Big Finance Might Be Dooming the SPLC — Even Before Its Day in Court

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Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Vanguard are tamping down on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s donations as the government’s de facto censors.

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Rainey Reitman is the author of “Transaction Denied: Big Finance’s Power to Punish Speech,” and the co-founder and board president of the Freedom of the Press Foundation.

The Southern Poverty Law Center is preparing for the legal fight of its life with the U.S. government — but its most immediate threat is coming from the financial system, rather than the courts.