The group started out with more subtle ‘pro-white’ rhetoric, but over time took a hard-line national socialist stance, forsaking swastika flags but doing their best to advance an openly Hitler-inspired agenda within the wider ‘alt-right’ phenomenon. By using online propaganda, claims of community service programs, and sensational appearances at violent public rallies, the Traditionalist Worker Party had sought to project itself as “the tip of the spear” of a new American Nazi movement. The group went on to participate in a series of violent rallies around the country, including the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville and Richard Spencer’s recent event at Michigan State University, before suddenly dissolving last month. Founded in 2013, the TWP grew for several years under the leadership of Heimbach, along with his second-in-command (and father-in-law) Matthew Parrott, who served as the group’s media spokesman and website administrator. Paoli, IN – One of the most prominent neo-nazi factions in America, the Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP) was led by Matthew Heimbach, a camera-friendly rising star in the far-right lecture circuit who had once trained with mainstream conservative think tanks.
