Alex Linder (June 30, 1966 – June 27, 2025) was an American white supremacist. He was the founder and editor of the Vanguard News Network (VNN), an antisemitic and white supremacist website and forum

Criminal record

On May 26, 2007, Linder organized what has been described as a "racially charged protest" linked to the Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom murder case in Knoxville, Tennessee, that attracted 30 supporters, around 60 counterprotesters, and 300 law enforcement officers. Linder fought with police and was the only person arrested. He was charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, vandalism, and assault on a police officer. He was placed on six months probation and ordered to pay restitution to the police officer whom he assaulted.

Political life

Linder was an ex-member of the National Alliance, a Holocaust denying, white separatist, neo-Nazi, and white nationalist group. He left after deciding to allow criticism of the National Alliance to appear on the VNN forums. The most recent issue, July 2010 (#4), was published in mid-2009. The newspaper is distributed for free, but donations for it are solicited online.

In articles which he wrote for The Aryan Alternative newspaper, Linder claims that Jews have been and are consciously engaging in a conspiracy in which they are implementing a systematic program of genocide to exterminate the Aryan race.

On August 6, 2025, updates which were posted on several neo-Nazi online platforms which were run by Linder (including an eponymous site) announced that he had died.

References

  • Southern Poverty Law Center Profile