The National Alliance was a white supremacist,[3][4][5][6] neo-Nazi[3] political organization founded by William Luther Pierce in 1974 and based in Mill Point, West Virginia.

The NYA broke into factions as a result of infighting, and William Luther Pierce, a former physics associate-professor and later author of the white supremacist novels The Turner Diaries and Hunter, gained control of the largest remnant and relaunched it as the National Alliance in 1974.

[10] Twenty years later, Will Williams was also arrested for assault of a female staff member while serving as chairman of the National Alliance.

[16] Following Pierce's death from cancer in 2002, the Alliance's board of directors appointed Erich Gliebe to succeed him as chairman of the organization.

[22][24][23] Strom told the court before being sentenced that he was "not a pedophile" and was "in fact the precise opposite of what has been characterized in this case",[22] saying he had been "unwillingly" possessing 10 images of child pornography and that those came from an online forum he had visited which had been "flooded with spam", which included "sleazy, tragic" pictures of children that he deleted.

"[24] Shortly after the attempted coup by Strom, Gliebe resigned as chairman of the Alliance and briefly appointed Shaun Walker as his successor.

[33] In December 2015, Williams was arrested and charged with battery after he allegedly hit and strangled a female employee on the grounds of the Mill Point compound.

[37] He also said in a letter to a newspaper sent from Laurel Bloomery, Tennessee (allegedly the NA's headquarters) that "(The National Alliance does) not appreciate being called 'haters' or being associated with some 'hate movement'.

"[38] Thomas Mair, later to be convicted of murdering the British Labour Party politician Jo Cox, was connected to the National Alliance.

[39][clarification needed] Before the death of Pierce, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the National Alliance the best-financed and best-organized white nationalist organization of its kind in the United States.

[7] In 2004, Harry Robert McCorkill of New Brunswick, Canada, attempted to will his entire estate (valued at $220,000) to the National Alliance upon his death.