{"id":752,"date":"2018-03-21T21:39:22","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T01:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=752"},"modified":"2018-03-23T21:44:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T01:44:59","slug":"neo-nazis-have-set-up-shop-here-this-is-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=752","title":{"rendered":"Neo-Nazis have set up shop here. This is why."},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"module-position-QvOn1P9UXoY\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket story-headline-module story-story-headline-module\"><\/section>\n<section id=\"module-position-QvOn1P8c_yk\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket story-byline-module story-story-byline-module\">\n<div class=\"asset-metabar\"><span class=\"asset-metabar-author asset-metabar-item\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincinnati.com\/staff\/35787\/hannah-sparling\/\" rel=\"author\">Hannah Sparling<\/a>, hsparling@enquirer.com\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"asset-metabar-time asset-metabar-item nobyline\">Published 10:22 p.m. ET March 21, 2018\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"module-position-QvOn1P9nuC8\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket piano-module story-piano-module\"><\/section>\n<section id=\"module-position-QvOn1P9Ttx8\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket bounce-exchange-module story-bounce-exchange-module\"><\/section>\n<section id=\"module-position-QvOn1P9-vW4\" class=\"storytopbar-bucket google-survey-module story-google-survey-module\"><\/section>\n<div class=\"asset-double-wide double-wide p402_premium\" role=\"main\">\n<div id=\"module-position-QvOn1SM1E3Y\" class=\"story-asset video-asset\">\n<div class=\"ui-video-wrapper \">\n<div class=\"js-ui-video-init ui-pluto-video js-video-aps js-uw-iframe-video uw-iframe-video story-video inline-story-video priority smallarticleattophtml5\" data-video-id=\"33166163\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"uw-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/uw-media.freep.com\/video\/embed\/33166163?sitelabel=reimagine&amp;continuousplay=true&amp;placement=uw-smallarticleattophtml5&amp;keywords=traditionalist-worker-party%2Chatred%2Cneglect%2Chope%2Coverall-negative%2Cracism%2Cracism%2Cdonations%2Crace-and-ethnicity%2Cwomens-rights&amp;simpleTarget=&amp;simpleExclusion=disasters&amp;pagetype=story\" name=\"33166163\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"ui-video-controls story-video inline-story-video priority\">\n<p class=\"video-desc\">Neo-Nazis want a whites only state. We explore why they&#8217;re targeting the Cincinnati region.\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">Liz Dufour\/The Enquirer<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"module-position-QvOn1SM5bJo\" class=\"story-asset story-metadata-asset\">\n<div class=\"article-metadata-wrap\">\n<section id=\"module-position-QvOn1RjE-F0\" class=\"storymetadata-bucket expandable-photo-module story-expandable-photo-module\">\n<aside class=\"single-photo expandable-collapsed\">\n<div class=\"image-wrap\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"expand-img-horiz\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/18b20263a5a8bd9ae0d1b9dbf9d33de3b85e7f69\/c%3D368-0-4347-2992%26r%3Dx404%26c%3D534x401\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925355925068-Hate10.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"January 21, 2018\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925355925068-Hate10.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/588c3a53f99f922e6ec586b51bd7455cb8e28b9f\/r=500x317\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925355925068-Hate10.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"image-credit-wrap\"><span class=\"js-caption-wrapper\"><span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Liz Dufour\/The Enquirer)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">A group of neo-Nazis here has a seemingly simple plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">They\u2019re organizing in Ohio and the surrounding states, on a mission to win the hearts and minds of poor white people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">They want a whites-only state. And to get it, members of a group called the Traditionalist Worker Party\u00a0are preaching a time-tested strategy employed for decades by grassroots groups. Feed the hungry. Clothe the naked. It\u2019s charity work, essentially.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Until it turns into something else.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">That\u2019s the plan, anyway. In reality, The Enquirer could find little evidence of the TWP\u2019s charity work. And let\u2019s be clear: While the party\u2019s leadership says this is about white advocacy and helping the poor, it is also about a group of people who are anti-Semitic, anti-diversity and who do not want to live with anyone but white people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong>Editor\u2019s note:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/2018\/03\/21\/editors-note-why-we-reporting-neo-nazis-ohio\/443494002\/\">Why we are reporting on neo-Nazis in Ohio<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The TWP is in turmoil after co-founder Matthew Heimbach was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2018\/03\/13\/white-nationalist-leader-matthew-heimbach-charged-domestic-battery\/422593002\/\">charged with battery<\/a>\u00a0on March 13.\u00a0The party&#8217;s website was disabled shortly after that happened, and it&#8217;s unclear how the charges might affect the\u00a0group&#8217;s long-term goals. More on that later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">For now, here&#8217;s what we know:\u00a0The TWP is a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fec.gov\/data\/committee\/C00583658\/?cycle=2018\">political party<\/a>\u00a0and one of more than 100 neo-Nazi hate groups operating in the United States,\u00a0according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Party leaders reject such labels, saying they are about helping white people, not hate. They typically call themselves white nationalists instead of neo-Nazis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The TWP is a national group, but its members are concentrated in, and focused on, America\u2019s middle, in states such as Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">They are targeting young people\u00a0\u2013 particularly young, white men.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">They are targeting the addicted and their families, bemoaning what they see as a piddly response to the opioid crisis.<\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-QvOn1SMLBi8\" class=\"story-asset image-asset\">\n<aside class=\"wide single-photo\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/f239865c760516718ca563e8d70002986def984a\/c%3D210-0-5175-3733%26r%3Dx408%26c%3D540x405\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925137991671-Hate1.jpg?resize=540%2C405&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Matthew Heimbach, 26, from Paoli, Indiana, is the leader and founder of the Traditionalist Worker Party. &quot;My dream,\u201d he said, \u201cis that whites are able to have our own nation state, here in the former United States, where we are free and sovereign to govern our own affairs.&quot;\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925137991671-Hate1.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/7a9fbed2082c1271507cbbfb1825e51a345a9b7b\/r=500x346\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925137991671-Hate1.jpg\" \/>Matthew Heimbach, 26, from Paoli, Indiana, is the leader and founder of the Traditionalist Worker Party. &#8220;My dream,\u201d he said, \u201cis that whites are able to have our own nation state, here in the former United States, where we are free and sovereign to govern our own affairs.&#8221;\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Liz Dufour\/The Enquirer)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"clearfix\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">And they are targeting Appalachia, where, they say, poor, white people are losing hope. There is no future for white people in America, said Heimbach, 26, who lives in Paoli, Indiana.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been waiting for decades for the government, for companies, corporations, the Flying Spaghetti Monster to come and fix these things, but they\u2019re not,\u201d Heimbach said. \u201cSo the time is now for us to simply say, \u2018We can\u2019t count on anyone but ourselves.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">In Charlottesville, Virginia, in August, TWP members were among white nationalists who marched with torches and chanted about \u201cblood and soil,\u201d a Hitler-era Nazi slogan that speaks to the importance of land and family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cYou will not replace us!\u201d they chanted. \u201cJews will not replace us!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Many Americans were shocked.\u00a0<em>Where is this coming from? Is it new? Has it been here all along?<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-QvOn1SMCzRs\" class=\"story-asset image-asset\">\n<aside class=\"wide single-photo\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/16477435280b4507d9775450db9a216058313dda\/c%3D51-0-1647-1200%26r%3Dx408%26c%3D540x405\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/20\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636571212967287077-Charlottesville-MM-010.JPG?resize=540%2C405&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Multiple white nationalist groups march with torches\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2018\/03\/20\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636571212967287077-Charlottesville-MM-010.JPG\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/4044b1e7645488621f157de466cf1a990870caa2\/r=500x333\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/20\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636571212967287077-Charlottesville-MM-010.JPG\" \/>Multiple white nationalist groups march with torches through the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville on Friday, August 11, 2017.\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Mykal McEldowney\/IndyStar)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"clearfix\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">There are 954\u00a0total hate groups operating in the United States, according to the Southen Poverty Law Center,\u00a0including neo-Nazi groups, anti- Muslim groups and anti-immigrant groups, to name a few. They are spread across the country, but there are some regions where they are more prevalent, said Carla Hill,\u00a0an investigative researcher with the Anti-Defamation League\u2019s Center on Extremism. The Midwest \u2013 where the TWP hopes to one day set up its whites-only state \u2013 is one of those regions.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p-text\">There are 14 neo-Nazi groups and nine chapters of the KKK in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana alone,\u00a0according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Andrew Anglin,\u00a0who founded the neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer, is from Worthington, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus.<\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-QvOn1SNFdAo\" class=\"story-asset image-asset\">\n<aside class=\"single-photo float\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/ead42ef51cf5eed1a8a2add3bf802c0e0ade17ae\/c%3D0-0-180-240%26r%3D183%26c%3D0-0-180-240\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/19\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636570555505893216-636561925242980344-Hate11.jpg?resize=180%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"James Alex Fields, Jr.\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2018\/03\/19\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636570555505893216-636561925242980344-Hate11.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/734fac10538d13406c1d7cd31ef155a9e07b4676\/r=300x400\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/19\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636570555505893216-636561925242980344-Hate11.jpg\" \/>James Alex Fields, Jr.\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Provided)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p-text\">James Alex Fields\u00a0Jr.,\u00a0the 20-year-old charged with murder after the Charlottesville rally, was raised in Northern Kentucky and most recently lived in northern Ohio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The TWP is openly anti-Semitic. Members joke about being big, bad Nazis and toss around references to Hitler. In their proposed white homeland, all forms of Christianity would be supported, but Judaism would be banned. Pornography and homosexuality would be outlawed, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Still, party members scoff at the idea of being classified as a hate group. The label just doesn\u2019t mean anything, said 29-year-old Tony Hovater,\u00a0who lives near Columbus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cIf you have the same opinions as your grandma, you\u2019re basically considered a hate group now,\u201d said Hovater,\u00a0one of the party\u2019s eight original members. \u201cNormal Trump supporters were already being called Nazis, so what\u2019s the difference?\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-QvOn1SN0wKc\" class=\"story-asset image-asset\">\n<aside class=\"wide single-photo\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/672d9bef436e8039e6f35bdf22809d15ffa84147\/c%3D115-0-4970-3650%26r%3Dx408%26c%3D540x405\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/20\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636571503326652240-aWhite3.jpg?resize=540%2C405&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tony Hovater, 29, from the Columbus area, talks about the Traditionalist Worker Party. \u201cIf people don't want to separate, they don't have to, but if people want to, why not?\u201d he said. \u201cWe should have a white homeland because there isn't one. We don't have a place that is ours.&quot;\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2018\/03\/20\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636571503326652240-aWhite3.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/fdd627ebc8544ee42d5b69e375024d827f82f90c\/r=500x331\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/20\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636571503326652240-aWhite3.jpg\" \/>Tony Hovater, 29, from the Columbus area, talks about the Traditionalist Worker Party. \u201cIf people don&#8217;t want to separate, they don&#8217;t have to, but if people want to, why not?\u201d he said. \u201cWe should have a white homeland because there isn&#8217;t one. We don&#8217;t have a place that is ours.&#8221;\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Liz Dufour\/The Enquirer)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"clearfix\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">And anyway, that\u2019s not what the party is about, Hovater said. In the coming years, the TWP wants to run members for political office and open free medical clinics for people who can\u2019t afford health care. For now, though, it is focused on coat and canned-food drives.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p-text\">It\u2019s part of a larger strategy, Hovater said. Fill basic needs now. Bring in politics later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cThey might not agree with us totally, but when it comes time to vote, they\u2019re going to know we are the ones that were there to raise school supplies for the children,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are the ones that were there to raise food for needy families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Heimbach said it\u2019s a matter of being there for white people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cIf there\u2019s an old lady that can\u2019t get the snow out of her driveway in the winter, I want us to be able to be there,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was important for white folks to actually have a political party just for us. One that we can build for us and by us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">But how much is the TWP actually doing? What are they actually building?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">In December, Heimbach and a TWP member named Katherine made plans for The Enquirer to view a coat distribution in Kentucky \u2013 a chance to see the party\u2019s charity work in action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">But the day of the distribution, plans changed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cHey, looks like Heimbach is wanting to reschedule,\u201d Katherine wrote in a text shortly before 1 p.m. the day of the planned meetup. \u201cI can contact you with the new date once he chooses it and sends me the info.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-QvOn1SMxWZs\" class=\"story-asset image-asset\">\n<aside class=\"wide single-photo\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/f13635a41d19502821e6fccf4168c6e3ed2d7229\/c%3D287-0-5394-3840%26r%3Dx408%26c%3D540x405\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925253900414-Hate7.JPG?resize=540%2C405&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Johan Carollo is the leader of the Knoxville chapter of the Traditionalist Worker Party that was protesting the Knoxville Women's March 2.0 in January.\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925253900414-Hate7.JPG\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/41cf61181267b1562e2dff4e557c9bf5c91d51ac\/r=500x337\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925253900414-Hate7.JPG\" \/>Johan Carollo is the leader of the Knoxville chapter of the Traditionalist Worker Party that was protesting the Knoxville Women&#8217;s March 2.0 in January.\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Liz Dufour\/The Enquirer)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"clearfix\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">In January, the day before protesting the Women\u2019s March in Knoxville, Tennessee, the TWP was planning to spread fliers around the University of Tennessee campus. The group had some private meetings The Enquirer was not invited to attend, but the flier distribution was another chance to see the party\u2019s outreach.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The night before, though, the party\u2019s Tennessee coordinator canceled the meetup. \u201cwe have had some external issues arise, and we (aren\u2019t) sure about our plans for Sat,\u201d he texted. \u201c\u2026 I apologize, but these issues are out of our hands \u2026 we just have to deal with em.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Hill, the Anti-Defamation League researcher, said there is little evidence the TWP does anything more than talk. If Heimbach was doing all he claims, she said, he would show it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The TWP is focused here, in part, because this is where its founders live, and this region is already heavily white. America is about 62 percent white overall,\u00a0but Ohio and Indiana are 80 percent white,\u00a0according to 2016 census data. Kentucky is 85 percent white.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">This region is generally more traditional and religious, said Hovater, the party member, so he finds it more open to the group\u2019s ideas about race. In the 2016 presidential election, Ohio went to Donald Trump by 8 percentage points.\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s not unimportant,\u201d Hovater said, noting that Trump has been accused of being friendly to white nationalists, though Hovater doesn&#8217;t necessarily agree with that claim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Finally, people in this region\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Appalachians in particular, Hovater said\u00a0\u2013 are frustrated. They\u2019re tired of being poor and unemployed. They feel forgotten and ignored, and they\u2019re running out of patience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">They\u2019re looking for something.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cThe government doesn\u2019t care what happens to those people,\u201d Hovater said. \u201cThe corporations don\u2019t care what happens to those people. There\u2019s very little charity work being done in those areas, so why can\u2019t we focus there?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Shaunna Scott,\u00a0a sociology professor and director of Appalachian Studies at the University of Kentucky, bristles at Hovater\u2019s characterization of her region. It\u2019s condescending to assume Appalachians are unable to help themselves, she said, and it\u2019s a lie to say no one is working in Appalachia.<\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-QvOn1SNmzAM\" class=\"story-asset image-asset\">\n<aside class=\"wide single-photo\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/4b4285c1d64d50de5d52d9f73b4d2a8eb66f33a6\/c%3D326-0-5433-3840%26r%3Dx408%26c%3D540x405\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925384005248-Hate8.jpg?resize=540%2C405&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Members of the Traditionalist Worker Party protest the Knoxville Women's March 2.0 in January.\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925384005248-Hate8.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/4044b1e7645488621f157de466cf1a990870caa2\/r=500x333\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925384005248-Hate8.jpg\" \/>Members of the Traditionalist Worker Party protest the Knoxville Women&#8217;s March 2.0 in January.\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Liz Dufour\/The Enquirer)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"clearfix\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">\u201cI\u2019m kind of shocked at the level of falsity in that statement,\u201d she said, ticking off a long list of charities and groups at work in Appalachia, including the government\u2019s Appalachian Regional Commission. Appalachia is the only region with such a commission, Scott said.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p-text\">She doesn\u2019t want to overlook a history of racism in Appalachia \u2013 it\u2019s \u201cas racist as the rest of the United States, which is pretty racist,\u201d she said \u2013 but she doesn\u2019t think this area is any more or less susceptible to white supremacist ideas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re a target of these groups because they think we will be a hospitable audience,\u201d she said. \u201cI think we\u2019re a lot less hospitable than they believe we are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">But Hovater said he gets plenty of support. He might run into some resistance in more urban areas, he said, but in rural or even suburban Ohio, for example, he finds people open to what he\u2019s saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">In late November, Hovater was featured in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/11\/25\/us\/ohio-hovater-white-nationalist.html\">New York Times article<\/a>\u00a0on white supremacy and hate. He and his wife lost their jobs after the article published, and they had to move after someone posted their Dayton-area address online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">But they also got tons of positive feedback, Hovater said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">There\u2019s a website called GoyFundMe, a spoof of the popular GoFundMe site. \u201cGoy\u201d is a sometimes-derogatory term for a non-Jew, used here ironically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">On GoyFundMe, after the Times piece published, a fundraiser for Hovater and his wife hit $8,600 in just a few days.<\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-QvOn1SO-QoY\" class=\"story-asset image-asset\">\n<aside class=\"wide single-photo\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/95fcd1f9b65be28f6915c1006f91869f75b79584\/c%3D130-0-2253-1596%26r%3Dx408%26c%3D540x405\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/13\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636565387934750777-Hate6.jpg?resize=540%2C405&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A pontoon bridge spanned the Ohio River in 1862 to protect Cincinnati from invaders.\nThis photo is part of the Taft Museum collection.\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2018\/03\/13\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636565387934750777-Hate6.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/a2b8df6a94dd5e9040206aca654f0c3c656f74a8\/r=500x291\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/13\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636565387934750777-Hate6.jpg\" \/>A pontoon bridge spanned the Ohio River in 1862 to protect Cincinnati from invaders. This photo is part of the Taft Museum collection.\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Provided\/ Taft Museum)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"clearfix\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">It may seem shocking that this is happening here, that this is where the TWP and other neo-Nazi groups are setting up camp. But in many ways, Ohio and the surrounding states are ripe for a movement such as this, said Christopher Phillips,\u00a0a University of Cincinnati professor and a Civil War historian.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p-text\">These states in the middle \u2013 caught on the line that separated slave states from free before the Civil War \u2013 were not staunchly abolitionist, like some of their more northern neighbors. But neither were they part of the Confederacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The history is murky here, Phillips said. It&#8217;s not nearly as clean\u00a0\u2013\u00a0north of the Ohio River versus south of the Ohio \u2013 as textbooks make it seem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The civil rights movement was quieter here, too, Philips said. This is a place that, in some ways, never really reconciled the Civil War. Never reconciled race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cReconstruction didn\u2019t occur here, and so no one was forced to change their behavior, whether it be in Kentucky or Ohio, with regard to race,\u201d Phillips said. \u201cIn some sense, I think that race relations and civil rights kind of skipped a generation here.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-QvOn1SPEADk\" class=\"story-asset image-asset\">\n<aside class=\"wide single-photo\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/bfeb52aa3d28d50ee3febd8d9b5ec9143663d9c2\/c%3D14-0-4786-3588%26r%3Dx408%26c%3D540x405\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925200860074-Hate5.jpg?resize=540%2C405&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Carl B. Westmoreland, the senior historian at the National Underground Freedom Center, talks about the history of race relations and white nationalists in this region. &quot;White nationalist are taking advantage of a cultural and political flaw in the American system,&quot; Westmoreland said.\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925200860074-Hate5.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/363d7d9b62691694d8308dfc65e908739402b5ad\/r=500x348\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925200860074-Hate5.jpg\" \/>Carl B. Westmoreland, the senior historian at the National Underground Freedom Center, talks about the history of race relations and white nationalists in this region. &#8220;White nationalist are taking advantage of a cultural and political flaw in the American system,&#8221; Westmoreland said.\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Liz Dufour\/The Enquirer)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"clearfix\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Cincinnati, in particular, has a long tradition of public politeness, said Carl B. Westmoreland, a historian at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. The city is not less prejudiced than anywhere else. It is just sometimes better at pretending.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cAnd that whole mindset,\u201d Westmoreland said, \u201cthat whole style of behavior, has disguised its blatant racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">In 2017, Heimbach pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after he was caught\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2016\/mar\/02\/black-woman-shoved-donald-trump-rally-video\">on video<\/a>\u00a0shoving a black woman who was protesting at a Trump rally in Louisville, Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Heimbach was fined $145 and ordered to attend anger-management classes. He was also sentenced to 90 days in jail, but a judge waived that sentence on the condition Heimbach not re-offend within two years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Then on March 13,\u00a0Heimbach was arrested in Paoli, Indiana, where he lives, after he attacked his wife and his wife&#8217;s stepfather, according to police and court documents.<\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-QvOn1SPlS3Q\" class=\"story-asset image-asset\">\n<aside class=\"single-photo float\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/c5f94050f2246a643e2bac9806ca0ac39d7019f1\/c%3D115-0-419-405%26r%3D183%26c%3D0-0-180-240\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/15\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636567211120894075-636566170738734330-A004588.jpg?resize=180%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Matthew Heimbach's booking photo from a 2018 arrest in Paoli, Indiana.\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2018\/03\/15\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636567211120894075-636566170738734330-A004588.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/3d5569507733ca056af5edaf0a2a8036c559fb13\/r=500x375\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/15\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636567211120894075-636566170738734330-A004588.jpg\" \/>Matthew Heimbach&#8217;s booking photo from a 2018 arrest in Paoli, Indiana.\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Provided)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The pair reportedly accused Heimbach of an affair with the stepfather&#8217;s wife, and when they confronted Heimbach, he put the stepfather in a headlock and choked him twice to the point of unconsciousness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Later, after his wife refused to dismiss police by saying everything was fine, Heimbach grabbed his wife&#8217;s face and pushed her onto a bed, records show. The couple&#8217;s young children were in the room at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Heimbach was charged with battery and domestic battery committed in the presence of a child.\u00a0It&#8217;s unclear exactly how these new charges might affect his 2017 disorderly conduct case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The stepfather, David Parrott,\u00a0was a spokesman for the TWP, though he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.splcenter.org\/hatewatch\/2018\/03\/13\/twp-chief-matthew-heimbach-arrested-battery-after-affair-top-spokesmans-wife\">reportedly quit<\/a>\u00a0after the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Heimbach says violence is not his aim and that the TWP will operate peacefully. But he\u00a0typically follows up that stance with a promise to defend himself, his family and his people from liberals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cWe will always act in accordance with local laws to be defensive in our behavior, but we\u2019re also not going to cower from them,\u201d he said in December. \u201cHe who controls the streets controls the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Is violence inevitable, according to members of the TWP? Perhaps, they say, placing blame on the left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cWe want to do everything peacefully, and we try to do everything peacefully,\u201d Hovater said. But \u201cthe only way you stop violence is with more violence, for the most part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post and ABC News conducted a scientific poll this past year, gathering Americans\u2019 opinions on white supremacy, the Charlottesville rally\u00a0and the White House\u2019s response. The result: With a margin of error of 3.5 percentage points, 9 percent of the country said it is acceptable to hold neo-Nazi or white supremacist views.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">But if this feels new, it\u2019s not.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">There is, perhaps, a new boldness in this era, said Tracy Teslow,\u00a0a University of Cincinnati professor who studies the science of race in anthropology. There\u2019s a new willingness to openly identify as a white nationalist or white supremacist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">But this idea of racism, Teslow said \u2013 this fear of the other and this fight over who deserves to be an American \u2013 has always been in this country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">It was here when colonialists encountered Native Americans and when slavery became a critical component of the U.S. economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">It was here when the Ku Klux Klan was founded during Reconstruction and in the harsh resistance to desegregation in the 1950s, when people shut down schools rather than mix black and white students.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">And it\u2019s here in 2018, as Cincinnati deals with the fallout of children wearing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/opinion\/columnists\/2018\/01\/09\/who-saw-knee-grow-and-thought-ok\/1017955001\/\">blatantly racist basketball jerseys<\/a>\u00a0and Catholic school students\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/columnists\/paul-daugherty\/2018\/02\/06\/doc-were-all-better-than-racist-crap-going-our-area-high-schools\/313366002\/\">chanting racial slurs<\/a>\u00a0at non-white players during a basketball game.<\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-QvOn1SPp0XE\" class=\"story-asset image-asset\">\n<aside class=\"wide single-photo\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/e369ae940a49ab06a27b9a54dbad3fd339a4df79\/c%3D56-0-4461-3312%26r%3Dx408%26c%3D540x405\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925138927677-Hate2.jpg?resize=540%2C405&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"When the Traditionalist Worker Party protested the Women\u2019s March 2.0 in January, a group of counter-protesters started protesting the TWP. The TWP was vastly outnumbered.\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925138927677-Hate2.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/fdd627ebc8544ee42d5b69e375024d827f82f90c\/r=500x331\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925138927677-Hate2.jpg\" \/>When the Traditionalist Worker Party protested the Women\u2019s March 2.0 in January, a group of counter-protesters started protesting the TWP. The TWP was vastly outnumbered.\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Liz Dufour\/The Enquirer)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<div class=\"clearfix\">\u00a0<span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">In January, five and a half months after the Charlottesville rally, Heimbach and a small group of his supporters were in Knoxville to protest the Women\u2019s March.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The TWP crowd of about 20 was dwarfed by the estimated 14,000-plus who showed up for the Women\u2019s March. Hill, with the Anti-Defamation League, points to that small turnout as evidence the TWP is exaggerating its growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Heimbach says the group has about 2,000 members nationwide. Hill agrees the TWP is growing but says Heimbach is lying about how quickly. She estimates the group at 150, maybe 200.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cIf you have 2,000 people in a group and you can only get 20 at an event,\u201d she said, \u201cthen I\u2019m not going to believe you actually have that many.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">In Knoxville, most of the Women\u2019s March attendees ignored Heimbach\u2019s crew. But a few dozen pressed up against the fence separating the sides, and they hurled insults back and forth for about an hour and a half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Heimbach got into a few shouting matches, but for the most part, he stuck to his talking points: Femininity is being destroyed by feminism. Babies are being murdered through abortion. White men are being replaced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Some in the neo-Nazi movement are media-shy, either declining to speak with reporters or giving false names when they do. But as leaders of the TWP, Heimbach and Hovater are open about who they are and what they believe. They use their real names (Hovater\u2019s legal first name is William, but he goes by his middle name, Tony), and they talk freely with the press.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Nationally, they align with a set of leaders who have become the public face of what is being called the alt-right. Leaders like Richard Spencer, who might give a talk at the University of Cincinnati later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Those inside the movement, inside the TWP in particular, think this is their time. They think they\u2019ve found their voice and audience. They think their plan will work and that it will work here.<\/p>\n<div id=\"module-position-QvOn1SP7XFk\" class=\"story-asset image-asset\">\n<aside class=\"single-photo float\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/cc63336d46fb33bfb0bd15d5e76fc0bbe2a1e39b\/c%3D1405-0-4091-3581%26r%3D183%26c%3D0-0-180-240\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925224104223-Hate4.jpg?resize=180%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Katherine Weiss, 20, from Louisville, got involved in the Traditionalist Worker Party when she was 18 after she heard founder Matthew Heimbach speak. By February, though, Weiss had quit the party, saying the promised charity work never came to fruition.\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" data-mycapture-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925224104223-Hate4.jpg\" data-mycapture-sm-src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/-mm-\/30d078477e2619bda9371aa3fe6088d8945c3335\/r=500x339\/local\/-\/media\/2018\/03\/09\/Cincinnati\/Cincinnati\/636561925224104223-Hate4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Katherine Weiss, 20, from Louisville, got involved in the Traditionalist Worker Party when she was 18 after she heard founder Matthew Heimbach speak. By February, though, Weiss had quit the party, saying the promised charity work never came to fruition.\u00a0<span class=\"credit\">(Photo: Liz Dufour\/The Enquirer)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The TWP coat distribution \u2013 the one initially slated for December \u2013 was never rescheduled. Heimbach said the coats were given out, anyway, through a connection with a local church in Kentucky, but he didn\u2019t respond to a request for the name of the church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">Katherine, the TWP member who was helping organize the collection, has since quit the party. She joined because it was supposed to be all about helping rural areas, she said, but she never saw any of the promised charity work come to fruition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">\u201cUnfortunately, I could not get Heimbach or anyone else in the party to help me with the charity drive,\u201d she wrote in a text, adding that she has given some donations to families already and plans to take the rest to a Catholic church in Beattyville, Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The coat drive was real, Katherine said, but most of the donations she got came from outside the TWP. From the party, the donations were modest, she said: three bags of clothing. And three coats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Sparling, hsparling@enquirer.com\u00a0Published 10:22 p.m. ET March 21, 2018\u00a0 Neo-Nazis want a whites only state. We explore why they&#8217;re targeting the Cincinnati region.\u00a0Liz Dufour\/The Enquirer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-domestic-terrorism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gopplaybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-03-23_21-44-22.jpg?fit=533%2C395&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8VBh7-c8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":499,"url":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=499","url_meta":{"origin":752,"position":0},"title":"Sterling Heights teen charged with threatening school amid uptick in threats nationwide","author":"Donnie","date":"March 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Ann Zaniewski and\u00a0Christal Hayes, Detroit Free PressPublished 7:01 p.m. ET March 7, 2018 |\u00a0Updated 8:14 p.m. ET March 7, 2018 A 17-year-old Sterling Heights teen has been charged with threatening a high school, the latest in a string of similar incidents since a deadly school shooting last month in Parkland,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Domestic Terrorism&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Domestic Terrorism","link":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?cat=17"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gopplaybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-03-08_09-13-51.jpg?fit=533%2C680&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gopplaybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-03-08_09-13-51.jpg?fit=533%2C680&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gopplaybook.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/2018-03-08_09-13-51.jpg?fit=533%2C680&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":699,"url":"https:\/\/www.gopplaybook.com\/?p=699","url_meta":{"origin":752,"position":1},"title":"A look at the data on domestic terrorism and who\u2019s behind it","author":"Donnie","date":"August 16, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"By Miriam Valverde on Wednesday, August 16th, 2017 These numbers do not factor 2017-2018 deaths in America, most notably the Las Vegas shootings, where 59 people were killed. 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