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- Kai Schwemmer defends Brandon Herrera's attack on mothers and their "c*m trophy" children: "Brandon Herrera sees them as TROPHIES! While the radical left sees them as BURDENSOME and tries to MURDER them in the womb. Very telling!"
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- J Oliver Conroy @ The Guardian: College Republicans are fighting and the far right is benefiting: ‘It looks very childish’
Tensions in the national party are trickling down to US college campuses, where a newer student group is rapidly outflanking longstanding moderate rivals
When the Utah county clerk’s office announced last month that it was hiring Kai Schwemmer – an undergraduate at Brigham Young University and a rightwing influencer – to help reach younger voters, an uproar ensued.
An energetic and fast-talking 23-year-old, Schwemmer is a rising star of campus organizing at the College Republicans of America (CRA). He is also a prolific livestreamer with a record of provocation – which returned to haunt him when more than 80 prominent women in Utah signed a letter protesting against his hiring.
Drawing on reporting earlier this year by the Guardian, critics noted that Schwemmer, who had been appointed as chief deputy clerk, had made remarks suggesting women are unsuited to public office, criticizing universal suffrage and endorsing “family voting”, a concept sometimes associated with Christian nationalists. In 2022, he attended a conference organized by Nick Fuentes, an antisemitic far-right pundit, and appeared in a supportive documentary about him.
White nationalist Nick Fuentes is exposing a civil war among US Republicans: ‘We look like clowns’
In March, Schwemmer was also named political director of the CRA, the country’s fastest-growing national federation of college Republicans. When critics raised similar concerns, Martin Bertao, the group’s president, responded: “I would like to apologize… to absolutely NOBODY,” adding that the “CRA will never back down to the WOKE mob!”
The controversies dogging Schwemmer, and the CRA’s cavalier response, are illustrative of the extent to which parts of the college Republican movement – not to be confused with, though also not unlike, the scandal-plagued Young Republicans – have been won over by a hard right that views moderate Republicans with scorn, apes Donald Trump’s confrontational style, and has ties to extremists.
Republican student groups have long acted as a talent pipeline to the national party and helped turn out voters. But ideological, personal and financial disputes in recent years have split the movement into three main national college Republican groups. Since its founding just three years ago, the CRA has grown rapidly, outflanking and displacing two more established – and more moderate – rivals in part thanks to its radical posture.
No one is getting recognition [from the RNC] because of this infighting
Chaston Atkins
The CRA is “more ideologically aligned with the next generation of Americans” than other college Republican groups, said Bertao, who is an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley.
Each of the three groups views itself as the movement’s true voice – but none are officially recognized by the Republican National Committee.
“As of right now, no one is getting recognition because of this infighting,” said Chaston Atkins, the chair of the Georgia Association of College Republicans, which has made a deliberate choice not to affiliate with any of the national groups. “It looks very childish.”
The factional fighting mirrors tensions in the national party between Reaganite conservatives and those who have embraced Trump’s rightwing populism. At the same time, the sidelining of moderate college Republicans raises questions about the future of a right whose rising leaders tend to be arch-conservative young men, nursed on the far-right internet, who often think that Trump is not radical enough.
The college Republican movement in the United States is more than a century old, and made up of campus clubs that often join state and national federations.
While these clubs and federations hold little political influence in and of themselves, many prominent politicians and activists on the right – including Grover Norquist, Karl Rove, Paul Ryan, Reince Priebus, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and Kevin McCarthy – had their first taste of power as student politickers in the college Republican movement.
After Charlie Kirk, the far-right organizer and influencer, was killed last year, a groundswell of students rushed to join campus conservative organizations, though the long-term staying power of that groundswell is difficult to gauge.
The organization Kirk founded, Turning Point USA (TPUSA), which is now run by his wife, Erika Kirk, has an overlapping but different niche than traditional college Republican organizations. TPUSA, Atkins said, increasingly caters to previously apolitical young people from conservative Christian backgrounds who wish to see their values better reflected in society, whereas born political animals tend to gravitate to the college Republicans.
Erika Kirk takes the stage during AmericaFest, the first Turning Point USA summit since the death of Charlie Kirk, in Phoenix, Arizona, on 18 December 2025. Photograph: Cheney Orr/Reuters
When Trump first ran for president, in 2016, many college Republican groups were embarrassed to be too closely associated with a candidate viewed as a loose cannon. As Trump remade the Republican party in his own image, that changed – and the CRA emerged as an upstart ready to most zealously embrace the Maga zeitgeist.
Founded in 2023, the CRA leaped to endorse Trump soon after he announced his 2024 re-election campaign, Bertao said, in contrast to the more center-right National Federation of College Republicans (NFCR), which initially favored Nikki Haley and waited until a month before the general election to endorse Trump.
Bertao also criticized a third group – the country’s oldest, the College Republican National Committee (CRNC) – for having put out a statement urging Americans to respect the verdict when Trump was convicted of fraud in New York.
The NFCR and the CRNC did not respond to queries.
The CRA now claims to represent 350 college chapters nationwide, and continues to grow. Earlier this month it admitted the College Republican Federation of Alabama, which represents six chapters in that state. Its leadership has also increasingly cultivated ties with rightwing nationalist parties in Europe.
Schwemmer told the Guardian that many of his most controversial remarks were made in jest, taken out of context, or interpreted uncharitably. Regarding his attendance at a conference organized by Fuentes, he said: “I’ve been to libertarian conferences and events that leftwing people have put on, and I’ve entirely disagreed with what they’ve had to say.”
Salisbury University in Maryland postponed a speaking event featuring Jared Taylor on 6 March 2026 after backlash and cited safety concerns. Photograph: Baltimore Sun/TNS
This year several local college Republican clubs affiliated with the CRA have gotten into hot water.
In March, a college Republican club at the University of Florida sparked outrage when someone allegedly tied to the club was photographed making a Hitler salute. Soon after, the CRA announced that it was accepting the club as a member.
Earlier that month, the club hosted James Fishback, a long-shot and fiercely anti-Zionist Republican primary candidate for governor who has built a small but dedicated following among college-aged young people with humor that winks at the antisemitism and racism of the online far right.
The CRA and a lawyer representing the club in Florida have said that the person photographed was merely someone who had attended a club event, and held no leadership role.
The same month, a CRA club at Georgetown University wrote on social media that Muslims “have no place in American society. Their religion is incompatible with our Christian Nation.” After a backlash from other campus groups as well as some of its own members, the group deleted the message.
“We affirm the First Amendment rights of all Americans and we are called to love everyone,” a spokesperson for the club at Georgetown told a campus newspaper. “Our properly articulated position is that sharia law is incompatible with Western civilization and American society as it seeks to oppress women and persecute religious minorities.” The CRA told the Guardian that the club’s “actions and sentiment were not wrong; Islam is not compatible with the West”.
And in April, a CRA club at Salisbury University in Maryland invited the writer Jared Taylor to speak with students.
Taylor is a self-described “white advocate” whom critics have accused of promoting white supremacy, a label he rejects. According to a New York Times reporter present, Colin McEvers, the college Republican who organized the event with Taylor, introduced him as someone who could help “save our country, to keep it from becoming a non-English-speaking hellscape where white people are spit at, despised and persecuted”.
We view our role as supporting the Republican party and supporting the administration
Martin Bertao, CRA president
The CRA said that it did not endorse or sanction the Maryland event. It has also said that “[a]ny sort of bigotry and hatred is wrong and should be widely condemned.”
The CRA also said that it allows individual chapters to “decide on who to bring as speakers because of how different every state and campus is. However, when chapters go away from the main beliefs of our organization, we do intervene and draw clear lines.”
Bertao disputed, in part, the idea that the CRA is more radical than other college Republican organizations. “We don’t necessarily take policy perspective positions,” he said. “We view our role as supporting the Republican party and supporting the administration.”
Yet the CRA’s close mirroring of Trump might come to pose problems for the organization. Recent polling has shown that younger Republican voters are, compared with older ones, less supportive of American intervention abroad, less supportive of Israel, and less in lockstep with Trump.
The CRA’s own website seems to indicate a possible mismatch with a president currently at war with Iran; its mission statement calls for “a conservative movement that prioritizes the needs of the American people … and adheres to non-interventionist policies”.
That dynamic can be seen with Fishback, the Florida candidate for governor; although he trails the Trump-endorsed candidate, Byron Donalds, by a huge margin, polling shows that he is vastly more popular with likely Republican voters aged 18 to 34.
James Fishback speaks to the Republican assembly of Sumpter county in Wildwood, Florida. Photograph: Dave Decker/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock
At the same time, survey data does not yield much evidence that younger Republicans, on the whole, hold more radical views than older Republicans on hot-button cultural issues such as abortion or same-sex marriage, Melissa Deckman, the CEO of the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI), said. She suspects that the radical turn of some college Republicans says more about the views of conservative elites – and aspiring elites on campuses – and their desire to secure influence within the movement.
More hardline views are pushing to the fore, she speculated, as “the activist class within the GOP [struggles] over the direction of their party”.
Asked if the CRA’s membership or mission might conflict with its pro-Trump stance, Schwemmer disagreed: “I think all of us are grateful for the revolution that occurred in conservative politics in 2016, even if we since have disagreed with many of the things the president has done.”
College conservative groups tend to mirror “some of the larger fractiousness on the right”, said Matthew Dallek, a political historian at George Washington University. Historically, insurgent factions periodically emerge to challenge establishments they perceive as having sold out to the political center, displacing them before eventually facing similar rebellions.
Amy Binder, a sociologist at Johns Hopkins who has co-written two books about political organizing on campuses, noted that when she worked on the first – published in 2013 during the Obama administration – she observed two distinct styles of campus conservatism.
Conservatives at smaller, elite schools tended to emphasize the idea of civil discourse and intellectual persuasion and avoid sharp elbows that might rub their peers – and possible fellow future leaders of industry – the wrong way. In contrast, conservatives at big state schools tended to lean into provocation, with stunts such as “affirmative action bake sales” – where baked goods are priced differently according to the buyers’ ethnicity – that might offend people on large, diverse campuses but also impress rightwing political organizations scouting brash young talent.
“They didn’t care if they set off their liberal classmates,” Binder said. “In fact, they thought that was great.” To attract media attention, their attitude was “go big or go home”.
By the time she co-wrote her second book – published in 2022, as the “woke” backlash was gathering steam – the second style had come into its own, and was by far the dominant strain. “Anything that was more civil was really disparaged as being establishment – boring, out of fashion.”
For its part, the Utah county clerk’s office backtracked, partly, in its hiring of Schwemmer; after a furor, the office announced that his job would be adjusted to a more junior role.
Radicalism currently has the upper hand in many quarters, but the future is difficult to predict, noted Atkins, the college Republican in Georgia. Clubs at many schools often have just a handful of members, meaning they may change affiliations quickly because of political winds or the views of a determined faction among the leadership. Similarly, he feels that the CRA has tied itself too closely to the personhood of an unpopular second-term president who will soon diminish in influence.
For those reasons, he cautioned against extrapolating too much from the momentum of the CRA or any other group or faction. “It can change in the blink of an eye,” he said.
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Kai Schwemmer, political director of College Republicans of America (CRA), was attempting damage control when he stated that he was "not a groyper" — a reference to followers of white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
Schwemmer drew criticism from Jewish groups for streams on Cozy.tv, a platform founded by Fuentes — and Anti-Defamation League (ADL) CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, in a March 13 post on X, formerly Twitter, warned, "Appointing Kai Schwemmer, a longtime ally of white supremacist Nick Fuentes, as political director signals the College Republicans of America is normalizing antisemitism and white supremacy, full stop. Fuentes holds strong influence over his fans, the 'Groyper Army,' and regularly jokes about the Holocaust. Schwemmer has appeared at Fuentes' conferences, streams on his platform and has spread conspiracy theories about 'Zionists' in America."
CRA President Martin Bertao is doubling down on his decision to hire Schwemmer as political director, writing that he will "apologize…. to absolutely NOBODY."
In an article published on March 30, however, The Guardian's Jason Wilson stresses that Schwemmer has become a liability for Republicans on college campuses.
"The newly appointed College Republicans of America Political Director Kai Schwemmer has made racist, antisemitic, homophobic and sexist statements while espousing extremist right-wing views on abortion, a Guardian review of livestream recordings can reveal," Wilson reports. "Schwemmer said he would accept a world in which slavery was legal if abortion was criminalized, describes himself as 'very much an anti-universal-suffrage guy' and accepts a supporter's description of him as 'our Mormon Nick Fuentes' — referring to the white nationalist influencer whose platform he streamed on for years. The comments were made after Schwemmer's return from a two-year Mormon mission to Argentina, a period he recently claimed had seen him undergo a 'process of growth' that led him to abandon previous racist beliefs."
Wilson adds, "Schwemmer had previously expressed extremist and bigoted views. The streams, many of which are not publicly available but remain accessible behind a paywall on Schwemmer's Gumroad page, also contain previously unreported material from his earlier broadcasts. In one, he walks a user through a sequence of antisemitic leading questions on the Omegle platform before directing her to Fuentes' streaming site. In others, he claims gay men are 'weaponizing' gyms 'to give you AIDS' and celebrates a DNA test he says proved 'I'm 0% Jewish.'"
Jeff Tischauser, a senior researcher for the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), is skeptical about claims that Schwemmer is distancing himself from Fuentes and the groyper movement.
Tischauser told The Guardian, "Any time someone claims they have left the movement, you need to watch them closely to see if their actions match their rhetoric, and if they are being sincere. It does not seem like Kai Schwemmer is being sincere."
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Unearthed recordings of the newly appointed political director of the College Republicans of America reveal further details of his extremist beliefs, including support for forced birth, slavery, racial epithets, and stripping women of the right to vote.
Kai Schwemmer, a devotee of racist podcaster Nick Fuentes, made these statements during his time as a right-wing influencer, in a series of livestreamsuncovered by The Guardian.
In one appearance, Schwemmer was reportedly asked if he believed if a 15-year-old girl who had been raped by her uncle should be forced to carry the resulting pregnancy to term. According to The Guardian, he replied, “Yes, I would agree with that.”
Schwemmer reportedly said he agreed with another streamer who preferred a society where abortion is banned and slavery is legal to one where abortion is legal and slavery is banned. Schwemmer also reportedly defended the use of racial slurs that appeared on the stream of a Black TikTok creator.
On the recordings, Schwemmer reportedly expressed his support for the Christian nationalist concept of “family voting,” a system where women would lose the right to vote and instead voting would be the sole undertaking of the male head of the household. The retrograde worldview isalso backed by Idaho-based Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson, a close ally of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
American womenhave had the federal right to vote since 1920, following the ratification of the 19th Amendment, though rights were available in some states before that.
Schwemmer also reportedly promoted antisemitic tropes about Jewish people supposedly controlling the news media and entertainment industry—bigoted conspiracy theories that have been a part of antisemitic movements for generations. Similarly, he reportedly argued that gay men have been “weaponizing” gyms to “give you AIDS.”
The belief system espoused by Schwemmer on the recordings echoes hisintellectual ally, podcaster Nick Fuentes. Schwemmer’s leadership position over the more than 200 chapters of College Republicans of America represents further mainstreaming of the racist and sexist brand of conservative politics that grew in prominence after the political success of President Donald Trump.
Figures like Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishbackhave also embraced Fuentes’ movement, who call themselves “groypers.” The group’s toxic beliefs essentially argue that America should be dominated by straight, white, right-wing men, with all other dissenting views silenced and disregarded.
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Mar 16, 2026Kai Schwemmer (@KaiSchwemmer). 22 likes 794 views. It is just a total pipedream to believe that the spread of Islam ends with a democratic Iran. The religious justification for these conflicts is not going to be defeated by simply hitting them harder; that only creates martyrs. The solution is even more boldly declaring the name of Christ. Additionally, it is also a pipedream to imagine that ...
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IMPORTING JIHAD Are sleeper cells about to be awoken in a neighborhood ...
Mar 16, 2026(6:03) Blaming Republicans (7:36) Immigration And Jihad (10:06) The Left Imports Terrorists (12:12) The Red-Green Alliance (14:21) Leftism And Islam Unite (17:23) Guest Kai Schwemmer (21:02) Cancel Culture On The Right (26:14) What is a Groyper? (33:14) Reaganism Vs Trumpism (42:14) Debate Over Iran War (56:20) Foreign Policy And Endless Wars
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Who is Kai Schwemmer, the LDS BYU student dividing the right?
3 days ago(Kai Schwemmer) BYU student Kai Schwemmer was named political director of the College Republicans of America. Schwemmer also has a history of making what some observers see as antisemitic statements.
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The group's selection of Kai Schwemmer as political director has drawn objections even from others on the right over his extremism.
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Mar 20, 2026(7:36) Immigration And Jihad (10:06) The Left Imports Terrorists (12:12) The Red-Green Alliance (14:21) Leftism And Islam Unite (17:23) Guest Kai Schwemmer (21:02) Cancel Culture On The Right (26:14) What is a Groyper? (33:14) Reaganism Vs Trumpism (42:14) Debate Over Iran War (56:20) Foreign Policy And Endless Wars (Excerpt) Read more at ...
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I square off with Kai Schwemmer, political director of College Republicans of America, on whether Trump should get rid of the rule of the mullahs.#politics #...
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Mar 18, 2026Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza). 50 likes 29 replies. Is it America First to conduct regime change in Iran? Kai Schwemmer, political director of College Republicans of America, and I square off on whether it's America First for Trump to get rid of the rule of the mullahs in Iran. Watch the full discussion below!!
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New guard and old guard white nationalists are set to descend on Arizona State University next week. Kai Schwemmer, a 19-year-old influencer with the white nationalis:{t America First youth movement, and Jared Taylor, the founder of a white nationalistthink tank, are scheduled to speak on university grounds next Monday and Friday respectively.}:
Taylor was the longtime editor of the American Renaissance, a now-defunct magazine and website that presents racism and eugenics with a “pseudo-academic polish.” He also sponsors conferences by the same name at which “racist ‘intellectuals’ rub shoulders with Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists,” the Southern Poverty Law Center explains.
Schwemmer, meanwhile, is a follower of a white nationalist youth movement headed by Nick Fuentes. The groyper influencer “launders stylized takes on White nationalist ideology for a Gen-Z audience through his popular Kai Clips account on TikTok,” Public Research Associate’s Ben Lorber reports. Now, Schwemmer has expanded his takes to the explicitly racist, misogynist, homophobic, and antisemitic Cozy streaming platform, where he streams regularly.
Schwemmer announced his scheduled Aug. 29 appearance at ASU on a Monday night livestream on Cozy, adding that Tyler Russell, the self-appointed leader of the “Canadian branch” of the America First movement, may be a speaker as well. He revealed that Jared Taylor, a figure Schwemmer affectionately called “Uncle Jared,” would speak at the university just days later.
“I’m gonna be doing a speech at ASU, at Arizona State University,” Schwemmer said. “I think it’ll be on the 29th. Actually, it’s literally in a week. We’ll be doing a speech there. It might be Tyler Russell as well, but me for sure.”
“Guess who else is going to be speaking like a few days after Tyler and I are potentially speaking?” Schwemmer said. “It’s gonna be Jared Taylor, old head of the dissident right, major, major player. Jared Taylor is going to be speaking only like three days after the speech event I’m doing. That’s going to be a big deal. This is going to be his first campus speech in over a decade.”
Urging his followers to fly out to Arizona for a week to see both speeches, Schwemmer admitted that attendance would likely be sparse. “What they’re worried about right now is just filling up the seats,” he said.
A description of the event on Baam! Tickets shows that Taylor was invited to speak by the ASU student groupCollege Republicans United. The group appears to be affiliated with the white nationalist America First movement, with the group’s Gab profile declaring, “America First at Arizona State University!”Another Gab post the group shared urged people to follow Fuentes, and from photos on the university website, the group has invited speakers like Michelle Malkin—referred to as “Mommy Malkin” by groypers—and Joe Arpaio—the far-right former Arizona sheriff who was first known nationally for jailing people in tents in triple-digit summer heat and using them on chain gangs.
American Renaissance says the topic of Taylor’s Sept. 2 speech will be titled “If We Do Nothing: A Defense of White Identity Politics.” According to a post promoting the speech on the American Renaissance website, Eventbrite declined to host ticket sales on its platform.
Right Wing Watch reached out to Arizona State University about Taylor’s and Schwemmer’s appearances Wednesday.
“Arizona State University permits registered student organizations to host guest speakers and use university facilities for student events. The presence of an invited speaker on campus does not in any way imply university endorsement,” a spokesperson for Arizona State University stated.
This wouldn’t be the first time in recent years Taylor was invited to speak at a university by an America First student group. The student organization America First at the University of Alabama invited Taylor to speak there in 2018, but the speech was canceled after the student group lost its registered status with the university.
As Jared Holt reported for Right Wing Watch in 2019, American Renaissance, with Taylor at its helm, has been grooming the next generation of young white nationalist YouTubers and podcasters via its conferences and other outreach, even providing a 19-year-old Fuentes a primetime speaking slot at that year’s conference. Now, those white nationalists have a new conference: the annual America First Political Action Conference headed by Fuentes.
Schwemmer said he met with Taylor at AFPAC III, held in February. That conference made headlines for the special guest appearance of the far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who served as white nationalists’ latest vehicle into the mainstream GOP. But the event also served as a meeting of the minds between old guard white nationalists like Taylor and the up-and-coming groypers of the America First movement.
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