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Group Status: Active
The National Alliance is a neo-Nazi group started in the 1970s by William Pierce. By the 1990s, it had become the largest neo-Nazi group in the United States and was quite influential within the white supremacist movement. Following Pierce’s death in 2002, the organization imploded due to mismanagement and factional fighting. In the 2020s, despite attempts to revive it, the group has remained very small, engaging in relatively little activity.
The National Alliance's logo consists of a life rune inside a laurel wreath. Because of the group's collapse in the 2000s, the logo is not as prominent or common as it once was. The graphic is also now occasionally used by other white supremacists as a more general white supremacist image.
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