SPLC: Bankrolling Bigotry: An Overview of the Online Funding Strategies of American Hate Groups

Hatred is surging across the United States. Figures released by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) suggest that the number of hate groups rose steadily between 2014 and 2018, including a 55% growth in the number of number of white nationalist groups active between 2017 and 2019. In 2018 the FBI announced that hate crimes were at the highest volume they had been for 16 years, and recent analysis from the Center for Strategic and International Studies identifies white supremacists as the most significant terror threat facing the US. This matches global trends where white supremacist terrorism has spiked by 320%, in part buoyed by a broad morass of hate against communities including Jews, Muslims, immigrants, people of colour, people with disabilities and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and others (LGBTQ+) community.