Texas 'Hate Map' Shows 55 Active Racist, Separatist Groups

AUSTIN, TX — In light of recent events in Charlottesville, Va. where a woman protesting a Confederacy statue was run over by a car driven by a white nationalist, the Southern Poverty Law Center has released interactive maps illustrating the presence of hate groups across the nation, including 55 active organizations in Texas.

The Southern Poverty Law Center recently ranked Texas third among states with the most number of hate groups — behind California and Florida but ahead of New York and Pennsylvania. The SPLC previously widely released its maps in February following Donald Trump's Electoral College victory in ascending to the presidency, attributing the rise in hate activity to race-tinged, anti-immigrant campaign rhetoric that effectively energized his political base.

Since that earlier release, the number of hate groups in the state remains unchanged at 55. Among those groups the SPLC labels as hate groups, several are in the capital city of Austin — particularly significant given the progressive vibe in the state seat where residents boast of being a blue dot in a sea of red that is deeply conservative Texas.

Among the Austin-based hate groups listed by the SPLC are The Daily Stormer, Power of Prophecy, Nation of Islam and Israel United in Christ. But other cities — both big and small — are represented on the list as inadvertent hate group hosts, from Dallas and Houston to Conroe and Killeen. Dallas and Houston had the most such groups, with six apiece.

The Daily Stormer was recently in the headlines in the aftermath of Charlottesville, publishing an inflammatory essay describing the woman killed Saturday in the alt-right counter-protest as “a drain on society” along with other choice pejoratives. The vitriol earned its booting from hosting company GoDaddy the day after the post was created.

To see full SPLC-created maps, click here. The site allows users to input individual states in a search field to ascertain which groups are located in specific geographies. Read the SPLC's most recent report, "The Year in Hate and Extremism," here.

Related story: Southern Poverty Law Center Ranks Texas Third In Nation With Most Hate Groups

The SPLC bills itself as "...the premier U.S. non-profit organization monitoring the activities of domestic hate groups and other extremists – including the Ku Klux Klan, the neo-Nazi movement, neo-Confederates, racist skinheads, black separatists, antigovernment militias, Christian Identity adherents and others."

The group is currently tracking more than 1,600 extremist groups operating across the country, publishing investigative reports, helping to train law enforcement officers and sharing key intelligence while offering expert analysis to the media and public.

Following are some of the various organizations labeled by the SPLC as hate groups operating in Texas, with parenthetical descriptors on their respective missions (save for Ku Klux Klan, whose aims are well-known and rather obvious):

Austin
Nation of Islam (Black Separatist Nation of Islam, headquarters)
Power of Prophecy (general hate)
The Daily Stormer (neo-Nazi)
Israel United In Christ (black separatist)

Conroe
League of the South (neo-Confederate league, headquarters)

Corpus Christi
Israel United In Christ (black separatist, headquarters)

Dallas

The Daily Stormer (neo-Nazi)
Traditionalist Worker Party (white nationalist)
ACT for America (anti-Muslim)
New Black Panther Party (black separatist)
Nation of Islam (black separatist)
Israel United In Christ

Denison

ISD Records (hate music)

Flint

Militant Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

Fort Worth

Nation of Islam (black separatist Nation of Islam)
Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (Ku Klux Klan, headquarters)
Stedfast Baptist Church (anti-LGBT, headquarters)

Gatesville

Ku Klos Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

Gladewater

Patriotic Brigade Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (headquarters)

Granbury
American Freedom Party (white nationalist American Freedom Party, headquarters)

Houston
Israel United In Christ (black separatist)
Conservative Republicans of Texas (anti-LGBT)
New Black Panther Party (black separatist)
ACT for America (anti-Musim)
Stop the Islamization of the World (anti-Muslim)
National of Islam (black separatist)

Irving

Bureau on American Islamic Relations (anti-Muslim)

Kerrville

Carolynyeager.net (Holocaust denial, headquarters)

Killeen

Faith and Heritage (white nationalist)

La Porte

League of the South (neo-Confederate, headquarters)

Livingston

Yahushua Dual Seed Christian Identity Ministry (Christian identity)

New Boston
United White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

Plano

Probe Ministries (anti-LGBT)

Quinlan
Texas Rebel Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

San Antonio

Atomwaffen Division (neo-Nazi)
Israel United in Christ (black separatist)
ACT for America (anti-Muslim)

Texarkana
Nation of Islam (black separatist)

Tomball
New Black Panther Party (black separatist, headquarters)

Venus

East Coast Knights of the True Invisible Empire (Ku Klux Klan)
Waxahachie
League of the South (neo-Confederate)

Wichita Falls
The Daily Stormer (neo-Nazi)

Statewide

Southern National Congress (neo-Confederate)

Ku Klos Knights of the Ku Klux Klan

United Klans of America (headquarters)

White Lives Matter (White Nationalist)

Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge (black separatist)

Gallows Tree Wotansvolk Alliance (neo-Nazi)

Vinlanders Social Club (skinhead social club)

Soldiers of Odin (anti-Muslim)

National Socialist Movement (neo-Nazi)

Aryan Renaissance Society (neo-Nazi)

American Vanguard (white nationalist)

>>> Photo of the deadly aftermath from demonstration in Charlottesville, Va., by Steve Helber/Associated Press