Truthout: The Changing Face of Anti-Fascism
The 1980s and 1990s saw a number of national-level “monitoring groups” — organizations that tracked and countered the far right, including the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Political Research Associates, the Center for Democratic Renewal and Anti-Defamation League. With access to a larger funding base, these groups produced documentation about Klan, Nazi and other racist organizing. The SPLC, which continues to monitor organized racist and fascist groups today, pioneered innovative lawsuits which bankrupted major racist leaders, including Tom Metzger’s White Aryan Resistance, the United Klans of America and the Invisible Empire.
— Spencer Sunshine