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SPLC: It’s All Happening!Discovery will be a bear for them (I know!). And it could find evidence of tortious interference
SPLC: It’s All Happening!Discovery will be a bear for them (I know!). And it could find evidence of tortious interference.Lydia BrimelowMay 1
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My husband Peter and I stayed with family friends recently in their beautiful PA home. As our hostess serenely prepared a homecooked meal over the heads of her five blonde children (all under the age of 9) she admitted to me, “I’m pretty solidly on team ‘Nothing Ever Happens’.”Since that dinner, President Trump survived his third assassination attempt and the Southern Poverty Law Center [SPLC] was caught passing money to the Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.PeterBrimelow.com is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.Upgrade to paidWe’re So Back

In the Baltimore crime drama “The Wire,” Stringer Bell announces that his drug business will resume from its new location in the back of a funeral home. Relatable!As I continue to mull the DOJ’s indictment against the SPLC last week, I keep coming back to my feelings of eager anticipation of details unearthed in the forthcoming discovery.Non-combatants in modern lawfare may not be familiar with legal discovery, but, having been forced to comply with subpoena demands so onerous that the expense and labor involved shuttered my main project, VDARE.com, I am very aware.So far, the DOJ has done what is sometimes referred to as a “snapshot investigation,” or, just enough investigation of the SPLC to earn an indictment. Real discovery, presumably launching in earnest this summer, will be ongoing in real time. If the indictment investigation was a screenshot, real discovery will be a livestream.Assuming the case goes forward, the SPLC will start to gather any evidence it has for its own defense. It is required to share that evidence with the DOJ whether it hurts or harms their case. As the DOJ receives those materials, it is required to share with the SPLC what of it they plan to use for the prosecution, thus making it public on a rolling basis.Included:Internal memos, emails, and financial records to which the prosecutors didn’t have access during the initial probe.Witness lists and expert reports, likely revealing new individuals or documents.The outcomes of private investigations, which may uncover transactions or communications unknown to federal agents.
Whatever happened to that private investigation the SPLC promised when founder Morris Dees was fired?

Statements by the defense, like depositions etcPhysical evidence, office equipment, personal effects. Notebooks, paycards, cell phones, burner phones, hard drives, stolen property, etc.The prospect of these details becoming public are almost too delicious. The trail, including all pretrial motions and discovery disputes will be overseen by Judge Emily Marks, a white Catholic Alabaman Trump appointee who specialized in labor disputes and civil rights litigation while in private practice.

Please, Judge Marks. Give the people what they want!Just as there is never just one cockroach, it’s impossible to believe that employees of the SPLC who were comfortable engaging in fraud and money laundering for what is one of the world’s nastiest organizations didn’t also feel comfortable bending and breaking other rules.I am particularly interested in evidence of “tortious interference. “Tortious interference is when A and B have a contractual relationship and C comes along and blows it up, causing damage. Like, to choose an example at random, if VDARE had a conference scheduled at the Cheyenne Mountain Lodge in Colorado Springs, CO, with deposits fully paid up and tickets sold, and the SPLC or their minions intentionally disrupted that conference, causing the Lodge to pay out liquidated damages and VDARE to lose its conference. If that happened, the SPLC could be prosecuted for tortious interference.

We just don’t have the hard evidence.Successful litigation against tortious interference happens all the time.Although the SPLC is perhaps the biggest player in the Cancel Culture game, lawsuits against tortious interference filed by D.A. King and Gavin McInnes/Proud Boys haven’t gotten any traction in the courts. The SPLC has successfully claimed that their “Hate Map” and malicious labeling are “rhetorical hyperbole,” purely subjective in nature, and protected by the First Amendment.But if the DOJ were to discover direct communications between the SPLC and a bank, platform, venue or other contractual partner where the SPLC specifically mentioned one of their victims, that could be a game changer. Or even if internal documents were discovered that discuss an SPLC policy to intentionally trigger cancellations, it could break things open.

Me moderating a debate at West Virginia’s Berkeley Springs Castle, bought because the SPLC kept bullying hotels into cancelling VDARE.com conferences.It’s So OverOf course, there is the terrible possibility that the SPLC’s crimes may skitter away into the walls just as Letitia James’s have (so far). In my experience, Leftists have gotten shockingly arrogant about what they can get away with, crime-wise, because they pretty much do always get away with it.The justice system in most of the United States is broken and even where it isn’t exactly broken, it is slow. According to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the SPLC investigation was started years before Trump but was put on ice by the Biden Administration. If things drag on, yet another change in leadership could turn down the heat again.The SPLC, never one to let a good crisis go to waste, will likely raise a ton of money to defend themselves against what they are already framing as a political persecution. They have between 200-500 employees and some number of those employees are actually lawyers. The American Civil Liberties Union is politically sympathetic, as are any number of enormous NGOs that could decide to circle the wagons in their defense.Already, the SPLC has filed a motion requesting the transcripts of the grand jury testimony, because“…the indictment suffers from obvious legal infirmities— including the omission of essential elements of intent and a failure to reconcile the charges with recent Supreme Court precedent. These particularized irregularities suggest that the grand jury was not merely misled by the government’s presentation of the law, but likely that it was actively weaponized to facilitate such charges.”Grand jury proceedings are typically secret, so it will be interesting to see what happens there. But we can already see that they’re planning to argue the DOJ lied to the grand jury. They haven’t presented anything yet about their First Amendment rights, but they characterized their actions as “tradecraft” and Trump’s attitude toward the prosecution as a “naked display of politicization and partisanship.” Their next step will likely be a motion to dismiss the charges entirely. Maybe it will be granted, who knows? Judge Marks, the world is watching!There are doomers and naysayers on our side, too. The charges are flimsy, some say. The DOJ is pulling punches and will be guarded about outing their own. They are, in short, not sending their best.

It’s All Happening!The time Peter and I spend fighting for the Historic American Nation is often a grind. Losses hit hard. It’s tempting to want our troubles to resolve in a flash of drama.But I’m reminded of a character in Flannery O’Connor’s Temple of the Holy Spirit, who “could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”I’m not impatient for martyrdom. Like in the development of virtue, or raising a family, or building an institution, the nature of the commitment is the on-and-on-ness of it. That’s why it is important to celebrate the wins when they come, and to celebrate them unconditionally.This indictment is a WIN. Are you celebrating?

“A ray of sunshine has suddenly pierced the encircling gloom”

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“A ray of sunshine has suddenly pierced the encircling gloom”

VDARE President Lydia Brimelow On Three Trump Moves That Have Revolutionized The Struggle Against NYAG Letitia James

Peter Brimelow

Aug 16, 2025

Peter Brimelow writes: My wife Lydia Brimelow, president and only remaining staff member of the VDARE Foundation, has just issued this statement:

Statement by Lydia Brimelow

Completely unexpectedly, the Trump Administration has just taken three steps that could revolutionize VDARE’s multi-year struggle to protect its writers and donors from being divulged to New York State Attorney General Letitia James as part of her unconstitutional and ruinous “investigation” of us.

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1] Trump’s Justice Department has appointed a Special Prosecutor to probe Letitia James’ widely-reported pattern of personal mortgage fraud, going back 40 years.

Mortgage fraud is a serious offense, especially for a lawyer. Marilyn Mosby, the Baltimore prosecutor notorious for trying to jail police officers after the 2015 death of Freddy Gray, has been convicted of it and is now facing disbarment.

More importantly, the common law principle falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus (“false in one thing, false in all’) means any Letitia James statement can now be viewed with suspicion—specifically, her lies to courts about VDARE.

(Sample MSM report: Letitia James and Adam Schiff Mortgage Fraud: Special Prosecutor Ed Martin Leads Historic Probe, Federal Charges.com, August 14, 2025)

2] In a dramatic new development, the Justice Department has subpoenaed Letitia James as part of a federal grand jury investigation into Letitia James’ 2023 civil fraud case against Trump and his companies.

The issue: did James’ abusive prosecution constitute a “deprivation of Trump’s constitutional rights”?

Her prosecution resulted in an incredible $454 million judgement against Trump. (He has appealed).

Since James ran for election explicitly vowing to find some reason—any reason—to prosecute Trump, it obviously cannot be denied that she weaponized the justice system against him.

Similarly with Letitia James’ politically-motived prosecution of the National Rifle Association, which is now also the subject of Justice Department subpoenas.

Of course we’re a little wistful that the Justice Department did not include VDARE in this wave of subpoenas.

Because the pattern of deprivation of constitutional rights in our case is exactly the same. In 2022, just when Letitia James’ “investigation” of VDARE was getting started, her minion Rick Sawyer explicitly boasted to the Anti-Defamation League that, although “Hate Speech” (i.e. opinions on immigration that Letitia James dislikes), was indeed protected by the U.S. constitution, it was fortunately possible to suppress it through “massive investigations…without even going to court,”

Which is exactly what Letitia James has been doing to us.

Moreover, unlike President Trump and the NRA, we have not been charged—let alone convicted, of anything. So our case is even stronger.

So we are still hoping. And the prize is enormous. The penalties for federal Civil Rights violations can be devastating.

This new development offers us the possibility, not just of vindication, but of restitution.

(Sample MSM report: Justice Dept. Abruptly Escalates Pressure Campaign on a Trump Adversary,By Jonah E. Bromwich, Devlin Barrett, Glenn Thrush and Santul Nerkar, August 8, 2025).

3] In an August 7 Executive Order, “Guaranteeing Fair Banking For All Americans,” the Trump Administration banned political discrimination by banks and other financial institutions.

If this had been done in Trump’s first term—as was originally proposed—VDARE.com might well well still be functioning.

VDARE was driven to suspend by the costs of the relentless lawfare waged by Letitia James. But it also had extraordinary problems with Cancel Culture, especially in the last years of its life. The final straw was losing our ability to process credit card donations. The issue turned out to be, not the payment processors themselves—thus the heroic Andrew Torba’s GabPay was always willing to work with us—but the banks they relied upon. It was those banks that compelled the payment processors to drop us, apparently under pressure from the Federal government.

As we read this Executive Order, banks will now actually be obliged to contact and reinstate clients they had previously rejected.

(White House Executive Order: Guaranteeing Fair Banking For All Americans, August 7, 2025)

We are ecstatic to see this much-needed action.

And I am trying, with the VDARE Foundation board, to figure out what it all means.

Of course, replacing this one piece of the puzzle won’t put VDARE.com back together again. But if nothing else, if we can secure merchant services, it may allow us to sell tickets so that we can restart conferences at the Berkeley Springs Castle—which we were hoping to do, perhaps by next spring.

Lawfare By New York Radical Leftist Letitia James Targets Peter Brimelow and VDARE, Immigration Critics for Destruction h

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Lawfare By New York Radical Leftist Letitia James Targets Peter Brimelow and VDARE, Immigration Critics for Destruction

Tucker Carlson recently interviewed Lydia Brimelow about New York Attorney General Letitia James’s attack on VDare.

Transcript:

Tucker [00:00:00] Illegal immigration into the United States is at its highest levels ever. Tens of millions of people have come here illegally over the past 15 years, and none of them will ever leave. Mostly they come from the poorest countries on the planet. We don’t know anything about them, really. We don’t know if they’re pro-America. We don’t know if they’re hostile to the people who already live here. We don’t know, in the case of the recent arrivals, what they’re going to do for a living as robotics eliminate low-skilled jobs. So what’s happening right now at the border that what’s often mentioned on TV is really undersold as a story. This is changing America forever, and almost certainly for the worse as we’re watching it. And no one is doing anything about it. The governor of Texas occasionally makes noises about it — it’s over his border that this human wave is flowing, and yet he’s taken no real steps to stop it. There are some media outlets that let you know that it’s happening in general terms, but they don’t seem particularly outraged by it. We’re sitting here as our country is destroyed and no one’s responding, and at some point you have to ask why? Are the majority of Americans in favor of this? Of course not. In fact, no one’s in favor of this. No one will defend this in public. No one will explain why we need it. Why it’s a good idea. How it’s going to help this country. How your grandchildren will live in a better place because of it. People are just silent, like it’s not even happening. And again, you have to ask why. And the answer, of course, is really simple because they’re afraid, they know they’ll be punished if they say anything about it. The story of Peter and Lydia Brimelow explains why they’re afraid. Peter Brimelow has been a journalist for 50 years. Worked at a whole bunch of what are now called mainstream publications. Was an editor — Barron’s, Forbes, National Review, Dow Jones, a legitimate old school journalist. And in the late 90s, he began to ask questions about our immigration scheme. Is this really good idea, is it helping America? And of course, no one could answer those questions because the answer is obvious. No, it’s destroying America; as it destroyed California, so it will destroy your state. That’s certain. But for asking that question, he was fired from his jobs and shunted off into what we call the fringes. But he didn’t stop. He started a website called VDARE. He runs it now with his wife, Lydia.

And for the crime in the supposedly free country of opposing the immigration system currently in place — not the official system, but the actual system — where anyone from the poorest parts of America [sic] with no skills whatsoever can come here and immediately go on welfare. That’s our current system. For saying that that’s a bad idea, powerful forces have just tried, to destroy their lives, not just their lives, the lives of their family, using the justice system to do it. And needless to say, you probably guessed, using something called the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is nothing to [do with] the South or poverty. It has to do with shutting down free speech in this country. They have descended on the Brimelows and have really kind of tried to destroy them. That’s not an overstatement, but you judge for yourself because Lydia Brimelow, who helps run VDARE, joins us now to explain what’s happened to her. Lydia, thanks so much for coming on.

Lydia Brimelow [00:03:13] Thank you so much, Tucker. It’ll be very nice to have our story told.

Tucker [00:03:18] So I have known your husband, sort of, since he was not a controversial figure at all. And he became a controversial figure when he began to say things like, hey, why are we doing this? And he was immediately called a white nationalist, a white supremacist. And I remember very well his response, which is, no, I’m not. And if I was, I’d say so. But that kept up and he wound up publishing with you, VDARE online. That would seem not a particularly controversial thing to do in a free country. But for your family, it’s been, a very risky thing to do. So I hope that you would explain to us what the government, we’ll start with the government, is trying to do to you for daring to oppose the immigration system.

Lydia Brimelow [00:04:03] Yeah, absolutely. So it’s hard to believe everybody who hears the story says it’s completely incredible. Peter founded VDARE Foundation, which has [as] its main project VDARE.com, back in the late 90s. As you said, we’re in our 25th year now, and I joined about ten years ago. I do the fundraising and the back office work, and he handles everything that goes up on the website VDARE.com. We’re a nonprofit journalism enterprise. So everything that we do, all of our people are paid through generous donations from individuals. I can tell you we don’t get any government grants or big foundation grants either. It’s all just grassroots. And we’re veterans of cancel culture at this point. So we’ve been kicked off a lot of mainstream services that most people use to distribute the media that they produce. And that is nothing compared to what we’re facing right now, which started about two years ago, originating out of the hate crimes division in the state of New York. A series of subpoenas were issued by Letitia James first, to Facebook, which I can explain a little bit in a minute. And then to us and our board members, at VDARE Foundation, with no clear trigger, they have refused to tell us what they’re investigating. It’s been two years of us just being crushed under this burden of investigation. The subpoenas were, like, 47 points each.

They want us to turn over essentially every document that we have interacted with, since 2016. And for a small organization, you know, at our peak, we had four full time employees. Right now we have two. That’s Peter and myself. This has just been an absolutely crushing burden. And I will say the Facebook subpoena was interesting because we had actually been kicked off of Facebook, years previous. So we had not even been on Facebook to interact with Facebook in many years, and they were asking for all of the data that VDARE had ever accumulated, created, while we were on Facebook, which we had incidentally, also requested. VDARE was kicked off of Facebook the same day that every one of the people involved in our organization was kicked off, including myself. I had never posted anything political online, at all, but they took all my baby pictures. The video of my daughter’s first steps, which was not saved anywhere else. Facebook still has that. They have, in fact, told my lawyers that we are too dangerous to get our data back, including my daughter taking her first steps. So that was the first subpoena that Letitia James’s hate crimes division issues.

Tucker [00:06:43] May I ask you to pause for one moment and just clarify something. So Facebook is calling you too dangerous to possess your own baby pictures? Has VDARE ever committed violence? Is there something we’re missing? Terrorism? Insurrection. Killing people?

Lydia Brimelow [00:06:59] Never.

Tucker [00:07:00] Okay, okay. Sorry. I just want to clarify that.

Lydia Brimelow [00:06:59] We’ve never even been accused of doing that, right? I mean, people use these scare smear words all the time, white nationalists, white supremacists, racist, xenophobe, whatever the flavor of the day is.

So we get accused of being those things all the time, which we would argue we are not. But violence is something we have never been associated with. We’re even careful to talk about the national divorce because of what implications that might have. I mean, we’re living in a very high-tension environment right now politically. And I think it’s important that people choose their words very carefully and choose their actions very carefully. I think it’s entirely justified that a large portion of the American population feels drawn to activism right now, but it needs to be chosen very carefully. And once you destroy something, you can’t take it back. And our enemies should remember that too. Once they destroy us, what are they going to do then?

But to go back to the subpoenas, we have our mainstream, you know, when I say mainstream, what I mean is like in normal times when VDARE is just surviving cancel culture and putting out this message that demography is destiny and that America is legitimate and real, that we’re a true culture and we have a national identity that’s worth defending, and that immigration has massive negative effects that nobody’s talking about.

Our operation is about $800,000 a year. In the last 12 months, about, we’ve had to spend half a million dollars just complying with the subpoenas.

The full, 37-minute interview is available at Tucker Carlson’s website.

See also: James Edwards Q and A w/ Peter Brimelow

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