1. Matthew Warren Heimbach was born on April 8,1991 and is an American white supremacist and National Bolshevik.
20 Facts About Matthew Heimbach
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Matthew Heimbach has attempted to form alliances between several far-right extremist groups.
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In May 2013, Heimbach and Matthew Parrott founded the Traditionalist Youth Network, which later morphed into the Traditionalist Worker Party, which ceased operation in March 2018.
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In 2018, Heimbach briefly served as community outreach director for the National Socialist Movement.
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On March 13,2018, Matthew Heimbach was arrested in Paoli, Indiana, on charges of domestic battery arising from a domestic dispute.
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Matthew Heimbach was considered the leader of this community, and he had received media attention for his role in this regard, but he lost credibility following his arrest in 2018.
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In 2016, in response to his racist beliefs and his violent actions, Matthew Heimbach was excommunicated from the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Matthew Heimbach says his views on race and immigration were formed early on by the writings of Pat Buchanan, especially his book The Death of the West, and particularly Buchanan's paleoconservative writing in American Renaissance.
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Matthew Heimbach met his former wife Brooke at an American Renaissance conference.
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Matthew Heimbach has forged ties with nationalist groups from other countries, like Greece's far-right nationalist party Golden Dawn.
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In 2014, Matthew Heimbach was photographed at a SlutWalk protest brandishing an Orthodox cross as a weapon against anti-racist protestors.
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In 2016, Matthew Heimbach was formally received into the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America.
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In July 2021, Matthew Heimbach announced his intention to reform the Traditionalist Worker Party along National Bolshevik lines.
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Matthew Heimbach is alleged to have met with Republican Party strategists and operatives in January 2017 during the inauguration of Donald Trump.
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Fox News subsequently deleted that story and ran another by the same reporter, stating that "social media posts" had suggested Matthew Heimbach "took part in Wednesday's storming of the US Capitol," but not mentioning Fox's own, withdrawn article to that effect.
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In July 2017, Matthew Heimbach pleaded guilty to second-degree disorderly conduct for an incident when he repeatedly pushed an anti-Trump protester at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Louisville, Kentucky.
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Matthew Heimbach received a suspended prison sentence, a fine, and an order to attend anger management classes.
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In 2018, Matthew Heimbach was sentenced to 38 days in the Louisville jail for violating the terms of his probation.
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In October 2017, Heimbach was listed as a defendant in Sines v Kessler, the federal civil lawsuit against various organizers, promoters, and participants of the 2017 Unite the Right rally.
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The jury were deadlocked on the two other claims pertaining to Matthew Heimbach, which argued he and other defendants had engaged in a federal conspiracy to commit racially-motivated violence.