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FBI Director Kash Patel announced on Friday the agency has "terminated" all ties with the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) — a left-leaning nonprofit organization known for its "Hate Map" and designating groups it views as extremist, including Turning Point USA .

The nonprofit, founded in 1971, originally focused on civil rights legal advocacy. However, in recent years, critics claim it has become highly partisan, targeting conservatives and faith-based organizations alongside actual hate groups.

"The Southern Poverty Law Center long ago abandoned civil rights work and turned into a partisan smear machine," Patel wrote in an announcement on X . "Their so-called ‘hate map’ has been used to defame mainstream Americans an

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