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Right-wing media blamed Iran for bombing of Minab elementary school, but reporting suggests it was a US strike

Reporting indicates that a US Tomahawk missile likely hit the school, yet right-wing media blamed the attack on Iran and downplayed the killing of children because “things happen in war”

Written by Torri Lonergan, Ben Van Bloem & Isabella Sherk

Published 03/11/26

Right-wing media blamed Iran for the likely U.S. bombing of an elementary school during initial U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran on February 28. As evidence mounted that the U.S. was likely at fault, right-wing media called it “disinformation from the enemy.” The strike killed about 175 civilians, largely young children.

Multiple mainstream news organizations have now verified a video that appears to show a U.S. Tomahawk missile hitting a building near the school as part of an attack on an Iranian naval facility next door. Additionally, Defense Department investigators have reportedly determined that the U.S. was likely responsible for the strike. However, right-wing media figures claimed to have “photographic evidence” that Iran was behind the bombing, downplayed the killing of school children, and cast doubt on reporting about the strike, calling the entire story “a lie that has been completely retracted.”

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Asmongold, one of the largest US streamers on YouTube, has leveled up from gaming to politics

The video game streamer — who has 2.4 billion views on YouTube just this year — also seems to be courting Nick Fuentes

Written by Gideon Taaffe

Published 12/11/25 mma

Zack Hoyt, better known as Asmongold or Zackrawrr on Twitch, has become one of the most popular right-leaning online personalities in the U.S. after building on his success as a grungy video game streamer. His popular stream-of-consciousness political punditry often includes right-wing messaging, presented under the guise of gaming industry criticism.

Recently, Hoyt appears to be trying to court white nationalist influencer and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, who set off a wave of right-wing media infighting around his October 27 interview with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. Hoyt says he doesn’t agree with all of Fuentes’ politics, but he has argued that the podcaster is speaking for “disaffected young men” and suggested it’s unwise to ignore his views. In November, Hoyt commented that Fuentes should have been nominated for a streamer award and hinted at doing a stream with Fuentes in the future, saying it’s “not a matter of if, but when.”

Hoyt’s own online presence is massive.

Hoyt got his start by making videos of himself playing World of Warcraft, an online role-playing game that he estimated in 2022 he had played for over 36,000 hours. Over the years, he has cultivated a massive fan base of “roaches,” named for a viral clip of a cockroach climbing on him while he streamed from a trash-strewn room. These fans have dubbed him the “roach king” and they seem undeterred by his claims about not showering for months, changing his pillowcase only twice in his life, buying thrift-store clothes rather than doing laundry for years, and falling through his roof in search of a dead animal.

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From the August 2, 2025, edition of Asmongold TV, streamed on YouTube

Hoyt has accepted the label of “roach defender” and claimed, “I stick up for people that I think are being mistreated and people that are being misrepresented. I think that's what I do more than anything. Obviously, whether it’s Zoomer incels or anything else, I don’t really care. The only thing that I care about is making sure that, you know, people get a fair shake more than anything.”

Asmongold hypes drama between streamers and attacks supposed left-wing bias in the video game industry

In a profile of Hoyt in The Atlantic last spring, Spencer Kornhaber described him as someone “playing the role of a buddy on the couch” — but “a buddy with a lot of opinions” — saying he watched Hoyt’s channel to “understand what it means for politics to be processed through the lens of video games.”

Hoyt’s right-wing shift follows a legacy of outrage against inclusivity in gaming, specifically as it pertains to women. Kornhaber wrote:

Indeed, Asmongold’s foray into political commentary often seems to have been undertaken half-heartedly. The gaming world’s rightward drift can be traced back to the “Gamergate” controversy of a decade ago, when a vocal slice of gamers organized an angry backlash to game designers and journalists who had been trying to make the art form more diverse and inclusive. “All we wanted to do was play video games,” Asmongold said in a recent stream. “And then they had to put girls in video games. And so now we have to elect Donald Trump to stop that.”

Hoyt typically ends his streams by playing a video game, but the first few hours are often filled with his commentary on streaming drama, the gaming industry, and politics.

Industry drama is a never-ending source of content for Hoyt as he comments onpopular streamers, criticizes VIDSstreaming services, andfeuds with othercreators. Left-leaning streamer Hasan Piker is a frequent target (see Hoyt’s YouTube videos with clickbait titles like Hasan crossed the last line,”“Hasan is getting cancelled,” or“Hasan was FORCED to address this”/maxresdefault.jpg)). Last year, Hoyt appeared on Piker’s stream for adebate after Hoyt described Palestinians as “terrible people” from “an inferior culture.”

Hoyt is also a major critic of the gaming industry, and he’s even drawn recognition for that commentary from Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).

In 2022, Hoyt announced on a stream that he had contacted the senator’s office about “loot boxes,” mechanisms that allow gamers to buy in-game cosmetics or advantages with real dollars that Hoyt had described as “predatory.” On his own podcast days later, Cruz expressed agreement with Hoyt, describing the issue as a problem of “gambling and kids,” and extended an invitation to talk to Hoyt.

However, many of Hoyt’s critiques revolve around perceived wokeness and diversity in games.

In November, hecriticized a remake of the game Gothicthat desexualized some female characters, bemoaning the “army of swamp hags that are in these video game companies that are ruining your video games to make themselves feel better about being fat.”

In another video, he attacked a video game review site as “totally captured by identity politics and progressive values.”

In October, Hoyt claimed developers of the popularAssassin’s Creedseries had made a “political messaging device,” adding, “I could have sat in my room and played video games my whole life and I would have never been involved. But then they had to go and add a girl into my fucking game. And you think that I'm not going to burn the whole motherfucking place down? Metaphorically.”

Asmongold pivots from video game criticism to right-wing talking points

While Hoyt became known for gaming, these days he spends much of his streams discussing politics with his chat.

In August, Hoyt came across a post on his Reddit page that noted, “At Gamescon, they’re currently showcasing a game about illegally crossing into the US and processing the trauma of being a minority with real audio clips from real illegals.” (The game, Take Us North, is described by its creators as an “interactive narrative that follows the journeys of migrants and asylum seekers on their way to cross the US-Mexico border.”)

Hoyt exclaimed, “I have to see this. I have to see this. This is content.”

As he watched a presentation on the game, Hoyt started attacking migrants, saying, “They’re stealing the jobs. They’re creating more traffic. They overload social systems. They steal people’s identities to get government benefits.”

Content is king to Hoyt — and for him, the king of content is President Donald Trump.

The streamer has repeatedly referred to Trump as the “content president” while discussing hispressconferences andtweets. He reacted to Trump’s Thanksgiving post that called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz “retarded” and advocated for “reverse migration,” saying, “If you were to take, like, an AI and generate a president that would do things based off of my stream, it would generate a statement like this.”

But Hoyt has some reservations about Trump, arguing that he should be “more authoritarian”:

Often Hoyt’s political commentary comes in response to videos from right-wing media, and he frequentlyturns toFoxNews. He also uses footage of anti-ICE and anti-immigrant protests fromTurningPointUSA through its Frontlines initiative and reacts to videos from right-wing personalities likeDave Rubin or Carl Benjamin (known online asSargon ofAkkad/maxresdefault.jpg)).

His outlandish reactions, honed on video game and streaming content, are frequently directed at immigrants, left-wing politicians, and the LGBTQ community, among others:

Hoyt’s political commentary has led to some consequences. In October 2024, he was suspended from Twitch after claiming he didn’t “give a fuck” about civilians killed by Israel and declared that Palestinians had an “inferior culture.” In May, Hoyt was edited out of a rapper’s video that featured several streamers. The rapper, bbno$, claimed he censored people “whose values I do not support” and “emphasized that the funds generated by the music video will be donated to the Palestine Children's Relief Fund.”

Asmongold shifts his focus from streamers to pundits as he cozies up to Nick Fuentes and attacks critics

Hoyt has been vocal about the recent right-wing media infighting over former Tucker Carlson’s interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes, calling it “one of the best interviews.”

Following right-wing pushback to the interview, Hoyt praised Carlson for dismissing condemnation from other conservative voices, saying, “Absolutely based fucking response. I am not accountable to you, I am accountable to my audience, and that’s it. I love this. Thank God — thank God we’re moving away from this weird virtue-signaling garbage.”

After Fuentes said on his show that he wants to “collaborate” with Asmongold, Hoyt responded that it’s “not a matter of if, but when.” He also acknowledged that “Nick brings in views” and said of Fuentes’ politics, “Some I agree with, some I don't. ... It's not like I agree with everything he says, but I agree with a lot of it.”

Hoyt also argued against some of those who criticized Carlson for interviewing Fuentes, saying, “Let's say theoretically, somebody you think is a Nazi, right, gains a tremendous amount of prominence inside of a political space. Do you think that it’s a good idea to not like — how long do you think you should pretend like they don’t exist until you acknowledge that?”

He has even gone as far as to say fascists and neo-Nazis “have a solution” to political problems, adding, “You might not like it.”

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“We need to get these people out”: Right-wing pundits cheer Trump’s calls for “remigration”

Written by Payton Armstrong

Published 12/08/25 mma

Right-wing media figures are applauding President Donald Trump and his administration for their apparent support of “remigration,” a far-right immigration policy associated with forced migration, mass deportations, and ethnic cleansing. These figures said remigration and “reverse migration” are “critical,” “necessary,” and “what we need.”

The administration’s support for remigration was also celebrated by prominent white nationalist media figures, who declared that “Trump promises us the best immigration policy possible: NO NON-WHITES.”

The Trump administration is seemingly embracing “remigration,” a policy associated with ethnic cleansing and mass deportations that has been pushed by the far right

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