Violent Clashes Erupt in Sacramento Between White Nationalists and Antifascists

Violent Clashes Erupt in Sacramento Between White Nationalists and Antifascists Matthew Heimbach's Traditionalist Workers Party was confronted by antifascist organizations during a protest in Sacramento, Calif., that quickly turned violent. Heimbach “is the rising face of white supremacy in this country,” Ryan Lenz, of the Southern Poverty Law Center told the Los Angeles Times. “He is this generation’s David Duke.” Taking a big tent approach to organization [in establishing the Traditionalist Youth Network], Heimbach wasted little time ingratiating himself with as many of white supremacists as he could following his graduation. A mere four months after he graduated, he appeared in a photo with members from both the Aryan Terror Brigade, a racist skinhead group, and the Imperial Klans of America, a Kentucky based Ku Klux Klan organization that was sued by the Southern Poverty Law Center in 2008 for severely beating a Latino teenager at the Meade County Fair in Bradenburg, Ky. Read the full story on the Sacramento violence and the white nationalist group TWP.

More on Heimbach and TWP:

• Considered by many to be the face of a new generation of white nationalists, Matthew Heimbach founded a campus chapter of Youth for Western Civilization at Towson University in Maryland and later started the White Student Union there.
• A few well-known extremist political candidates are joined by new characters from the radical right in announcing candidacy for political offices in 2016.
• Several small American hate groups are stepping up efforts to spread local variants of “identitarianism,” a movement born in France in recent years that preaches opposition to multiculturalism, often taking shape in the form of anti-Muslim xenophobia.