeps moving, and the crew keeps silent, the decision passes from the diplomats to the gunners. That moment came Sunday in the Gulf of Oman. For six hours, the USS Spruance ā€” a guided-missile destroyer named for an admiral who understood the cost of restraint ā€” shadowed an Iranian-flagged cargo ship called the Touska as it churned toward the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas. The

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