I never thought I’d live to see even this much justice done.
The former CFO of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Heidi Beirich, was arrested on Wednesday on fraud and money laundering charges, and watching it all unfold from a great distance was like watching the sun break through the clouds after endless days of rain.
Heidi Beirich will likely never serve time in prison or face any other serious consequences for her crimes. Unlike her victims, she has endless amounts of ready cash and a massive number of friends in the deep state. The Wednesday arrest was nevertheless the public humiliation that has been needed for so long, as even a small counterbalance to the outsize influence the SPLC has enjoyed for so very long, absolutely unchallenged.
The popular X account “Insurrection Barbie” pointed out in April 2026 that the “SPLC’s hate map got hardwired into corporate America. Amazon’s AmazonSmile program used SPLC lists to exclude charities. PayPal, GoFundMe, Patreon, Airbnb, Eventbrite, Mastercard, Visa many used SPLC classifications to deplatform people and organizations. Bezos later admitted to Congress that Amazon’s reliance on SPLC was ‘an imperfect system’ and that he’d ‘like a better source.’”
Bezos may have told Congress that the SPLC was “imperfect,” but he never stopped relying on it. He still does to this day. I know this from bitter experience. Because the SPLC designated my organization, Jihad Watch, a program of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, a “hate group,” it was banned from Amazon Smile years ago. That ban is still in place. Neither the SPLC nor Amazon allows any appeal of its sacred judgments. It would be like appealing against a divine oracle.
Amazon Smile was just the tip of the iceberg. Because the SPLC put me on its blacklist, I was also demonetized at YouTube and banned from PayPal, GoFundMe, and Mastercard, as well as Patreon, Zelle, and numerous other services. PayPal and Patreon relented after they heard from my attorneys. YouTube last year reversed itself without explanation. The others have remained impervious to all entreaties. GoFundMe is so vindictive that it doesn’t even allow me to donate to other people, as well as to receive donations myself. The SPLC’s hit pieces on me and my organization would show up at the top of all internet searches for my name and Jihad Watch, which led to incalculable reputational damage and an unknowable number of lost professional opportunities.
This is what the SPLC did to just one person, someone who was actually small potatoes and low down on their hit list. They did the same and much worse to higher-profile individuals and groups. And never did it cross anyone’s mind that the watchman might need watching, and that the SPLC might not be the absolutely impartial and trustworthy judge that everyone assumed it to be. --->READ MORE HERE
A former Southern Poverty Law Center finance officer was charged Wednesday for her leading role in having the left-wing nonprofit secretly pay informants to participate in white supremacist groups.
Heidi Beirich of Palm Springs made her initial appearance Wednesday in federal court in Riverside, California, according to her attorney, Michael Proctor. CNN reported she had been arrested earlier that day.
A 26-page superseding indictment naming Beirich, who was first unmasked by The Post in June, was later filed in the Middle District of Alabama.
“There is a new indictment that includes the former CFO of SPLC,” Attorney General Todd Blanche confirmed at an unrelated news conference at DOJ headquarters, adding that there had been “an arrest made,” though Beirich’s attorney said she appeared voluntarily in court.
“Dr. Beirich is innocent, and this case is without merit,” her attorney, Proctor, said in a statement. “We believe the charges against her and the SPLC are politically motivated, and Dr. Beirich has been targeted in this case because of the important work she has done to combat hate groups and extremists.”
FBI Director Kash Patel said Beirich “was at the center of our ongoing investigation into SPLC,” which found the nonprofit “knowingly misled donors, who believed their money was being used to dismantle violent extremist organizations – when in fact, part of those donations were instead being used to pay senior leadership within those extremist groups.”
Wednesday’s superseding indictment accused Beirich of helping to funnel $1.2 million in SPLC donor money to an informant in the white supremacist group National Alliance — who was also purportedly her lover.
The June 2 indictment had named the “person who would become Director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project” as “Employee-2.” Beirich served in that role from 2012 to 2019.
In 2014, that employee paid off an informant known as F-9 to break into National Alliance headquarters and steal 25 boxes of documents — only to later use the materials to author an article for SPLC’s blog “Hatewatch.” --->READ MORE HERE
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