The Thunderbolt (newspaper)
| The White Man's Viewpoint | |
First page of the October 1965 issue, no. 71 | |
| Type | Monthly newspaper |
|---|---|
| Publisher | National States' Rights Party (until 1983) |
| Editor | Ed Fields |
| Founded | August 1946 |
| Ceased publication | 2008 |
| Political alignment | Neo-Nazism |
| Language | English |
| Country | United States |
| Circulation | 25,000 (as of 1960s) |
| ISSN | 0040-6643 |
| OCLC number | 1787557 |
The Thunderbolt, named The Truth At Last from 1988 on, was an American white supremacist tabloid newspaper. For most of the paper's life, it was edited by Ed Fields. The Thunderbolt was established in 1946, later becoming the party outlet of the National States' Rights Party (NSRP). After Fields was ousted from the NSRP in 1983, he renamed the newspaper The Truth At Last in 1988 and continued publishing it independently. It ceased publication in 2008 when Fields retired from politics. The Anti-Defamation League described it as, until the 1980s, the "most widely read publication among the Klans and other hate groups".
As both The Truth At Last and The Thunderbolt, it espoused anti-black and antisemitic views, including Holocaust denial and other conspiracy theories. It featured news internal to the far-right movement, as well as national and international news with a white supremacist bent; scholars John George and Laird Wilcox described it as seeming "almost a parody" of antisemitism in how extreme it was. It was also known for repeatedly accusing other white racist activists of secretly working for the American government or "the Jews".