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The federal policy work by the Southern Poverty Law Center includes administrative and legislative advocacy aimed at improving the lives of people in the South in the area of dismantling white nationalism and extremism. Below are letters, comments, testimony, reports and other SPLC Action Fund resources:

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Decriminalization & Decarceration

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Eradicating Poverty

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International Advocacy

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Letters

Letter to Committee on Homeland Security correcting the hearing record (Nov. 15, 2023)
Letter to mayor of Chicago re outcome of the investigation into police officer (Jan. 5, 2023)
Letter to OMB re United We Stand (Dec. 5, 2022)
Letter to Director of White House Domestic Policy Council (Sept. 12, 2022)
Letter to Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin
Letter to President Biden re: Attorney Fred D. Gray (June 21, 2022)
Letter to Senate Foreign Relations Committee re Professor Deborah Lipstadt (Feb. 3, 2022)
Letter to House Veterans’ Affairs Committee re extremist groups’ recruitment of veterans (Oct. 11, 2021)

STATEMENTS & TESTIMONIES

Testimony to Congress on ‘Mostly Peaceful’ (May 15, 2023)
Statement to House Committee on Oversight and Reform re rising anti-LGBTQI+ extremism (Dec. 14, 2022)
Statement to Jan 6 Select Committee (Aug. 12, 2022)
Statement to Senate Judiciary Committee sharing expertise and recommendations for addressing political violence and intimidation
Statement for Jan 6 Select Committee re Proud Boys (April 8, 2022)
Statement to Jan 6 Select Committee re Nick Fuentes (April 7, 2022)
Statement for hearings on ‘Social Media Platforms and the Amplification of Domestic Extremism & Other Harmful Content’ (2021)
Statement for Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties on ‘Confronting Violent White Supremacy’ (Sept. 2021)
Statement for Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties hearing on ‘Confronting Violent White Supremacy’ (May 2021)
Testimony to House subcommittee hearing on ‘Domestic Terrorist Financing in the Aftermath of Insurrection’ (Feb. 2021)
Statement to New York City Council for ‘Addressing Online Hate and Radicalization’ hearings (Nov. 2020)
Statement for House subcommittee hearing on militia extremists (July 2020)