Editing William Luther Pierce (section)

=== National Alliance ===
{{Main|National Alliance (United States)}}
[[File:William Pierce summer 1999 Official NA meeting.jpg|upright=0.9|thumb|Pierce at a 1999 National Alliance meeting in [[Hillsboro, West Virginia]]]]
The [[National Alliance (United States)|National Alliance]] was organized in 1974. Pierce intended the organization to be a [[Vanguardism|political vanguard]] that would ultimately bring about a [[white nationalist]] overthrow of the [[United States Federal Government]]. Pierce spent the rest of his life living in [[West Virginia]]. From this location, he hosted a weekly radio show, ''American Dissident Voices'' from 1991,<ref name="Sutherland" /> the internal newsletter ''National Alliance Bulletin'' (formerly called ''Action''), and oversaw his publications, ''National Vanguard'' magazine (originally titled ''Attack!''), ''Free Speech'' and ''Resistance'', as well as books published by his publishing firm National Vanguard Books, Inc. (many of which promoted [[Holocaust denial]]) and the "white power" record company, [[Resistance Records]], which Pierce supported from its inception around 1993 and purchased outright in 1999.<ref name="SPLC1999">{{Cite news |date=1999-12-15 |title=National Alliance Leader William Pierce Hopes to Acquire Hate Label, Resistance Records |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/1999/national-alliance-leader-william-pierce-hopes-acquire-hate-label-resistance-records |access-date=2019-01-15 |work=Intelligence Report |publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 1978, claiming the National Alliance was an educational organization, Pierce applied for and was denied, [[tax exemption]] by the [[Internal Revenue Service]]. Pierce appealed, but an appellate court upheld the IRS decision.<ref name="ADL-Bio" /> An [[anti-zionism|anti-Zionist]], he attempted during the [[Yom Kippur War]] to force [[McDonnell Douglas]] into canceling military contracts that sent armaments to Israel by buying shares of the company's stock and putting forward the motion at the national shareholder's meeting. The company rejected the motion and continued supplying Israel with weapons.<ref name="ADL-Dead">{{Cite news |year=2004 |title=William Pierce, founder and leader of National Alliance, dead at 68 |url=http://www.adl.org/learn/extremism_in_america_updates/individuals/william_pierce/pierce_update_040724.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061203103147/http://www.adl.org/learn/extremism_in_america_updates/individuals/william_pierce/pierce_update_040724.htm |archive-date=2006-12-03 |access-date=2007-07-18 |work=[[Anti-Defamation League]] |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 1985, Pierce moved his operations from [[Arlington County, Virginia]], to a {{convert|346|acre|km2|adj=on}} location in [[Mill Point, West Virginia]], which he paid for with $95,000 in cash. At this location, he founded the Cosmotheist Community Church.<ref name="ADL-Bio" /> In 1986, the church applied again, this time successfully, for federal, state, and local tax exemptions. It lost its state tax exemption for all but 60 acres, which had to be exclusively used for religious purposes.<ref name="ADL-History">{{Cite news |year=2007 |title=The National Alliance: A History |url=http://www.adl.org/explosion_of_hate/history.asp |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070819110912/http://www.adl.org/explosion_of_hate/history.asp |archive-date=2007-08-19 |access-date=2007-07-18 |work=[[Anti-Defamation League]] |language=en-US}}</ref> As the leader of the National Alliance, Pierce established contacts with other nationalist groups in Europe, including the [[National Democratic Party of Germany]], the [[British National Party]] (BNP), and the Greek [[Golden Dawn (Greece)|Golden Dawn]] party.<ref name="ADL-Bio" /> He also had ties to BNP leader [[John Tyndall (far-right activist)|John Tyndall]].<ref name="Reed" /> Pierce's other attempts to recruit included a 51-minute informational video and forming an [[anti-globalization]] group – the Anti-Globalization Action Network – to protest at the [[G8]] summit in Canada in June 2002.<ref name="ADL-Dead" />

In 2000, he was profiled in a biography entitled ''[[The Fame of a Dead Man's Deeds]]'' by academic Robert S. Griffin.{{sfn|Michael|2003|pp=63, 77}}{{sfn|Berger|2016a|p=20}} The biography was authorized by Pierce,{{sfn|Berger|2016a|p=20}} and was generally seen by critics as too sympathetic to him. Pierce himself praised the book.<ref name="Romano2021">{{Cite news |last=Romano |first=Aja |date=2021-01-28 |title=How a dystopian neo-Nazi novel helped fuel decades of white supremacist terrorism |url=https://www.vox.com/22232779/the-turner-diaries-novel-links-to-terrorism-william-luther-pierce |access-date=2025-02-16 |work=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name="Lee2002">{{Cite magazine |last=Lee |first=Martin A. |date=Fall 2002 |title=Sympathy for the Devil: A Vermont academic writes a fawning biography of America's late neo-Nazi leader |url=https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/vermont-academic-writes-fawning-biography-late-neo-nazi-leader-william-pierce/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100216235339/https://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2002/fall/sympathy-for-the-devil |archive-date=2010-02-16 |access-date=2025-02-16 |magazine=Intelligence Report |publisher=[[Southern Poverty Law Center]]}}</ref><ref name="Harkavy2000">{{Cite news |last=Harkavy |first=Ward |date=2000-11-14 |title=The Nazi on the Bestseller List |url=https://www.villagevoice.com/the-nazi-on-the-bestseller-list/ |access-date=2025-02-18 |work=[[The Village Voice]] |place=New York City |language=en-US |issn=0042-6180}}</ref>