“The Jones question is a non issue…” he wrote. TWP party officer Tony Hovater also advocated for keeping Jones Malone involved in the group despite the fact his family wasn’t entirely white. Matthew Parrott then attacked Williams, accusing him of starting a “schism” and informed the group that because Malone was with his family before he became a white supremacist, he would be allowed to help TWP on the condition that he understood he and his family would not be welcome in their future ‘ethnostate’. A conflict erupted in the chat when Colton Williams, a hard-line true believer in TWP’s vision of an all-white ‘ethnostate’, became upset that party leadership was making an “exception” and tolerating the involvement of Jones Malone, who he considered a “race-mixer in the party”. TWP’s Discord text messages reveal an incident in November 2017 which threatened to split the party months before its eventual downfall in March 2018. Information gleaned from TWP Discord servers shows the geographic locations of its members (scattered throughout the country but concentrated in Ohio, Indiana and Tennessee) as well as its numbers (up to 100 including non-member supporters, with between 30 to 50 Discord users online every day.) The chat records show the timeline of events the group has attended, stretching from Donald Trump’s inauguration to the aftermath of Richard Spencer’s appearance at Michigan State University in March 2018. The chats we obtained show that TWP members at times discussed their activities very loosely, appearing to implicate themselves in activities ranging from harassment and assault to making homemade explosives. Sensitive information about individuals targeted by Nazis has been removed.ĬONTENT ADVISORY: racism, violence, sexual assault
More than eight gigabytes of zipped screenshots are available for download in full below. Conversations obtained by Unicorn Riot show over a year of the internal workings of the party, providing a wealth of details regarding the activities, strategies, and dynamics of the neo-Nazi group which, until recently, considered itself the premier white nationalist street force in America. Previously unreleased Discord chat logs illustrate the internal workings of the now-disbanded Traditionalist Worker Party. A look inside conversations TWP members had when they thought no one was listening reveals their highest and lowest moments. 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.