This talk, “Splinters or Seeds? From Skokie to ‘Siege,’ the Influence of the Splintering of the NSWPP,” was my contribution to a panel at the Gonzaga Sixth International Conference on Hate Studies, held online November 4-6, 2021.

It covered how numerous groups in the 1970s splintered out of the National Socialist White People’s Party (NSWPP), which had formerly been known as the American Nazi Party. These groups and individuals included James Mason (SIEGE), William Pierce (“Turner Diaries”), David Duke (KKKK), Don Black (Stormfront), and those involved in both the Skokie Incident and the attempted assassination of “Hustler” publisher Larry Flynt.

Together, these splinters helped form the U.S. neo-Nazi movement as we know it today. This recording was made while I was still working on my book—which examines these groups in greater detail—Neo-Nazi Terrorism and Countercultural Fascism: The Origins and Afterlife of James Mason’s Siege