Matthew Heimbach
Matthew Warren Heimbach is an American white nationalist and Neo-Nazi. He founded the Traditionalist Worker Party, which ceased operation in March 2018 when he was arrested for assaulting Matt Parrott, a co-founder and his father-in-law. The Southern Poverty Law Center has commented that he is considered by many to be the face of a new generation of white nationalists.
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Matthew Warren Heimbach is an American white nationalist and Neo-Nazi. He founded the Traditionalist Worker Party, which ceased operation in March 2018 when he was arrested for assaulting Matt Parrott, a co-founder and his father-in-law. He is a defendant in the Sines v. Kessler lawsuit filed by Integrity First for America that claims that he and other organizers in the 2017 Unite the Right white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, planned and promoted violence against protected group. The Southern Poverty Law Center has commented that he is considered by many to be the face of a new generation of white nationalists.
He has forged ties with nationalist groups from other countries, like Greece’s far-right nationalist party Golden Dawn. The United Kingdom government banned HeimbACH from entering the country in October 2015 because his extremist rhetoric could incite violence. Heimbch identified as a Strasserist. In April 2020, Heimbaches published a book called ‘In From the Cold: Why I Left White Nationalism’ in which he described his gradual ‘pulling back’ from the white nationalist movement. In January 2021, Chicago’s NPR radio station WBEZ reported he had participated in an attempted coup at the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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