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At 22, is a rising white nationalist star, just as eager to get into bed with graying Southern secessionists as he is with steel-toe-boot-wearing neo-Nazis.

Over the past few months, he has rallied with the at the invitation of , a Christian Identity pastor who leads the group and for whom Heimbach claims to have 鈥済reat respect.鈥� He has stood side by side with the , and he plans to attend a rally this weekend with the neo-Nazi (NSM) in Kansas City on the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom that left more than 90 Jews dead and some 30,000 imprisoned in concentration camps.

It has been a meteoric rise for someone so young, the likes of which have not really been seen since the anti-Semite appeared on the campus of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, dressed as a neo-Nazi and railing against the 鈥淶ionist Occupied Government.鈥�

In fact, Heimbach鈥檚 profile on the radical right has risen so quickly that rumors have spread across online forums that he is privately working as a federal informant, or even as an agent of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency. None of that is true, Heimbach says with a wry grin. But what he is more than willing to admit is that in the years since forming the controversial at Towson University in Maryland, where he graduated this year with a degree in history, he been thoroughly radicalized.

鈥淚 tried to be a kosher conservative. I really, really did. I gave it my all to try and just be a conservative and try and work within these parameters. But I couldn鈥檛 do it,鈥� Heimbach told Hatewatch during a nearly four-hour interview earlier this week not far from the small town of Paoli, Ind., where he and fellow white nationalist Matthew Parrott run the (TYN).

Over the course of a cordial dinner interview, Heimbach discussed all manner of things: the birth of his racist views, his plans for TYN (he claims the group has seven 鈥渟hadow鈥� chapters at universities around the country), his support of Southern nationalism and his recent ouster from the neo-Confederate (LOS.) But perhaps most surprisingly, he condemned the white nationalist wing of the radical right as a movement filled with cowardice most apparent in those unwilling to stand on the strength of their convictions.

鈥淥ur target audience are [sic] largely cowards,鈥� Parrott said of the young students he and Heimbach are trying to recruit. Heimbach agreed. "It's cowardice," Heimbach said. 鈥淭he American dream of my parents鈥� generation just isn鈥檛 there for people of my generation. So to a certain extent, the biggest reason people say they don鈥檛 want to get into the movement is because how it will hurt my career. You don鈥檛 have a career anyway!鈥�

That same charge of cowardice cannot be leveled against Heimbach. For his part, he seems willing to join anyone 鈥� from , who founded , to Duke himself, to neo-Nazis and Klansmen (which he calls 鈥済ood, Christian family men). 鈥淚鈥檓 tired of throwing comrades under the bus. And I see that鈥檚 what our movement does all the time,鈥� Heimbach said. 鈥淚f someone crosses an artificial line, you just start throwing people under the bus.鈥�

According to Heimbach, that鈥檚 exactly what LOS President an academic who has suffered the professional consequences of his own Southern nationalist views, did when he kicked Heimbach out of the group last month.

In a Facebook posting last month, Hill wrote: 鈥淢atthew Heimbach, a former member of The League of the South, has apparently decided to cast his lot with Nazis and others who do not represent the traditional South, the Southern Nationalist movement, and The League of the South. 鈥� Neither he nor his friends will be welcome at our demonstrations.鈥�

Heimbach laughed when asked about that ouster and said it was simply Hill having a 鈥渢emper tantrum.鈥� The League would welcome him back, he claimed, especially as its base becomes increasingly populated with the more militant new guard.

鈥淭hat form of Southern nationalism from a generation ago is a teenager who wants to get in their dad鈥檚 face. But when their dad gets out of his chair and reaches for his belt, he goes running into his room,鈥� Heimbach said with a chortle. 鈥淚t鈥檚 ridiculous. It鈥檚 reactionary.鈥�

Of course, Hill isn鈥檛 the only one who has expressed concerns about the ratcheting up of Heimbach鈥檚 rhetoric and activism. Parrott, who runs TYN with Heimbach, privately told Hatewatch that Heimbach鈥檚 ambition had not been without consequence. 鈥淗e rose so fast; he didn鈥檛 kiss all the rings,鈥� Parrott said. 鈥淚鈥檝e run around and apologized to a lot of people 鈥� running interference for him.鈥�

Is it unchecked ego behind Heimbach鈥檚 rise? Bald ambition? The ignorance of youth?聽 It鈥檚 hard to say. But from the time he was 17 and picked up a copy of Death of the West, a white nationalist tract published in 2002 that cites a bevy of racist literature, there has been no slowing Heimbach. Increasingly, he has even melded his racist views with the convictions of his spiritual beliefs, which are just as radical as his views on race.

A lapsed Catholic, he has adopted Orthodox Christianity as a justification for much of what he believes. His version includes not just the separation of the races, but also spiritual warfare and the fear that demons walk among us. 鈥淚 believe in angels and demons and magic,鈥� Heimbach said with no hint of irony. 鈥淥n Halloween, I batten down the hatches and go to church and say my rosary all day.鈥�

Keegan Hankes contributed reporting to this article.

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story misattributed a quote. The story has been changed to reflect the correction.