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According to a report from Vice's Tess Owen, the romance between Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and followers of notorious Holocaust-denier Nick Fuentes is irreparably on the rocks after she put some distance between herself and him following his dinner with Donald Trump.

While the former president has been circumspect in attacking the young far-right anti-semitic demagogue, the equally controversial Taylor Greene fired off a tweet stating, "Of course I denounce Nick Fuentes and his racists anti-semitic ideology. I can’t comprehend why the media is obsessed with him."

That, in turn, led Fuentes to lash back out at her, and his followers have since piled on the one-time darling of the Christian nationalist movement.

As Vice's Owen reported, Fuentes told his supporters, "She’s just weak. She goes and says something edgy to get attention, and then when the pressure comes, she buckles. You know, she’s gonna be a MAGA-mom and QAnon and all that, and then the second Kevin McCarthy reprimands her and she loses her committee, she goes and apologizes.”

Noting that Fuentes has taken to referring to her as "Large Marge" in his diatribes, Owen writes that she has become a central topic among the "groypers" tied to Fuentes' extremist movement.

According to fringe conservative Laura Loomer, "MTG is no longer an ally to America First. She may have claimed to be so that she could climb the political ladder, but she has shown she is all talk and zero action, unless of course the action is selling t-shirts and wine glasses.”

Holocaust denier Vince James added, "You are their slave Marjorie, a slave to the Democrats and the Media that you constantly talk about. By that statement [disavowing Fuentes] it just got to show you're living according to the rules of their game, that they've completely rigged against us."

"Here’s my take: grifters are gonna grift, and it’s just sad that we have to go through that kind of betrayal,” far-right podcaster Dalton Clodfelter proclaimed.

According to Owen, Taylor Greene isn't taking the backlash against her lying down, calling Fuentes "immature" and then adding, "What has he ever done in his life? He knows nothing more than anyone else.”

You can read more here.

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Meet the ex-gay grifter behind Kanye West’s downward spiral

If Kanye West is hanging out with this guy, his hateful tirades on Alex Jones's show are no surprise.

By Alex Bollinger Friday,December 2, 2022

Gay man Milo Yiannopoulos was the Grand Marshal of the Straight Pride Parade.Then-out gay man Milo Yiannopoulos was the Grand Marshal of a Straight Pride Parade

Kanye West’s meltdown yesterday – where he said on Infowars that he liked Hitler and “loves Nazis” – comes just weeks after he announced that he was working closely with ex-gay grifter Milo Yiannopoulos.

It’s not surprising that West thought his antisemitic tirade would be met with more approval from Alex Jones and his audience if he’s been spending so much time with Yiannopoulos, considering the latter’s hateful rhetoric against Black people, Jewish people, gay people, disabled people, and others from just this past month.

Several weeks ago, West and Yiannopoulos were spotted hanging out by the celebrity gossip site X17.

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“This is Milo right here, working on the campaign,” West said. He clarified that he meant his own 2024 presidential campaign.

Yiannopoulos’s account on Telegram – he has been kicked off numerous social media platforms, including Twitter and Facebook – shows that he is working closely with West and has been photographed with the rapper several times in the past few weeks. Yiannopoulos also claimed that he set up Donald Trump’s recent Mar-a-Lago dinner with white supremacist Nick Fuentes in order to get revenge on the former president.

Yiannopoulos’s Telegram account is full of hatred for historically oppressed minority groups. Almost daily, he’s posting messages that would be considered career-ending for a more mainstream political consultant.

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“No N-Word November has begun,” he wrote before bragging about using the N-word. “I’ve already failed, but don’t let that stop you.”

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He posted a clip of a man holding a woman’s head and captioned it “Disney be like WATCH THE BLACK HOMOS,” possibly a reference to the new Disney movie Strange World, where one of the main characters is a gay, biracial teen.

Telegram message from Milo Yiannopoulos

He shared a message from someone else calling Pennsylvania Senator-elect John Fetterman (D) a “re***d” after he suffered a strokeand referred to his Republican opponent, Dr. Mehmet Oz, as “a Turk” and laughed at it.

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In another message, Yiannopoulos denounced Trump by saying that he is “continuing to suck the boots of the Jewish powers that be who hate Jesus Christ, hate our country, and see us all as disposable cattle.”

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He accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) husband Paul Pelosi of “DRUNKEN FA***TRY” and called CBS News’s decision to stop using Twitter “The absolute fa***try.”

And that’s just a sampling.

West has been spending time at midrange restaurants and on private jets with Yiannopoulos and Fuentes, where the three antisemitic, racist, and homophobic men can share their thoughts on politics and reinforce each other’s biases and conspiracy theories.

West gets two companions who won’t push back against his hate, and Fuentes and Yiannopoulos get the lifestyle that comes with West’s vast wealth.

Yiannopoulos has been accused of grifting West by fellow right-winger Laura Loomer. This past weekend she said that Yiannopoulos collects “s**t” on wealthy people he interacts with on a hard drive he calls “The Vault.” She also shared messages where Yiannopoulos called West “gay” and a “BLACK HOMOSEXUAL” – West has never come out as gay and was married to Kim Kardashian – from earlier this year. She also posted video of Yiannopoulos bragging about his hard disk.

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On Telegram just hours after West’s meltdown on Infowars and after he got kicked off Twitter, Yiannopoulos stood by West, saying that West getting kicked off Twitter for posting a swastika superimposed on a Star of David violated his “artistic expression” and called out Twitter’s new CEO, Elon Musk. Yiannopoulos asked his followers to “Pray for Ye” and said, “God often uses the most unexpected people in the most unexpected ways to accomplish His Will.”

Yiannopoulos used to be one of Trump’s biggest supporters, back when he was an openly gay far-right troll, referring to the former reality TV host as “daddy” and using his substantial influence on the far-right to support Trump’s 2016 campaign.

When Trump lost the 2020 election, Yiannopoulos swore “vengeance,” declared that he would “BURN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TO THE F**KING GROUND,” and called Trump a “selfish clown.”

The next year, Yiannopoulos claimed that he was no longer gay. He even made a video where he allegedly threw his engagement ring – which he called “the Sodomy Stone” – into the ocean to prove just how not-gay he is now.

Earlier this year, he was spotted with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and she said that he was her intern. He was still making racist content for the internet. It’s unclear if he is still her intern, but he said he was helping Greene do campaign spots as late as October of this year. While he hates Trump now, he continues to shower affection on Greene on social media.

Fuentes – who says that having sex with women is gay so he refrains from any sexual activity at all – is a controversial figure on the right. The normally accommodating Mike Pence has called on Trump to apologize for giving “a white nationalist, an antisemite and Holocaust denier a seat at the table.”

Fuentes even allegedly caused a fight between Rep. Greene and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), after Greene spoke at Fuentes’ America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC). Boebert was said to be so upset by Greene’s lack of political savvy in being seen with Fuentes in public that she confronted Greene at a meeting of the Freedom Caucus. Witnesses thought they were going to get physically violent until another member of Congress “stepped in to de-escalate.”

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At the beginning of 2022, white nationalist youth leader Nick Fuentes declared that he had no time for intimate relationships because he had chosen to be “an historical figure” leading “an historical right-wing movement.” It seemed like a ridiculous level of hubris coming from a then-23-year-old who had been kicked off both mainstream and conservative social media platforms, but just 10 months later, he was sitting down to dinner with two of the country’s most prominent political and cultural figures: former President Donald Trump and musician/businessman Kanye West, now known as Ye.

Even without the presence of the virulently bigoted and extremist Fuentes, the timing of Ye’s dinner at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home would have been troubling. Ye had already begun a well-publicized descent into conspiracy theories and antisemitism. Since the widely condemned dinner, Ye’s antisemitic and anti-democratic entourage has grown even larger, with comic Owen Benjamin joining Fuentes, Stop the Steal’s Ali Alexander, and former Breitbart enfant terrible Milo Yiannopoulos.

On Dec. 1, Ye and Fuentes appeared on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ online show for about three hours. Ye engaged in Holocaust denial and repeatedly expressed his admiration for Adolf Hitler and Nazis, batting away every effort by Jones to downplay those comments, and repeated claims about his alleged persecution at the hands of “Zionists.” The brutally antisemitic Fuentes happily agreed, claiming among other things that Jewish scriptures justify pedophilia. Jones, meanwhile, claimed that Fuentes had been unfairly mischaracterized by the media—which is certainly not the case. Andrew Torba, the intensely antisemitic founder of Gab, a social media platform favored by far-right extremists, was giddy about the program, proclaiming ,”Overton Window: shattered. Obliterated. Never going back.”

On the InfoWars set, Ye praised Fuentes, suggesting that the 24-year-old would be president one day. Both wrapped their messages in claims to be speaking for Jesus Christ. Ye passed his phone around so that Jones and others in the studio could tweet messages to his more than 32 million followers, a huge promotional boon to Fuentes.

Ye devoting his huge platform to promoting antisemitism and promoters of Christian nationalist authoritarianism is very bad news. Possibly even worse has been Trump’s so-far adamant refusal to disavow Ye or Fuentes or their extremism in spite of repeated demands that he do so, even from his political allies. For white nationalists, the lack of denunciation read as an endorsement. Far-right authoritarian Vincent James, the treasurer of Fuentes’s America First organization, exulted this week that Trump’s refusal to disavow Fuentes was evidence that the group has successfully “infiltrated the mainstream flank of the GOP,” predicting that if Trump returns to the White House, Fuentes could be “the new Stephen Miller.”

Other Republican leaders have not covered themselves in glory, either, with many refusing to criticize Trump for the meeting, and others doing so only after days of pained silence.

Ye’s decision to use his time and cultural reach to spread extreme antisemitism comes during a time of rising violence and harassment against Jews in the U.S. He is promoting an extreme version of an already aggressive, exclusionary, and authoritarian Christian nationalism that undermines core American principles of pluralism, religious liberty, and church-state separation. His trajectory, and the platform he is offering to Fuentes and a growing group of far-right figures grabbing onto his media coattails, threatens to further normalize bigotry and undermine democracy.

Background: Where Did Nick Fuentes Come From?  

Fuentes began building an online audience as an alt-right YouTuber while he was a teenager and college student. Right Wing Watch has covered him since 2017, the year in which he traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia, for the notorious white supremacist “Unite the Right” rally at which a counterprotester was murdered.

Trump’s election energized white nationalists like Fuentes, and when Trump was defeated by Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, Fuentes was among the first to join Ali Alexander’s so-called “Stop the Steal” campaign to overturn the election. America First flags flew on the grounds of the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection, and members of the movement have been charged andconvicted with breaching the Capitol. Fuentes himself had VIP seating at Trump’s rally that day before joining the crowd that marched on the Capitol.

Fuentes’ enthusiastic participation in Stop the Steal helped him build connections within the MAGA movement, which he has used in an effort to spread and normalize his white nationalist and Christian nationalist beliefs. During a livestream show in which Fuentes referred to Jan. 6 as “U.S. Patriot Day,” Fuentes put it this way: receiving a subpoena from the House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol provides him credibility, he said, and will help him get out his message about “white genocide.”

Fuentes reportedly came to Ye’s attention via Yiannopoulos, who is Ye’s campaign.  A former Breitbart editor and gay right-wing cultural provocateur, Yiannopoulos now describes himself as an ex-gay and has become a militantly hard-right Catholic activist. Yiannopoulos, who interned with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s congressional office this year, was also credited with getting Greene to speak at Fuentes’s AFPAC conference. Yiannopoulos recently shared on his Telegram account a post in which Torba slammed Trump for “continuing to suck the boots of the Jewish powers that be who hate Jesus Christ, hate our country, and see us all as disposable cattle according to their ‘holy’ book.”

Normalizing Bigotry and Far-Right Extremism 

As Torba exulted after the appearance of Ye and Fuentes on InfoWars, the elevation of Fuentes has the effect of normalizing his extremism and expanding his reach. Having been kicked off major social media platforms, Fuentes now operates his own streaming platform, Cozy.tv, which he uses to promote bigotry and espouse an extreme Christian nationalism, saying that Jews “hate Christ,” should be banned from holding office, and in fact should “get the fuck out” of this country. He has also invited other far-right extremists to use the Cozy.tv platform.

Fuentes also gleefully promotesanti-Black stereotypes and racism. During his livestream he has used the N-word and defended his use of it​. ​He has declared, “Generation Z has got to recover the wisdom of our racist grandparents.” Fuentes often adopts a joking tone, making use of an alt-right strategy and Trumpian tactic of using humor and irony as cover for bigotry and extremism—even Holocaust denial—to court young white men to his ideology.

Fuentes has enmeshed his message with the rhetoric of the MAGA movement by adopting the “America First” rhetoric of the Trump campaign, a political slogan deployed by nativist, antisemitic, and fascist activists during the first part of the 20th century. Like former Trump aide Steve Bannon, Fuentes positions himself as being at war with establishment Republicans not sufficiently committed to an “America First” agenda. In December 2020, Fuentes warned that if the GOP did not do everything possible to keep Trump in power, “We are going to destroy the GOP​.​”

In December 2021, Elijah Schaffer, a former podcaster and host on Glenn Beck’s The Blaze, gave Fuentes hours of time to spread his ideology via Schaffer’s ”Slightly Offensive” podcast and the “You Are Here” show, sympathetically characterizing Fuentes as having been mistreated and misrepresented by mainstream media. In his conversations with Schaffer, Fuentes took credit for pushing Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk, another right-wing youth organizer with whom Fuentes has feuded, further to the right on immigration issues, and he celebrated Fox News powerhouse Tucker Carlson’s increasingly unabashed embrace of white nationalist rhetoric like the racist “great replacement” theory.

In those interviews and his own livestreamed musings, Fuentes has highlighted his cozy relationships with far-right politicians, his role in the so-called “Stop the Steal” campaign, his white nationalism and Christian nationalism, his authoritarian views, his misogyny, and his efforts to bring the GOP further to the right. “You Are Here” show, sympathetically characterizing Fuentes as having been mistreated and misrepresented by mainstream media. ....

Fuentes’ Cozy Relationship with Right-Wing Politicians 

While Fuentes’ extremism and overt white nationalism have gotten him kicked off social media platforms, including theGETTR site run by former Trump aide Jason Miller, he has developed relationships close to some prominent right-wing Republicans, including Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Rep. Paul Gosar ​of Arizona, and Trump-endorsed Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers.

At this year’s AFPAC conference, Greene was the honored guest, while Gosar, Rogers, and Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin sent video greetings. Gosar attended previous AFPAC gatherings in person. Greene has vigorously defended her decision to address the gathering, but recently, after days of critical media coverage of the recent Mar-a-Lago dinner, Greene declared that “of course” she denounced Fuentes and “his racists and antisemitic ideology.”

Fuentes is also adored by Rogers, the far-right Arizona state senator.In her video message to this year’s AFPAC, she told the groypers, “You and your fellow patriots are the future.” Just two months earlier, Fuentes had praised Rogers as “so freaking BASED,” and she responded by thanking him and declaring, “We love you.” Gosar cheered them on, an example of what Political Research Associates’ Ben Lorber calls a “call-and-response” relationship between Fuentes and his groypers and the rest of the MAGA right.

Fuentes’ relationship with MAGA stars like Gosar and Rogers has opened up the door for more white nationalists. At ​a satellite event​ organized by far-right groups during ​Turning Point USA’s gathering in Phoenix, Arizona, in December 2021, GOP figures mingled with an array of extremists​, ​including “groypers” ideologically aligned with Fuentes.

Stop the Steal and Jan. 6 

When it became clear that Trump would not accept his defeat in the presidential election, Fuentes was quick to respond to far-right activist Ali Alexander’s call to “stop the steal,” which gave Fuentes an opportunity to rub shoulders and share speaking platforms with other MAGA activists.

In November 2020, Fuentes spoke at a “Stop the Steal” rally at the Arizona state capitol flanked by a U.S. flag emblazoned with his America First group’s logo. In a video posted by a local branch of the Arizona GOP, he claimed that “the Democrats hate us” and denounced the “globalist establishment that runs this country.” The following month, he organized a rally at the Pennsylvania state capitol​, as he explained in a tweet, “to DEMAND that the State Legislature send their electors to vote for Trump!”

On Jan. 6, 2021, Fuentes was seated in the VIP section at Trump’s pre-insurrection rally and attended the protest outside the U.S. Capitol. The next month, he described the event in his keynote address at the America First Political Action Conference. He told the gathered groypers that when he saw patriots surrounding the building and police retreating, and heard that politicians were ​”scurrying” to safety, “I said to myself, ‘This is awesome!’” Fuentes added, “We have been beat up and betrayed and spit on, stepped on, for decades, and to see the tables turned for once was a little bit refreshing actually.”

On the one-year anniversary of the insurrection, he celebrated it as “part of our new heritage.”  After the House committee investigating the ​Jan. 6 attack subpoenaed Fuentes, he declared, “I’m trying to get out a very important message about white genocide and the destruction of our people.” ​Gosar posted in defense of “young conservative Christians like Nick Fuentes,” callingthe subpoena “pure political persecution.”

Fuentes and Christian Nationalism   

While Fuentes is most frequently described as a white nationalist, he is also an ardent Christian nationalist, a trait he shares with many religious-right leaders and influential Republican political operatives. Fuentes’ belief that Christianity, like whiteness, is essential to American culture and identity was on display at the 2021 America First Political Action Conference. If America loses its “white demographic core,” he warned the audience, “and if it loses its faith in Jesus Christ, this is not America anymore.”

“America is a Christian nation,” Fuentes said. “And that’s not just a slogan. When I say that America is a Christian nation, I’m saying that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and this is one nation under that God.” The crowd erupted more than once in chants of “Christ is King!” a also heard at Stop the Steal rallies, and a phrase Ali Alexander included in his Dec. 1 tweet from Ye’s phone.

Unlike many religious-right leaders, Fuentes does not try to make his Christian nationalism more politically palatable by using the label “Judeo-Christian” to describe the U.S. Far from it. On his Jan. 7 show, he said “We need people who are true believers, true lovers of God and of Jesus Christ—that is who we need leading the country.” He added that the country needs more people who will stand up and say, “I will never betray my country. I will never betray my people. I will never betray my moral convictions. And I will never betray my Lord and my savior and his name, his sacred name, Jesus Christ.’ And we’re going to say ‘Jesus Christ,’ not this, you know, ‘Judeo-Christian’ stuff. I spit, I spit on that.”

Fuentes vehemently denounces what he sees as the excessive influence of Zionism in the conservative movement and has a habit of pointing out media and conservative figures who are Jewish. He once railed against right-wing activist and Daily Wire columnist Matt Walsh as a “Shabbos goy race traitor,” adding, “you work for Jews, you know.”

Fuentes shares with other Christian nationalists a penchant for describing current political struggles as a war between good and evil. “Never forget the people that are in charge, what they’re doing is wrong, we’re on the right side of history,”he told Schaffer​ in that Dec. 3 podcast interview​. “This is not ambiguous. It is black and white. They are evil. And we, though imperfect, are the side that is professing a faith in Jesus Christ. We are the side that loves our country. We are the side that supports perennial traditional values.”

Fuentes: Christian Authoritarianism Preferable to Democracy   

Fuentes’s Christian nationalism is intertwined with his expressed preference for Christian authoritarianism. One of the troubling findings from recent social science research on Christian nationalism is evidence that holding strong Christian nationalist views is strongly correlated not only with support for Trump and belief in the Big Lie, but ​also with the idea that authoritarian rule may be preferable to democratic rule​ and that violence might be necessary to achieve that rule by right-wing leaders. ​ ​

Fuentes told Schaffer and his Blaze co-hosts last year that if Donald Trump had become a “tyrant,” refusing to step down, ignoring what Congress or the courts said, and declaring that he was going to stay in office for three terms, Fuentes would “be in favor of that 100 percent.” He said he fundamentally disagrees with conservatives who might be unhappy with the outcome of the election but supported the transition of power. Such people, he said, were “sacrificing the country” to “this so-called democracy and equality” rather than “have order, than have prosperity, than have excellence, than live in a great country.”

During the same show, he mused on​ Christian authoritarianism: ​

Specifically, when we think about what kind of government is best, or what we should have, you know, I look at, like, Christianity, I look at the Bible. In Heaven, it’s ordered as a kingdom, you know, it’s the kingdom of Heaven. It’s not the republic of Heaven. It’s not the state of Heaven. It’s a kingdom, there’s a king, and the authority and the unity of that authority proceeds from one rule.

And the church, the Catholic Church is structured this way, you know, the papacy, you’ve got one Pope at the top, and the unity of the dogma proceeds from him. And I think that similarly, a nation has to be structured this way,because human society is hierarchical, and people have to be ruled. And I believe that ultimately, there has to be authority for there to be law, for there to be order, for there to be any kind of semblance of coherence in a nation.

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[T]he problem is not that there is power, that there is authority. There will always be authority. There has to be authority. The question is, who is going to wield it? And, you know, right-wing people have to do that, which is why I said earlier if Trump became like, you know, the Caesar of America, hypothetically, if he had got in in ’16 and said, ‘You know what, I’m not leaving. And the courts tell me that I have to leave, well, I’ll disobey them,’ and he went full, you know, Andrew Jackson, I would support it. I wouldn’t say, ‘This is authoritarianism. This is in principle wrong.’ I would say, ‘This is the right man for the job. This is a rightful ruler of America.’ And, you know, and I would be OK with that.

​The support for authoritarianism isn’t just theoretical either. Fuentes joins many U.S. religious-right leaders in admiring Russian leader Vladimir Putin as well as Hungary’s strongman Prime ​Minister Viktor Orban,who has squelched dissent, eliminated checks and balances, and consolidated power in pursuit of his Christian nationalist vision.

Fuentes finds “Christian autocratic rule” an appealing alternative to liberal democracy, telling Schaffer, “This experiment of overthrowing the kings and overthrowing the gods—it’s been a complete disaster.”

 Fuentes, Misogyny and Incel Culture 

Fuentes, who frequently expresses his contempt for women and has repeatedlydescribed himself as an incel, focuses on “red-pilling” young men, who he says are his target audience. Incel culture, which fosters misogyny among young men online, has been linked to multiple acts of violence against women.

Fuentes has joked about and cheered on domestic violence.During a Feb. 9 livestream, he said he thought it was “hilarious” when former NFL player Ray Rice beat up his fiancé, even as he called it “over the line.” He added that he supported musician Chris Brown when he assaulted Rihanna. Moments later, he said he is “against hitting women” just as he opposes war and other things that are “sometimes necessary.”

During his interview with Schaffer last December, Fuentes declared that he is “not a fan” of women, whom he considers “not fully rational.” He said he would consider getting married in order to produce a male heir to carry on his legacy. But he didn’t like the idea of living with a “nagging” woman for the rest of his life, adding that the idea was “a little nightmarish to me.”

Fuentes suggested that his preference would be to have women in the U.S. treated as they are in Saudi Arabia or in Afghanistan under the Taliban. Asked how gay people would be treated in an America run according to his wishes, he suggested it would be more like Russia, whose anti-LGBTQ laws have been warmly praised by American religious-right leaders.

Shifting the Right to the Right   

Fuentes has explicitly stated that his strategy is to shift the ​entire right​-wing movement further to the right, dragging the center and left in that direction as well. He and other extremists are working to make that happen by insinuating themselves into battles being waged by other camps of right-wing activists, including opposition to vaccine requirements, masks in schools, “critical race theory,” and LGBTQ-affirming policies. Fuentes gloated to Schaffer that TPUSA’s Kirk adopted more strident anti-immigrant positions since groypers publicly criticized Kirk on the issue, while acknowledging that Kirk may also have been following the lead of Fox News’s Tucker Carlson.

In a profile of Fuentes earlier this year, Political Research Associates’ Ben Lorber noted that Fuentes’ groypers “have become a countercultural presence, especially on the nationalist flank of the broader Gen Z Right, leaving their imprint on the culture—and with it, the politics—of a rising generation of conservative leaders.”

While Fuentes is persona non grata among many conservatives—he is banned from attending the Conservative Political Action Conference and Turning Point USA events—the influence ​of white nationalism can be seen everywhere from Fox News to the floor of Congress. And that was before Fuentes began reaping massive publicity from associating himself with Ye.

Less than two years after Rep. Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments for comments defending white nationalism, Rep. Gosar has received little pushback and no punishment from his colleagues for publicly embracing Fuentes and speaking at his conference. (When Gosar was stripped of his committee assignments late last year, it was for sharing an animated video portraying himself killing Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.) Incoming Republican House leader Kevin McCarthy has pledged to fully embrace Greene.

A week after Trump’s dinner with Fuentes, PBS NewsHour asked 57 Republican lawmakers if they would condemn the dinner, noting that GOP leaders had been “overwhelmingly” silent on the topic over the Thanksgiving weekend. Most did not respond, and among those who did, many made general condemnations of antisemitism without criticism Trump directly.

What next? 

At the beginning of this year, Fuentes bragged on his streaming show that he had raised an “insane” amount of money for his Feb. 25 America First Political Action Conference, adding that people who fund the conference are also contributing to his America First Foundation’s plan to build a new “facility” with a studio.

Fuentes said then that America First would be doing “a lot of campaigning” in the 2022 midterm elections, adding that he had already spoken with “three or four major congressional candidates that we are going to be backing—phone-banking, door-knocking, monetary support, PACs, the works.” A week later, he claimed, “America First has allies in Congress, will be hosting a 1,000-person conference this February,has built its own censorship-proof streaming platform, controls conservative chapters on over 20 campuses and will be deploying hundreds of volunteers to five states this year for the midterms. 2022 is our year. We run this.”

It’s not clear how much of this was just bluster. Fuentes did speak with Joe Kent, the Trump-endorsed candidate who unseated Republican Rep. Jaime Herrera Butler in this year’s GOP primary. When Fuentes began bragging about their conversation, Kent publicly distanced himself, but his association with Fuentes remained an issue in his campaign. Kent was defeated in the general election.

In October, when Fuentes was buoyed by visions of a “red wave” that would sweep Republicans into power and set the stage for Trump’s return to the White House after the 2024 elections, Fuentes pledged to spend the next two years raising an “army” of zealous groypers to infiltrate congressional and executive branch staff in preparation to take over the government from within.

An unknown number of groypers may also be following Fuentes’s encouragement to do the same with the Republican Party by running for positions in local party structures—a tactic also promoted by other far-right figures like Steve Bannon. During Fuentes’s Nov. 4 livestream, follower Alex Roncelli sent Fuentes a superchat message so he could brag about being elected as a GOP county chairman in Michigan.

After the far-right’s mostly dismal showing in the midterms, Fuentes fumed that the results were evidence of the need for a right-wing dictatorship to replace democracy. Since being drawn into Ye’s orbit and all-but-declared presidential campaign, Fuentes has stepped away from his daily livestream to make the most of the opportunity to use Ye’s cultural reach to spread his bigotry and extremism. He and Ye have big plans in the works; during the Dec. 1 InfoWars program, Ye told Jones that he and Fuentes are working on a new Constitution for the U.S.

The unwillingness of Trump and so many other Republican officials to disavow Fuentes even after his extremism was brought to light by national media are evidence that Fuentes and the “groypers” in his America First movement have indeed had success in insinuating themselves and their ideology into the Republican Party and broader right-wing movement. And with that newfound influence, they’re eager to bring the U.S. closer to their vision of a hard-right authoritarian government that imposes its vision on Americans and dominates its opponents “without mercy.”

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It’s been nearly a week since **Donald Trump** had dinner at his home at **Mar-a-Lago** with antisemite and white supremacist **Nick Fuentes**, and yet he continues to refuse to denounce him or his extremist views.

“The former US president was urged publicly and privately to denounce Fuentes in the aftermath of the dinner,” The Guardian reports Monday.

Multiple advisers have urged Trump to denounce Fuentes, who has a long history of promoting white supremacism, but he has been “rejecting” their advice “over fears he might alienate a section of his base, two people familiar with the situation said.”

READ MORE: Trump Complains the ‘Fake News Went Crazy’ With Coverage of His 2-Hour Meeting With Notorious Racist He Won’t Condemn

Fuentes, according to Trump, came to dinner at the behest of **Kanye West**, the former president’s invited dinner guest. He says the disgraced artist did not tell him in advance he was bringing “friends.” In addition to Fuentes, those friends reportedly include **Milo Yiannopoulos**, who has advocated for older men having sex with young teen boys, and Trump 2016 aide Karen Giorno, who was reportedly involved in a pay-for-pardon scheme.

West has also been increasingly viewed as antisemitic, especially after threatening to “go death con 3 on Jewish people.” That remark “conveyed a clear violence to many who saw it,” The Times of Israel reported last month.

Trump has a long history of refusing to denounce white supremacists and white nationalists. His refusal to denounce former KKK leader David Duke, when still a presidential candidate in 2016, has become an infamously defining moment for Trump.

“I don’t know anything about David Duke,” Trump told Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“I don’t know anything about what you’re even talking about with ‘white supremacy’ or ‘white supremacists,’” Trump insisted. “I know nothing about white supremacists.”

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“I have to look at the group,” Trump continued, when asked he would condemn white supremacists and say he does not want their vote. “You wouldn’t want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about?”

That’s extremely similar to Trump’s initial response when news broke he had dined with Fuentes.

Trump on his Truth Social platform described the white supremacist as someone “whom I had never met and knew nothing about.”

On MSNBC Monday morning, Politico’s Jonathan Lemire noted, “this strain of white nationalism is becoming more central to what today’s Republican Party is about.” He added that Trump is “trying to play to the lowest common denominator to try and keep some supporters in check.”

Fuentes is not just a white supremacist, a white Christian nationalist, a Holocaust “denier,” and a supporter of authoritarianism – along with holding other extremist views. He is a political commentator who has a large following and is seen as the head of a white supremacist movement. Fuentes is also the founder of the annual America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC), a white nationalism alternative to the already extremist Conservative Political Action Conference, known as CPAC.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL)last year warned Fuentes is “a white supremacist leader and organizer and podcaster who seeks to forge a white nationalist alternative to the mainstream GOP.”

But ADL also notes Fuentes “promoted election fraud narratives and encouraged his adherents to participate in nationwide “Stop the Steal” protests,” and “served as an organizer and speaker at many ‘Stop the Steal’ protests,” which may be yet another reason Trump has refused to denounce him.

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• shane Vaughn rejoiced over former President Trump’s announcement that he is running for president again in 2024: “God’s anointed servant is rising up from the ashes.”
• Eric Metaxas was on hand for Trump’s announcement and declared that “when I think how this country has suffered these two years I get choked up thinking how good things were under Trump.”
• Jarrin Jackson is confident that Trump will win in 2024 because “the people who love Jesus are going to be doing what they need to be doing.”
• Ali Alexander proclaims that Trump can only win if he hires Alexander: “Trump cannot Beat the Fraud without me. Don’t mean to sound arrogant but I’m the only one in the movement to demonstrate it since November 2018.”
• Vincent James thought that Trump’s announcement speech was “dog shit”: “People don’t want elegance, people want revenge. … People are looking for Trump to go Mussolini mode.”
• Milo Yiannopoulos had a similar reaction: “Trump supporters want HEADS ON PIKES AND THE ENEMY’S LOVED ONES WEEPING OVER THEIR BATTERED CORPSES.”
• Finally, Nick Fuentes attacked Trump’s speech as “one of the worst things I’ve ever seen in my entire life”: “This was awful. It’s hard to imagine how it could have been worse.” 

Tags: Ali Alexander Donald Trump Eric Metaxas Jarrin Jackson Milo Yiannopoulos Nick Fuentes Shane Vaughn Vincent James Election 2024 Leftovers

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So much for distancing himself from Nick Fuentes.

On Friday, Rep. Paul Gosar promoted a film about Fuentes portraying the white nationalist and Christian fascist as the “most canceled man in America.”

“The persecution against Christians and Conservatives by the Biden Regime brings great dishonor to our country,” Gosar wrote on Twitter, sharing a trailer for the film. “If Americans do not have the freedom to dissent, then they have no freedom at all.”

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gosar has rubbed soldiers with the 24-year-old Fuentes since he came onto the political scene, notably appearing at Fuentes’ America First Political Action Conference in February 2021 and meeting with the white nationalist the following day.

Prior to that, both Gosar and Fuentes were heavily involved in the so-called “Stop the Steal” campaign, which sought to overturn the 2020 presidential election and keep former President Donald Trump in power. Gosar preemptively sought a pardon from Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol but did not receive one, while Fuentes has been subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating the attack.

In April of 2021, following his harassment of airline employees, his participation in the so-called “Stop the Steal” campaign and appearance at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, not to mention his threat to lawmakers who certified Joe Biden’s win, Fuentes was placed on a no-fly list. He found an ally in Gosar. The Arizona congressman defended Fuentes, writing a letter to the FBI accusing the agency of abusing its power.

Fuentes, in turn, applauded the congressman. “There is some hope, maybe, for America First in Congress,” Fuentes said on a May episode of his “America First” podcast. “And that is thanks to—almost exclusively—to Rep. Paul Gosar.”

Since Gosar lent legitimacy to the young extremist with his initial appearance at AFPAC, America First’s ranks have swelled. When Gosar appeared by video at the 2022 AFPAC conference, he was joined by other far-right politicians, including fellow House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene and Arizona state Rep. Wendy Rogers.

A few months later, Gosar expressed frustration with Fuentes, stating, “I’ve given up … on dealing with Nick. Nick’s got a problem with his mouth.” He also claimed he didn’t mean for his taped remarks to appear at the conference, and that he didn’t know about Fuentes’ “divisive” background before his initial appearance in 2021.

But with today’s tweet, it appears now that all is well between the far-right congressman and misogynist white nationalist. Unless, of course, it was just another misunderstanding.

Tags: Nick Fuentes Paul Gosar America First  Political Action Conference white nationalism America First

https://angrywhitemen.org/2021/02/27/rep-paul-gosar-gives-speech-at-white-nationalist-america-first-conference/

Rep. Paul Gosar Gives Speech At White Nationalist ‘America First’ Conference

ON FEBRUARY 27, 2021 BY EYES ON THE RIGHTIN AMERICA FIRST, LAURA LOOMER, NICK FUENTES, PAUL GOSAR, RACISM, XENOPHOBIA

On Feb. 19, 2021, Holocaust-denying white nationalist podcaster Nick Fuentes announced the speaker lineup for his second annual America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC). Speakers included far-right pundit Michelle Malkin, antisemitic vlogger Vincent James Foxx, and white supremacist ex-congressman Steve King.

But Fuentes teased one more speaker whose identity would be revealed the evening of the event.

Unsurprisingly that special guest speaker was Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), a conspiracy theorist and vocal proponent of the antidemocratic “Stop the Steal” movement which alleges that President Trump lost the 2020 election due to widespread voter fraud.

Gosar’s speech focused on alleged censorship of conservative voices by “Big Tech” — particularly social media platforms. Gosar quoted Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas who voiced concerns that Sec. 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 could lead to companies removing content in a racially discriminatory manner. But it was far-right voices Gosar was concerned with.

“Now today the Democrats do culturally what they cannot do legally: intimidation and suppression of ideas by cancelling, vandalism, doxing, and death threats,” Gosar said. “This is the new America they want. This is not the America of our fathers and our forefathers.”

He said that there were “many people” present who had “firsthand knowledge” of being deplatformed, “including Laura Loomer.” Gosar claimed the Islamophobic activist, who shrugged off the massacre of 51 Muslims in Christchurch, NZ, was “relegated to a third-class citizenship” after being banned from Twitter and other platforms.

When Loomer announced her run for Congress in 2020, Gosar was quick to endorse her. After she won the Republican primary last August, Gosar boasted that he was the “first member of Congress” to do so, and called her a “principled and determined fighter.”

On Oct. 7 he begged the National Republican Congressional Committee to support her. “She fights. She will win,” Gosar wrote. Loomer lost by 20 percentage points against incumbent Rep. Lois Frankel.

Gosar continued his speech by stating that we are facing a “climate crisis,” but not one that’s “about the moon and the oceans.” “We have a climate crisis of intolerance,” he said. “A climate crisis of communists who suppress free speech, suppress our votes, suppress our citizens in favor of aliens, and undermine our republic.”

He added that the Republican Party “will not survive if we cannot speak and connect online.” And he warned that “patriots” need to “win back Congress, and the Senate, and the White House” and “rein in Big Tech,” or Democrats would “use Silicon Valley and the mainstream media to harm conservatives and our republic." [vid]

gosar’s decision to speak at AFPAC II, a conference organized by a fascist who recently spoke about killing legislators, was entirely predictable at this point. Gosar had previously been caught following overt white supremacists on Twitter, and routinely uses his two verified accounts to amplify extremist voices.

Gosar has repeatedly retweeted figures such as male supremacist Mike Cernovich, Neo-Nazi collaborator Jack Posobiec, and conspiracy theorist Mark Dice, among others. He touted Revolver News, a far-right website founded by Darren Beattie, a former Trump speechwriter who was fired for speaking at a white nationalist conference.

On several occasions Gosar has tweeted the “America First” slogan — or a variation thereof. He’s referred to COVID-19 as the “Wuhan death virus” and warned of “infected illegals surg[ing] across the border.” After a photo op at the border wall he called for a “halt” to “all immigration legal and illegal.”

Last June he retweeted the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an anti-immigrant hate group founded by the late eugenicist John Tanton, and wrote, “But but but [undocumented immigrants] are just here dreaming of a better life…of crime, murder, rape, and copious drug sales to kill American citizens.”

Three months later he bragged about getting an “A+ rating” from NumbersUSA, another anti-immigrant group founded and funded by Tanton.

And like Fuentes, Gosar had played a large role in spreading baseless conspiracies about the 2020 presidential election being “stolen” from Donald Trump. Gosar not only amplified tweets by “Stop the Steal” movement leaders like Ali Alexander and Mike Cernovich, he helped organize a protest in Maricopa County where he told a crowd of 150 people “This is our Alamo.”

One day after his speech at AFPAC II, where a crowd of racists and conspiracy theorists chanted “America first!” and “Destroy the GOP!,” Gosar was nevertheless allowed to participate at a CPAC panel alongside Mercedes Schlapp — wife of CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp.

https://www.salon.com/2022/08/24/new-america-avowed-nationalist-lgbtq-hater-pushes-vision-to-catholic-right/

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"New America": Avowed white nationalist, LGBTQ-hater pushes vision to Catholic right

Catholic fringe group acclaims "Christian fascist" who led ugly anti-Pride protests as a "saint in the making"

By KATHRYN JOYCE

Investigative Reporter

PUBLISHED AUGUST 24, 2022

Anti-abortion activists and church members gather outside of a Catholic church in downtown Manhattan on May 07, 2022. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)]

On Aug. 18, the Catholic-right media outlet Church Militant featured a half-hour interview withJohn Doyle, a young YouTube streamerwho drew national attention this June for helping to lead a uniquely ugly protest against an LGBTQ Pride Month event in downtown Dallas. The 22-year-old Doyle, whose YouTube show "Heck Off, Commie!" has an audience of some 300,000 subscribers, has openly referred to himself as both a "white nationalist" and "Christian fascist." But to his interviewer, Church Militant founder and president Michael Voris, he was a "saint in the making." And as the conversation brought Doyle's message to a new and different audience, the alignment of right-wing Catholicism with some of the most extreme voices on today's far right only grew.

For years, Church Militant has served as an angry gadfly within the world of right-wing Catholicism, objecting not just to moderate and progressive Catholics and Pope Francis, whom the outlet sees as a heretical liberal, but also to more mainstream conservative Catholic outlets it views as insufficiently critical of church hierarchy.

For his part, Doyle is a prominent member of online far-right youth circles aligned with the white nationalist America First/groyper movement and its leader, the gleefully racist and antisemitic livestreamer Nick Fuentes, with whom Doyle led a "Stop the Steal" protest in 2020. On his livestream show, where Doyle promotes an authoritarian form of Christian nationalism, he has attacked figures like Martin Luther King, Jr., claiming that "being assassinated was like the best thing that could happen to him" and said that "the destruction of white racism is ultimately code for the destruction of American society." Last October, Doyle taunted students at the University of North Texas by asking, "What is wrong with Christian fascism?" and warning that "when we and all my friends take power, bad things are going to happen to you."

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In February, Doyle appeared as a special guest at Fuentes' third America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC III) in Orlando,alongside far-right politicians like Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers, who called for hanging the movement's political enemies. In April, after keynoting an event hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara, chapter of Turning Point USA, Doyle praised the group for being brave enough to invite "white nationalists" like "yours truly" to speak. 

And this June, as Salon reported, Doyle attacked a family-friendly drag queen brunch at a Dallas gay bar, declaring that LGBTQ people are "the symptom of a dying society," that he aimed to take away "every single one" of their rights and that Texas sheriffs should enter the bar "and put bullets in all their heads" because "That's what the badge is for."

That protest is what Doyle recalled when Voris asked him what Church Militant's right-wing Catholic audience should be paying attention to in the cultural arena. Describing transgenderism as "deeply disturbed and satanic," Doyle went on to claim that when some of his fellow protesters prayed the rosary, it had sparked a "demonic" response from the counter-protesters who were there to protect the bar and its patrons.

"There were people next to us who weren't exactly Catholic," Doyle said, but who nonetheless later told him that "at that moment, the sort of spiritual conflict we're in became very real to them." While LGBTQ advocates and allies might dismiss other forms of protests, Doyle continued, "hearing the word of God and something that powerful made these people who look as though they were probably demonically influenced screech. They weren't yelling their counterargument … they were literally screeching at us exactly as you would expect if you believe in spiritual warfare."

During that event, as local activists' and filmmakers' videos document, anti-LGBTQ protesters screamed at parents and their children, followed some families and performers back to their cars, called attendees and counterprotesters "faggots" and "groomers" and even taunted police there to separate the camps by saying, "Your dad probably dragged you to a lot of gay bars."

Doyle also suggested, without evidence, that the parents who had brought their children to the event were all "single mothers" who had "been failed by the men around them and they're taking it out on the children. You know, oftentimes these are little boys who are being brought to these events by their single mothers, and you have to assume that the single mother is basically viewing that boy as like his father, and getting revenge on him by destroying them."

Doyle went on to claim that American men have been feminized by "residual estrogen in our tap water"; that the behavior of women politicians shows "that they really were supposed to be like mothers or nurturers"; and that, should his side "win," it should erect statues of all the "Satanic Panic evangelical right-wing leaders [of the 1980s and early '90s], just as an apology to them, because everything they predicted turned out to be true." (As with baseless QAnon conspiracy theories today, the Satanic Panic involved elaborate but utterly unfounded accusations that American day care centers were part of a widespread network of organized ritual pedophilia rings.)

Doyle claimed American men have been feminized by "residual estrogen" in tap water and suggested erecting statues of the "Satanic Panic evangelical right-wing leaders" of the '80s and '90s, because their predictions "turned out to be true."

Doyle's racist ideas were also hinted at during the interview. When Voris asked Doyle why he thought he hadn't yet been censored by "big media," Doyle responded that he believed his "intellectual approach" disarms content moderators who are on the lookout for more obvious hate speech. "If I do an hour-and-a-half-long video, for example, basically preaching against the civil rights movement in every aspect, that has been able to survive on YouTube and get a few hundred thousand views," he said. "Whereas someone who will say, 'Oh, MLK is a bad guy because of XYZ cheesy joke,' they'll get censored." He went on to suggest that today's United States is "definitely unsustainable" because America's government was constructed "by people who were much more intelligent and educated than the people who currently run it," thanks to both "exponentially accumulating degeneracy" and "affirmative action."

In response to that threat, Doyle continued, the "authoritarian right wing" was growing as "an immune response to Communism." While he said he and his fellow travelers weren't calling for "a Mussolini-style state," they "just know that what is happening is wrong and we're going to stop it eventually." Within the course of the next decade, he went on, "It will be more obvious that pillars are being put into place that could really cause a serious change. …We're seeing a lot of these people emerge and I think they're going to be very useful in orchestrating what will be, like, the New America, so to speak."

Part of that New America, he suggested, would come about through the increasing mobilization of young right-wing men. "I think it is going to be as we see throughout history: Men, in particular young men, finally get together and organize and take the country back in whatever capacity that means."

During the interview, Voris called Doyle "a saint in the making" and Doyle credited Church Militant with helping shape his faith, saying that after he'd "come out" as Catholic during one livestream, "without really knowing what that meant," members of Church Militant "reached out to me" and had become his "sherpa, leading me into becoming a good Catholic."

Doyle's New America will come about, he suggested, through the mobilization ofyoung right-wing men, who will "finally get together and organize and take the country back."

Church Militant isn't the only outlet helping to mainstream Doyle's views. In addition to the welcome he's found with Turning Point USA — which is currently bringing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on a national tour to support far-right candidates such as Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake and Pennsylvania's would-be Christian nationalist governor Doug Mastriano — Doyle also regularly appears on, and even guest hosts, a show on Glenn Beck's BlazeTV network. 

Furthermore, Doyle also isn't the only far-right activist affiliated with white nationalism that Church Militant has helped elevate to a new audience. The outlet made waves in 2021 for hiring disgraced alt-right star Milo Yiannopoulos as a contributor. (Yiannopoulos in turn likely helped Church Militant score a major sit-down interview with Marjorie Taylor Greene this April, in which Greene declared that the existence of Catholic immigrant aid groups suggested that Satan was controlling the Catholic Church.) Last November, the outlet invited self-declared "groyper Mommy" Michelle Malkin to address its daylong protest rally outside the annual gathering of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, where Malkin invoked "replacement theory" rhetoric to charge that the church's hierarchy was using immigration to destroy "the historic American nation."

More recently, as Salon reported in a series this spring, Church Militant has made a number of efforts to align itself with and recruit members of the America First/groyper movement, at least one of whose members is also on the outlet's staff. Those efforts have included buying social media ads that use groyper imagery in appeals for "based straight Zoomer[s]" to join Church Militant's activist arm, Resistance, and "fight for authentic Catholicism."

In a video last February, Voris praised AFPAC III as the place "where all the youthful (read: future) energy is," predicting that, between Fuentes' AFPAC and the more mainstream Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), "Whoever wins this struggle will dictate the future of the [Republican] party and, to a large extent, the nation."

In May, the head of Church Militant's Resistance group interviewed groyper leader Dalton Clodfelter, promoting a groyper website as an exciting platform "for a lot of awesome younger conservatives." Clodfelter, who described the America First movement as "not like normie neocon conservatism" but rather actively "Christian nationalist" and dedicated to "spreading Christianity through our nation where it's lacking," in turn promoted a series of Resistance-organized anti-abortion protests to his followers on the social media site Telegram in the days after the leaked Supreme Court opinion that eventually overturned Roe v. Wade.

In the past week, as Right Wing Watch has reported, Clodfelter has declared that "every homosexual is a child molester; every child molester creates a gay"; called someone he was feuding with online a "fucking k*ke" and promoted a vision of America's future in which Christianity will become the official religion, pornography and LGBTQ people will be illegal and all schools will "promote what it means to be a Christian to the youth of America."

"I believe in a far-right authoritarian government," Clodfelter continued. "Once we take control, we will identify our enemies and we will stomp them into the dirt. They will not be able to return to power. We will rip them from their offices. We will rip them from their homes for being degenerate liars, degenerate, treasonous domestic terrorists, because that is what they are."

Back at Church Militant last week, viewers were ecstatic about the outlet hosting Doyle, calling him an "Absolutely based Catholic man," declaring the interview "in the top ten crossovers in modern Catholic history," and urging Church Militant, "Please have Nick Fuentes on" next.

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By KATHRYN JOYCE

Kathryn Joyce is an investigative reporter at Salon, and the author of two books: "The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking and the New Gospel of Adoption" and "Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement."

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Nick Fuentes appears at a Nov. 2021 anti-vaccine rally in New York City. (Photo by Michael Edison Hayden)]

Comparatively overlooked at the time he attended Unite the Right, Fuentes traveled to Charlottesville as just a teenager. The 19-year-old Boston University student and podcaster on the hard-right conservative Right Side Network harnessed the infamy of the moment to build his fame, ultimately eclipsing in name recognition most of the other extremists on this list.He has successfully courted relationships with such far-right congresspeople as Marjorie Taylor Greene and Paul Gosar, who have participated in his annual America First Political Action Committee (AFPAC) events and appeared inside the VIP section at Trump’s infamous speech at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Fuentes told the media from the grounds at Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017, that he attended Unite the Right as a “Trump supporter” concerned about “cultural genocide.” Right Side then dropped Fuentes’ podcast, and he dropped out of school, eager to pursue a career as an influencer. Within weeks of Unite the Right, he appeared on a white nationalist podcast, urging listeners to present themselves as “normies,” referring to people who do not appear to belong to some of the hate groups that attended Unite the Right. He soon beganlivestreaming his YouTube show "America First," while wearing a suit and tie and sitting in front of a green screen. He couched his ideas in doublespeak and irony, and rapidly built up an audience that supplanted in influence embattled figures like Peinovich and The Right Stuff network.

YouTube kicked Fuentes off their platform in February 2020, at which point he relocated to DLive, a small video livestreaming service designed for gamers. Hatewatch reported that Fuentes earned over $100,000 on DLive promoting anti-vaccine conspiracies and antisemitic great replacement narratives. He also issued veiled threats to lawmakers with whom he disagreed. Following the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, DLive removed him too, forcing him to build his own livestreaming infrastructure, which he still uses today.

Fuentes built some of his fanbase through his verified Twitter handle. Twitter suspended his account in July 2021, following the publication of Hatewatch analysis showing that site’s considerable role in stoking an atmosphere of disinformation and rage, which preceded the Capitol insurrection. He continues to attempt to climb back onto that website, and has relaunched Twitter accounts over a dozen times, only to have the company remove them within a day or two. He returned to Twitter on July 26, 2022, through the handle @PunishedIcon to tweet that he felt “tired.”

Fuentes’ troubles coincided with his rapid growth as a public figure, but they appear to have accelerated beyond his control following his involvement in the so-called "Stop the Steal" campaign, which preceded the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Faced with legal battles, deplatforming, the exposed identities of his previously pseudonymous collaborators, and desertions from key lieutenants, Fuentes is now enduring what many other key Unite the Right participants faced five years prior. Hatewatch reached out to him for comment by email, but he did not reply.

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https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/student-group-invites-white-nationalist-jared-taylor-to-arizona-state-university/

New guard and old guard white nationalists are set to descend on Arizona State University next week. Kai Schwemmer, a 19-year-old influencer with the white nationalist America First youth movement, and Jared Taylor, the founder of a white nationalistthink tank, are scheduled to speak on university grounds next Monday and Friday respectively.

Taylor was the longtime editor of the American Renaissance, a now-defunct magazine and website that presents racism and eugenics with a “pseudo-academic polish.”  He also sponsors conferences by the same name at which “racist ‘intellectuals’ rub shoulders with Klansmen, neo-Nazis and other white supremacists,” the Southern Poverty Law Center explains.

Schwemmer, meanwhile, is a follower of a white nationalist youth movement headed by Nick Fuentes. The groyper influencer “launders stylized takes on White nationalist ideology for a Gen-Z audience through his popular Kai Clips account on TikTok,” Public Research Associate’s Ben Lorber reports. Now, Schwemmer has expanded his takes to the explicitly racist, misogynist, homophobic, and antisemitic Cozy streaming platform, where he streams regularly.

Schwemmer announced his scheduled Aug. 29 appearance at ASU on a Monday night livestream on Cozy, adding that Tyler Russell, the self-appointed leader of the “Canadian branch” of the America First movement, may be a speaker as well. He revealed that Jared Taylor, a figure Schwemmer affectionately called “Uncle Jared,” would speak at the university just days later.

“I’m gonna be doing a speech at ASU, at Arizona State University,” Schwemmer said. “I think it’ll be on the 29th. Actually, it’s literally in a week. We’ll be doing a speech there. It might be Tyler Russell as well, but me for sure.”

“Guess who else is going to be speaking like a few days after Tyler and I are potentially speaking?” Schwemmer said. “It’s gonna be Jared Taylor, old head of the dissident right, major, major player. Jared Taylor is going to be speaking only like three days after the speech event I’m doing. That’s going to be a big deal. This is going to be his first campus speech in over a decade.”

Urging his followers to fly out to Arizona for a week to see both speeches, Schwemmer admitted that attendance would likely be sparse. “What they’re worried about right now is just filling up the seats,” he said.

A description of the event on Baam! Tickets shows that Taylor was invited to speak by the ASU student groupCollege Republicans United. The group appears to be affiliated with the white nationalist America First movement, with the group’s Gab profile declaring, “America First at Arizona State University!”Another Gab post the group shared urged people to follow Fuentes, and from photos on the university website, the group has invited speakers like Michelle Malkin—referred to as “Mommy Malkin” by groypers—and Joe Arpaio—the far-right former Arizona sheriff who was first known nationally for jailing people in tents in triple-digit summer heat and using them on chain gangs.

American Renaissance says the topic of Taylor’s Sept. 2 speech will be titled “If We Do Nothing: A Defense of White Identity Politics.” According to a post promoting the speech on the American Renaissance website, Eventbrite declined to host ticket sales on its platform.

Right Wing Watch reached out to Arizona State University about Taylor’s and Schwemmer’s appearances Wednesday.

“Arizona State University permits registered student organizations to host guest speakers and use university facilities for student events. The presence of an invited speaker on campus does not in any way imply university endorsement,” a spokesperson for Arizona State University stated.

This wouldn’t be the first time in recent years Taylor was invited to speak at a university by an America First student group. The student organization America First at the University of Alabama invited Taylor to speak there in 2018, but the speech was canceled after the student group lost its registered status with the university.

As Jared Holt reported for Right Wing Watch in 2019, American Renaissance, with Taylor at its helm, has been grooming the next generation of young white nationalist YouTubers and podcasters via its conferences and other outreach, even providing a 19-year-old Fuentes a primetime speaking slot at that year’s conference. Now, those white nationalists have a new conference: the annual America First Political Action Conference headed by Fuentes.

Schwemmer said he met with Taylor at AFPAC III, held in February. That conference made headlines for the special guest appearance of the far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who served as white nationalists’ latest vehicle into the mainstream GOP. But the event also served as a meeting of the minds between old guard white nationalists like Taylor and the up-and-coming groypers of the America First movement.

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Michelle Malkin is Attempting to Normalize White Supremacy

Published: 08.05.2020

August 05, 2020

Conservative pundit and syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin has a long history of divisive rhetoric around a range of issues - particularly immigration. In the past year, however, she has publicly and explicitly allied herself with white supremacists, particularly the so-called “groypers,” appearing on white supremacist podcasts and other online programs. Malkin’s bold support of and interaction with white supremacists points to the increasingly fine line between people who call themselves “American nationalists” and recognizable white supremacy.

A history of divisiveness

Malkin’s columns and books paint a picture of America under siege by enemies and outsiders. In 2002, she wrote her first book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores, which painted immigrants as unwelcome enemies and criminals. In her 2004 book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror, she defends both the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and racial profiling of Arab and Muslim Americans after 9/11.

Her latest book, Open Borders Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction?, released in September 2019, focuses on her claims that churches and various nonprofit organizations are contributing to what Malkin sees as unfettered immigration to the U.S., which she believes is destroying the country. In the book, she blamed some mainstream conservatives for embracing the status quo on immigration, and criticized other groups spanning the political spectrum for facilitating increasing immigration to the U.S.

When discussing the book during a Facebook live promotional event, Malkin appeared alongside Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes. When McInnes promulgated George Soros conspiracy theories, asserting the discredited claim that Soros, a child in Hungary at the time, was “not a Holocaust survivor” but rather a “Holocaust facilitator,” Malkin agreed with him.

One month later, in an October 1, 2019, column attacking ADL, Malkin dismissed the violent and deadly actions by white supremacists at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017 by accusing “left” organizations of exploiting “the riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, as a means of demonizing all Trump supporters and nationalist activists while giving cover to antifa…”

In March 2020, Malkin’s column about a speech she gave at a groyper conference that month reflected her bigoted views. She wrote, “America will look like the cover of Ilhan Omar’s new book. It will look like the no-go zones of the Twin Cities. It will look like the serial predator-infested public schools in Montgomery County, Maryland. It will not look like this room. This is not conspiracy replacement theory. This is conspiracy truth.” By this point, Malkin was echoing many of the views promoted by white supremacists, joining the battle against what they call “Conservative, Inc.,” otherwise known as the mainstream conservative movement.

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Source: VDare-- https://vdare.com/articles/vdare-com-at-cpac-faith-goldy-video-report

Michelle Malkin is interviewed by Canadian white supremacist Faith Goldy at CPAC on March 3, 2019.

Breaking with mainstream conservatism, Malkin aligns herself with the groypers

At the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), which describes itself as “the largest and most influential gathering of conservatives in the world,” Malkin gave a speech that was very critical of mainstream conservatism, saying, “It’s the GOP sellouts in bed with open borders—like the ones who hijacked the Tea Party movement to shill for amnesty—who are the real grifters cashing in and practicing deceit at the expense of their base.”

Malkin had for years expressed concern about demographic changes in the U.S. she attributed to the rise in immigration of people from undeveloped countries, but her unease appeared to grow at what she perceived to be a complacent response from the conservative establishment. She also argued that anti-establishment “dissidents” were being attacked verbally and assaulted at political events.

Through much of 2019, Malkin was regularly invited to speak at mainstream conservative events and also spoke on behalf of Young America’s Foundation (YAF), a conservative youth organization, as part of their speakers’ bureau. By November 2019, however, Malkin’s association with YAF would change drastically. Early in the month, Ben Shapiro, a conservative commentator, gave a speech at Stanford University on behalf of YAF, in which he argued that the alt right, including the groypers, were racist and trying to sabotage conservatives by heckling them in public. 

The groypers, a loose network of alt right figures who are vocal supporters of white supremacist and“America First” podcaster Nick Fuentes, were in the midst of a campaign to disrupt speeches by mainstream conservatives like Shapiro and Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, a conservative  student organization. The groypers were showing up at events and asking questions designed to embarrass the speakers.

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Shortly afterwards, Malkin gave a speech at UCLA titled, “America First: the Torch Is Being Passed,” in which she criticized Shapiro.  She praised Fuentes and the groypers as “patriotic conservatives.” She also called Fuentes one of the “New Right leaders.” 

Malkin’s UCLA speech was praised by numerous white supremacists, including Fuentes, neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin and James Fulford, a writer for VDare. YAF, meanwhile, dismissed Malkin from the organization, tweeting, “There is no room in mainstream conservatism or at YAF for holocaust deniers, white nationalists, street brawlers, or racists.” In reply, Malkin tweeted, “The Keepers of the Gate have spoken.  My defense of unjustly prosecuted Proud Boys, patriotic young nationalists/groypers & demographic truth-tellers must not be tolerated…”

At the end of January 2020, Malkin announced on Twitter that she would be a speaker at the first America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC), sponsored by the founders of America First Students, which describes itself as a “campus conservative organization” but was created by groyper activists. The Washington, D.C. conference featured a number of white supremacists as speakers, including Fuentes, Patrick Casey, who heads American Identity Movement, and Scott Greer, who wrote, using a pseudonym, for the white supremacist journal Radix.         

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Source: Michelle Malkin twitter page: https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/1223357859842285568?s=20

Michelle Malkin tweets on January 31, 2020, about her plans to speak at the America First Political Action Conference.

Malkin has positioned herself as a guiding, parental figure for America Firsters and groypers,who openly express racism, antisemitism and other forms of bigotry. Malkin herself made antisemitic remarks at the AFPAC event, wondering aloud why she wasn’t able to question the number of people killed during the Holocaustor talk about the “dual loyalty” of American Jews.

Malkin began her speech by remarking to the crowd, including Fuentes and Casey, “Thank you. Thank you. Mommy’s in the house.” She talked about her building anger, saying, “A fury had welled up inside me a year ago that had long been simmering.”  She mentioned the “betrayals of the GOP establishment when it comes to engineering and succumbing to demographic conquest.”

In a column about AFPAC afterwards, she referred to the groypers as “serious young men who never take themselves too seriously in their shared mission to end mass migration, restore law and order, and conserve and uphold actual conservative values” and she saluted “their sardonic humor and irreverence layered over their core America First message.”

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Source: Cassandra Fairbanks Twitter page: https://twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/1234322811415670785?s=20

Photo, posted March 1, 2020, shows Michelle Malkin with attendees from the America First Political Action Conference, including white supremacist Nick Fuentes, seated to her right.

A number of days later, Malkin used her Telegram account to comment on various alt right and alt lite figures being banned by mainstream social media sites like Twitter, claiming she and others were experiencing “ruthless dehumanization.” The post was circulated on Telegram, including by a group associated with the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM). With a nod to the irony so popular within the alt right, Malkin signed her post “Love, NAZI MOM.”

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Source: Michelle Malkin’s Telegram channel, March 9, 2020.

Malkin strengthens ties to white supremacists and right wing extremists

Malkin’s bigoted views have paved the way for ties with fringe figures like white supremacist Peter Brimelow, who operates the racist, anti-immigrant site, VDare (which runs her columns), Proud Boys founder McInnes and Laura Loomer,a right wing anti-Muslim bigot currently running for Congress in Florida (whose campaign Malkin supports).* In March 2019, Malkin was interviewed by Faith Goldy, a Canadian white supremacist who was reporting on the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) for VDare. Malkin told Goldy, “Deplatforming dissenting voices is a ruthless, bizarre and unprogressive way to achieve ‘diversity and inclusion.’”

Since appearing at AFPAC, Malkin has continued to align herself with white supremacists and fringe figures to promote their views.  In May 2020, Right-Wing Watch reported that Malkin was collaborating with right wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos to create an “America First” reading list,recommending books for their supporters to read. The list includes a number of well-known antisemitic works, including The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, The Culture of Critique by retired antisemitic professor Kevin MacDonald and The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit by antisemite E. Michael Jones.

In January 2020, American Renaissance, a white supremacist online publication run by Jared Taylor, began syndicating Malkin’s columns.  Malkin’s personal website now directs readers to the Unz Review, a site that features numerous white supremacists and antisemites and is run by Ron Unz, who has written a number of antisemitic tracts.

Malkin has also appeared on white supremacist online broadcasts, including white supremacist Vincent James Foxx’s YouTube channel, and Red Ice TV, which is run by white supremacist husband/wife team Henrik Palmgren and Lana Loktelff.  Malkin also did a livestream show in May 2020 featuring Faith Goldy, as well as right wing commentators Cassandra Fairbanks and Asley Rae Goldenberg. In July 2020, Patrick Casey interviewed Michele Malkin on his podcast “Restoring Order.”

Malkin has clearly crossed a boundary in terms of her association with white supremacists. Nick Fuentes and the groypers present themselves as Christian conservatives and American nationalists while they attempt to normalize white supremacist views. Malkin justifies her embrace of those views by arguing that her “enemies” (the left, mainstream media, social media sites and now mainstream conservatives) are attacking “dissident voices,” including her own.

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Source: Faith Goldy’s Twitter page:  https://twitter.com/FaithGoldy/status/1266711021642711041?s=20

Michelle Malkin on a May 2020 livestream with Faith Goldy and others. (Posted 5-30-20 on Twitter)

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radical Conspiracy Theorist Stew Peters Campaigned for Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin

By Kyle Mantyla | May 6, 2022 

Janice McGeachin, Idaho’s radical lieutenant governor who is seeking to defeat Gov. Brad Little in the state’s Republican primary, held a campaign rally Wednesday that featured a variety of far-right activists and conspiracy theorists.

In attendance to campaign for McGeachin were radical right-wing commentator Michelle Malkin, election conspiracy theorist Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers, and extremist broadcaster Stew Peters, all of whom addressed the white nationalist America First Political Action Conference in February, as did McGeachin.

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Peters, a white nationalist-promoting broadcaster who routinely uses his nightly program to spread wild conspiracy theories and calls for violence, was the keynote speaker at McGeachin’s rally, and he delivered precisely the sort of unhinged speech one would expect, declaring that MAGA world’s political enemies are “possessed by demons” and want to “rape our children.”

“Today’s enemy, today’s uni-party RINOS and liberal Democrats and communists intentionally mutilate themselves for the sake of being transgender, so the only way that they can ever reproduce is by stealing our kids and then filling their brains with poison,” Peters. “That’s how they operate. We have to call them out. These are the people who want to steal and poison and groom and, yes, rape our children. They’re demonic. Literally. I think some of them are actually possessed by demons.”

“That might seem like shocking language, but you know what? Good,” Peters added. “I’m glad that it is because sadly the risk of being on the right side of history comes with a very real risk of being labeled an extremist or banned from the internet or jailed or even killed."[vid]

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Marjorie Taylor Greene asked journalists to judge her by her own words — and this one accepted the challenge

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia speaking at the 2021 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona, ]

Alex Henderson March 01, 2022

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is being slammed by her critics for speaking at the America First Political Action Conference — an event organized by White nationalist and anti-Semite Nick Fuentes — on Friday, February 25. Greene, in response to the criticism, has challenged journalists to judge her by her own words. And Washington Post opinion writer Catherine Rampell, in her February 28 column, accepts the challenge and describes some of the many appalling things that Greene has said since being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020.

“Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) doesn’t want to be held accountable for the White supremacists she pals around with,” Rampell explains. “Judge her instead by her own words, she pleads. Sure thing, Congresswoman. Challenge accepted.”

Greene wasn’t the only far-right MAGA Republican who spoke at the America First Political Action Conference, described by Rampell as a White nationalist equivalent of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Others includedArizona State Sen. Wendy Rogers, Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona and Idaho Lt. Gov. Janice McGeachin.All of them were welcomed by Fuentes.

“Minutes before Greene addressed the crowd,” Rampell notes, “Fuentes crowed that ‘our secret sauce here, it’s these young White men.’ He declared that the January 6 insurrection was ‘awesome.’ He solicited a ‘round of applause for Russia,’ to which the crowd chanted ‘Putin! Putin!’ And he seemed to suggest that attempts to compare Russian President Vladimir Putin to Hitler are flattering.”

After the event, a defensive Greene tweeted, “I am not going to play the guilt by association game in which you demand every conservative should justify anything ever said by anyone they’ve ever shared a room with…. I’m only responsible for what I say.”[atom/ frag/libtard]

Rampell, in response, writes, “Well, we at least agree on that last part. Greene should be held responsible for what she says, at a neo-Nazi confab or elsewhere. For instance, Greene should be held accountable for continuing to compare every Democratic policy she opposes — whether mask mandates, vaccination requirements or January 6 responses — to the Holocaust…. She has shared other anti-Semitic garbage over the years.”

The Post columnist continues, “These include claims about Jewish space lasers supposedly sparking California wildfires. And how ‘Zionist supremacists’ are conspiring to replace the West’s White Christian population with non-White Muslim immigrants, an endorsement of the ‘Great Replacement’ theory that was also voiced by other speakers in Orlando.”

Other offensive things Greene has said, Rampell observes, range from “her remarks that Muslims do not belong in government” to “her claim that 9/11 was an inside job, with no plane ever crashing into the Pentagon” to saying “that leading Democratic officials should be executed.”

Many Republicans are afraid to saying anything against Greene, as former President Donald Trump likes her and they dare not offend Dear Leader. But Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah isn’t afraid to call Greene out. When Romney was asked about Greene and Gosar appearing at a White nationalist event, he responded, “I’m reminded of that old line from the ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ movie, where one character says: ‘Morons. I have got morons on my team.’”

Rampell writes, “She has been denounced by some of the few Republicans who still have principles…. Most Republicans, it seems, would prefer to keep the morons on their team.”

https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/kari-lake-says-its-slanderous-to-report-shes-attending-the-white-nationalist-afpac-conference/

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Kari Lake Says It’s ‘Slanderous’ to Report She’s Attending the White Nationalist AFPAC Conference

Kyle MantylaBy Kyle Mantyla | February 18, 2022

The list of those participating in the upcoming America First Political Action Conference continues to grow.

Organized by white nationalist Stop the Steal activist Nick Fuentes, who regularly uses his online platorm to spew antisemitic, misogynistic, racist rhetoric, AFPAC had already announced the participation of a cavalcade of white nationalists, alt-right MAGA activists, and right-wing conspiracy theorists likeStew Peters, Lauren Witzke, Patrick Howley, Michelle Malkin, Jared Taylor, Peter Brimelow, Andrew Torba, Jesse Lee Peterson, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, and former Rep. Steve King.

On Thursday, Fuentes announced the addition of radical birther conspiracy theorist and former sheriff Joe Arpiao and Arizona state Rep. Wendy Rogers, a 67-year-old grandmother who has catapulted onto the national stage after just one term in office thanks to her tireless promotion of the “Big Lie,” her embrace of former President Donald Trump, who has endorsed her bid for reelection, and her outreach to the far-right extremes of the white nationalist America First movement.

Another Trump-endorsed candidate, Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake, is featured among the “special guests”who are scheduled to appear in a promotional image for the conference, but Lake is disputing that claim, insisting on Twitter that it is a “false photo” and that it is “slanderous” to report that she intends to participate in AFPAC.

Fuentes tried to smooth things over and came to Lake’s defense on Telegram when other began to attack her for trying to distance herself from AFPAC, asserting that he had been “under the impression” that Lake would be participating but then she had to drop out because of a “scheduling mix-up.”

Last year, Rep. Paul Gosar was among those who spoke at the conference. The congressman—who faced wide criticism for his appearance but was not censured by his party—has not indicated whether he will attend the conference again this year.

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https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/afpac-to-feature-old-school-white-nationalists-new-school-groypers/

white nationalist youth leader Nick Fuentes announced Friday the line-up of speakers for the America First Political Action Conference, featuring old school white nationalists alongside “Groyper” contemporaries.

AFPAC, which is holding its third annual conference later this month on Feb. 25, is a white nationalist alternative to the more mainstream Conservative Political Action Conference, which is also being held in Orlando, Florida, the same weekend. Last year, the conference hosted the likes of former Rep. Steve King, who was censured in 2019 for his comments on white supremacism before losing his bid for reelection in 2020, and Rep. Paul Gosar, who went on to speak at CPAC the morning following his speech at the extremist event.

Fuentes, who founded America First, a white nationalist youth movement of self-proclaimed “Groypers,” announced the conference’s speakers on Telegram Friday night. A graphic for the event featured the names and headshots of Peter Brimelow and Jared Taylor, two authors who have been designated white nationalists by the Southern Poverty Law Center, as well as Andrew Torba, the Christian nationalist founder of Gab, white nationalist YouTuber Vincent James, and Proud Boys hate group founder Gavin McInnes. Other speakers included:

• Stew Peters, conspiracy theorist and far-right host of “The Stew Peters Show.”
• Tim Gionet, a far-right troll who goes by the moniker Baked Alaska and is currently facing legal problems for his actions at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 and a separate 2020 assault case.
• Jesse Lee Peterson, a radical right-wing pastor who has praised neo-Nazis, called educated women “Satan’s daughter,” and claimed Black people have brought racism upon themselves.
• Jaden McNeil, a former Kansas State University student who led a student organization called America First Students. McNeil was widely condemned for racist comments he made about George Floyd.
• Lauren Witzke, a far-right commentator, conspiracy theorist, and failed Senate candidate who has bragged that she’s “a strong ally” of Fuentes’ “Groyper” movement. She is also a producer on “The Stew Peters Show.”
• Michelle Malkin, a former Fox News contributor who said she earned the nickname “Mommy Malkin” when she stood up for “the stars of the burgeoning America First movement” like Nick Fuentes.
• Patrick Howley, a far-right commentator, who has accused the GOP of “genociding” white people by welcoming conservative activists of color.
• Cassandra Fairbanks, a far-right commentator who once lavished praise on the “Unabomber” and now works for right-wing internet personality Tim Pool.

Fuentes also advertised two mystery speakers.

The line-up was promoted on Twitter by the social media platform Gab, far-right and anti-Muslim activist Laura Loomer, and Arizona state Rep. Wendy Rogers. Earlier in the month, Fuentes had hinted that Rogers—a Trump loyalist who has made a name for herself peddling the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen—could potentially attend AFPAC. Gosar, who like Rogers, has cheered on Fuentes, has not yet said whether he would attend.

Fuentes has a long history of extremism. He has denied the Holocaust, launched into antisemitic tirades, suggested interracial marriages cause drug use, and said women in the U.S. should be treated the way women are in Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan under the Taliban. In 2017, Fuentes took part in the white supremacist Unite the Right gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia, that left one dead; two years later, he sympathized with the El Paso shooter’s white supremacist manifesto. Last month, he was subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating Jan. 6 for his role in potentially coordinating events that took place that day.

Tags: Baked Alaska Cassandra Fairbanks Jaden McNeil Jesse Lee Peterson Lauren Witzke Michelle Malkin Nick Fuentes Patrick Howley Paul Gosar Stew Peters Tim Gionet Wendy Rogers America First Political Action Conference groypers

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Rep. Gosar criticizes ‘white racism’ after speaking at event whose organizer called for white supremacy

David Weigel

Feb. 27, 2021

ORLANDO — Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) said Saturday that he opposed "white racism," hours after speaking at a far-right conference whose organizer spoke approvingly of the Capitol insurrection while delivering a white-nationalist speech.

“I want to tell you, I denounce .?.?. white racism,” Gosar said during a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “That’s not appropriate.”

He said later that he was referring to Friday night’s America First Political Action Conference, organized by 22-year-old online commentator Nick Fuentes, who rallied rioters outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.

Gosar was the only elected official to attend the Friday event, speaking after former congressman Steve King (R-Iowa), who lost a 2020 primary after party leaders abandoned him over a string of white-nationalist remarks.

Fuentes, who has been banned from some social media channels after making racist and antisemitic comments, accused mainstream pro-Trump Republicans of betraying the former president’s agenda and said America needed to protect its “White demographic core.” He ridiculed Gosar’s congressional colleagues and mocked the partial paralysis of Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.).

In a brief interview after speaking at the CPAC panel Saturday, Gosar continued to distance himself from Fuentes’s remarks, which he said he had stayed in the room to watch.

“There’s no room for violence,” Gosar said when asked about the Capitol riots.

Gosar’s Friday night speech focused on social media censorship and immigration.

“I suggest that senators and members of Congress that fail to put America first should be held accountable at the ballot box,” Gosar said. “This is the era of America first, not some reincarnation of neocon control.”

Fuentes, appearing after Gosar, accused Black Lives Matter activists of wanting to create “a new racial caste system in this country, with Whites at the bottom,” adding that the country would cease to be America without a White majority.

“If America ceases to retain that English cultural framework and the influence of European civilization, if it loses its White demographic core and if it loses its faith in Jesus Christ, then this is not America anymore,” he said.

Fuentes was preceded onstage by a video with footage of the Capitol insurrection, which he defended, while adding that he did not personally enter the building.

“I saw hundreds of thousands of patriots surrounding the U.S. Capitol building, and I saw the police retreating, and we heard that the politicians voting on the fraudulent election had scurried to their underground tunnels away from the Capitol,” Fuentes said. “I said to myself: ‘This is awesome!’?”

Fuentes said “we need a little bit more of that energy in the future,” then added that he disavowed “violence” and “vandalism.”

Gosar did not mention the Friday night conference by name from the CPAC stage, but in a short interview afterward, he said he was referring to Fuentes’s remarks.

Gosar, who had led Arizona Republicans in challenging the electoral vote on Jan. 6, said he had accepted the AFPAC invitation to reach an audience of young conservatives.

“We thought about it, and we thought: There is a group of young people that are becoming part of the election process, and becoming a bigger force,” Gosar said. “So why not take that energy and listen to what they’ve got to say?”

Asked whether he regretted attending the event, Gosar said “you don’t accomplish anything by isolating” and refusing to speak to some audiences.

“It’s always about the debate,” he said. “That’s how you grow.”