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Nick Shirley says Alex Jones inspired him to make videos and has “been proven right so many times”
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Right-wing media’s response to results of LA mayoral primary race is a preview of their midterm playbook
Right-wing media have been using footage from an emerging group of right-wing influencers to allege fraud during CA primary elections
Written by Kayla Gogarty
Research contributions from Hanne MacDonald, Isabella Sherk, Gideon Taaffe & Jack Winstanley
Published 06/18/26
Following Nithya Raman's late surge over Spencer Pratt in the primary results for Los Angeles mayor, right-wing media and the Trump administration leveraged often misleading videos from an emerging group of right-wing influencers to undermine the results.
This tactic fuels election misinformation narratives among the right-wing media and serves to provide so-called “proof” of their conspiracy theories to dispute election results, even though their “proof” is often exaggerated or misleading and voter fraud is extremely rare.
An emerging group of right-wing influencers are mirroring James O'Keefe's tactics
As MAGA-aligned influencers try to make a name for themselves in a crowded field, there is an emerging group of right-wing influencers who describe themselves as “independent journalists” and post on-the-ground, documentary-style videos that spread right-wing narratives on social media. These influencers are using James O’Keefe’s template for undercover sting-style and often misleading videos meant to expose and embarrass liberal organizations and causes.
Among these influencers are Nick Shirley, who gained prominence in recent months following his so-called investigation into fraud in Minneapolis day care centers; Muckraker's Anthony Rubin (who describes himself as a “guerrilla journalist”); and several influencers affiliated with Turning Point USA's Frontlines, including Cam Higby, Savanah Hernandez, and Jonathan Choe. O'Keefe also entered the fold in March, launching Citizen Justice League — a self-described “network of citizen journalists” — and descending into California along with Choe and other Frontlines influencers.
- ### In March, right-wing influencers descended on Skid Row, claiming to uncover voter registration fraud
In March, several right-wing influencers including,
Rubin, Cam Higby,
, Savanah Hernandez descended on Skid Row — a 50-block neighborhood in Los Angeles that is officially called Central City East. These self-described “independent journalists” published content alleging a voter registration fraud scheme on Skid Row that involves canvassers registering people to vote and sign ballot initiatives in exchange for cash, cigarettes, and marijuana. Most of the videos appear to be in collaboration with O'Keefe's Citizen Justice League.
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Screenshots via YouTube and Instagram / Media Matters
O'Keefe and others from O'Keefe Media Group “went undercover on Skid Row, posing as homeless individuals,” and they claimed that they captured “28 Instances Of Cash Changing Hands For Ballot Signatures & Voter Registration Forms” on hidden cameras, including footage of a petitioner, Brenda Brown. In the video, O'Keefe alleged that Brown “hands cash money to the homeless person, not only for signing the California ballot initiative, but also as payment for them to register to vote.”
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From a March 17, 2026, YouTube video from O’Keefe Media Group and Citizen Justice League
On March 24, O'Keefe published a second video, alleging that homeless individuals were being paid “to forge the signatures and addresses of current registered voters on ballot measure petitions.”
Following the publication of the Skid Row videos, right-wing media outlets and personalities — including Sinclair’s The National News Desk and, the New York Post,
, and
— spread the videos and their claims of bribes. O’Keefe, in particular, was interviewed on several programs — including
, The Charlie Kirk Show, The Alex Jones Show, and Steve Bannon's *War Room* — where he made unfounded claims that this alleged fraud has occurred potentially
of times.
- ### After the California primaries, right-wing media leveraged content from right-wing influencers and suggested fraud in Nithya Raman late surge in votes
When the votes started to be counted in the jungle primary race, current mayor Karen Bass quickly qualified for the runoff; for the second spot, Spencer Pratt had an early lead, but as Nithya Raman surged ahead of him in the following days, right-wing media's election denial machine went into action, asserting that the election was rigged without pointing to any specific instances of voting fraud.
As Cam Higby noted during a discussion of the California primaries, “To be clear, we don't know for sure that the crimes that we caught people committing in our investigation are directly linked to the mayoral primary or the gubernatorial primary. We're just pointing out, ‘Hey, seems a little bit weird that they're doing a ballot scam just a couple months before the election.’”
Regardless, right-wing media are still using O'Keefe's and other right-wing influencers’ claims about unhoused people registering to vote at homeless shelters on Skid Row to make vague assertions about the Los Angeles primary. On The Benny Show, California Post's Joel Pollak said, “I think the evidence is starting to point us toward a vote harvesting operation that probably targeted Skid Row and other areas where there were many homeless people who could be registered to vote and could be encouraged either to sign their ballots in favor of Nithya Raman or to give them to people who would collect the ballots for them.”
On his show, The Daily Wire's Michael Knowles questioned Raman's second-place win, claiming, “What that implies is that Democrat activists went around and harvested ballots and perhaps forged ballots or bought ballots to beef up Nithya Raman, who nobody likes, to make sure that Spencer Pratt was not in the runoff.” Minutes later, Knowles praised O'Keefe: “Thankfully, we have James O'Keefe who has come out, done an undercover investigation to actually film these ballot harvesters paying people to register.”
On War Room, Election Integrity Network’s Cleta Mitchell — whom The Guardian called “a rising star of Republican election denialism” in 2024 — similarly invoked O'Keefe during a discussion of the California primaries with Bannon. Mitchell alleged that O'Keefe has recently published videos “showing the political hacks going to the homeless, who are the predominant constituency I suppose in LA now, and offering them drugs and money for ballots. … They knew as of election night how many votes the third-place finisher needed and they just gone out and gotten those votes.”
- ### The Trump administration picked up right-wing influencers’ videos to cast doubt on the California primaries
The Skid Row videos came amid Trump and his right-wing media allies’ push for the passage of the SAVE America Act, which aims to rewrite election laws nationwide and would, if passed, create new barriers for people attempting to register to vote. On March 24, the same day O'Keefe released his second Skid Row video, Trump posted to Truth Social a screenshot of and link to O’Keefe’s social media post promoting the video, adding, “Terrible!”
In his March 17 video, O’Keefe specifically claimed, “The Department of Justice has been sent these tapes of election fraud cash exchange for voter registration happening in broad daylight, and we have informed the Department of Justice there are more tapes coming.”
Two months later, the DOJ announced that petitioner Brenda Brown, who had been featured in O'Keefe's video, was “charged with one felony count of paying another person to register to vote, a federal charge that carries a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison.” Following the charges, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli credited O'Keefe's undercover video for leading to the charges: “I think that was widely reported and it was all over the press and as a result of that, initiated and opened up a criminal investigation with the FBI.” Essayli also said that Brown is “simply the first person that we are announcing charges for in this investigation resulting from some undercover videos that took place at Skid Row.”
O'Keefe and other right-wing influencers have boasted about their role in these investigations, and after the California primaries, Essayli went on a right-wing media tour, claiming to have evidence of election fraud in California that will lead to prosecutions and encouraging people to send in tips to help the DOJ investigate the supposed election rigging.
- ### This California playbook is a preview of what the right-wing media and the Trump administration will do to undermine the midterm elections results
As the 2026 midterms approach, right-wing media and the Trump administration appear to have ramped up their efforts to undermine the midterm elections – often invoking existing and repeatedly debunked conspiracy theoriesabout widespread election fraud in the U.S. and typically relying on one-off incidents and hypotheticals that are often exaggerated or misleading.
Content from right-wing influencers serves to provide the so-called “proof” of election conspiracy theories and fuels election misinformation narratives throughout right-wing media. It also gives the administration an excuse to argue for policies or actions that would restrict voter access.
While the March content focuses on Skid Row, it dovetails with other videos from these creators that misleadingly claim to show widespread voter fraud in other places, as well as previous content with now-debunked accusations about homelessness services in California.
In January, Benny Johnson was on the ground in California, including on Skid Row, claiming that he would help American taxpayers “see first-hand how criminal California fraud is robbing our nation blind.” In February, Nick Shirley published alleging voter fraud in California. According to Shirley, he went “to locations from California’s public voter rolls from the Secretary of State, and not a single location could verify the voter rolls.”
All of this content claiming fraud in California has been fodder for vague claims of widespread election fraud for those unhappy with the results of the California primaries — and it is all a preview of how this playbook can be used to undermine the upcoming midterm elections.
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Candace Owens on Nick Shirley: “He is being pushed upon us for some reason. … I find everything about him to be suspicious”
Owens: “They're not even giving us good psyops anymore”
Written by Media Matters Staff
Published 05/13/26
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From the May 11, 2026, edition of Candace, posted on YouTube
CANDACE OWENS (HOST): And so I don't understand the purpose of Nick Shirley. I didn't know that there was this huge scandal. I then subsequently found out that people, you know, think he's fed jacketed. I wasn't trying to hit upon that. I just watched the video and had a reaction to how stupid it was that they're trying to sell it. They're not even giving us good psyops anymore.
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I have family reunions Nick Shirley couldn't infiltrate and survive. That's just the reality. Like, so this whole, like, tough boy, because they don't leave their basement, you sound sheltered. You sound sheltered that you think that because I podcast today, that I didn't live a lot more yesterdays. Way more aggressive yesterdays than you've ever lived in your entire life. That's why I laughed, Nick, because it's so implausible that you did that.
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He's up here crying about a little remark about favela. Like, okay. It didn't happen. So take that or leave that. He is being pushed upon us for some reason. I don't know what that reason is. By the way, he's now going to Cuba, guys. No connections. He's just going to Cuba. He claims he he went to Cuba. He was almost taken hostage. Man, this is the bravest kid in the entire world.
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And we all know the CIA is involved in Cuba at this moment. So I don't find the timing of Nick Shirley — I find everything about him to be suspicious. I would say to everyone, look at these videos with some degree of caution. Because that, none of this is natural.
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March 24, 2026, edition of MS NOW's Deadline: White House
ALICIA MENENDEZ (CO-HOST): You see my point about the socialization that begins to happen when you are accustomed to seeing these guys in their uniforms basically everywhere you go.
ANGELO CARUSONE (GUEST): That's right. And that is a big -- and that is what Bannon is trying to say is that they are trying, and there's an important thing sort of tie in here with the question you just had with Michael, because one, they're trying to make it much more acceptable and normal. And that's not only going to be in these big displays like we saw in Minnesota where it's scary and they're coming in with masks and it's overwhelming force. It's a normal part of life. And if they're picking a few people off the line, and that's one of the things that they've been saying in talk radio as they continue to pull Bannon's thread, is that they're getting used to sniffing out individuals that are suspicious on these lines. It's practice in training.
MENENDEZ: Sounds a lot like racial profiling.
CARUSONE: It sure does. And this is all part of it, that it starts to become even more normal and acceptable in places you don't expect. But in the lead up to your question with Michael, one of the things you said is that ICE was sent in a response to viral videos. Now, let's play this out. There is a entire phalanx of investigative creators just like that Nick Shirley guy that are about to be deployed around election misinformation. So, now what happens when you have a video that sort of totally based off of nonsense gets uplifted in the right-wing media, makes its way to Fox News. It's a new big story.
Then Trump has a pretext to sort of send these now figures that have been socialized to be more present into these areas where these videos prop up. That's the scenario that we're playing out. It's not just going to be out of nowhere. Right now, it's the crisis at airports because of TSA and it seems dispersed, but it'll be much more targeted and focused as we get closer and closer to the election. That's the real threat. And so when it's more normal, it's going to be hard to mount a kind of resistance to just their sheer presence alone.
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February 25, 2026, edition of MS NOW's Deadline: White House
ALI VELSHI (HOST): So, Angelo, America is not a country that requires citizens to carry their proof of citizenship with them. It's just the way it is. I think some countries do. Some of them are authoritarian, but some are not. I usually like to point out Estonia, where they've got a national ID. It's digital. You don't lose it. And if you lose it, it's easy to get a new one and you don't pay for it. That's not the case with a birth certificate. If you can't find your birth certificate or your naturalization certificate or your passport, it's super hard and expensive to replace them, and voting may not be the reason why people do that. You can do a national ID if you want. I don't think Americans would go for that sort of thing. But if you were to do it, at least the onus should be on the government to provide that at low or zero cost.
ANGELO CARUSONE (MEDIA MATTERS PRESIDENT): That's right. I mean, and that's been mentioned already. There are lots of things we can do to make voting simpler. And it's also worth noting that voting is supposed to be done locally, right? The mere fact that Trump has managed to even hijack the narrative around this is rather extraordinary because it's not his job. It's not his job. So that should be the first tell that something's amiss here.
And there are other clues going on. I mean, you know, there are lots of ways that we can make this easier and simpler. But I should also note that on the flip side, instead of investing and thinking about that, they've done something even more dangerous and insidious, and there are clues. If you look at the State of the Union, who was there? Nick Shirley. This is one of these crops of investigative influencers that, you know, he was largely responsible for creating a target on Minnesota's back by producing viralized content that the administration said, well, see that? Look at all that. We have to go in there and crack down on this.
They're doing this with votes too. They're going to take that exact scenario that you set up. All of the basic administrative discrepancies, the gaps that exist, the real things that we could fix, and actual -- not fraud or malfeasance, just general day-to-day. People are busy. The economy is bad. You don't have time to get your document. You know? And they're going to take that that vulnerability, and they're going to scandalize it and sensationalize it.
We're going to deal with a drumbeat of people just like that being validated by the federal government and then reverberated and amplified through this massive, right-wing echo chamber to create an hysteria around voting, and around this idea of voter fraud when in fact, it's exactly what you just said. Basic, I don't have my document. I don't have my birth certificate. It actually just -- I lost it. It evaporated. It got wet. I mean, there's a million reasons for it. And that system, the fact that he was there is a clue to what we can expect going forward.
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Nick Shirley rebooted James O’Keefe’s debunked voter fraud myths for a new audience
Shirley’s new California video is little more than a rehashing of O’Keefe’s bogus claims from over a decade ago
Written by John Knefel & Sophie Lawton
Published 02/18/26
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Andrea Austria / Media Matters
A new video by MAGA provocateur Nick Shirley purports to expose voter fraud in California, but in fact it’s little more than a repackaging of false narratives spread over a decade ago by right-wing operative James O'Keefe. In both cases, the right-wing influencers suggest that fraud could exist without actually exposing any, relying on innuendo and hypotheticals rather than evidence.
O’Keefe created the template for undercover videos meant to expose and embarrass liberal organizations and causes. His old videos, like Shirley’s new ones, were frequently debunked in real time, but they nevertheless served a role in providing fuel to conservative content creators hungry to stoke outrage about perceived liberal excesses. Shirley’s repackaging shouldn’t be surprising given the incentives for young, MAGA-aligned influencers to make a name for themselves in a crowded field. But the original claims didn't provoke any policy changes — reasonably so, given that they were bogus — so Shirley's repackaging has little to offer beyond a hope that new consumers take the bait.
Shirley gained prominence in recent months following a so-called investigation into fraud in Minneapolis day care centers. Although there were some real instances of fraud within the city’s social services, local news and prosecutors had already exposed and investigated many instances of wrong-doing. Still, The New York Times referred to Shirley as having “spurred the federal crackdown on Minneapolis.”
Once the right-wing’s most identifiable creator of sting-style — often deliberately misleading — exposés, O’Keefe’s star has since somewhat fallen. In 2010, O’Keefe founded Project Veritas, and over more than a decade the organization produced videos meant to discredit perceived liberal organizations, often through tactics such as manipulation and deceptive editing. According to Rolling Stone, in 2023 O’Keefe “either left or was pushed out of his own company … depending on whom you ask.” He has since tried to reestablish himself in the right-wing media ecosystem, including by creating an award in 2025 for the so-called citizen journalists who have followed in his footsteps. The first recipient was Nick Shirley.
Shirley, like O’Keefe, is promoting the possibility of fraud that he hasn't actually found
Shirley’s
is one of many from right-wing influencers, such as Benny Johnson, decrying supposedly rampant voter fraud in California, and it includes many examples and myths that have already been debunked. One of the most prominent narratives in Shirley’s video, which was already debunked when Johnson spread it, is that voters whose registrations list central locations, like an abandoned building, as an address are a clear sign of fraud. However, as Democracy Docket notes, California law “gives people experiencing homelessness the flexibility to use any location to register to vote. As long as unhoused residents can describe the place where they spend most of their time — whether it’s an address, a cross street or a vacant lot — they can legally list it as their address on their voter registration form.”
Another one of Shirley's key examples of “fraud” in the video is a previously reported story about a woman who registered her dog to vote and cast two ballots for him in 2021 and 2022, only one of which was counted. The woman, a registered Republican, self-reported her crimes and is facing six years in prison.
The premise of Shirley’s 20-minute video is that there could be fraud in California without stricter voter ID laws and “with the state receiving millions of illegal migrants, the opportunities for fraud now are even higher.” California does require a valid ID or Social Security number when registering to vote or when voting for the first time after registering by mail, and extensive research has shown that noncitizen voting in U.S. elections is exceedingly rare and extremely unlikely to impact elections. Yet Shirley’s video has been picked up by others in right-wing media, including livestreamer
, former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, and conspiracy theory website The Gateway Pundit.
Had someone just awoken from a decadelong coma, they might find these types of claims quite familiar. In 2012, O’Keefe attempted to show how easy it was to commit voter fraud in a state without strict voter ID laws via a video titled “Dead people receive ballots in NH primary,” which claims that conspirators could use the names of the deceased to cast fraudulent ballots to steal an election. But, as Media Matters noted at the time, the video “actually demonstrates just how difficult it would be to pull off such a plot.”
Although it’s true that making sure ballot rolls are accurate is important, O’Keefe’s stunt only showed that without knowing how many votes were needed, the conspirators would need to engage in a massive plot and subsequent cover-up to make sure they had covered the spread. It would be an enormous undertaking. O’Keefe provided no evidence that such a scheme existed for the simple reason that there was no such plot.
In another one of O’Keefe’s “gotcha” videos on voter fraud, a Project Veritas employee almost obtains a ballot meant for registered voter Eric Holder, then the U.S. attorney general. Project Veritas marketed the video as a slam dunk, claiming it had “proven” fraud occurred while in reality no vote was cast and no fraud occurred. The manufactured stunt, like Shirley’s escapades in California, was another senseless attempt to rally people behind more restrictive voter ID laws.
Though Shirley’s claims about California include some different details from O’Keefe and Project Veritas’ claims, the gist is the same: Both attempt to prove “voter fraud” and fail to show any actual fraud being committed. Such right-wing misinformation has been debunked for years while the truth is still that fraud is just not happening at the scale they claim.
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MAGA influencer and conspiracy theorist Nick Shirley, in one of his YouTube videos, claimed that a Somali-operated day care center in Minneapolis was committing fraud by not having any real children on the premises. The 23-year-old Shirley defended his work on the "PBD Podcast," arguing that being celibate demonstrated his credibility.
Shirley said, "I'm a virgin. I don't have sex with random girls. You're not gonna catch me on those sexual allegation charges."
In a scathing article published on January 5, Salon's Amanda Marcotte emphasizes that Shirley's day car center claims are easily debunked — and that his "odd" and "irrational" defense of his work reflects a "longstanding fear" among MAGA Republicans.
"Shirley stands accused of lying for racist reasons, so his 'but I'm a virgin' defense is irrational — at least on the surface," Marcotte explains. "But it makes more sense, in a psychosexual way, in light of the right's longstanding fear and loathing of day cares."
Shirley's false claims about a Somali-opera day care center, Marcotte argues, not only underscore "conservative audiences" having a racist need to "hear Black people are committing crimes" — they also show the far right's disdain for day care centers in general.
"These businesses were picked almost certainly because Shirley and his colleagues have tapped into the longstanding tendency of paranoid reactionaries to make day cares the subject of conspiracy theories," Marcotte writes. "Along with birth control and abortion — whose providers are also smeared constantly with right-wing lies — day care is loathed on the right for allowing women to work instead of being financially dependent on a husband. In the 1980s, day care workers were accused of being Satanists. Now, during the MAGA era, the scapegoat for men's fears of female independence has shifted from imaginary devil-worshippers to real immigrants."
Marcotte continues, "White women are implicitly accused of using immigrant labor as a cheat to avoid their God-given duty to quit work to stay home and raise babies. Vice President JD Vance has been especially loud with his belief that day care is pushing women away from their supposedly inherent desire to be housewives…. The Manosphere isn’t just deeply misogynist; it's also incredibly racist."
*Amanda Marcotte's full article for Salon is available at this link.
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Unnamed Source in Viral Minnesota Somali Fraud Video Is Right-Wing Lobbyist Who Called Muslims “Demons”
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David Hoch, identified only by first name in Nick Shirley’s video, got info for his anti-Somali campaign from a GOP state House staffer.
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the day after Christmas, far-right YouTuber Nick Shirley posted a video claiming to have exposed fraud at Somali-owned day care centers in Minnesota. Portions of the 42-minute video — mostly scenes where Shirley is turned away at the day cares — went viral in conservative circles, catching the attention of the Trump administration, which was already at work targeting Minnesota’s Somali community amid its broader war on immigrants.
The
, which has been viewed more than 2.2 million times on YouTube and millions more on other platforms, sparked a renewed crackdown in Minneapolis, with the Department of Homeland Security announcing on Monday it would visit 30 sites suspected of fraud across the city. A DHS official told CBS News Minnesota its agents would focus on a “little of everything,” when asked whether immigration enforcement would be a part of the crackdown. Threatening arrests, the agency posted a video to X in which agents enter a smoke shop and question an employee about a nearby day care center.
This isn’t the first time the conservative YouTuber has gotten the attention of the Trump administration. Shirley participated in President Donald Trump’s “Roundtable on Antifa” in October after an altercation at an anti-ICE protest. At age 23, his videos aren’t merely influencing his audiences — they’re also influencing government action.
This worries immigrant rights advocates, who fear that the fallout from Shirley’s video will only worsen the harm already being done to Minnesota’s immigrant communities at a time when Trump has taken to calling Somali people “garbage” at his rallies.
“The very real-world consequence is that it’s going to exacerbate the situation that we have in Minnesota right now where we have a lot of people, including U.S. citizens or people with lawful status being arrested and detained by ICE,” said Ana Pottratz Acosta, who leads the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic at the University of Minnesota Law School.
The video, she said, reinforces xenophobic tropes about the Somali community, specifically tying the community to fraud. Pottratz Acosta said she was worried the increase in DHS visits to day cares could be a pretext to simultaneously conduct immigration detentions.
“They’re doing these visits at day care sites under the auspices of conducting a fraud investigation, but if they happen to see anyone who fits a profile, they might be arrested,” Pottratz Acosta said.
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Shirley’s video builds off of the growing interest in a nonprofit fraud scandal in Minnesota involving a pandemic-era program focused on child hunger, which has resulted in dozens of guilty pleas. The Trump administration claims Minnesota’s fraud issue is much larger, to the sum of $9 billion worth of government funds being fraudulently funneled from social services. Republicans have painted Gov. Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, both Democrats up for reelection, as responsible for an alleged lack of oversight. Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., who is Somali American and Muslim, has also been the target of right-wing and xenophobic attacks. Among other racist stereotypes and false claims, Trump said, “We gotta get her the hell out” of the country at a Pennsylvania rally earlier this month.
State regulators said Monday that inspectors had visited the day cares mentioned in the video in the past six months, according to theMinnesota Star Tribune, that there was no evidence of fraud at the sites during those unannounced visits, and some of the centers have already been closed or suspended. According to Minnesota Public Radio, state Republican lawmakers had steered Shirley toward the day care centers he visited in the video.
Shirley defended his video and said people have been silent about “Somalians committing this fraud” because “people are scared to be called Islamophobic, racist.”
“Fraud is fraud — it doesn’t matter if it’s a Black person, white person, Asian person, Mexican,” Shirley told Fox News. “And we work too hard simply just to be paying taxes and enabling fraud to be happening.”
Despite Shirley’s insistence that race and religion have nothing to do with his investigation, the YouTuber has a long track record of using his man-on-the-street videos to target immigrants in the U.S., platforming individuals who spread
and
beliefs
theories. While Shirley’s videos include interviews with those protesting against such hate, he often presents immigration and Islam as a
taking
. Combined with sensationalized headlines — “Exposing Dangerous Illegal Migrant Scammers” or “The UK’s Insane Migrant Invasion” — the end result is often a portrait of immigrants as lawbreakers, a societal threat, and a strain on government resources.
Shirley did not respond to The Intercept’s request for comment.
Nick Shirley speaks during a roundtable meeting with President Donald Trump on “antifa” in the State Dining Room at the White House, on Oct. 8, 2025, in Washington. Photo: Evan Vucci/AP
In 2019, Shirley began to post prank videos with friends on YouTube while attending a public high school in Farmington, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City. At first, his focus wasn’t especially political. He garnered a large number of his 1 million subscribers after sneaking into influencer Jake Paul’s wedding in Las Vegas.
But amid his comedic stunts, he documented the
insurrection at the Capitol in Washington, D.C., in 2021, where he interviewed far-right commentator and InfoWars founder Alex Jones and infamous rioter Richard Barnett. Shirley said he did not take part in the violence and filmed himself leaving without entering the building. Later that year, Shirley took a two-year hiatus from YouTube to go on a mission in Santiago, Chile, as part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In late 2023, after his return to the United States, Shirley shifted from prank videos to focus on political topics, such as immigration and crime. In May 2024, he orchestrated
in which he paid day laborers $20 to jump into the back of a U-Haul van, drove them to the White House, and gave them signs demanding a meeting with Biden.
Shirley’s mother, Brooke — herself a right-wing influencer who goes by Brooker Tee Jones on TikTok, where she has more than 250,000 followers — occasionally joins her son in the videos. It was Brooke who pushed her son to start covering immigration at the southern border after his mission trip, according to an interview with Columbia Journalism Review. Early on, she’d feed him questions to ask and lines to say in the videos, she recalled. Her content has similarly focused on immigration in recent years, including other videos that accuse Somali residents in Minnesota of health care fraud without providing evidence.
Reached by The Intercept, Brooke did not answer questions about her work or the work of her son.
Shirley has made a habit of visiting cities and countries that are settings for right-wing, anti-immigrant conspiracies, such as Aurora, Colorado, amid the manufactured crisis around the Tren de Aragua gang.
During a visit to El Salvador in 2024, Shirley filmed a series of videos sympathetic to President Nayib Bukele’s violent anti-crime crackdown on his citizens, including a video from the notorious CECOT prison. It’s his most-viewed video to date, with 6.6 million views. In another video from El Salvador, Shirley recorded from the Centro Industrial prison, which has become a manufacturing hub where incarcerated men build school desks and vegetable market display racks, a form of forced labor. “It’s pretty amazing if you think about what Nayib Bukele has been able to do with this country — the streets are as safe as they’ve ever been, because all these guys are out,” Shirley said while inside a CECOT cell block, gesturing to the incarcerated men. At no point in the video does he mention the stories of torture and abuse within the country’s prison system.
Shirley was recently awarded a “citizen journalist of the year” prize by far-right media figure andProject Veritas founder, James O’Keefe, in large part because of his CECOT video.
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In other videos, Shirley himself has become a part of the story.
In September, Shirley and a small crew filmed a video
in New York City’s Chinatown, referring to them as “Dangerous Migrant Scammers.” Vendors could be seen scrambling away while Shirley strolls down Canal Street. At one point, one man tells Shirley to leave and asks why he’s filming, leading to a physical
with Shirley’s cameraman.
Several weeks later, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided the street, detaining nine individuals. Shirley praised ICE for the raid that left the street “completely clean of illegal activity” and
an individual who was detained as a “scammer [who] got ICED.”
Shirley has
federal agents during immigration
in Chicago, interviewing a detained man in the backseat of a federal vehicle. Since Trump’s election, media access at raids has largely been given only to outlets or individuals sympathetic to the administration’s mass deportation campaign.
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Alongside other far-right influencers such as Andy Ngo and Cam Higby, Shirley landed an invite to participate in Trump’s “Roundtable on Antifa,” a White House event where the administration advanced its campaignagainst antifascist activists. “People may wonder, ‘What’s the threat to us as Americans?’ You’ll be labeled as a fascist, you’ll be labeled a Nazi, and they’ll wish death upon you as they wished death upon me,” Shirley said of the decentralized protest group at the event.
Leading up to the Minnesota day care video, Shirley released a video about “the rise of Islam” in the U.S. and what he called “Minnesota’s Somali Takeover.” The July video makes a spectacle of the call to prayer and individuals praying inside a mosque and singles out Omar, as well as an Islamic center that converted from a Lutheran church to illustrate his point of the apparent takeover.
:{:{In October, Shirley published an hour-and-a-half sitdown interview with British far-right anti-immigrant and anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson, during which he repeated the false claim that there are “40,000 British Muslims” on the United Kingdom’s terror watchlist living in Britain.}: The figure is a misreading of a real list by British intelligence agency MI5, which does not include religious identifiers and contains the names of many people who have never traveled to the U.K. “At what point does this break out from a revolution to a civil war?” Shirley asked.
Shirley’s recent viral video in Minnesota was a continuation of this narrative.
In an attempt to lure people into gotcha situations, Shirley visited day care centers and health care facilities that he claims are operated by Somali Americans. Taking a page out of his prank days, he poses as a parent looking for child care for his fictitious son, “Joey.” Throughout the video, Shirley approaches individuals with dark skin or women wearing hijabs, peppering them with questions about supposed “missing” children and whether they were aware of fraud.
Police are called on Shirley and his team twice in the video, including while at one health care complex where a woman explains to a responding officer, “He’s trying to assume because they’re Somalian providers everyone here is fraudulent — he’s here with some kind of propaganda.” He claimed to be “checking rates” for health and child care. Police eventually
out of the building.
The video’s claims of fraud rely heavily on a Minnesota resident and apparent whistleblower who is identified in the video as David. Toward the end of the video, David claims he was attacked by Somali men who he had confronted about the alleged fraud, describing the men as “very, very violent people.”
Since early December, federal agents have increased their presence in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, profiling and detaining individuals who appear to be Somali, including individuals who are U.S. citizens. The crackdown has also led to the targeting of Latin American immigrant communities in search of undocumented residents. Trump and other right-wing figures have propped up their campaign by falsely depicting “Somalian gangs” who are “roving the streets” of Minneapolis and St. Paul, “looking for prey,” the president said on social media.
Even though Shirley’s video claims to have exposed new truths about fraud in Minnesota, the day care facilities highlighted in the video have previously been spotlighted as problematic by local ABC News affiliate, KSTP, as well as the state government, which earlier this year began to increase oversight of funding to day care facilities over similar fraud concerns.
The most effective way to combat fraud is increased oversight, said Pottraz Acosta. The recent crackdown in Minnesota, which has been exacerbated by Shirley’s video, she said, is not the kind of oversight that will prevent bad actors from exploiting public funds. The issue of anti-Somali sentiments is also a problem within Minnesota, she said, with residents facing demeaning stereotypes and unsubstantiated speculation that they are sending money to al-Shabab, the Somali militant group on the U.S foreign terror list.
This narrative, perpetuated locally and nationally, “feeds into larger narratives around certain immigrant communities,” Pottraz Acosta said. “There are bad actors in every community and just because certain people commit fraud, it doesn’t mean that every person who fits that same demographic profile is a bad actor.”
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October 22, 2025, edition of Fox News' The Ingraham Angle
LAURA INGRAHAM (HOST): The words they're using -- fight, push, resist -- they're signaling very clearly that it's war time and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson thinks he's a general.
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Johnson dismantled tyranny. ICE-free zones are the answer. We're on the front lines, okay, general. General idiot. Sure sounds like he's calling for insurrection to me. And they're already promising their post-war tribunals.REP GARCIA
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Fox News platformed several of the participants of a White House roundtable on antifa in the weeks leading up to the event
In the weeks preceding the event, Portland footage captured by roundtable participants was featured on Fox's evening programming at least 31 times and the network interviewed them at least 12 times
Written by Jack Winstanley
Research contributions from Rob Savillo, Harrison Ray & Tyler Monroe
Published 10/24/25
New Media Matters data finds that in the roughly two weeks leading up to a White House roundtable discussion of antifa, Fox News interviewed and repeatedly ran b-roll footage of Portland anti-ICE protests captured by several of the right-wing influencers who attended the roundtable. This data underscores right-wing media’s ongoing campaign to cast the protests as violent while the Trump administration simultaneously takes actions against antifa and other protesters.
On October 8, the White House hosted a roundtable discussion focused on supposed threats posed by antifa, complete with testimony from a dozen right-wing media figures and online commentators who shared tales about the violence supposedly emerging from the left. Central to many of their talking points were the ongoing anti-ICE protests in Portland, Oregon, where the Trump administration has attempted to deploy 200 National Guard troops. The roundtable followed President Donald Trump’s issuance of an executive order designating antifa a “domestic terrorist organization” on September 22.
Right-wing media have repeatedly characterized the anti-ICE protests in Portland as violent. Several right-wing media figures and influencers have even gone to Portland, including some accompanying Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, as part of what Oregon Public Broadcasting described as the “deepening alliance between the administration and an online world willing to misrepresent facts if it means furthering political goals.”
The White House roundtable was populated with a dozen right-wing media figures and influencers
- The White House welcomed 12 right-wing media figures and online influencers for the October 8 roundtable, which also included Trump, Noem, Attorney General Pam Bondi, FBI Director Kash Patel, and other high-level administration officials.
Many of these influencers have been in Portland during anti-ICE protests, with some covering the protests for right-wing media outlets or online shows. As reported by The Guardian, influencer Nick Sortor, who was among the roundtable attendees, “has been involved in multiple physical altercations with protesters in Portland this month, some of which he clearly initiated.”
The roundtable included:
- Jack Posobiec, host of Real America’s Voice’s Human Events Dailyand senior editor of Human Events.
- Andy Ngo, editor-at-large for right-wing online outlet The Post Millennial.
- Katie Daviscourt, a correspondent for The Post Millennial.
- Nick Sortor, a conservative influencer.
- Julio Rosas, a correspondent for Blaze Media.
- Savanah Hernandez, a former Infowars host and current Turning Point USA contributor.
- Cam Higby, a personality for Today is America who has also contributed to Turning Point USA’s Frontlines.
- Nick Shirley, a YouTuber.
- Jonathan Choe, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute who has also reported for Turning Point USA's Frontlines.
- James Klug, a YouTuber.
- Brandi Kruse, a conservative podcaster.
- Seamus Bruner, the director of research at the Government Accountability Institute.
At least three of the outlets represented at the roundtable — Human Events, The Post Millennial, and Frontlines TPUSA — have since announced that they have joined the Department of Defense’s press corps after Pentagon reporters refused to agree to restrictive press policies.
- ## Fox used roundtable participants’ footage of Portland for b-roll in dozens of segments during the roughly two weeks before the roundtable
- Media Matters observed at least 31 segments about anti-ICE protests in Portland, Oregon, that aired during Fox News’ evening programming between September 22 (when Trump issued an executive order designating antifa as a “domestic terrorist organization”) and October 7 (the day before the roundtable) and featured b-roll from at least one of the roundtable participants.
Footage captured by The Post Millennial’s Katie Daviscourt appeared in 87% of the segments that featured b-roll from roundtable participants — 27 of 31 total segments — and footage attributed to Turning Point USA’s online show Frontlines appeared in nearly a third of qualifying segments.
Nick Shirley, a YouTuber who was present at the Portland protests, had b-roll footage appear in 2 segments. Footage from Brandi Kruse, who filmed a video documenting the two days she spent in Portland, appeared in 1 segment.
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- ## Roundtable participants have repeatedly appeared on Fox News, with several appearing on the network during the roughly two weeks ahead of the roundtable
- Seven of the roundtable participants (Posobiec, Ngo, Sortor, Shirley, Choe, Daviscourt, and Klug) appeared on Fox News’ weekday programming in the weeks leading up to the roundtable for a collective total of 12 interviews between September 22 and October 7.
Several of these interviews focused on the Portland protests, with some roundtable participants characterizing the protests as violent and at least one participant calling for a more intense crackdown on protests from the Trump administration.
During a Fox interview on October 2, Shirley claimed there had been “lots of violence” at the protests and that he had been threatened with a gun. In a September 29 Fox News appearance, Choe claimed the protests were “causing chaos” for Portland. On October 6, Sortor argued on Hannity that the protests were “so hostile,” and “very, very aggressive.”
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- Appearing on Jesse Watters Primetime, Daviscourt declared, “It’s time for a federal crackdown,” adding, “The Trump administration needs to start treating antifa like ISIS, the terrorists that they are.”
And the roundtable participants aren't new on Fox. In fact, Media Matters found that all of the individuals who participated in the roundtable had appeared on Fox News prior to the study period as well, for a total of at least 177 appearances combined since August 2017.
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YouTube content creators have earned more than 200 million views on videos of their visits to El Salvador’s CECOT prison
Both the Trump and Bukele administrations have also used social media as propaganda celebrating the megaprison
Written by Jack Winstanley (https://www.mediamatters.org/author/jack-winstanley)
Research contributions from Payton Armstrong (https://www.mediamatters.org/author/payton-armstrong)
Published 04/24/25
Since 2024, at least five YouTube content creators have been granted access to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, the megaprison to which the Trump administration began sending immigrants last month.
The resulting YouTube videos have been viewed over 200 million times, and at least one creator has appeared on Fox News four times to discuss what he saw while filming. He suggested during one appearance that “if the United States was smart, they would do something just like this as well.”
Both President Donald Trump’s administration and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s government have used social media to push propaganda films celebrating the megaprison as well, despite concerns of potential human rights abuses at the site, and right-wing media have also praised the facility.
The Trump administration is deporting immigrants to El Salvador's CECOT prison without due process}:
Bukele opened CECOT in 2023, earning praise from right-wing media figures
In early 2023, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele opened the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT (https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/el-salvador-opens-40000-person-prison-arrests-soar-gang-crackdown-2023-02-01/), as part of his campaign against criminal gangs operating within the country. Since then, experts (https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/g-s1-54206/el-salvador-mega-prison-cecot#::text=Cristosal%20and%20other%20advocates%20have%20accused%20authorities%20of%20human%20rights%20violations.) have raised concerns (https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/03/20/human-rights-watch-declaration-prison-conditions-el-salvador-jgg-v-trump-case) about the prison’s harsh conditions (https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/04/la-cooperacion-represiva-entre-eeuu-y-el-salvador/#::text=In%20the%20light,Amnesty%20International%2C%20said%3A) and “massive and arbitrary deprivation of liberty,” including the extreme levels of isolation (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/world/americas/bukele-abrego-garcia-elsalvador-prison.html#::text=Extreme%20isolation%2C%20and%20%E2%80%98a%20huge%20silence.%E2%80%99) experienced by the prisoners. One visiting filmmaker called it a “tropical gulag” and an expert described it as “the Salvadoran version of going to Siberia.”
But right-wing media figures have celebrated (https://www.mediamatters.org/candace-owens/activists-are-raising-alarm-about-new-mega-prison-el-salvador-american-right-wing) the facility and suggested that the United States should create similar infrastructure within the country, praising Bukele’s authoritarianism (“This is my kind of authority, baby”) and suggesting that a megaprison would help with America’s “serious crime problem.”
In March 2025, the Trump administration began deporting individuals to CECOT
During an official visit in February 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said (https://www.npr.org/2025/02/04/g-s1-46352/rubio-el-salvador-deportees-americans) Bukele had offered to accept deportees from the U.S., including “dangerous criminals currently in custody and serving their sentence in the United States even though they're U.S. citizens or legal residents.” The following month, President Donald Trump invoked (https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/14/politics/alien-enemies-act-1798-trump-cec/index.html) the Alien Enemies Act to send (https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/16/politics/trump-administration-deportations-alien-enemies-act/index.html) hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador to be imprisoned at CECOT.
Despite ongoing (https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/18/trump-deportations-alien-enemies-act-00299474) legal challenges to the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to justify deporting individuals to El Salvador with little to no due process (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/09/supreme-court-trump-deportations#::text=What%20does%20habeas%20have%20to%20do%20with%20it%3F), Trump stated during a press briefing alongside Bukele that he is exploring (https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5366178/trump-deport-jail-u-s-citizens-homegrowns-el-salvador) detaining U.S. citizens and imprisoning them in El Salvador as well.
YouTubers have earned millions of views on content after visiting CECOT
02/07/24
Mexican YouTuber Luisito Comunica posted a tour of the facility, thanking Bukele’s press secretary for granting him access
In Mexican YouTuber Lusito Comunica’s video, which has been viewed over 56 million times, he says in Spanish that touring the facility “gives a certain feeling of empowerment to a simple citizen like me.” Comunica also spoke positively of the conditions within the facility, stating, “It is easy to suddenly be moved, to touch your heart, to say, 'Wow, what harsh abuse inside the prison.' But when you find out the inhumane atrocities they committed, it makes sense.” YouTube,\ (https://youtu.be/69qKUoGhoQo), accessed [4/23/25 (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4029515)]
07/26/24
Right-leaning American YouTuber Nick Shirley posted a tour of CECOT and appeared on Fox News at least 4 times to discuss his visit
:{:{Pro-Trump YouTuber Nick Shirley’s video, which features a tour of CECOT and Shirley interacting with a group of individuals imprisoned there, has earned over 5.7 million views. Prior to touring CECOT, Shirley had made videos criticizing the Biden administration’s immigration policy and focusing on illegal immigration into the U.S. YouTube,\}:
(https://youtu.be/I34FnQSXpw8&themeRefresh=1), accessed 4/22/25 (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4029516);Reuters, [6/13/24 (https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pro-trump-influencers-fire-up-fears-migrant-invasion-ahead-us-election-2024-06-13/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social&fbclid=IwY2xjawJ04EFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETFnNVdra3V2c1FUYzY2TjdJAR45czaz0JGaDIsgazJrb0mONAFckoJIZcqwGA_6waDl8owPil2H3NzNkVYnJA_aem_oc0gJpuaFtxY7BMzWEQqZA)]}:
The following week, Fox News’ Jesse Watters hosted Shirley to discuss his tour, introducing him as an “investigative journalist” and showing portions of the YouTube video. Shirley told Watters that “if the United States was smart, they would do something just like this as well, to make sure that no criminal gets treated like a normal person.” Fox News, Jesse Watters Primetime, [8/2/24 (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4029500)]
Following the Trump administration’s decision to deport individuals to El Salvador, Shirley appeared on Fox at least another three times. On Fox & Friends Weekend, Shirley stated that he worked “for months and months” to get permission to tour the facility, and he ended his appearance by cheering, “Let’s go, El Salvador.” Fox News, The Ingraham Angle, \2/7/25 (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4029498); Fox News, Fox & Friends Weekend, 3/29/25 (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4029499); Fox Deportes, Fox Noticias, [3/28/25 (https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4029501)]...
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ANTIFA takeover the cit
Governor of Oregon leads protes
Is Portland War Ravaged
Anti-facsict vs ANTIF
Going to ANTIFA Protes
ChoeShow disribes ANTIF
Local EXPOSES ANTIFAs “organization”
ANTIFA blocks and fights ca
I confront ANTIFA hate
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Sun sets and ANTIFA prepares for wild night
FEDS make there first push
FEDS come back to battle ANTIF
Interviewing ANTIFAS “warriors
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ANTIFA takeover the city
0:00
All these people right here are the
0:01
Antifa of Portland. All in black.
0:05
You come back. I'm going to [ ]
0:06
smoke you, dude.
0:07
Really?
0:08
Yes.
0:08
You have a sniper lasered on you right
0:10
now.
0:11
Stop it.
0:11
We're Portland. This is our mother. Keep
0:14
it weird.
0:17
Portland is set to erupt right now. You
0:19
have thousands of people out here
0:21
protesting here in the streets of
0:23
Portland, Oregon. Donald Trump has said
0:24
this is war ravaged and is sending into
0:27
the streets of Oregon. the federal
0:29
government. It has said the feds can use
0:31
full force against Antifa, who is now
0:34
declared as a terrorist organization.
0:36
Right now, you have thousands of people
0:37
here on the streets yelling, "Fight back
0:40
to the federal government." And here in
0:43
Portland, Oregon, you have an ICE
0:44
detention facility center that has been
0:46
occupied by Antifa and protesters for
0:48
more than 100 days. And assaults on ICE
0:52
agents is up 1,000% since Trump took
0:56
office for his second term. Who knows
0:58
what will happen here in Portland. We're
1:00
going to interview some of these
1:01
protesters and then we'll be going to
1:03
that same ICE detention facility center
1:05
where Antifa held one of the strongholds
1:07
here in the United States. Antifa is now
1:09
declared as a terrorist organization.
1:11
Who knows what will happen? And now
1:13
let's go hit the streets of Portland,
1:14
Oregon. Go talk to these protesters. So
Governor of Oregon leads protest
1:16
right now you have the governor of
1:18
Oregon chanting troops in Oregon. We say
1:21
no. Hey ho ho. Governor Bash, what's
1:25
your message to Donald Trump for sending
1:26
in the feds into Portland? I had a price
1:28
card for today. There's a statement
1:29
online.
1:29
Well, could you give us one right now?
1:31
Fill up. N fill you in later. Thank you.
1:33
Oh, come on. Governor Bash,
1:35
is this what democracy looks like?
1:40
All right. The governor will not give a
1:42
statement.
1:43
Now they're chanting whose streets are
1:44
streets. What do you guys think about
1:46
the feds coming into Portland?
1:49
It's wrong. It's completely wrong.
1:51
They say this is the stronghold of
1:52
Antifa here in the United States,
1:54
Portland, Oregon. Is Antifa a terrorist,
1:56
do you think? No, because Antifa
1:58
anti-fascism is an ideology. It's not
2:02
one thing you can attribute. If
2:04
anti-fascists are showing up against
2:06
your administration, what does that say
2:08
about your admin
2:09
in here? Do you think the feds are
2:10
needed to take down Antifa?
2:13
Doesn't look like it to me. I don't
2:14
know. I'm not a scientist.
2:15
Do you think Antifa is a terrorist
2:17
organization?
2:18
Um, I don't think Antifa plays any role
2:21
in it whatsoever. Where's Antifa? Are
2:22
they here? I don't know who they are.
2:23
I'm just a proud American veteran who is
2:28
fighting fascism.
2:29
What's happening in our government is
2:31
wrong. It's anti-American and any
2:34
patriotic American should be out here
2:35
just demonstrating against what's
2:37
happening.
2:37
The largest and most known fascist in
2:40
world history is Hitler. Where would you
2:42
rank Trump?
2:43
If you look at the first two or three
2:46
years of um Hitler's rise to power, he
2:50
did not imprison as many people as Trump
2:52
has.
2:53
So Trump's imprisoned more people than
2:55
Hitler in his first two, three years.
2:56
Yeah, exactly. To what 2, three,000
2:58
people a day? That's far less than were
3:02
in prison during the first two years of
3:03
of Nazi of Hitler in Nazi Germany.
Is Portland War Ravaged
3:06
Do you think bringing in the feds was
3:07
necessary here to Portland?
3:08
No.
3:08DUDE IN RED DRESS?
What do you guys think about Antifa? Him
3:10
declaring Antifa as a terrorist
3:11
organization?
3:12
I think it demonstrates that he doesn't
3:13
know what Antifa is.
3:14
Cuz these people here are anti-fascist.
3:16
But the idea of Antifa as an
3:19
organization, is that such a thing?
3:21
No. It would be like saying MAGA is a
3:24
terrorist organization.
3:26
That MAGA is not an organization in the
3:29
way that Antifa is not an organization.
3:32
It it it's it's incoherent.
3:34
And Trump has said this is war ravaged
3:35
Portland. Is this a war ravaged city?
3:38
Show me where the war is.
3:40
Point to it.
3:40
It's not war ravaged during the Black
3:42
Lives Matters protest either. I was part
3:44
of a Buddhist group and we would go out
3:47
at about 5:00 in the evening in Chapman
3:49
Square where at night there would be all
3:51
the stuff going on. We would do peaceful
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walks, never a problem. No one bothered
3:57
us. We would see people setting up for
3:59
the nighttime stuff, but it was all
4:00
fine.
4:01
If this is war ravaged, like I said, all
4:03
wars should look like this is my fervent
4:05
prayer.
4:06
Do I look like a domestic terrorist to
4:08
you? I'm a boomer. I'm a septtogenarian.
4:11
And Donald Trump thinks I'm a threat to
4:14
America. What's he smoking? He's a total
4:17
fascist.
4:17
Ma'am, you're moving pretty quick for a
4:19
boomer. Look at you. You got your
4:20
polling and everything.
4:21
That's right. Got to move when you have
4:24
to. You know, I got to sit back for a
4:27
few years taking it easy. But now is not
4:29
the time. We have to fight for
4:30
everything we can get.
4:32
Are you part of Antifa?
4:33
Oh, yeah. Right. Am I against fascism?
4:36
Hell yeah. But it's not an organization.
4:38
It's a philosophy. It's an ideology.
4:41
It's just an excuse, a pretext for the
4:43
government to find a way to uh invade
4:47
our cities.
4:48
So, you're not a terrorist.
4:50
No,
4:51
I know. I don't think you look like a
4:52
terrorist, ma'am.
4:53
No, not lately.
4:54
You're moving too quick with the Walker
4:56
to be a terrorist.
4:57
Yeah, totally. So, these people right
Anti-facsict vs ANTIFA
4:59
here are anti-fascists. That's an
5:01
ideology. But the group of Antifa is
5:04
different. That's who Donald Trump has
5:05
declared as terrorists. the organization
5:08
of Antifa, the group of people that
5:10
receive funding from groups to then go
5:13
out and incite political violence
5:14
against the opposition as they are part
5:17
of the group of in the organization of
5:19
Antifa. Most of these people just have
5:21
the ideology of being anti-fascist which
5:24
is not a bad thing. Nobody supports
5:26
fascism and nobody wants violence or
5:28
nobody wants a fascist dictator here in
5:30
the United States. What the difference
5:31
is between these people and Antifa is
5:33
Antifa is an organization who have been
5:36
now been declared as terrorists. These
5:38
people, these old boomers right here are
5:41
not terrorists. They have the ideology
5:43
of being anti-fascist and they believe
5:45
Trump is a king and a dictator. But I
5:48
would not consider these people as
5:50
terrorists. So, you had that protest
Going to ANTIFA Protest
5:52
going on and now we're heading over to
5:53
the main protest where a rally from
5:56
Antifa is set to take place as they have
5:58
been controlling and occupying the
6:01
outside of this ICE detention facility
6:02
center for over 100 days and who knows
6:06
what's going to happen here. We're
6:07
heading over right now. All right, we
6:09
made it here to the ICE detention
6:10
facility. Here you have all the
6:12
protesters
6:13
here in Portland.
6:15
[Applause]
6:19
They're all outside of the ICE detention
6:22
facility. Put the mask on. We don't want
6:24
to blow cover too quickly. So, this
6:26
right here is the ICE detention facility
6:28
center where they do hold illegal
6:29
migrants once ICE has gone out and got
6:32
them. And right here, you see all the
6:34
protesters. These guys, for instance,
6:36
are all in black. They do not want to
6:37
show their face. Those are potential
6:39
members of Antifa. Antifa has had
6:41
control of this location outside
6:43
occupying it for the past 100 days or
6:46
so. And now, this is set to be their
6:48
rally. Let's see. They're handing out
6:50
piggies. Little piggies that squeak.
6:54
Calling the police and the feds. Pigs.
6:56
Bubbles, not bullets. Right.
6:57
Right.
6:59
So, why do you put the bubbles out?
7:00
It's an indicator. Just like balloons.
7:03
You watch where it's going to go. That's
7:04
where the gas is going to go.
7:05
How long have you been protesting out
7:06 CLOWN
here for?
7:08
Uh, well, I've been protesting in
7:10
different cities across the country now
7:12
since they broke out early this summer.
7:15
So,
7:15
uh, what makes you so enthusiastic about
7:17
protesting?
7:19
Uh, cuz there's a lot to protest. Uh,
7:23
there's a lot that's wrong that's going
7:25
on. A lot of people aren't buying the
7:27
[ ] from Trump.
7:29
What do you think they should do with
7:30
illegal migrants if they are here
7:32
illegally? For instance, cuz the last
7:33
four years, I think Joe Biden, there was
7:35
like over 10 million. Should they all
7:36
just be allowed to stay here or how
7:38
should Trump go about doing that?
7:40
Well, first of all, I don't think
7:41
anyone's illegal. I think that's just
7:44
kind of like a hot button word that's
7:47
used to basically create a us and them
7:50
mentality. Take away somebody's humanity
7:54
by saying they're illegal. And Jonathan,
ChoeShow disribes ANTIFA
7:56
you've been covering Antifa for a very
7:57
long time. How dangerous and how violent
7:59
are these people?
8:00
Look, at the end of the day, the goal is
8:02
to overthrow the US government. They
8:04
want revolution. They're here to
8:06
destabilize America. They hate
8:07
capitalism. They believe in Marxism,
8:09
communism, and that's what they're
8:11
trying to bring in and usher in right
8:13
now. And authorities, the cops, uh, you
8:16
know, these officers, this is the
8:18
direct, uh, defense against any type of
8:22
communist takeover. And that's why
8:24
they're constantly being targeted.
8:26
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8:27
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Local EXPOSES ANTIFAs “organization”
9:39
Looks like right now we have a counter
9:40
protester going at it with some of the
9:42
people. Here we go. What do you think
9:44
about these protesters?
9:45
Documenting this for three and a half
9:46
months every day calling them domestic
9:48
terrorists and Trump finally labeled
9:50
them as domestic violent terrorist
9:52
organization like I've been and I have
9:54
the record of it. Get the back. You're
9:57
on too much. Yeah. My name is Lavel
9:59
Howard. You want the real name?
10:00
Thank you.
10:01
Yeah. How much medication are you on?
10:04
Yeah. Look at your Look at What's wrong
10:06
with you?
10:09
You guys are mentally ill.
10:10
Would you say these people are mentally
10:11
ill?
10:11
Yeah, they're mentally ill. They're on
10:13
drugs. Look at their pupils. Look at all
10:14
my videos. They're They're all out here
10:16
drinking at night. They're all getting
10:17
drunk. They're all on drugs. That's why
10:20
they're going to get hit with conspiracy
10:21
charges, RICO charges, domestic
10:24
terrorist charges. And the leader is
10:26
Chandler. He lives in a building right
10:28
over here. He's the leader. I've
10:30
interviewed him 10 times. The funny joke
10:32
is everybody poops at Chandlers.
10:34
Everybody does poop at Chandlers. That's
10:36
what they do because he lets all the
10:38
Antifa members go to his house and have
10:42
they have parties. They get drunk. They
10:46
Yeah. This is what they do. They pay
10:47
them to come out. They pay homeless
10:49
people to get drunk out here. So, it's
10:51
an organization. It really is an
10:53
organization where there's plans being
10:55
made. People are getting paid. People
10:57
have places to go and shower and bathe.
10:59
So, it's it's it's an organization.
11:01
People have said Antifa is not an
11:03
organization. They believe it's an
11:04
organization.
11:04
100%.
11:05
And all these people dangerous.
11:07
Very dangerous. Most of them are.TRANS [CUT?]
11:11
They're on a lot of medication. They get
11:13
very violent. You know, it's it's it's
11:15
crazy how violent it gets, especially at
11:17
night. It's going to really pick up
11:19
tonight. It's as soon as it gets dark,
11:21
they feel like they can get away with
11:23
the law. breaking the law that this is a
11:25
third world country at night time. I've
11:27
been chased down these tracks.
11:30
Like all type of shit's happen, bro.
11:32
Talk to this guy, too. He's the white
11:33
nationalist.
11:34
Don't touch them. Don'ting touch them.
11:36
I'm not touching them.
11:37
Don't [ ] Don't [ ] touch.
11:39
We can be here just as much as you can
11:41
be here, mother.
11:42
That is true. We do have the right to be
11:43
here.
11:44
You guys don't run [ ] mother.
11:46
That is true. We do have the right to be
11:48
here.
11:48
You actually do not. according to the
11:50
federal police and the Portland Police
ANTIFA blocks and fights car
11:52
Bureau. You bring the whole family out
11:53
today?
11:54
Yeah. I try and teach my children
11:56
important things and I think it's
11:58
important not to deport people that are
12:00
just living their lives and being
12:01
families here, not doing anything wrong.
12:03
What do you hope message gets portrayed
12:05
to the federal government today?
12:07
I don't think any message will get
12:08
through to them today. I just hope they
12:10
realize that we're going to stand up and
12:12
fight for our community, that we love
12:14
each other and we will protect each
12:15
other as this car tries to run through
12:17
people. Crazy.
12:26
This lady's trying to get through the
12:28
streets for everybody.
12:29
They're not letting her through.
12:34
They're not letting her through. Right
12:36
there, baby.
12:40
[Applause]
12:43
They're not letting her through right
12:44
now. Right now, everyone saying she
12:46
needs to back up. This lady right here
12:47
saying it's illegal for her to be coming
12:48
through here. The police are stepping
12:50
in.
12:52
They a pedestrian.
12:56
Oh my goodness.
12:59
She hit a pedestrian. If you do not
13:01
arrest this woman, you are complicit
13:04
with this [ ] administration.
13:10
Scared me.
13:11
She hit a pedestrian.
13:13
Are you going to arrest her?
13:16
We can't hear anything.
13:18
This is wild right now. You have the
13:19
police going. You have these guys mad at
13:21
me for filming this. This lady's crying.
13:34
police after hitting a protester.
13:36
I'm so scared. I can already
13:41
scared.
13:45
Somebody stamp the car with Trump
13:47
GESTAPO. Not welcome. Now this is trying
13:50
to get out.
13:52
What's your message to these protesters?
13:53
Ma'am,
13:54
get a job. Get a job. I didn't run
13:58
anybody over.
13:58
The protesters wouldn't let her go
14:00
through.
14:00
I know. It's ridiculous. Just let her go
14:02
through.
14:03
Yeah,
14:04
that's all she was trying to do. Go
14:05
through the rope
14:07
and then she got swarmed,
14:08
which was crazy. It's so stupid. Anyway,
14:12
are you one of the are you one of the
14:13
protesters out here today?
14:14
I mean, I'm not. I just came to see what
14:16
was going on because I know every time
14:18
I've come by here, there have been like
14:20
10 people here and now there's like
14:24
hundreds cuz Trump signs, you know,
14:27
whatever invokes whatever it is.
14:30
Perfect day. 10 something 10. I can't
14:33
remember.
14:34
Yeah,
14:35
he's here for some.
14:36
So now they're all here. Everybody's
14:37
com. It's just ridiculous. This guy's
14:39
mad at me for filming right now. He's
14:40
just been following me around.
14:41
Happens. He's like so desperate. He's
14:42
like so funny. Like look look at him.
14:44
Look at him right now. He's just so
14:45
desperate.
14:46
Dude, I'm just doing my job. I just
14:47
talked to people and who cares? Like she
14:48
said,
14:49
you don't need to follow me around if
14:50
you don't want to.
14:51
Okay, so one question. Are you against
14:52
ICE or not?
I confront ANTIFA hater
14:53
Am I against ICE?
14:54
Yeah, you're against documenting what's
14:56
going on today.
14:56
But are you against it? That's that's
14:58
what I'm asking. Like this is a simple
14:59
question.
14:59
They're doing things illegally. Yes. Oh,
15:01
interesting. That's fine. So, you're not
15:02
with You're not with So, you're just
15:04
here for content. That's what it is.
15:06
I'm a journalist. I cover it.
15:07
No, you're not. You're not a journalist.
15:09
You're here for content. Exactly what
15:10
you're doing right now.
15:11
Look, I'm just talking to you.
15:12
That's funny. Yeah.
15:12
So, I you could have the you have the
15:14
opportunity.
15:15
You were just like, "Oh, to the cop, to
15:16
the lady, to this to that." It's like
15:18
that's not a that's not being a
15:19
showing people what's going on.
15:21
No, no, no. That's not being
15:22
showing people what's going on.
15:23
No, no, but that's not being a
15:24
journalist. That's what I'm saying.
15:25
Is that what What is journalism then?
15:27
It's showing people the reality of
15:28
things as they really are. And you're
15:30
getting mad at me for
15:31
I'm not mad at you.
15:31
Yes, you are.
15:32
No, what you're doing is that you're
15:33
trying to catch content, bro. That's not
15:35
That's not journalism. You're just
15:36
trying to catch content for people.
15:37
You're trying to agitate people.
15:38
And what is journalism if if it's not
15:40
some form of content cuz somebody needs
15:42
something to consume, right? And that's
15:44
content.
15:44
Rage baiting.
15:45
I'm not rage baiting anybody.
15:46
There is the difference.
15:47
But like, dude, I see you're like
15:49
content journalism.
15:51
You get bothered when someone bumps into
15:52
you. I saw you, dude.
15:53
I didn't get bothered by any, bro.
15:55
You're like, "Oh, like what the hell?"
15:56
Then you're like mad dog and like all
15:57
these people were dressed in black. Like
15:59
what's up with that?
16:00
What do you mean?
16:00
Yeah. I I Bro, I've been watching you
16:02
from afar.
16:03
I'm describing the situation. We have to
16:05
literally dressed in black.
16:06
Yeah. Like you were like just like
16:07
looking up and down, bro. I can I can
16:09
read body language, you know? And that's
16:10
what you're doing.
16:11
I'm observing the situation. That's what
16:12
I do.
16:13
No. And you think you're acting cool
16:14
right now for your content. You're going
16:15
to post this later on and be like, "Oh,
16:16
I was cool. Look me and this guy's all
16:18
mad." But in reality, bro, that's that's
16:20
not how it is. You know, you know how
16:21
that is. You know what I You can't make
16:22
money if nobody sells it.
16:25
You could be a barber and like actually
16:27
put something like put back into
16:28
society, you know, go work at
16:29
McDonald's. You'd be more respected.
16:31
Okay. Thank you very much. And what do
local wants ANTIFA gone
16:32
you think about the protesters coming
16:34
out here?
16:35
It's just it's just um they're ruining
16:37
the whole community.
16:39
School got shut down. Just built people
16:41
are afraid to come out of their houses
16:43
here. I want the feds here. I want the
16:45
tanks and the you know,
16:48
I'm just sick of it, man.
16:49
So, you want the feds to come through
16:50
here and get rid of all these? Oh yes.
16:53
Yeah. How am I going to have my [ ]
16:55
community back?
16:57
Half the people of Liberty are afraid to
16:58
come outside.
17:00
So on the news when you say that the
17:01
people here don't want ICE or they don't
17:02
want the feds here. You want the feds
17:04
here?
17:05
Yeah. I want this stuff to end and
17:07
that's the only way to do it. I think
17:09
I'm going to head back in. We're going
17:10
to see what happens.
17:11
Right on, brother.
17:11
God bless you.
17:12
Stay safe.
Sun sets and ANTIFA prepares for wild night…
17:13
What's the need for all of the black?
17:14
The need for all the black is to protect
17:17
everybody who is around here who is also
17:20
wanting to protect their identity. I
17:22
don't want my face to be out there. I
17:24
don't want these people to see this and
17:26
then come and persecute me for standing
17:29
out and holding a sign that says silence
17:32
is compliance.
17:33
Yeah, cuz now the sun's gone down people
17:36
in all black pretty much for the most
17:37
part. Majority
17:38
exactly. This keeps people safe. On the
17:41
umbrella it says kill yourself. They're
17:43
pointing it right to the feds on the top
17:44
of the building says kill yourself.
17:47
Get the [ ] out of the way.
17:48
I'm just showing your thing. Or the
17:50
front line of the building now. You have
17:52
these guys right here yelling and you
17:54
have the ICE and feds right here just
17:57
taking it.
17:59
Sounds like they're about to open up the
18:00
gates and the feds are about to come
18:02
out. You have a bunch of them right in
18:03
here right now and they're going to come
18:06
through right here. Looks like a van or
FEDS make there first push
18:07
somebody's going to be moving through.
18:08
And you also have a black hawk flying
18:11
around the entire perimeter right now.
18:14
Hey, what are you going to do when the
18:15
feds come out? They're coming.
18:17
We need a mass line. We need to shut
18:20
them down. We need to be prepared to
18:22
sacrifice at all cost. This is a red
18:25
line. This is the moment to sacrifice,
18:28
but be smart.
18:28
They're coming out right now. Here comes
18:30
the police. You just poke [ ] on the
18:32
clear as
18:36
the end and show your wife what a real
18:40
push.
18:41
Hey, do that [ ] to me. You little
18:43
[ ] do that.
18:46
I ain't scared of your ass.
18:48
I ain't scared of your ass. You don't
18:49
know who I am. Your commander will pull
18:50
you back when you know who the [ ] I
18:52
am, [ ]
18:54
Now they're shooting over here. Now
18:56
they're all retreating back. Now they're
18:57
shooting.
19:01
Now they're shooting.
19:03
I don't know what's inside those little
19:04
balls, but it feels like a little bit of
19:06
tear gas.
19:08
You can't turn your guns on yourself.
19:11
Shoot yourself.
19:15
Don't push the headband. Come get daddy
19:18
while eating without [ ]
19:19
This umbrella right here says kill
19:21
yourself.
19:22
You got to leave this [ ] PTSD.
19:26
Nobody
19:27
ass.
19:32
Wow. What are those little paintball
19:33
things they shoot?
19:34
Pepper.
19:35
Those are pepper balls.
19:37
They're pepper balls.
19:39
Sir, what made you want to come out here
19:40
with the Make America Great Again hat?
19:42
Because you
19:43
I seen a female out here and she was
19:46
being uh you
19:48
was being uh surrounded by all these
19:52
all these people.
19:55
He's a YouTuber. [ ] liar. Yeah, I
19:57
know your channel.
19:59
BLK DUDE W T HAT AND FLAG
So, this guy came out here tonight in
20:01
support of the girl with the hat onWE SEE HER?
20:03
because she was getting surrounded. So,
20:04
now she came out here. He left work to
20:06
come out here because I guess they were
20:08
worried for the safety of the woman.
20:10
Antifa's really starting to ramp it up
20:11
right now. They're chasing this guy out
20:13
of here. They're chasing him out. You
20:15
have all Antifa going after one man
20:17
right here. You're getting chased out
20:18
right now by Antifa.
20:19
I am. They seem agitated. I'm not sure
20:22
what's going on.
20:23
Why are they agitated with you being
20:24
here? Yeah, I don't know, bro. We just
20:27
came tried to have civil conversation
20:29
and discourse with them and they started B IKER DUDE?
20:32
getting wild and it started building and
20:34
building and got crazier and crazier.
20:36
I look as if they are surrounding us
20:38
right now.
20:43
I always find it interesting because
20:44
they could like it's a great opportunity
20:46
for them to explain why they're out here
20:47
instead. They do this.
20:49
I don't like you.
20:50
I'm not a fascist. What would make me a
20:52
fascist? Cuz I'm not a fascist.
20:55
What would make me a fascist?
FEDS come back to battle ANTIFA
20:57
Feds are moving back out once again.
21:05
Even the feds all have the gas mask on.
21:07
These guys right here, I don't know
21:09
exactly what group they're part of here.
21:11
They're bringing through the feds
21:13
vehicles.WOMAN IN BLK ON GND DRAGGED OFF WE DO NOT SEE WHY CAMO
21:17
Oh.
21:22
[Applause]
21:31
All right, they got one lady under
21:32
arrest right now. This is VHS. This
21:34
guy's asking for a one v one.
21:36
She's resisting arrest right now. HOW SO? NOT VISIBLE 4 GUYS CARRYING HER?
21:42
They just pepper and sprayed somebody.
21:47
[ ] you. [ ] that.
21:51
[ ] you.
21:53
So all these people right here are
21:54
Antifa and they are against what's going
21:56
on here at this ICE detention facility.
21:59
Who knows what's going to happen out
22:00
here in Portland right now.
22:02
I'm Wa.
22:03
You're leading this group right now.
22:05
I am not a lead into this group. They're
22:06
anarchist. I'm W like a father figure. I
22:10
don't lead anything. But I want to say
22:12
that this is a preemptive attack on the
22:15
American people. Of course they do.
22:16
These are right-wing psychos. This is a
22:18
preemptive attack. You you right-wing
22:21
constitutionalists cheering this on are
22:23
fools. They're going to attack UN. These
22:26
are globalists and they're going to
22:28
attack our cities, militarize them, and
22:31
prevent resistance to super
22:32
globalization.
Interviewing ANTIFAS “warriors”
22:34
They just came through. They just
22:35
arrested that one lady. What's your
22:36
reaction?
22:37
Horrible. They got no business being out
22:39
here. They cross the federal line.
22:41
They're just out here to bully people
22:42
and they want to make it known that any
22:44
resistance will be dealt with. They're
22:46
not doing good. They're not doing
22:48
anything but making things worse.
22:51
You think that was an unlawful arrest?
22:53
Yes, absolutely.
22:54
What should the feds do when people do
22:56
kind of start putting their hands on
22:57
them, start resisting?
22:58
What What should the feds be doing?
23:00
Yeah.
23:01
[ ] How do you even explain putting
23:03
hands on people when the feds walk out
23:05
here in a straight line and bulldoze the
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crowd off their own property? That's not
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enforcing legal arrest. That's assault.
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As somebody who who lives lives
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self-defense, I can tell you there's
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nothing defensive about what they're
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doing.
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What do you mean you live self-defense?
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I've teach and practice self-defense.
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I've grown I've integrated that into my
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life in a huge way.
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So, please put his hands on you. What
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are you going to do?
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Please put their hands on me. I'm not
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giving them the chance. They're already
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too close. I know who these people are.
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They're dangerous. I'm not stupid enough
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to get that close. In fact, if you were
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watching a minute ago, one of these
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jackasses tried to run me over. And you
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have this crowbar right here. What's
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this for?
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Shepherd's crook.
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You have a shepherd's crook. What's that
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for?
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Shepherd's crook. This is for me. This
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is just like kind of like a walking
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stick. But also, I mean, think about it
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like this, right? You came out here
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wondering what that was. Thought it was
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a crowbar. It's a shepherd's crook. It's
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a sign of peace. Jesus himself walked
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around with these. This is peace.
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So, you're just trying to be like Jesus
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out here?
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No, I'm just trying to be myself. That's
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all I'm doing.
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We're Portland. This is our mother. Keep
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it weird. We're together in the streets.
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Come out. Showtime. Jakey Jakey mogi.
24:17LIQUID ON HEAD?
Get the out of here. Portland. Keep it
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weird.
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See, we're wearing
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a hint.
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I can't hear you with that mask on.
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Take a [ ] hint.
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What?
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Take a hint.
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What's the hint?
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About what?
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Get the [ ] out of here. Get the [ ]
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out of here.
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Hey, I can be here.
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You can be here, but you can't be doing
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that [ ]
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Do what? What am I doing wrong? [ ]
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taking your camera
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journalist journalist.
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Stop it.
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So, right now you have a bunch of people
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who are here documenting just like I'm
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doing and they are labeled as the
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opposition here and they will not let
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you speak. They try to take your camera.
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This Antifa group out here, they say
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they're not a part of Antifa. They say
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Antifa is not an organization.
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Everyone's in the same colored clothes.
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Everyone is going after the same exact
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people. This is very much an
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organization. Look at this guys.
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Right here, [ ] Right here. Come on.
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Come on, [ ]
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It really does just It really Hey, what
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was that for?
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It really does feel like you're just
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such a little kid. Somebody just came
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and charged me from the back.
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What was that for?
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Make me.
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[Music]
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This guy was going after him. They
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pulled off his glasses and he punched
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the girl back and now you have the whole
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entire mob coming after him right now.
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What's the purpose of the light?
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Watch it. Oh, it's a cop light. They
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dropped it when he was swinging on a
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girl.
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Oh, really? I just picked it up. I don't
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know how to turn it off or I would turn
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it off.
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Really?
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Yeah.
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He's got a right to be here, dude.
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I'm not totally. I don't know how to
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turn it off. It's all fans. It's a light
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here. I can turn it off for you if you
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let me try.
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I don't Yeah, I don't like having people
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touch me. I'll have you.
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You're acting like a little boy.
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I am a little boy.
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What's the purpose of the light, bro?
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I don't know how to turn the [ ]
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thing off. That's a lie. Give me Give me
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it then. Let me turn it off for you.
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Let me turn it off for you.
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You're a little You act like a little
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boy.
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I'm a I'm a little brat. Tell everybody.
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But I'm not a Nazi.
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I never said you were.
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Well, I know, but I'm not a Nazi. We
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should actually put that down.
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Stop touching me.
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I didn't touch you.
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I'm going to insult you in about 2
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seconds if you touch me.
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I didn't touch you.
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Stop touching me.
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I didn't touch you.
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Just walk.
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I didn't touch you. Okay. He's going to
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follow me. He's going to follow me.
26:32
Oh, look. He knows how to turn it off.
26:33
He knows how to turn it off.
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My favorite song.
26:36
What are you doing?
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What are Why are you following me
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around?
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Well, you're following people around
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with your camera.
26:40
I'm not following anybody around with a
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camera.
26:42
You don't have a camera and you're not
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I have a camera. I can walk around just
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like all these other people. I can walk
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around. Hey, don't touch me.
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I'm not.
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Look, you just touch me. God,
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touch me.
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I didn't touch you.
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No.
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Look, all these people have cameras,
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too. Go after them.
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No, they seem all right.
FEDS make targeted arrest and ANTIFA come for me
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Okay, cool.
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You kind of look like Kirk. It bothers
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me.
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Oh, that bothers me.
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Freedom of speech, right?
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Yep. Primal speech.
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Uh-oh. Don't touch that thing.
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I didn't touch it.
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I got a left like a [ ] and
27:05
they'll pick you up with teeth.
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Oh, really? I didn't touch you.
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I'm not saying you did. I'm saying don't
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touch it.
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I won't touch you.
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[Music]
27:15
[Applause]
27:19
The police have now left.
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Nick Shirley is a YouTuber known for his engaging travel and interview videos. He created his channel on April 27, 2015, and began posting content in 2019. His first video featured a solo trip to New York City at the age of 16.
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Nick gained significant popularity in 2024, reaching 100,000 subscribers by May 20, 2024. His content often includes both free videos and exclusive content for channel members.
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- Mission Trip: He served a mission for the LDS Church in Santiago, Chile, from December 2021 until November 2023.
- Family: Nick has a brother, Ryan Shirley, who also has a YouTube channel.
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