Fighting Back Against the SPLC in GA-14

Congressman Fuller is working to fight back against organizations like the SPLC that seek to influence local education and governance through activism.To bring awareness to these efforts, Congressman Fuller joined Moms for Liberty at a press conference last month highlighting the impact these organizations have had on communities across Georgia.

Home to Georgia's second-largest public school system, Cobb County Schools continue to set the standard for academic excellence, earning the highest SAT and ACT scores in the metro Atlanta area and achieving a record-breaking graduation rate. Despite these successes, the SPLC has repeatedly targeted Cobb County through lawsuits and legal advocacy. After failing to stop new school board district maps through the legislative process, the organization filed a lawsuit against the Cobb County Board of Elections, resulting in years of costly litigation. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the SPLC supported legal efforts aimed at closing schools and enforcing mask and vaccine mandates. Together, these actions demonstrate a pattern of outside activist involvement in local decisions that should remain in the hands of Cobb County families, educators, and elected officials.

“The SPLC has redefined hate to mean anyone they disagree with. There is a nonprofit industrial complex on the left that is trying to tear at the fabric of our country, the same fabric that has made our nation successful for 250 years. The Southern Poverty Law Center has used lawfare against schools within my congressional district in Georgia simply for not conforming to their vision for education.” said Congressman Fuller.

These left-wing nonprofit organizations are funding the very type of division and hostility they claim to oppose. Organizations that profit from creating division and manufacturing conflict across the United States should be exposed and held accountable.