HR 313 — A resolution to urge Jocelyn Benson to release all information in her possession related to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s operations, including any details concerning the organization’s alleged payments to individuals associated with extremist groups, and to publicly address her role in the organization.

313 Rep.Reps.

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Germaine, Steele, Thompson, VanderWall, Woolford and Wortz offered the following resolution:

Whereas, The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a Montgomery, Alabama-based nonprofit organization, has long presented itself to donors and the public as a leading defender against hate and LSB Research Services Division GCK R0274'26 *_HR313_AA_1 60xs83 1 extremism;

The indictment alleges that, between 2014 and 2023, LSB Research Services Division GCK R0274'26 *_HR0313_INTR_1 oi845h 1 “the SPLC secretly funneled more than $3 million in SPLC funds to [individuals] who were associated with various violent extremist groups,” including the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations, and the National Socialist Party of America.

In this role, she posed as a freelance journalist to meet with neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups, including meeting with leaders such as neo-Nazi LSB Research Services Division GCK R0274'26 *_HR313_AA_1 60xs83 1 figure Davis Wolfgang Hawke.

This early undercover investigative work involved direct engagement with the very types of extremist networks from which the SPLC allegedly recruited and paid confidential informants and sources, raising questions about the continuity of such practices and whether Benson possesses unique knowledge of the organization’s methods for handling informants and LSB Research Services Division GCK R0274'26 *_HR0313_INTR_1 oi845h 1 funding decisions related to hate group infiltration;

and LSB Research Services Division GCK R0274'26 *_HR313_AA_1 60xs83 1 Whereas, Jocelyn Benson has a demonstrated history of failing to be transparent with the House of Representatives and the public, as evidenced by the House of Representatives voting to hold Secretary of State Benson in civil contempt in May 2025 for her refusal to fully comply with a subpoena and turn over complete election training materials used to train local clerks and election LSB Research Services Division GCK R0274'26 *_HR0313_INTR_1 oi845h 1 staff, despite the House’s legitimate oversight responsibilities.

and be it further Resolved, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to LSB Research Services Division GCK R0274'26 *_HR313_AA_1 60xs83 Jocelyn Benson, the Attorney General of the United States, the United States Attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, and the members of the Michigan congressional delegation.

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