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Big Finance Might Be Dooming the SPLC — Even Before Its Day in Court
Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and Vanguard are tamping down on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s donations as the government’s de facto censors.
Rainey Reitman
Rainey Reitman is the author of “Transaction Denied: Big Finance’s Power to Punish Speech” (Beacon Press, 2026), which exposes how companies like Visa, Chase, PayPal, Bank of America, and Mastercard use their power to silence dissenting voices and hurt democracy, and co-founder and board president of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, which defends the First Amendment and journalists. A writer, facilitator, and civil liberties activist, Reitman runs her own nonprofit consulting service.
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