Kevin Strom, who had been associated with the Alliance since the early 1990s, became the head of the National Vanguard. The deposed activists formed a new group, National Vanguard, which won the support of a majority of the organization's local units across the nation.
In reaction to the turmoil, Gliebe and Walker purged a number of the group's most active members in April 2005. Constant infighting directed against the leadership of Erich Gliebe, who took over the Alliance after Pierce died, and Shaun Walker (who had been the chairman of group until his arrest on federal hate crime charges in June 2006) created dissension within the group. In decline since the 2002 death of founder William Pierce, the National Alliance has been barely functioning since the spring of 2005 when the group underwent a split in its ranks.
