A new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups in the United States, found that not only is the number of hate groups up for the fourth straight year but it has reached the highest on record.

The watchdog group reported the number of hate groups rose 7 percent in 2018 and has reached a 20-year high.

The group identified 1,020 hate groups operating in the U.S. last year.

The SPLC’s ‘hate map‘ indicated nine hate groups operating in Utah. They include groups the SPLC identified as Neo-Nazi, white nationalist, or “general hate,” the Kingston Group and Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints among them.

The SPLC defined a hate group on its website as “an organization that – based on its official statements or principles, the statements of its leaders, or its activities – has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.”

It also stated the organizations they called hate groups “vilify others because of their race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation or gender identity.”

One organization identified by the SPLC as a hate group, the Proud Boys–which appeared on the Utah list–has filed a lawsuit in Alabama against the SPLC for designating it as a hate group.

In a leaked memo, the FBI referred to the Proud Boys as “an extremist group with ties to white nationalism.”

The FBI also released its own report finding that hate crimes were on the rise in the United States.