Triangulating Matthew Heimbach’s role in the white nationalist movement has always been a complicated affair. The League of the South, the Aryan Terror Brigade, the Hammerskins and other neo-Nazi groups. He got into bed with all of them.
Last weekend, the white nationalist group Identity Evropa (IE) held its first national conference, called “Leading our People Forward 2018,” followed by a large banner drop at the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee.
Steve Bannon headlined the Front National (FN)’s Congress last weekend, leading to mixed reactions from the French far-right party’s deputies and advisors.
Matthew Heimbach, the leader of the Traditionalist Worker Party, is free on bond after being charged with strangulation and battery in southern Indiana.
The white nationalist movement has been embroiled in a war over optics since last year’s Unite the Rally in Charlottesville, and Richard Spencer’s disastrous event at Michigan State University last weekend only increased tensions between those dedicated to street action and others who worry that high-profile confrontations will damage the movement’s image.
A year after launching a barnstorming tour of the nation’s colleges, delivering at each stop controversial speeches designed as much to trigger protests from an increasingly energetic antifascist movement as they were to introduce racist ideas to America’s youth, Richard Spencer is hanging it up.
Like Facebook, Google and Twitter, Wikipedia has become a fixture of online life.
The case of Pepe the Frog — a meme widely used without permission by white nationalists, neo-Nazis, conspiracist radio host Alex Jones and Donald Trump — appears headed to a federal court jury.
A June trial date has been set for two of the three people charged with attempted murder during a shooting after Richard B. Spencer’s speech at the University of Florida.
