"The SPLC website also lists Crew 38, Blood and Honour, Wolves of Vinland, American Front and American Vanguard as being active in various cities in Western Washington."

Actually, the SPLC doesn't provide any known city or town location for most of those alleged groups. Instead, the company slaps a "statewide" label on these phantom groups and very few, if any, in the media will follow up.

Nationwide, the SPLC cannot provide any location information on 191 of its "statewide" phantoms. We know these groups are really, really out there because the SPLC tells us so. That's not good enough, and it certainly isn't good journalism.

The SPLC claims 5 "racist skinhead" groups in Washington but provides no information on any of them. Nationwide, it claims 78 skinhead groups but cannot locate 60 of them on any map, including its own.

That's not hard data. That's fundraising propaganda.

http://wp.me/pCLYZ-Ob

Trust, but verify. It's what used to be called "journalism" in the old days.