The Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal advocacy organization that tracks hate and extremism, is working with the House Jan. 6 select committee to document extremist groups' involvement in the insurrection.
to the committee in April, calling their participation in the insurrection "an attempt to overthrow democracy and liberal pluralism in favor of an authoritarian political order."The SPLC's materials are "part of under-the-radar help investigators have received from outside groups and experts with relevant knowledge," Politico writes.
In a March report, the SPLC noted that the number of hate and anti-government extremist groups declined for the third year in a row in 2021 — even as their ideologiesBuoyed by the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, white nationalists, neo-Nazis and far-right militias have found ways to leave the fringes and infiltrate the highest levels of government, the SPLC said.
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