Morris Dees is an attorney and co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a “hate group” litigation group formed in 1971 in Montgomery, Alabama. Dees served as chief trial counsel for the SPLC until March 2019, when he was fired from his position. ¹

In 2019, according to a report from the Washington Free Beacon, Dees contributed $400 to the congressional campaign of Valerie Plame Wilson (D-NM), who resigned from from the Ploughshares Fund board of directors after sharing a right-wing extremist conspiracy article alleging that “America’s Jews are driving America’s wars.” ²

1. Audra D.S. Burch, Alan Binder, John Eligon. “Roiled by Staff Uproar, Civil Rights Group Looks at Intolerance Within.” New York Times. March 25, 2019. Accessed April 10, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/25/us/morris-dees-leaves-splc.html
2. Brent-Scher-And-Joe-Schoffstall. “Disgraced SPLC Co-Founder Joins Holocaust Denier to Back Valerie Plame.” Washington Free Beacon. Washington Free Beacon, October 18, 2019. https://freebeacon.com/politics/plame-rakes-it-in/.