No Images? Click here This is how it ends in the hate business. Maybe not always in such a “Jerry Springer: Live at the Walmart” fashion, but white supremacist break-ups are never pretty. On early Tuesday morning, Matt Parrott, the co-founder of the Traditionalist Worker Party, one of the main neo-Nazi groups in America, found himself standing atop a box outside a trailer in Paoli, Indiana, watching his TWP co-founder, Matt Heimbach, have sex with Parrott’s wife, Jessica.Things had not been going well for the TWP crew. A week earlier, they’d shown up in Lansing, Michigan, to act as bootboys for Richard Spencer, who was speaking at Michigan State in an auditorium normally used to auction livestock. The TWP members couldn’t even get in the door. They were beaten down by anti-fascists outside. They were humiliated.The infighting started a few days later, when Andrew Anglin and Andrew Auernheimer, the demented trolls who run the Daily Stormer, hypocritically accused TWP of acting like “costume Nazis” for doing real-world activism. The alt-right was coming apart at the seams.And it would only get worse back in Paoli, after Parrott caught his wife in flagrante with his best friend. This was no ordinary affair. Parrott had been around the white power scene longer than Heimbach and brought the burly younger man into the fold. He introduced Heimbach to his stepdaughter — Parrott’s first wife is her mother — and the two got married. The couple now have two young children and live in a trailer on Parrott’s compound that smells of mildew and dead dreams.In case you’re trying to navigate the family tree here, Heimbach was boinking his step-mother-in-law. When Parrott and his stepdaughter learned of the affair, they plotted to “set up” Heimbach and Jessica to be alone in a trailer and see what would happen. Parrott stood on a box outside the trailer and spied on the couple through the window, according to a statement he gave to the police. But the box collapsed under his weight, at which point he ran around the trailer to confront Heimbach.When Parrott jabbed a finger in Heimbach’s chest and told him to leave the property, Heimbach allegedly responded by choking Parrott unconscious. Parrott woke up and ran to a house on the compound. Heimbach gave chase. Parrott tried to fend him off with a chair. Heimbach choked out Parrott a second time. After regaining his senses again, Parrott fled to a nearby Walmart, where he met the police and told them his stepdaughter was in danger because she had a recording on her phone of Heimbach and Jessica having sex.When the police arrived on the compound, Heimbach told his wife (Parrott’s stepdaughter) to dismiss them. She refused. Heimbach allegedly grabbed his wife’s face with his hand, squeezing hard enough to make her cheeks bleed, then threw her onto a bed in front of their two children. He was arrested and charged with domestic battery committed in the physical presence of a child, strangulation, intimidation and battery.For years, Parrott and Heimbach have worked toward a white ethnostate. In their version of this fantasyland, which they sketched out in a 25-point manifesto on their now-shuttered TWP website, anyone convicted of abusing women or children would “face a swift death penalty by firing squad.” But principles in the alt-right are fungible. So is loyalty.That violent extremists will eventually harm themselves and others, however, is a sure thing. Consider Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, whose wife accused him of abuse and violent behavior in a sworn petition for a restraining order filed in Montana last month. Rhodes allegedly choked his teenage daughter and has a habit of pulling out a loaded gun when he’s angry and waving it around or pointing it at people or himself.People who monitor far-right extremism could see that Heimbach was headed down the same path. In 2016, with the Trump train rolling and groups like TWP on the rise, one of your HuffPost Fringe correspondents asked anti-fascist activist Daryle Lamont Jenkins, the head of One People’s Project, what the future held for Heimbach. Jenkins’s response was telling.“Sooner or later, someone that he is associated with is going to hurt someone. He's that reckless,” Jenkins said. “It's only a matter of time until the bottom falls out. Heimbach and company are going to get in trouble.”Here we are now, not two years out from that prediction, and Matt Heimbach, the “Little Fuhrer,” is in big trouble. So is his “company.” On Tuesday, Parrott, who is facing charges in federal court for helping organize the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, disbanded TWP, nuked the party’s website and possibly destroyed evidence.“I’m done. I’m out,” he said. “SPLC has won. Matt Parrott is out of the game. Y’all have a nice life.”Someone should because these Nazis won’t.Cuck o' the Week All hail the cuck of cucks! His cuckery knows no bounds. Matt Parrott is our champion cuck this week and, possibly, forevermore. Parrott watched as his Nazi BFF, who is also his stepson, cuckolded him in a trailer. No metaphor. Actual cuckoldry. And Parrott watched!We’ll be honest — this level of white degeneracy shocked even your hardened HuffPost Fringe correspondents. Amazingly, when one of us met Parrott in Paoli in 2016, he claimed to have coined the term “cuckservative.” He said this soberly. He meant it. “I believe I was the first to use it,” Parrott said over coffee in a diner, stating that he’d introduced the now-infamous term on My Posting Career, a smaller far-right forum where racists and fascists congregate. Just last week, we were considering a cuck o’ the year award. That’s over now. Cuck Parrott has locked it up.On March 10, a 29-year-old named Thomas McWhorter explained to an FBI agent why he and two other men bombed a Minnesota mosque last year. They wanted to “scare [Muslims] out of the country,” he told the FBI, according to an affidavit. The bombing was meant to send a message: “Hey, you’re not welcome here, get the fuck out.”McWhorter and his two alleged co-conspirators — 47-year-old Michael Hari and 22-year-old Joe Morris — were members of a group called "White Rabbit Militia, Illinois Patriot Freedom Fighters, Three Percent.” They were arrested this week in connection to the Minnesota mosque bombing, as well as the attempted bombing of an abortion clinic in Illinois and a slew of other crimes.The trio appeared to be pro-Trump extremists of sorts. Hari, a former sheriff’s deputy and corrections officer, appeared to buy into conspiracy theories about the “deep state” trying to railroad the president. Incredibly, he also submitted a detailed bid to build Trump a “great” border wall, replete with a pedestrian roadway on top so that it could be a tourist attraction like the Great Wall of China.Five people were inside the Minnesota mosque when it was bombed. Miraculously, no one was hurt. Trump was silent on the August 2017 terror attack, and his then-adviser Sebastian Gorka had the gall to claim the bombing was could have been “faked by the left.” Gorka, a member of a Hungarian Nazi group, did not respond to a tweet asking for comment on this week’s arrests — unsurprising, considering he blocked us on Twitter.The anti-Muslim animus of militia and other “Patriot” anti-government groups was all over the news this week. YouTube removed a horrifying video showing members of a North Dakota militia group firing guns at a miniature model of a mosque. Two women in Arizona, both affiliated with a group called Patriot Movement AZ, were arrested after taking their young children on a trip to vandalize and burglarize a local mosque.And later this month, three other militia members — part of a group called the “Crusaders” — go on trial for plotting to bomb a Kansas apartment complex occupied mostly by Somali Muslim immigrants.We didn’t know that avowed mass murderer and white supremacist Dylann Roof had a little sister. She’s not mentioned in this brilliant Rachel Kaadzi Ghansah profile of Dylann and his family. And before Wednesday, the little sister’s name didn’t turn up in a search of news articles. Maybe it’s because she was a minor.But now Morgan Roof is 18, and she was arrested this week for bringing pepper spray and a knife to her South Carolina high school on National Walkout Day, when students across the country cut class to protest for gun control. She also posted a disturbing and racist message to Snapchat. “I hope it’s a trap and y’all get shot,” she wrote. “We know it’s fixing to be nothing but black people walkin out anyway.”She was released from jail on $5,000 bond with the condition that she not return to school. “I hope that one day, one day she finds peace and seeks forgiveness for what she did today,” a Roof family neighbor told the Post and Courier. “I cannot say I wish the same for her brother.”Dylann Roof is awaiting execution in federal prison. The photo above and the photo below are heartbreaking pictures of him and Morgan together as little kids.Blood and SoiledTo understand the dangers posed by today’s far-right extremists we need to listen to them. Each week, the Angry White Men blog highlights a snippet of conversation from an “alt-right” podcast to show you how fascists and racists really think. Don't say we didn't warn you, America…. It’s been a somber week for the white nationalist movement. Richard Spencer’s infamous college tour fizzled out over massive protests and low attendance. And, of course, the TWP imploded. Where will the group’s wayward 1488ers go now?Neo-Nazi Billy Roper, a grizzled and violent bonehead who has been grasping for relevancy for years, insists they will be rebranded under new leadership. In the March 15, 2018 episode of Stormfront Action Radio, Roper told the host, Father Francis, that he had an opportunity to speak with Matt Heimbach recently.“[T]he [TWP] is rebranding, and they are actually reforming – they’re tweaking the nuances of their focus and their positions under the leadership of Tony Hovater,” Roper claimed. Hovater is the goofy TWP second-in-command who lost his job at a restaurant after The New York Times published a “Nazi next door” puff piece on him. Hovater and Heimbach also co-hosted a podcast called “Action!” that was hosted on The Right Stuff until the website’s owners had a public falling-out with TWP.“Tony seems to be doing the best he can at this time – difficult times – to work with the majority of the officers of the TWP who have given him their support to rebrand and regroup,” Roper added.Hovater allegedly told Roper that it “may be a few weeks” before TWP can have a “complete regrouping” – whatever that means. Moreover, the newly rebranded TWP will apparently have a different name and “different symbols.” As of now, it’s unclear what direction TWP will take. It may be resurrected, as Roper said, like a phoenix from the ashes. Or like Monty Python’s Black Knight, it may be a bloody stump of its former self – ignorant of its own defeat and insisting the damage done to it was “just a flesh wound.”White supremacy won't fall with just a few statues.Did a friend send you this? 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