{"id":591171,"date":"2026-04-24T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=591171"},"modified":"2026-04-24T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T14:00:00","slug":"exclusive-after-federal-indictment-watchdog-pushes-irs-to-investigate-splcs-tax-exempt-status-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=591171","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: After Federal Indictment, Watchdog Pushes IRS To Investigate SPLC\u2019s Tax-Exempt Status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SPLC-1-1200x675.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"SPLC responding to DOJ charges.\" \/>A government watchdog filed an updated IRS complaint on Thursday challenging the Southern Poverty Law Center\u2019s (SPLC) tax-exempt status, The Federalist has learned. The move comes days after the far-left organization was indicted on charges related to allegedly making fraudulent payments to extremist groups including the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Filed by the Center to [\u2026]<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SPLC-1-1200x675.png\" title=\"Exclusive: After Federal Indictment, Watchdog Pushes IRS To Investigate SPLC\u2019s Tax-Exempt Status\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A government watchdog filed an updated IRS complaint on Thursday challenging the Southern Poverty Law Center\u2019s (SPLC) tax-exempt status, The Federalist has learned. The move comes days after the far-left organization was indicted on charges related to allegedly making fraudulent payments to extremist groups including the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). Filed by the Center to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=591171\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Exclusive: After Federal Indictment, Watchdog Pushes IRS To Investigate SPLC\u2019s Tax-Exempt Status<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":591167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-591171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-empowerment","category-national-security","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=591171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/591167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=591171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=591171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=591171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}