Matthew Warren Heimbach

ExtremistRight WingWhite SupremacismNeo-Nazi

Aug 30

**DOB:** 8 April 1991

**Nationality:** American

**Location:** Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.
**Ideology/Affiliation:** Far-right/White Supremacism/Neo-Nazism/Anti-establishment

**Type of Leader:** Former outreach director for the National Socialist Movement (NSM)/Co-founder of TWP

Other Names: Matt Heimbach

Current Status: Founder of Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP), a far-right now-defunct neo-Nazi group in the United States

Biography

Heimbach rose to national prominence while attending Towson University in Maryland, where he graduated in 2013 with a degree in history. As a student, he established and led a branch of the white supremacist organisation, the Youth for Western Civilization (YWC). Following the collapse of the YWC branch in the spring of 2012, Heimbach founded the White Student Union, a new campus group (WSU). In 2015, Heimbach and two others established the Indiana-based Traditionalist Worker Party (TWP) with the intent to recruit white working-class families into the white supremacist-oriented organisation. TWP began as the political branch of Heimbach and Parrott's prior organisation, the Traditionalist Youth Network (TYN), and eventually became a champion of neo-Nazi ideas.

The TWP disintegrated in 2018 as a result of Heimbach's arrest and the departure of his father-in-law, who also co-founded and managed the extremist organisation. In an interview with Newsy, Heimbach revealed his plan to rebuild the TWP in July 2021, citing inspiration from Marxist and Bolshevik ideals to promote a “world revolution” - despite the traditional disdain white supremacist organisations have towards marxism and any form of communism.

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Evidence of Hate Speech/Incitement:

July 2021: In an interview with Newsy, Heimbach stated that he now favours violence and killings as part of a revolution against affluent corporate leaders, global elites, and even those responsible for global warming.

“These people have names and addresses. Their kids have names and addresses, and the capitalist class, by hook or by crook, has to be liquidated. You know that it's called class war for a reason,” he added.

April 2017: Amid Heimbach’s speech at the Nationalist Front Rally in Kentucky, he clearly stated that he and TWP supporters are not “American Nationalists”, but “White Nationalists.”

“There can be no infighting. No compromise for this revolution. We need a whole new system built by our blood, sweat, and tears. We are not American nationalists, we are white nationalists,” he said. “The American Empire left us behind. It has deserted the principles upon which it was built, and there comes a time when a building is too derelict to save. This is where we are. This is where we are going,” he added.

2015: Heimbach and his British co-host Sven Longshanks, who piped in via the web, spouted off about the Chicago kidnapping incident in much harsher terms, with Longshanks referring to blacks as “savages” who were “not capable of abstract thought” and “not equal” to whites in terms of intelligence, creativity, and mental stamina, claiming that “if white people had a country of our own, this wouldn’t be happening, but black people are merely bit players.”

August 2013: In an interview on Duke's radio show, Heimbach claimed that “Jewish supremacists are working for our destruction.”

“We know the Jewish influence, that capitalists who want to extort us to make money, and the Communists who want to destroy all ethnic religious and racial tides are united together seeking our destruction,” he said.

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