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09/08/2026

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Kyle Mantyla

• Joshua Feuerstein tells women to stop supporting Lindsay Clancy if they don't "want people to start rethinking the 19th Amendment."

• Brian Sauvé declares that "feminism has not made women smarter, happier, or more successful": "It has more or less made women into depressed and defective men, competing on a playing field they weren't made for—where the ultimate prize turns out to be misery."

• Joel Webbom proclaims that "corporate America is daycare for women": "It exists to ensure women don’t have children, and if they do, that they don’t murder them. Modern women are a plague on the West."

• Dalton Clodfelter believes that the president must "crush Congress": "They need to act totally subservient to you, or you need to extinguish it as an institutional power."

• Brad Dacus claims that the Democratic Party is "controlled by the Islamic movement in the United States."
• A reminder that Tim Barton is going to keep repeating Christian nationalist lies.
• Finally, Rick Green has some advice for Republicans who are "even considering not voting" for candidates they dislike: "Grow up and stop being a child."

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• Ryan Thorpe and **:{Christopher F. Rufo @ City Journal: The Freak World of Nicholas J. Fuentes}:

Beneath the spectacle, the right-wing influencer has created a heap of human wreckage.

HUH?

Whatever else may be said about him, one fact cannot be denied: Nicholas J. Fuentes, the 27-year-old racialist influencer, is on the run of his life.

That’s a remarkable shift from 2017, when Fuentes was a little-known university freshman who hosted a political talk show. Over time, he developed a fanatical, cultlike following known as the “Groypers.” His digital following soon crossed over into the real world: first, with his involvement in the 2017 Unite the Right rally; then, with his long-running feud with conservative activist Charlie Kirk; and finally, with his role in “Stop the Steal,” which culminated outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6.

Fuentes has cultivated a reputation as the most provocative and controversial figure on the Right. He has done this by embracing taboos, praising Hitler, and opposing interracial marriage. In turn, he has ridden a wave of spectacle and outrage to new heights, with an appearance on The Tucker Carlson Show, and garnering frequent coverage in outlets such as the New York Times and The Atlantic.

Attempting to undercut his growing influence, the media and Fuentes’s right-leaning critics both tend to focus on Fuentes’s record of offensive remarks. Take Fuentes’s appearance on Piers Morgan Uncensored. During the two-hour interview, Morgan played a litany of clips from Fuentes’s talk show, highlighting bigoted comments he’s made over the years.

But this line of attack merely plays into Fuentes’s hands. As one of us has previously noted, Fuentes is best understood as an actor in what postmodern theorist Jean Baudrillard called “hyperreality.” Under conditions of hyperreality, symbols of past phenomena lose their meaning and circulate as hollowed-out images through the digital landscape, where they drive discourse and spark emotional reactions.

This is the framework through which Fuentes, with his professed admiration for Hitler and Stalin, and his embrace of anti-Semitism, should be understood. Above all, he is engaged in a performative demand for attention, cynically harnessing transgression to drive clicks, sow chaos, and gain notoriety.

By contrast, this City Journal investigation—which draws on livestreams, a review of public records, and interviews with key associates—focuses not on Fuentes’s words but on his actions. (Fuentes did not return a detailed request for comment for this article.) It looks beneath the spectacle of outrage and the self-mythology he has curated and reveals a shocking heap of human wreckage that has accumulated within Fuentes’s political universe: betrayal, pedophilia, suicide, murder.

Welcome to the freak world of Nicholas J. Fuentes.

Nicholas Joseph Fuentes was born in Chicago in 1998. He grew up in the suburb of La Grange Park. In high school, he served as student council president. After graduation, he briefly attended Boston University before dropping out. Fuentes then moved back to the Chicago area, where, every weeknight, he livestreams his talk show, America First with Nicholas J. Fuentes.

With a greenscreen backdrop, Fuentes sits behind a wooden desk, typically in a suit and tie, pontificating on political and cultural events. Frequently, he launches into expletive- and slur-laced rants. Fuentes presents himself as a dissident truthteller in a world of lies; the ringmaster of a revitalized Right; and a spokesman for young, patriotic men sold out by the elites.

The reality behind the scenes, however, is quite different from this public-facing mythology. The world that has surrounded Fuentes over the past decade is one of paranoia, intrigue, drama, and betrayals. Several of his associates have broken from his movement over the years, spilling dirt on his operation in the process, with allegations and counter-allegations following in the wake of their apostasy. At the same time, Fuentes has developed a fanatical, cultlike following, with many Groypers—at his insistence—swearing a public oath to “rape, kill, and die for Nicholas J. Fuentes.”

One of these young men is Dalton Clodfelter, a 25-year-old Fuentes follower who spoke to City Journal. Clodfelter says he first encountered Fuentes through viral video clips and eventually connected with him through an online group chat. There, he says, the two “hit it off.” At the time, Clodfelter was young, religious, and serving in the U.S. Army.

“I was pretty naïve at the time,” he recalled. “I wanted to be a commentator. I started out on radio when I was 16. I wanted to be a guy that talked and [Fuentes] was more than happy to help me along.”

In the years that followed, Clodfelter pursued a career as an online commentator, attempting to follow in Fuentes’s footsteps. Clodfelter posted openly extreme, racist, and anti-Semitic rants; he often used racial slurs. As a result, Clodfelter claims, mainstream platforms banned his accounts. Seeking an alternative, he moved over to cozy.tv, which Fuentes created to host his own show after being banned from other platforms.

“I was making really great money streaming,” Clodfelter said. “[Then] all of a sudden, like, these income sources are being taken away. . . . Now, I’ve got to figure out a new way to generate this income and supplement these things, and that really did suck on top of all the social media banning. The good thing was, Nick offered me a platform.”

Clodfelter’s association with Fuentes and his own language—including a pledge to “rape, kill, and die”—pushed him further and further from the real world. As he got deeper into the Groyper cult, Clodfelter underwent a period of dramatic disintegration: he was kicked out of the military and saw income streams dried up, and his first marriage ended in divorce, he claims; his online comments grew more extreme, erratic, and disturbed.

The end result was predictable. In a livestream, Clodfelter admitted he’d become unemployable. “I’m really untouchable,” he said. “I can’t go work for a congressman, that’s not going to happen. I can’t go get a job even at, like, a McDonald’s . . . . You look me up—look my name up . . . see what you find, and let me know if you’d hire me.”

Yet Clodfelter is unrepentant about his association with Fuentes and harbors no “resentment” for the personal cost he’s paid.

“I appreciate Nick and everything he’s done and what he’s built and everything he did for me,” he says. Fuentes might have led him down the path to personal ruin, but he was the one who took the final steps. “I decided to say the N-word. I decided to say I love Hitler . . . . And now I’m here.”

In the grand scheme of things, Clodfelter might have gotten off easy. Other Groypers have ended up in prison.

On Jan. 6, 2021, Fuentes was in Washington, D.C., where he joined crowds contesting the 2020 presidential election results. Near the Capitol, Fuentes urged the crowd onward.

“Keep moving towards the Capitol!” he into a bullhorn. “It appears we are taking the Capitol back from the police right now! Keep marching and don’t relent. Never relent! Break down the barriers and disregard the police!”

Numerous Groypers entered the Capitol that day. One rioter even carried an “America First” flag into the building. But after urging his followers toward the Capitol, Fuentes himself did not go inside. He was investigated but has not been arrested or charged in association with the day’s events.

This fact has raised eyebrows within far-right circles, particularly given the video evidence of him encouraging others to disobey the police. A former FBI agent, who spoke to City Journal on the condition of anonymity, said agents were instructed to “take down every person who was at January 6.” Fuentes, through his attorney, denied having been knowingly interviewed by federal law enforcement.

While Fuentes may have escaped the long arm of the law, other Groypers present that day weren’t so lucky. In the months that followed, at least seven were charged and sentenced for entering the Capitol on January 6. In the aftermath of their arrests, Fuentes disavowed the arrested Groypers, calling them “losers” and saying he did not “wish to be associated with” them. They may have pledged to “rape, kill, and die,” but in the Groyper movement, loyalty appears only to run in one direction.

One question has dogged Fuentes for years: How does he make his money and finance his political operation? During his livestreams, fans must pay a minimum of $20 to pose questions during his Q+A sessions. He has solicited donations and hawks America First merchandise and subscriptions to his $100-a-month private Telegram channel.

Fuentes’s largest known donor to date was a French computer programmer and cryptocurrency millionaire named Laurent Bachelier. In December 2020, as right-wing factions were organizing the “Stop the Steal” protest in Washington, D.C., Bachelier transferred roughly $522,000 in Bitcoin to a network of white nationalist and neo-Nazi activists. The largest recipient, by far, was Fuentes, who received roughly $250,000. Hours after initiating the Bitcoin transfers, Bachelier committed suicide at the age of 35.

Within three months, Bachelier’s donation to Fuentes had effectively doubled in value due to a significant spike in the price of Bitcoin.

After January 6, Fuentes’s finances appear to have been briefly imperiled. The Gray Zone, an investigative outlet edited by hard-left journalist Max Blumenthal, published a purported letter that the Department of Justice sent Fuentes, stating that the DOJ had frozen accounts belonging to Fuentes on January 23, 2021. By the summer of 2021, however, the purported letter claimed DOJ had withdrawn its request to freeze the account.

In spite of this, Fuentes allegedly continued to claim publicly that his funds remained frozen. That narrative unraveled when Jaden McNeil, a former close associate and the treasurer of Fuentes’s nonprofit, said on a livestream that Fuentes had regained access to the funds, a claim corroborated by the Gray Zone’s purported records.

“He’s had that [money] back from the feds for almost a year,” McNeil said on the livestream, accusing Fuentes of using the story to raise money while, at the same time, purchasing an expensive car. “He’s a total liar.”

Over the years, Fuentes has also sought money from at least one prominent right-wing benefactor, according to sources familiar with the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. One former associate claims that in January 2022, Fuentes was scouting real estate in Tampa Bay, where he was considering moving his political operation. During the trip, the associate claims, Fuentes drove four hours to Miami to meet a then-employee of Peter Thiel, the right-wing venture capitalist who has financially backed Republican causes, including the campaigns of President Donald Trump and then-Senate candidate J. D. Vance.

Armed with a presentation, Fuentes pitched Thiel’s employee on providing funding for his show and political operation, according to multiple sources familiar with the meeting who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Thiel, one source claimed, never replied to Fuentes’s request.

Soon after, Fuentes began launching a series of public attacks not only on Thiel, whom he called “the CIA,” but also on Trump and Vance. Fuentes also now bemoans the influence of Thiel funding in right-wing circles, despite having allegedly sought out the very Thiel funding he condemns. Multiple former Fuentes associates who spoke to City Journal claim that the Thiel story is telling, as it reveals Fuentes’s true motivations: not political grievances, but personal ones.

Conversations with multiple former associates paint a picture of Fuentes’s positions as not rooted in principle, but shifting with his perceptions of personal advantage and what he perceives as threats to his ego.

“[There’s an] extraordinary gap between the way he describes himself and presents himself to his followers . . . and his real life,” said former Fuentes ally Milo Yiannopoulos. “He’s somebody who doesn’t believe in anything at all.”

Perhaps the most sordid chapter in the Fuentes story involves his relationship with Ali Alexander, a political activist and key organizer of “Stop the Steal.” In 2023, Alexander was accused of asking teenage boys for sexual photographs.

Amid the fallout from the scandal, Fuentes initially “disavowed” Alexander’s actions, while lashing out at the accusers, saying the teenaged boys were guilty of “flirting” with Alexander. “The real victim in this entire saga is me,” Fuentes said.

He had also previously downplayed the allegations on his show. “If we’re talking about rape and murder and things like that, okay, but we’re talking about flirting?” Fuentes said. “Give me a f***ing break.”

Fuentes has long been aware of Alexander’s alleged proclivities. On a livestream in 2017, Fuentes said there was “abundant evidence” that Alexander “would like to interact in a sexual way with young fashy white boys quite like myself, and like others.” In a video posted by hard-right journalist Dustin Nemos—which purportedly depicts events from November 2020, during the so-called Million MAGA March—a young-looking male, whom Nemos describes as a teenager, recounts to Fuentes a conversation in which the alleged teenager called Alexander a “pedo.” Fuentes responded: “How do people not know about it?”

Despite this history, Fuentes continued to associate with Alexander, appearing alongside him at various political events, including one Fuentes encouraged his supporters to attend. After the scandal broke, Fuentes reportedly pressured one of Alexander’s accusers to recant his allegation in exchange for securing him a job in politics. (Fuentes denied this at the time; he did not return a City Journal request for clarifying comment.) That year, Fuentes also acknowledged on a livestream that, during the Kanye West presidential campaign, he had remained in daily contact with Alexander despite the allegations. In 2024, a Colorado police department confirmed that it was working with “partner agencies” in Texas to investigate Alexander.

Alexander did not return a request for comment.

The Alexander scandal is not an aberration, but part of a broader culture within the Groyper movement. In 2022, Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez, a Fuentes fan who had been photographed with him at a political event, was charged with possession of child pornography and making interstate threats on a Turning Point USA event. In the aftermath of the arrest, Fuentes attempted to distance himself, saying Gomez had “nothing to do with me or America First.”

Fuentes’s own comments on sexual topics are equally disturbing. He has stated that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was “cool as f***”; has expressed skepticism about age of consent laws; and indicated he wants to marry a 16-year-old girl when he turns 30. For the Groypers, the transgression of political and sexual taboos is part of Fuentes’s appeal. The more furious the denunciations of Fuentes—racist, sexist, pedophile, Nazi—the deeper his audience digs in. “These labels don’t mean anything,” says Clodfelter, the Fuentes follower. “Those words are meaningless to us now . . . . It doesn’t affect us anymore. And Nick proves that.”

From one perspective, we might be tempted to dismiss Fuentes as a hyperreal spectacle. His Groyper movement relates to politics the same way pornography relates to sex: stripped of meaning, flattened into an image, sensationalized for personal gain.

But hyperreality does not mean unreal, and, like pornography, it can often intrude on reality in ugly and unexpected ways. Conservatives who care about the future of the movement should understand that Fuentes is corrosive. Despite his self-mythology as the most right-wing pundit in America, he is, in a real sense, a tool of the Left. Progressive activists have spent the past decade pushing the narrative that conservatives are Nazis and Donald Trump is Hitler. In Fuentes, they have finally found their man.

The spectacle moreover is not only politically corrosive, but personally corrosive to its participants. At heart, the Fuentes phenomenon is not about ideas, or ideology, or power; it is about an angry, broken young man leading other angry, broken young men down a digital trail that ends in ruin.

Fuentes might laugh about his command for his followers to “rape, kill, and die for Nicholas J. Fuentes,” explaining it away as irony or a morbid joke. But it was only a matter of time before one of his followers, lost in the cult atmosphere of the Groyper movement and unable distinguish reality from hyperreality, would take it seriously.

That is precisely what happened last January, when a black teenager named Solomon Henderson walked into Antioch High School, outside Nashville, with a 9mm pistol and fired 10 rounds into the cafeteria, killing a 16-year-old girl and injuring another student, before turning the gun on himself.

The purported manifesto Henderson left behind—a copy of which found online corresponded to contemporary news descriptions—revealed a fascination with mass shooters, including the neo-Nazi Anders Breivik, who killed dozens of children in Norway in 2011; and a pastiche of radical ideologies lifted from internet forums and imageboards. At the logical level, these ideologies, especially when set against Henderson’s racial identity, seem to make little sense. But in the freak world, populated by a rainbow of nihilists, a black teenager, drunk on the hyperreal spectacle, can murder a young girl in a school cafeteria while calling himself an “Involuntary N[*]gger” and a “Groyper Incel.”

In the manifesto, Henderson asked himself, “Is there a particular groups[sic]or people that radicalized you the most?” He weaves one answer into the subsequent list of irony-laden names—once in plain lettering, and later, in all caps: NICK FUENTES.

:{Ryan Thorpe is an investigative reporter at the Manhattan Institute.Christopher F. Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor ofCity Journal, and the author ofAmerica’s Cultural Revolution

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• Dalton Clodfelter asserts that "rape isn't real."
• Finally, Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon preached that physical abuse is not "a justifiable case for divorce because it's not in the Bible."

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• John Guandolo claims that Tim Walz is a "flat out card carrying Communist Party member" and so, probably, is Kamala Harris.

• Ben Zeisloft declares that "blasphemy against the Triune God should be a criminal offense once more in our nation."

• Jackson Lahmeyer asserts that "if you remove all the political stuff out of the Bible, you don't have anything left."

• Finally, a former assistant to Kanye West claims that she was drugged and raped by the musician. Dalton Clodfelter claims that West "did nothing wrong": "She was clearly asking for it."

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10/11/2024 rww

by

Kyle Mantyla

• Dalton Clodfelter declares that "women shouldn’t have rights."
• Jackson Lahmeyer warns that "the future Antichrist will be a HOMOSEXUAL of Jewish descent."
• Eric Trump says that his family has done all it can to save the United States, but if Evangelical voters don't show up at the polls, America will not survive.
• Andrew Isker and C. Jay Engel think it's safe for them to say radical things because Right Wing Watch doesn't know who they are. Surprise!
• Finally, poor John Amanchukwu encountered an all gender restroom and was traumatized.

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• Sen. Josh Hawley received the Distinguished Christian Statesman Award from the D. James Kennedy Center for Christian Statesmanship.
• Mark Meckler is alarmed by the growing antiseminism of the right, warning that we’re “moving toward some kind of far-right fascism.”
• White nationalist C. Jay Engel wants to see “Taylor Swift arrested and executed.”
• White nationalist Dalton Clodfelter asserts that “America was built by white people for white people”: “It was white men for white men.”
• Speaking of white nationalists, lots of people have been confused how someone named Nick Fuentes could be a white nationalist, but that is understandable as Fuentes himself seems rather confused about it all.
• Self-proclaimed “prophet” Joseph Z, who is reportedly poised to attend a meeting with Donald Trump, says that Vice President Kamala Harris is “a Jezebel trying to take over the country” who is “being puppeted by the wicked lizard overlords and their goblin masters.”
• Finally, right-wing pastor Robert Henderson issued a decree against Harris, declaring that “the burning, searing, exposing heat of God now causes her campaign and her herself to wither away and become as nothing.”

August 23, 2023 5:15 pm

• While the entire right-wing movement fumes about progressive adults supposedly using their positions of authority to “indoctrinate” children, Christian pollster George Barna to advocate for Christians to do precisely that.
• Ethan Ralph reports that Nick Fuentes is scheduled to appear on Tim Pool’s podcast next week.
• Rev. Merrie Turner, president of Presidential Inaugural Prayer, Inc., seems to have some inside information about the death of former President Donald Trump’s ex-wife, Ivana: “Did He not see who caused the bruises on her wrists and forearms divulged to me by a trauma surgeon who claims this is evidence of foul play?”
• Far-right activist Ella Maulding says that TikTok is “the easiest & fastest way to pull normies further right,” therefore “everyone needs to be on it”: “Push the Overton window, win the war. People are waking up, Stay whitepilled.”
• Finally, America First activists Dalton Clodfelter and Tyler Russell mock the “MAGA boomers” who refuse to believe that theygenuinely want Trump to declare himself king and impose fascism on the nation: “Hell yeah, dude … We do want that.”

Tags: Dalton Clodfelter Ella Maulding George Barna Merrie Turner Nick Fuentes Tim Pool Tyler Russell Leftovers

https://www.mediamatters.org/rumble/rumble-nick-fuentes-fantasizes-about-teaming-hitler-kill-black-man-he-claims-was-littering

July 31, 2023 

• Christian nationalist worship leader Sean Feucht held a service outside the Idaho state capitol Sunday where he bragged about gathering with elected officials beforehand to declare that “this state belongs to Jesus.”
• America First activist Dalton Clodfelter insists that the Holocaust never happened.
• America First activist Jon Miller helpfully admits what has long been known: “I’m an anti-semite.”
• America First activist Matt Evans (aka Beardson Beardly) doesn’tcare “what they call Twitter, just let me say the n-word.”
• America First activist Steven Franssen would like “one of these Indians that want to be President [to] instead just lead all of their people back home.”
• Finally, America First leader Nick Fuentes insists that “sex is a gay act” and therefore “if you seek sex, you will become gay.” That is why the straightest people are those who remain celibate, like priests.

Tags: Dalton Clodfelter Jon Miller Matt Evans Nick Fuentes Sean Feucht Steve Franssen Leftovers America First

July 24, 2023 

• MAGA pastor Mark Burns complains that the Department of Justice is “a Gestapo-like weapon” that is being used against former President Donald Trump and flat-out says he doesn’t care what crimes Trump may have committed because “he’s God’s anointed.”
• Dalton Clodfelter admits that believes “in censoring our opposition.”
• Stew Peters’ conspiracy theorizing is becoming increasingly predictable and lazy: “The moon landing was FAKE. Buzz Aldrin is FAKE. Buzz Aldrin’s mom is FAKE.“
• Sean Feucht is starting “a 3-day prayer and fasting movement in preparation” for his upcoming events in the Pacific Northwest because “it is #1 for witchcraft and demonic activity.”
• Finally, Republican Rep. Eric Burlison says that he was “red-pilled” by Christian nationalist pseudo-historian David Barton years ago and declares that he wouldn’t be involved in politics today had he not been exposed to Barton’s work.

Tags: Dalton Clodfelter David Barton Eric Burlison Mark Burns Sean Feucht Stew Peters Leftovers

April 20, 2023 

• America First activists Dalton Clodfelter, “Smiley,” and Jon Miller are celebrating Adolf Hitler’s birthday in despicable ways.
• Matt Evans (aka Beardson Beardly) is convinced that he could “have any woman” he wants, but he doesn’t want any because he’s an incel. Of course, since “incel” is short of “involuntarily celibate,” that makes no sense.
• Andrew Anglin is “begging China to nuke every city in America.”
• Today, we discovered that Isabella Riley Moody was a in Project Veritas’ cringey “Oligarchy” music video.
• Finally, Anna Perez has a simple test for determining if someone is a “fake conservative”: She simply uses the word “f*ggot” a bunch, and if they don’t think it’s hilarious, she knows they’re a RINO.

Tags: Aidan Duncan Andrew Anglin Anna Perez Dalton Clodfelter Isabella Riley Moody Jon Miller Matt Evans Leftovers

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dalton Clodfelter was barely old enough to drive when an angry white mob descended on Charlottesville, Virginia at Unite the Right in 2017, parading across the University of Virginia’s grounds with lit tiki torches. The event left three people dead, others beaten, and led to nearly a dozen arrests. It also launched the career of one of the most infamous Zoomer white nationalists, Nick Fuentes.

Now, at 22, Clodfelter, who is part of Fuentes’ Groyper army and considers the avowed racist and antisemite a close friend and mentor, is bringing the same unabashed hate and racism to college campuses, a barnstorming of bigotry rolling through universities in American South.

While their cohorts overshare on TikTok and skew heavily liberal, Fuentes and Clodfelter are taking a radically different path. They’re the first wave of far-right Gen Z influencers. Their calls for a white supremacist, antisemitic, authoritarian society are reaching a large and growing audience that mostly consists of young men and boys.

These are 20-somethings who spent a significant amount of their formative years with Donald Trump as president. They grew up influenced by descriptions of Haiti and African nations as “shithole” countries, bans on Muslims entering the country, and white nationalists proudly marching around the country and storming the Capitol.

They came of age as a nascent white supremacist movement grew across the nation. Now, they’re its bleeding edge, creating an army of racist digital trolls who’ve grown fluent in merging the language of hate with the online realm.

As backlash against him grows, Clodfelter’s own audience is simultaneously increasing.

Since he joined Fuentes’ network, Cozy TV, a little over a year ago, Clodfelter gained a dedicated and growing following. His subscribers there have doubled in the last year. In the month since it launched, his “Ye is Right” channel on right-wing YouTube alternative Rumble racked up over 40,000 views. Last September, he boasted that another of his shows on Rumble had 132,000 views.

Clodfelter’s stunts and association with Fuentes have enabled him to make connections with some of the most notorious people in the extremist ecosystem. He’s parlayed these connections into credibility and audience, climbing the far-right ladder of influence.

He considers Capitol rioter Tim Gionet aka Baked Alaska a pal and rubs elbows with Islamophobe Laura Loomer, white supremacist Jared Taylor of American Renaissance, and political dirty trickster Roger Stone, whom Clodfelter interviewed.

For nearly a year, he broadcasted on far-right conspiracy theorist Stew Peters’ network, although he said he’s no longer hosted there, a disagreement over mentioning Fuentes too much.

White nationalism has been spilling out into the open more and more in recent years. Antisemitic incidents and attitudes are on the rise. Multiple states, such as Florida, where Clodfelter now lives, have passed legislation taken from the fascist playbook, banning books and curtailing personal freedoms.

Gen Z is generally liberal, but there is a strong vein of racism and hate coursing through a burgeoning subset of it. People like Clodfelter and Fuentes have tapped into that and are feeding on the white grievance that fuels it. They view themselves as a new counterculture movement, one that fights against the perceived progressive tilt in American politics.

Like Fuentes, Clodfelter wants to drag the Republican Party to the extreme far-right. Clodfelter openly advocates for an authoritarian government. He said it was “evil” to give women the right to vote, that they’re “dumber” than men and have no place outside the home. He wants to take LGBTQ people’s rights away completely. “Make sodomy and homosexual relations and being trans illegal,” he said.

Clodfelter’s latest schtick is barnstorming college campuses for events he calls: “Ye is right, change my mind.”

During these Stephen Crowder ripoffs, Clodfelter and his co-host Tyler Russell set up a table and invite people to argue with them. (Two years ago, the Canadian Anti-Hate Network described Russell, who is Canadian, as a white supremacist copy of Fuentes.)

Much of the subject matter the pair challenge people to debate consists of Holocaust denial and antisemitism similar to recent comments made by Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West.

The outright antisemitism aligns with another strain of Clodfelter’s politics, a call for a fascist takeover of America.

Although free speech allows him to say and advocate these views on college campuses, he simultaneously wants to restrict the right to speak freely. “Once we take power I see no problem with silencing our opposition,” Clodfelter said, an openly fascist position with notes of neo-Nazism.

“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,” he said last summer, per Right Wing Watch. “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.”

“They will be arrested and they will be sentenced to prison. I believe in a far-right authoritarian government,” he said before denying that he’s a Nazi.

But in setting up a table at a university with a large banner that says “Ye is right”—the same phrase that anitsemities and white supremacists around the country have invoked in recent months—he’s provoking and trolling, hoping for a response.

The charged atmosphere leads to emotionally fraught exchanges that Clodfelter uses for exposure and content. (He claims that they also find many people who agree with their positions.) In January, Clodfelter wrote with apparent amusement about making a Jewish girl cry at one of these events and posted a video of her confronting him then storming away, wiping her eyes.

Clodfelter’s growing contingent of young fans loves it. Hundreds of his Telegram subscribers reacted with laughing emojis.

“First time commenting here but dude you are awesome for this just earned a Telegram subscriber,” one person commented.

A TikTok of the girl has 160,000 views and over 150 comments—all positive, and nearly all from men and boys.

Clodfelter plans to continue hosting these events at colleges all around the country. He says they’re invited to each school they visit, but won’t say by who. A photo from his trip to the University of Florida (UF) shows him, co-host Russell, and the president of the campus chapter of Turning Point USA. The chapter didn’t respond to repeated requests for comment.

In the days before he showed up at the University of Alabama and UF, antisemitic messages appeared around campus, indicating that someone was aware they were coming. Some of the messages included the date they would arrive.

A few months ago, Soledad O’Brien called him “straight up racist” for saying on his show that Make America Great Again appeals to him because, “I love what this country once was, before the Civil Rights Movement.”

Clodfelter revels in the negative attention, as do his fans. “Based,” one recently wrote about coverage of his antics. “Keep up the good work bud look how much attention it’s grabbing! It’s working,” another said.

On Feb. 13, he posted a checklist of organizations and outlets that have written about him captioned, “My ops.”

In late January, he claimed that #YeisRight has 1 million impressions on TikTok. One TikTok of him quizzing a student about how many Jewish people died in the Holocaust (6 million in four years) as compared to the Transatlantic slave trade (15 million in four centuries) has over 200,000 views. Clodfelter claims it to be suspicious people don’t intimately know the latter number.

Clodfelter’s message is resonating with a segment of Gen Z who seem to be primarily white males who grew up in an era where outright trolling, treated as trenchant political thought, came of age with racism from the presidential bully pulpit.

This posture is a shift from a kid who wanted to be famous by posting Michael Jackson dances to YouTube and performing in talent shows in his early teens.

But Clodfelter was always out for an audience.

Old friends recall a teen who tried to be a rapper(the white rapper-to-white supremacist pipeline is surprisingly common), hung out with Black people, and wanted more than anything to be famous.

Some people who’ve known him for years, but largely lost track of him after high school, aren’t clear if it’s real or a LARP. More than one said that either way he’s gone so far down this path that there’s no coming back.

Clodfelter initially agreed to an interview with the Daily Dot, but said he would only do so if the interview was published in its entirety without any editing. He also asked to be referred to as a Christian nationalist, rather than the “lame buzzwords,” which he did not provide.

Clodfelter has longed for fame since at least middle school. Back then, he was known as the Michael Jackson kid. He also went through a stint as a rapper with the stage name “Doctor C.”

Clodfelter grew up in Asheboro, a small town in central North Carolina. Even as a child, friends told the Daily Dot, he stood out. Classmates describe him as someone who went through several phases in his teens: Jackson impersonator, Joker impersonator, white rapper, and theater kid.

“He even went as far as growing his hair out and bleaching it completely and coloring it green,” said a former classmate of Clodfelter’s Joker phase. (No one the Daily Dot contacted who knew Clodfelter from Asheboro was willing to have their name associated with him—not even people who continue to communicate with him.)

Then along came Trump.

During the 2016 election cycle, the year he turned 16, Clodfelter went all-in on MAGA, according to friends. He wore suit jackets and carried a briefcase to school. Friends said he became obsessed with politics and started a blog called Right Wing World.

People he went to school with now see this period as a harbinger of what he would become. One said, “He did kind of develop this reputation [as] the kind of a person who liked to stir the pot and cause issues.”

The former classmate who recalled his Joker phase said that Clodfelter once got into a fight in high school for saying “something racist.”

Still, some were shocked to find out that he’s become the kind of extremist who recently joked on one of his shows about taking a nerf gun to the Pulse nightclub “for a little symbolism,” advocates outlawing being gay or transgender, casually throws around the N-word, wears black face, and spews racist, misogynistic, and antisemitic views.

“I knew it was the direction. I didn’t know it would go this far,” another former classmate told the Daily Dot recently, adding, “He’s always wanted that fame. This is just his way of doing that.”

Sometime around the end of high school, Clodfelter started working at a local radio station. Photos from the station’s Facebook page in 2019 show Clodfelter beaming alongside a multiracial group of colleagues.

Then, to the surprise of some who knew him in school, Clodfelter joined the Army. Much like his bright-green Joker hair, however, his military career wouldn’t last, a common theme throughout his life.

Clodfelter appears to have attempted a number of avenues before settling on far-right influencer. Last August, he claimed that he attended college, pledged a fraternity, hosted two radio shows, joined the Proud Boys, held a local political position, and danced on America’s Got Talent, all in just the last five years.

Also that month, Clodfelter announced that the Army discharged him for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine.

He’d started streaming on Fuentes’ platform while he was in the Army. Clodfelter leaned into the movement, becoming a groyper, the term Fuentes’ fans use to refer to themselves. Clodfelter’s show was even called “Goodnight Groyper.”

Guests on the show include a litany of far-right figures, such as Fuentes, Peters, Lauren Witzke, Wayne DuPree, and many others.

Last March, Clodfelter posted a link to a website called “Groyper Army,” that has the tagline, “This is the unit for Dalton and groypers.”

Asked how he landed on this path, Clodfelter told the Daily Dot via Instagram message, “I’m a normal dude just hanging out.”

After he left the military, Clodfelter relocated to Florida to become a full-time streamer. He credits Fuentes with opening the doors that enabled him to pursue this dream.

“Nick was a blessing and he gave me options,” he wrote on Telegram.

Today Clodfelter has a few sponsors and thousands of subscribers across multiple platforms that have collectively earned him hundreds of thousands of impressions.

On campus, as on his shows and social media platforms that will still have him (he told the Daily Dot he’s been “deplatformed multiple times”), Clodfelter is hoping to inspire the next generation of bigoted fascists.

Like the kid who impersonated Michael Jackson, he gives that effort his all with a wink and smile. He laughs when people yell at him and remains calm when they get upset. If you didn’t know what he was saying at his Ye is Right events, from a distance, you’d assume he wasn’t spouting outright fascism.

Like other white nationalist Zoomers, it’s all caked in a level of irony, often presented as if he’s doing it all for the lols, like the living embodiment of shitposting.

It’s working.

Clodfelter’s big grin and casual tone buffet his calls for homosexuals to be “ostracized by society” and opinion that Nazi book burnings were a good thing.

Like Fuentes, Clodfelter’s doing everything he can to lure the next generation of far-right extremists down that path with him, including by personally extending a helping hand to another wannabe influencer.

On Monday, Clodfelter wrote that he now has an apprentice.

And as Fuentes helped establish Clodfelter, adding more front-facing, TikTok-savvy people to this movement—that for so long has lurked along the fringes—means it will only continue to grow.

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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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• joseph Ladapo, Florida’s Surgeon General, appeared on Sherri Tenpenny’s program today, where he heaped praise on the far-right anti-vax conspiracy theorist for having the “courage” to oppose COVID-19 vaccines: “There’s something very inspiring about that.”
• Ali Alexander warns that “political Conservatives are silent on the anti-Black, anti-American, anti-Christian cancellation of Ye. They’ll be silent when it’s your turn to die. Christians, rise up.”
• Lance Wallnau instructed his followers to support Republican candidates in the upcoming elections because “when you’re dealing with the Nazi Party, or you’re dealing with the KKK, or you’re dealing with organized antifa… you can’t afford to go too neutral.”
• Roger Stone got all dressed up for his appearance on white nationalist Christian fascist Dalton Clodfelter’s livestream last night.
• Finally, we’re not sure what Stew Peters has against smart cities but he really hates them: “It’s like a wet dream for these liberal psychopath bastards, these Hershey highway-riding butt pirates that want everything with a penis to chop it off and grow boobs. Everything that doesn’t have one should get one, and then everything with a penis is having sex with each other. If you resist any of this, you’re sent to a gallows for execution.”

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in addition to being a racist, antisemitic Christian fascist and white nationalist, Dalton Clodfelter is, like many others in the America First movement, a raging misogynist. And his misogyny was on full display Wednesday night during his “The Right Dissident” program broadcast on The Stew Peters Network.

Ostensibly outraged about a woman who killed and skinned a Siberian husky dog that she thought was a wolf, Clodfelter went on a 15- minute-long rant in which he declared that women are too dumb to be allowed to vote or have any sort of career outside of the home.

“We hear oftentimes mainstream conservatives talk about radical feminism as being a threat to the United States,” Clodfelter said. “I disagree. I think feminism in general is a threat to the United States; not radical feminism, but feminism in any way, shape or form. People say, ‘Well, I’m like the 1920s feminists, I believe women should have the right to vote, etc. etc.’ No, that was evil too, that was terrible. Our country started really going down the pooper once when women got the right to vote. That’s evident.”

“The way women vote, they vote mostly based on looks and compassion and empathy without taking into account logical reasoning and without taking people’s policy decisions into account,” he continued. “Women are dumb voters. Women have a place in a society, and that place is in the home, that place is being subservient to their husbands, that place is looking to the husband as Jesus looks to God or as the church looks to Jesus.”

“The facts of the matter are women are dumber than men, women should be subservient to men, women have no place in male activities, women have no place in partaking in the workforce, women have no place in partaking in politics, women have no place outside of the home,” Clodfelter bellowed. “The home is a virtuous place for women. Women should be happy when they are in the home. Women should be grateful when a man puts a roof over her head and supplies the family with food and resources and energy and structure. That is what women should be thankful for.”

“Men are just better,” Clodfelter asserted. “Men are awesome. I am a firm believer in the patriarchy. I’m a misogynist, you could definitely claim that. You could say I’m a sexist, absolutely.”  peters—who has close ties to various far-right political candidates and has used his program to interview several elected officials, GOP candidates, and former members of the Trump administration—has made his network into a haven for white nationalists, racists, and Christian nationalist bigots. Clodfelter, who admits to using neo-Nazi websites to find stories for his program, fit right in at Peters’ network and has consistently used his program to promote white nationalism, anti-LBGTQ bigotry, and outright fascism.

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https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/once-we-take-control-dalton-clodfelter-lays-out-his-christian-fascist-agenda/

Earlier this year, far-right conspiracy theorist Stew Peters gave white nationalist, Christian fascist Dalton Clodfelter a nightly program on his Stew Peters Network called “The Right Dissident.”

Peters is a white nationalist-promoting broadcaster who, despite using his nightly program to spread wild conspiracy theories and calls for violence, has managed to build close ties to various far-right political candidates and to interview several elected officials, GOP candidates, and former members of the Trump administration.Peters clearly saw something he liked in Clodfelter’s brand of radical right-wing bigotry, Christian nationalism, and antisemitic fascism, all of which Clodfelter has openly promoted five nights a week on Peters’ platform.

Last Thursday, Clodfelter used his show to call for the establishment of a “far-right authoritarian government” in this nation that will imprison its political enemies, establish Christianity as the national religion, and outlaw all secular education.

“Once we take our country back, we will have federal agents kicking down the doors of every treasonous Democrat, every treasonous globalist, every homosexual couple that has molested a child, and they will be arrested, and they will be sentenced to prison,:{” Clodfelter }:{. }::{“I believe in a far right-authoritarian government. No, I am not a fascist. No, I am not a white supremacist. No, I am not a Nazi. But I do believe that hierarchy, structure, and authority are very important. I do believe that our society needs these things in order to progress and maintain its cultural framework.”}:

“I believe that our society needs this in order to rid itself of the sexual immorality and blatant degeneracy running rampant all throughout the country,” he 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.”

“We want to take back the country and reestablish a Christ-like nation,” Clodfelter asserted. “A nation where the national religion is Christian. A nation where the national language is English. A nation where pornography is banned, homosexuality is banned, and transgenderism is banned. Where you will never see a college that isn’t a Christian college. The only college acceptable that you are able to go to is a Christian school because every school in these United States should teach Christian values. Every school should teach the 10 Commandments in elementary school. Every school should promote what it means to be a Christian to the youth of America. It cannot be any other way. There should be no secular teaching in the schools.”

Clodfelter is saying out loud what most on the right only allude to. Christian nationalists are eager to impose their right-wing version of Christianity on the country, anti-LGBTQ forces want to make queer identity a crime, and right-wing pundits and lawmakers care less about accountability and more about silencing their opponents. Clodfelter is simply pointing out that the preferred means to achieving their ends relies on doing away with democracy and replacing it with a far-right authoritarian government.

Tags: Dalton Clodfelter Stew Peters Christian Nationalism

Man Charged With Violent Threats Against TPUSA Is Connected to White Nationalist, Incel Communities

ByKristen Doerer | August 22, 2022 10:39 am

The FBI charged Alejandro Richard Velasquez Gomez Thursday for making a credible threat against Turning Point USA, a right-wing youth organizing group founded by Charlie Kirk.

Velasquez is connected to the misogynist “incel” community, according to federal agents, as well as the white nationalist America First youth movement headed by Nick Fuentes, highlighting the very real threat of the ideologies these communities espouse.

The San Antonio Express-News first reported that Velasquez threatened participants of TPUSA’s Student Action Summit, which was held in July 22-24 in Tampa, Florida, and featured speakers like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz.

“July 22 is the day of retribution the day I will have revenge against all of humanity which all of you will pay for my suffering,” Velasquez wrote on his Instagram page. The then 18-year-old also bought a flight from Austin, Texas, to Tampa on July 22, only canceling it the night before.

Tampa police deemed Velasquez’s threat against TPUSA attendees credible, and on July 22, police in San Antonio arrested him. After obtaining a search warrant and searching Velasquez’s phone, the FBI found more damning material. Velasquez’s phone included three images of children being sexually exploited by adults, which were detailed in the affidavit.

On Thursday, the FBI charged Velasquez with making threatening interstate communications and possession of child pornography.

Velasquez’s threats of violence and possession of child pornography follow a long line of extremist rhetoric. Political Research Associate’s Ben Lorber reportedin 2021 that Velasquez regularly posted neo-Nazi content on Instagram and TikTok under monikers like “Sp*cWaffen.” Velasquez also showed familiarity with the misogynist “incel” community.

Incels—short for involuntarily celibate—are today best characterized by their virulent misogyny and belief that women owe them sex. Incels’ hatred for women is displayed on online message boards, where users insist that women are commodities, argue that women should not have the right to vote, and celebrate violence against women.

The language of Velasquez’s threat echoes that of Elliot Rodger, a self-identified incel who murdered six people in a stabbing and shooting rampage in 2014. Rodger has become an idolized figure among those in the misogynist incel subculture, including apparently Velasquez.

An FBI agent who interviewed Velasquez said in an affidavit that Velasquez “explained to me that he intended the post to evoke Elliot Rodger and was familiar with Elliot Rodger due to extensive online research.”

Velasquez also has connections to white nationalists like Nick Fuentes, who has alternatively praised and mocked Velasquez, according to PRA’s Lorber. Lorber also reported that Velasquez at one point established a micro-community of brown ultranationalists who dwelt alongside America First.

Fuentes discussed Velasquez, who uses the moniker LatinoZoomer, on his “America First” show around 2021. “I’ve met him, he’s a nice guy,” Fuentes said of Velasquez in a video unearthed by KiwiFarms, a controversial forum known for doxing. Later, Fuentes read a message from Velasquez and wished him a happy birthday. “We love you, big guy,” he said.

Velasquez was also pictured with the white nationalist in 2021 after Fuentes’ speech in Dallas, Texas, which was held outside of the Conservative Political Action Conference. While Fuentes is banned from CPAC, Velasquez appeared to have attended the Trumpian conservative conference that year.

[Velasquez was also pictured with the white nationalist in 2021 after Fuentes’ speech in Dallas, Texas, which was held outside of the venue for the Conservative Political Action Conference.

Fuentes has also been banned from TPUSA events for harassing TPUSA speakers. In 2019, Fuentes and America First’s army of “groypers”—young, mostly white men who make up America First—heckled speakers at TPUSA events held on college campuses and targeted TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk for not being adequately “pro-white” and far-right.The effort was two-fold: force TPUSA to be more extreme and recruit new followers.

On Friday, Fuentes denied claims that Velasquez was a part of America First. “For the record, Alejandro Velasquez had nothing to do with me or America First,” he posted on Telegram.

Though best known for his white nationalism, Fuentes is also a virulent misogynist and self-declared incel. And in spite of his well-known white nationalism, antisemitism, and Christian nationalism, some far-right Republican elected officials like Rep. Paul Gosar, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green, and Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers attend his events, lending him credibility among the GOP.

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among Fuentes’ misogynist beliefs are that women should not have the right to vote or work, and that women in the United States should be treated like they are under the Taliban. In June, Fuentes declared, “We need to go back to burning women alive more.” That language has been echoed by other America First white nationalists like Dalton Clodfelter, who recently said he would like to see a woman burned alive at the stake for wearing a “blasphemous” bikini.

Such virulent misogyny and violent rhetoric has been chocked up by some as a desire to shock audiences and increase notoriety. But if Velasquez’s credible threat of violence against TPUSA proves anything, it’s that such talk doesn’t remain just talk—and that it won’t spare conservatives either.

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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 6:30AM (EDT)

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 with John Doyle, a young YouTube streamer who 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."

Related Lone Star hate: Right-wing activists in Texas drive a new wave of anti-LGBTQ bigotry]

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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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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