After years of courting politicians and chasing power, hard-right groups are now fully infiltrating U.S. politics and enacting their dangerous ideology into law. They're using state legislatures and school boards — particularly in the South — as battlegrounds to target minorities like Black and Brown communities, immigrants and LGBTQ+ people. As #HateCrimesAwarenessMonth continues, we must stand against attempts to demoralize and erase LGBTQ+ people.