On Tuesday, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) was indicted for using paid informants to monitor and track “extremist” organizations. Acting AG Todd Blanche stated that they had paid at least eight different people, including those affiliated with violent, ancient organizations like the Ku Klux Klan, over $3M between 2014 and 2023.

But the mainstream media has not paid attention to any of these decrepit losers at all. Instead, they have focused all of their attention on figures who have nothing to do with the SPLC at all.

Shortly after the SPLC indictment, influencers on X began to attack America First host Nick Fuentes, claiming without evidence that he was one of the eight donors, and more specifically that he was a paid informant at the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville.

What’s interesting about these allegations is that they only started as Fuentes was actively taking a break from his show due to losing his voice and just being unwell in general. Fuentes was also out of the country when the SPLC news broke: he was (and still is, as of Sunday) in Italy with his friend Keith Woods. So Fuentes didn’t necessarily have a way to defend himself on, say, his show, where he could easily provide evidence disproving any rumors that he was affiliated with the SPLC. But thankfully, the media has once again chosen the wrong target; due to both direct quotes from Fuentes in the past and blunders by mainstream influencers in their attempts to discredit him, it’s very easy to prove that Fuentes has never associated with the SPLC.

Blunders from mainstream media

To start, the mainstream media itself has been unable to consistently maintain its reasoning as to why Nick Fuentes had to have been a supposed federal informant. First, they claimed that Fuentes’ break from his America First show began just as the SPLC news broke. However, looking into his Telegram shows otherwise.

Fuentes had announced that he was taking a break from his show as far back as the 14th, directly contradicting claims provided by irrelevant influencers. On top of this, Alex Jones also defended Fuentes on X.

On April 24th, Alex Jones commented under a post made by Laura Loomer attempting to connect Candace Owens’ trip to Italy with Nick’s, and revealed that he had been trying to get Fuentes on InfoWars “two weeks ago,” around the same time that he initially announced his break, but was unable to, as Fuentes was also planning a family vacation. Jones also noted that no evidence had been given confirming that Fuentes was a paid informant.

Mainstream influencers have also failed to consider the viewpoints that Fuentes has pushed since he started his show. While most of the donors that were exposed during the SPLC indictment were part of violent groups with horrible optics, Fuentes has consistently pushed for his supporters to advance his agenda without pursuing violent methods. As far back as 2019, he had been asserting that his movement was about “peaceful activism” and “rhetorical resistance to the system” in lieu of being annoyingly pro-violent behavior.

Finally, the image below, made by X user AquaGroyper, highlights the violent extremists that were mentioned in the SPLC indictment. Fuentes is nowhere to be seen, and there is nothing that confirms Fuentes’ supposed informing at all. Interestingly, influencers have refused to actually comment on these extremists.

The summary shows only that anonymous donors were connected to dangerous groups such as the Aryan Nations and the Ku Klux Klan, which Fuentes has never associated with. As a matter of fact, Fuentes has repeatedly disavowed David Duke, a former KKK leader who has been spotted at several of his events uninvited in the past.

Charlottesville

One of the main rumors which were spread by mainstream influencers claimed that Nick was a paid informant at the time that he attended the ‘Unite the Right’ rally in Charlottesville, where protestors went to demonstrate in an attempt to keep a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee from being torn down.

However, Nick was only 18 when the rally occurred. Assuming that he was a paid informant at the time, this would mean that the SPLC had been paying off some random 16 or 17-year-old kid from Illinois, who had no viewers at all, to just go to Charlottesville when the time was right.

On top of this, Nick has notably disavowed a great deal of the violent protestors at the 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally.

Fuentes remarked to Louis Theroux during the latter’s filming of the “Forbidden America” documentary that all of these people were “total freaks,” and that they didn’t “like America, they’re not Christian… what the hell are we really doing here?”

Even as far back as August 22, 2019, Nick had been stating that he hadn’t participated in any of the nonsense that other Charlottesville attendees were partaking in.

Obviously, Fuentes has never been like the violent extremists who were targeted by the SPLC, and it shows in how they have interacted with him.

Direct attacks from the SPLC

Finally, the SPLC had been blatantly attacking Fuentes and even his family for several years, and participating in attempts to have him removed from all platforms.

The SPLC notably attacked him repeatedly following the January 6th Capitol Riot, which Fuentes peacefully participated in. This led to his removal from the DLive streaming platform and also led to his first suspension from Twitter.

The SPLC also attacked Alex Jones simply for being a friend of Nick’s and paid one of his employees to hack his systems for surveillance. When the employee was caught and fired, he remarked that Jones deserved what happened to him for “supporting Nick Fuentes.”

Jason Wilson and Jeff Tischauser, writers associated with the SPLC, even outright doxxed Fuentes and his family, and even targeted his deceased grandmother and his interns, which ultimately led to an attempt on his life by a mentally ill assassin after the dox was rediscovered following posts made during Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election.

It is absolutely embarrassing to think that Nick would even entertain any idea of associating with the SPLC. They have harassed him for years, tied him to pagan nobodies from Charlottesville that he was disgusted by, and most importantly, they have published his personal information and targeted his family simply because they don’t care about what he believes in, and they still support him.

Such disgusting behavior is unbelievable, and it’s great that the SPLC is being indicted for paying off violent informants, even if it’s really no more than useless infighting to distract American voters from other problems that should be prioritized.

When Fuentes returns to America First on Monday, expect the easiest dismantling of all these false rumors tying him to the KKK, or the SPLC, or just about every bad optics group, in just one go.