It took a week of contentious back-and-forth with Auburn University and a last-minute federal judge ruling in his favor, but white nationalist Richard Spencer finally had his chance to speak. 

Matthew Heimbach, head of the white nationalist and anti-Semitic Traditionalist Worker’s Party, has always been a movement gadfly. Neo-Nazis, racist skinheads, Klansmen –– there hasn’t been a racist or nationalist group with which he will not ally –– no matter what. But a fixture at Hammerfest?

Neo-Nazis advertised a white-power rock show to be followed by a march into gay neighborhood, but they never showed up to face the hundreds who turned out to protest their plans.