Matthew Heimbach (8 April 1991-) was an American far-right activist and the founder of the Traditionalist Worker Party.
Biography[]
Matthew Heimbach was born in Poolesville, Maryland in 1991, the son of Republican parents who voted for Mitt Romney. Growing up influenced by Pat Buchanan's views on race and immigration and by the alt-right writer Jared Taylor, he came to believe that white Americans had more of a right to live in America than newer immigrants and African-Americans because the white Americans had signed treaties with the Native Americans, and believed that white Americans should have America to themselves. He also publicly supported anti-Semitic organizations such as Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad for fighting against the "Zionist state" of Israel, and he also supported international neo-fascist groups such as Greece's Golden Dawn and the Russian Imperial Movement in Russia. In 2013, he founded the neo-Nazi Traditionalist Worker Party, and he also founded a commune of neo-Nazis at a Paoli, Indiana trailer park. He was excommunicated from the Eastern Orthodox Church in 2016 for his racist views, and, in 2018, the TWP disbanded after he was arrested for battery. He briefly served as community outreach director for the National Socialist Movement in 2018 before refounding the TWP in July 2021 along National Bolshevik lines; Heimbach announced a year earlier that he was "pulling back" from white nationalism and identified himself as a "pro-white" National Bolshevik.