Is the Alaska Dispatch a newspaper or an opinion journal? Editors should do a little more research before publishing articles like this referencing the Southern Poverty Law Center's opinion of the Clarion Project. Editors should have taken into account these facts about SPLC: 1)The SPLC was founded by a leftist who sought out leftist donors to enrich himself. 2)The SPLC vastly overstates the number of hate groups in the country due to a proven bad habit of mislabeling groups with conservative positions as hate groups. 3)The SPLC actually admitted they aren't interested in classifying leftist organization as a hate groups (Charles Cook, National Review 2011) 4)A shooting occurred at the Family Research Council (FRC) in 2012 after the organization was labeled a "hate group" by the SPLC 5)In 2014, the SPLC actually listed Dr. Ben Carson under their "Extremist Files" list 6)The FBI removed the SPLC as a "resource" in 2014 for their "hate crime Web page." Fake news, much?