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A tough 2018 for Spencer got a little worse this week when a longtime ally, Greg Conte, resigned his position in several Spencer-led projects. In making the announcement on Twitter, Conte didn鈥檛 give a reason for the resignations, saying only, 鈥淚 remain totally committed to fighting for the rights of our people. More to come ...鈥�

Richard Spencer ally Greg Conte announced his resignation from several alt-right groups headed by the one-time golden boy of the alt-right movement on Twitter Monday.

The resignations cover positions Conte held with the National Policy Institute, a small think tank Spencer runs backed by right-wing extremist William Regnery, the Altright Corporation and Washington Summit Publishers, a small book publishing operation that produces alt-right and conservative titles.

Spencer, who in the last 24 hours has tweeted about a variety of things, including the idea of a black man playing James Bond and the latest pedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church, but has not commented on Conte鈥檚 announcement. There鈥檚 no mention of Conte鈥檚 resignations on the alt-right.com website, the National Policy Institute website, which Spencer also runs, or the Washington Summit Publishers website.

Conte鈥檚 split from Spencer is the latest sign that Spencer鈥檚 status among the alt-right is falling.

The year didn鈥檛 start off well for Spencer, who had to publicly part with associate Eli Mosley (whose real name is Elliott Kline) after a New York Times article threw into question Kline鈥檚 claim of military service in Iraq.

Spencer also dropped his ill-received college speaking tour after a disastrous engagement at Michigan State in March, which saw multiple fights and arrests (including of Conte) outside the agricultural arena where a small audience went to hear him.

That same weekend, Spencer鈥檚 longtime attorney and alt-right associate, Kyle Bristow, deleted his sometimes-incendiary Twitter account and publicly walked away from his clients and politics (although he has quietly stepped back into representing some racist figures in court).

Another Spencer ally, Evan McLaren, resigned as head of the National Policy Institute in April. McLaren took to Twitter to announce the move, describing it as simply a shuffling of personnel in order to put the best people in the right spots at NPI. Spencer did not offer any comment on McLaren鈥檚 departure, and the National Policy Institute website has not listed a replacement for him.

Spencer has generally been quiet since ending the college tour. Some of his much-ballyhooed initiatives have gone publicly dark, including Operation Homeland, which Spencer announced in December with the stated goal of being professional organizers and activists for the white nationalist and neo-Nazi movement.

The group held one immediate rally but save for a few flyers being left on college campuses hasn鈥檛 been heard from since.

Conte鈥檚 departure from the organizations also comes as the alt-right movement appears to be hitting a low point. On the anniversary of the deadly 2017 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, organizer Jason Kessler tried to hold a second gathering last week in Washington, D.C., under the label of a 鈥渨hite civil rights鈥� rally.

Protesters outnumbered Kessler鈥檚 followers by an estimate of 15,000 to roughly two dozen followers of Kessler at Lafayette Square Park in the nation鈥檚 capital.

And neither Kessler, Spencer nor the alt-right generally even tried to make a stand in Charlottesville one year after overrunning the city鈥檚 popular downtown mall during a deadly weekend.

Spencer didn鈥檛 appear at Kessler鈥檚 rally, having disavowed him a year ago, and didn鈥檛 make a return trip to Charlottesville, either.

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