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.

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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)