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Anti-gay Virginia group in hot water for nasty Colorado campaign mailer

By | 07.12.12 | 12:01 pm

The campaign mailer features two men leaning together and kissing. The image comes from a treasured engagement photo snapped in New York city that was allegedly stolen and reworked by an anti-gay Virginia group. The group, the Public Advocate of the United States, dimmed the original crisp black and white shot, replaced Manhattan skyscrapers and the Brooklyn Bridge with hazy snow-covered mountains and cut across the middle of the image with words on a blood-red line intended to mock the couple and attack Republican Colorado Senator Jean White, from Hayden in the rural conservative northwest top of the state.

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In Alabama, it could be Jim Crow all over again

By | 06.20.11 | 11:14 am

Flash back to the 1950s when Alabama may have been the most dangerous place in the country to be a person of color, at least one who thought he or she should be afforded basic human rights.

Colorado Springs-based Family Research Institute tagged as hate group

By | 11.22.10 | 1:10 pm

In its most recent Intelligence Report, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) announced that it will designate the Colorado Springs-based Family Research Institute as a hate group for “pumping out religiously motivated… demonizing propaganda aimed at homosexuals and other…

Video Depicts Border Murder

By | 08.14.07 | 11:12 am

Crazed vigilantes stalking the U.S.-Mexico border in hopes of catching undocumented immigrants may be old news, but is it possible that such individuals could be murderers?

Videos obtained by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a civil rights organization…

By | 11.28.06 | 3:00 pm

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent who has been accused of illegally accessing government information and leaking it to the Bob Beauprez campaign is getting help from an unusual source: a local figure with connections to white nationalism.