The Washington-Baltimore News Guild stands in solidarity with our members at the Southern Poverty Law Center as the organization faces a federal indictment rooted in politics rather than the law. To characterize the SPLC’s use of confidential informants as fraud, at a moment when this administration has made no secret of its hostility toward the SPLC, raises serious questions about the integrity and motivation of this prosecution.
The Washington-Baltimore News Guild represents the SPLC workers who have spent their careers fighting hate and advancing civil rights — the very mission now under legal siege. Our members deserve to have their work understood in its proper context: as a continuation of the civil rights movement, not a betrayal of it. We will stand with them throughout this fight.