Attack! (periodical)

Attack! (styled in all caps as ATTACK!), renamed the National Vanguard in 1978, was a white supremacist tabloid periodical, later a magazine. It was originally established in 1969 as the official periodical of the right-wing youth organization the National Youth Alliance (NYA), founded by Willis Carto. It was edited by the white supremacist William Luther Pierce. When Pierce and Carto became embroiled in a dispute less than a year later, the group schismed, with Pierce inheriting the NYA name and Attack! in the aftermath. Pierce renamed the group the National Alliance, and renamed the periodical the National Vanguard in 1978, with it changing to a magazine format.

It had at one time a circulation of about 15,000. The periodical contained racist and antisemitic content and "Revolutionary Notes" on firearms and explosives, though it later moved away from the explicitly militant direction and towards broader racist topics. Beginning in the January 1975 issue, Pierce serialized his story The Turner Diaries in the periodical. Owing to the story's popularity with readers, he later published it as a book, which became one of the most influential white supremacist works and inspired several terrorist attacks. The National Vanguard continued to be the National Alliance's main periodical for several decades, but shuttered with the end of the organization due to a leadership dispute following Pierce's death.