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On 18 February 2016, partisan web site Occupy Democrats published an article reporting that the Southern Poverty Law Center is warning against hate speech infiltrating political rhetoric: The title of the Occupy Democrats piece states that the SPLC (a nonprofit group whose stated goal is to combat hate and discrimination and increase tolerance) had outright labelled the GOP as a hate group, which misled many readers. Kristen Bokenkamp, the communications director for SPLC, confirmed that they had made no such announcement: The SPLC released its annual report documenting the activity of hate groups in the United States on 17 February 2015. While the report named 892 active hate groups in the United States, the Republican party was not listed under any ideology, such as anti-LGBT, anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, antigovernment, radical traditional Catholicism, or general hate. However, the Southern Poverty Law Center did warn that certain GOP officials have exposed these extreme opinions of these hate groups to a wider audience: While the Southern Poverty Law Center didn't call the GOP a hate group, they did say that some of the extreme views of hate groups have been reiterated by certain members of the Republican Party and that extremism is on the rise, creating an atmosphere of polarization that may be unmatched since the late 1960s.
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