Tell Fidelity, Schwab, and Vanguard: Stop blocking donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center

The Southern Poverty Law Center — facing a dubious criminal indictment by Donald Trump’s Department of Justice — is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.

But instead, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Vanguard are already cutting off millions of dollars in donations to the 55-year-old civil rights organization.

The SPLC is famous for monitoring and exposing domestic hate groups, and winning landmark legal cases against white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and the Ku Klux Klan.

The Justice Department has accused the SPLC of criminal fraud, claiming it lied to banks and donors about its reliance on confidential informants inside extremist groups.

The Southern Poverty Law Center’s track record is proven. The Justice Department’s claims are not.

But Fidelity, Schwab, and Vanguard are prohibiting customers with donor-advised funds from making grants to the center, sabotaging the SPLC’s ability to withstand this existential attack by the Justice Department. Fidelity, Schwab, and Vanguard cannot be the judge, jury, and executioner before the SPLC even gets its day in court. They need to face pressure from the American public to reverse course.

Click “START WRITING’ to sign and send a message demanding Big Finance stop blocking donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center now.