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June 11, 2026 - MONTGOMERY, Ala. — On Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released its annual Year in Hate & Extremism report, which chronicles trends in hard-right activity, exposes the players who are driving extremism, and equips communities with data and tools to prevent radicalization.
A state-by-state list of hate and antigovernment extremist groups and an interactive map is available HERE.
This year’s report documents the success that the hard-right movement had throughout 2025 at rapidly establishing power across influential institutions, such as the federal government and the private tech sector, which have embraced, enabled and advanced its agenda. The report identified 1,263 hate and antigovernment groups in operation throughout 2025.
“The hard right is attempting to radicalize generations of young people, predominantly men, by building a more expansive culture and media ecosystem,” said Bryan Fair, interim president and CEO, SPLC. “Unfortunately, last year, they also found incredibly powerful allies — including high-ranking officials throughout our federal government — who were willing to help them transform their rhetoric into dangerous policies that have come at the direct expense of Black and Brown people, immigrants, women and LGBTQ+ communities.”
In addition to exploring how the hard right seized power in the federal government, the report examines the conditions that enabled white supremacy to thrive in 2025, including:
- Younger, digitally savvy right-wingers, who were granted unprecedented access to the federal government, gained political power in exchange for creating content that helped sell the administration’s policies targeting immigrants, LGBTQ+ people, women and poor folks.
- Extremist groups exploited cryptocurrency to fund and sustain harassment campaigns while insulating themselves from the consequences of their actions.
- Extremist groups maintained a concerted effort to make college campuses a focus for propaganda and recruitment, taking advantage of free speech policies to book bigoted speakers who dehumanized and intimidated students of color, LGBTQ+ students and women.
“This report exists not just to document hard-right activity, but also to equip advocates and communities with tools they need to prevent radicalization and counter the myth of white supremacy,” Fair continued. “The hard-right power grab can be rolled back, but it requires collective resistance built through the actions of every individual.”
Additionally, the report outlines the concrete actions the federal government took in 2025 to undermine and defund programs and initiatives designed to prevent white supremacist and hard-right extremist violence.
“The federal government’s targeting of Black and Brown immigrant communities was meant to send a clear message: This administration is all in on the hard-right agenda,” said Rachel Carroll Rivas, deputy director of research, reporting, & analysis, Intelligence Project, SPLC. “But there are so many less visible decisions made by this administration that leave all Americans less safe. They have intentionally ignored the very real threat posed by hard-right extremism, which is exactly why the SPLC cannot.”
A state-by-state list of hate and antigovernment extremist groups and an interactive map is available HERE.
The sections in this report include:
- An influential time: 2025 marked the year of the hard-right influencer
- Trump administration radically shifts policy to favor hard right, extremists
- Financing hate: Anglin case demonstrates limitations of crypto regulation
- When the hard right comes to campus: Why it happens and how to respond
- Tracking a cadre of hate and antigovernment groups and other far-right entities engaged in direct lobbying of the government
- Nine ways to take action and counter hate in your community
To counter hate and extremism, the SPLC also offered the following policy recommendations:
- Ensure civil rights and hate crimes are top priorities and make hate crime reporting mandatory
- Teach accurate history and critical thinking skills
- Support diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) programs
- Promote inclusive responses to hate and extremism
- Prevent political violence
- Build community resilience and support people who are targeted
- Promote online safety and hold tech and social media companies accountable
- Hold lawmakers accountable
“Communities are facing the harsh realities of this hard-right power grab,” said Erin Wilson, director of the Intelligence Project, SPLC. “From kitchen table conversations to mass-mobilizing marches, everyone has a role to play right now. There is power in civic engagement and everyday acts of solidarity, education and action.”
Read the report in its entirety by visiting splcenter.org.
About the Southern Poverty Law Center
The Southern Poverty Law Center is a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance the human rights of all people. For more information, visit www.splcenter.org.
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center
