Moms for Liberty makes the extremist list The report also has other findings, including that the so-called “militia movement” declined significantly last year, that antisemitism continues to be a major force animating the extreme far-right and that alternative tech sites aren’t as niche as perhaps might be expected. Moms for Liberty did not respond to a request for comment Tuesday. (The organization also is fighting a lawsuit from Gavin McInnes, who founded the Proud Boys and who has argued the center's hate group designation harmed his career.) The law center has also sued hate groups and individual extremists in the civil courts, often with great success.īut the law center has also been criticized for designating as extremist some groups that argue they simply take a political position and has defended itself in lawsuits, including from immigration policy groups it has designated as anti-immigrant hate groups. Over the years, the center has brought new focus to self-described militias, anti-immigrant groups and outright hate groups. Being added to its watchlist means almost certain notoriety. The Southern Poverty Law Center is one of the most widely recognized research organizations tracking hate and extremism in the United States. That’s almost flat from 2021 when the law center counted 1,221 extremist groups. Of those, the law center designates 702 as anti-government groups and 523 as hate groups. The 12 new groups brought the total number of active extremist groups included in the 2022 report to 1,225 nationwide. The new designations are detailed in the law center's annual 2022 Year in Hate and Extremism report. ”We saw this as a very deliberate strategy to go to the local level.” “(The movement) is primarily aimed at not wanting to include our hard history, topics of racism, and a very strong push against teaching anything having to do with LGBTQ topics in schools,” Corke said. Corke said the grassroots conservative groups are part of a new front in the battle against inclusivity in schools, though they are drawing from ideas rooted in age-old white supremacy. Moms for Liberty and the other organizations are being designated as “anti-government extremist groups,” based on longstanding criteria, explained the law center's Intelligence Project Director Susan Corke. The Southern Poverty Law Center is for the first time labeling Florida-headquartered Moms for Liberty and 11 other right-wing “parents' rights” groups as extremist groups in its annual report, released Tuesday. Yasmeen Qureshi and Lamar A Salter, USA TODAY

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