George and Amal Clooney realize there is work to be done in America. The worldly couple deeply involved in social justice movements in Sudan and other dire places globally have turned their attention to America, in the wake of Charlottesville.

In the aftermath of the white supremacy marches near the University of Virginia, two organizations, in particular, are receiving support from big donors: the ADL (Anti-Defamation League) and the SPLC (Southern Poverty Law Center).

Thanks to a $1 million grant from the Clooney Foundation, and another $1 million from Apple's president Tim Cook, the Southern Poverty Law Center is working hard to take down hate groups across America.

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"Amal and I wanted to add our voice—and financial assistance—to the ongoing fight for equality," George said in a statement, per the SPLC grant announcement. "There are no two sides to bigotry and hate."

"We are proud to support the Southern Poverty Law Center in its efforts to prevent violent extremism in the United States," George and Amal said in the grant announcement. "What happened in Charlottesville, and what is happening in communities across our country, demands our collective engagement to stand up to hate."

JPMorgan also responded to events in Charlottesville donating $1 million that is split between the SPLC and ADL in response to the violent protests in Charlottesville.

Peter Scher, head of corporate responsibility and chairman of JPMorgan, wrote a letter to staff Monday wherein he asserted the bank “stands in support of all those who reject racism and violence,” and pledged to support both the SPLC and ADL in their campaign of “tracking, exposing and fighting” hate groups and other extremist organizations.

Scher announced that the bank will launch a two-for-one match for employee donations to groups that promote human and civil rights up to $1 million. JP Morgan has also earmarked $50,000 for the Charlottesville community foundation. Apple is running a similar two-for-one match program for employees beyond the company's $2 million donation to the two organizations.

ADL's online donations last week increased six-fold versus the average for 2017 and the amount of funds raised increased 1,000 percent, Betsaida Alcantara, the spokesperson, added. "We are proud that the great majority of the individual online donations came from first-time donors," ADL told CNBC.

Richard Cohen, the president of the Southern Poverty Law Center, said in his own statement emailed to CNBC: "Now more than ever, America's leading institutions must speak out against white supremacism. While we appreciate JPMorgan Chase's contribution, we are even more grateful for its strong public position against hate and bigotry."

Maybe Hillary Can Help

Onward Together, the political action group formed earlier this year between Hillary Clinton and former Vermont governor and DNC chair Howard Dean, has hired Emmy Ruiz and Adam Parkhomenko, political operative veterans of her 2008 and 2016 presidential campaigns, according to BuzzFeed.

Some Democrats don't want Hillary to have a role at all in Democratic politics. They are often the same Dems who are now willing to sell-out women's rights as identity politics, with a new strategy to court anti-choice candidates if their economics are in concert with Democrats.

Ruiz and Parkhomenko, who both started their work at Onward Together this summer, will join a small core team that includes Dean, the former Vermont governor and DNC chair, along with Judith McHale, an undersecretary under Clinton at the State Department, and Amy Rao, a Silicon Valley businesswoman and a longtime supporter and donor. The aides in Clinton’s New York office, including former campaign vice chair Huma Abedin, finance director Dennis Cheng, and press secretary Nick Merrill, are also working on the project.

This is the EXACT strategy that I said about the Bernie Sanders campaign from day one. As president, I never doubted that Bernie would trade the defunding of Planned Parenthood for an infrastructure bill. His new influence in the Democratic party -- as an Independent -- and this announcement about the party courting candidates not committed to women's body autonomy confirms my deepest suspicions about him and his disproportionately white male supporters. Welcome to Trumplandia. ~ Anne