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James Fishback lost badly in Florida but showed that there’s support for bigotry among the young.

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09/30/2026

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Florida’s seemingly never-ending Republican primary race for governor will finally be settled next Tuesday. With Trump pick Rep. Byron Donalds far ahead in the polls, it looks like groyper favorite James Fishback’s political ambitions are doomed—for now.

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Florida’s seemingly never-ending Republican primary race for governor will finally be settled next Tuesday. With Trump pick Rep. Byron Donalds far ahead in the polls, it looks like groyper favorite James Fishback’s political ambitions are doomed—for now.

In a desperate attempt to inject some life into his campaign last week, Fishback gave a much-teased press conference accusing Donalds of being under Justice Department investigation. Feigning sorrow, Fishback, who looked like a kid playing dress-up, claimed that a whistleblower had told his campaign about the case, which supposedly centered on Donalds’s friendship with notorious Rep. Cory Mills, as well as allegations of human trafficking.

Yet even Fishback supporters didn’t buy his claims.

“They didn’t really produce any receipts,” white nationalist podcaster and onetime Fishback supporter Nick Fuentes said.

Making matters far worse, the Justice Department took the unusual step of clearing Donalds, saying in a tweet that Donalds was “not under investigation,” adding ominously for Fishback that “Falsely accusing someone of being under investigation is a dangerous form of weaponization.”

Donalds might not be in legal jeopardy, but Fishback is. In a lawsuit filed July 27 and discovered last weekend by Fishback’s many online detractors, former high-school debater Briana Whatley is suing Fishback for supposedly stiffing her on thousands of dollars in scholarship money.

Whatley claims she won a total of $11,000 from her participation in Fishback’s anti-woke debate program, “Incubate Debate.”

Whatley claims that when she was competing as a debater, Fishback often contacted her personally to encourage her to participate in his events, explicitly promising the chance to win scholarship money. Yet when Whatley won a total of $11,000 at the tournaments, Fishback was slow to cough up the cash.

While the money was supposed to be paid upon Whatley’s high school graduation in May 2025, she claims Fishback dodged her requests to pay the money for months. After the money was three months late, Whatley hired a lawyer, prompting Fishback to text her that he was “disappointed” that a lawyer had become involved.

A Fishback crony sent her $3,000 on the payment app Zelle last December, seven months after the money was initially due, reducing the debt to $8,000. Yet the rest of the money she says she was promised never arrived. In February, Whatley texted Fishback to ask him why he hadn’t paid money she had been promised on February 1—by then nine months late.

“Feb 1 was a Sunday,” Fishback responded, according to text messages attached to the lawsuit. “We don’t work on Sundays.”

Asked about the debt, Fishback claims he has paid Whatley since her lawsuit was filed.

“I dropped the ball,” Fishback told me in a statement. “Her missed payment was an oversight on my part. This has been resolved.”

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03/12/2026

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Last Tuesday, James Fishback, a 31-year-old running for governor in Florida, was speaking to a packed house at the Queens Harbour Yacht and Country Club in Jacksonville. Every one of the room’s almost 100 seats was taken, and people were standing several rows deep around the perimeter, with more listening from the lobby outside. The crowd was mostly male and very young; several attendees told me they were in high school. A few wore the “America First” baseball caps popular with followers of Nick Fuentes, the influential white nationalist troll.

More than 100 Latino Christians leaders signed a statement saying Samuel Rodriguez, an evangelical adviser to President Donald Trump and a go-to voice for Hispanic evangelical perspectives, and news media have exaggerated the size of Rodriguez’s reach as president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.

Defectors say the movement has dropped the pretense of protecting women and is now openly “cruel and fickle.”

They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

The new Mass Deportation Coalition is pushing the White House to continue with its deportation operation — just as the White House tells GOP candidates to back away from that message.

The president and his team have embraced a cavalier, anti-humanist attitude to matters of life and death.

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03/05/2026

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President Trump fired Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and said Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma would replace her.

About an hour into the Republican gubernatorial debate in Iowa earlier this year, Adam Steen, who is one of the leading candidates in the primary, made an eye-popping claim. “We need to decimate the chemical abortions,” Steen said. “You talk about water quality, what’s happening in our water because of that, those chemical abortions that are coming through there.”

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.”

Someone has to tell Trump, “You ain’t God’s anointed.” You can have the anointing, and you can have it taken away from you. I am not saying Trump ever was God’s anointed — I’m saying at least 84% of evangelicals believe Trump was anointed by God to be president.

Florida gubernatorial candidate James Fishback, a Republican, announced on Wednesday that his campaign has been banned from every Waffle House in the state.

Matt Schlapp appeared to suggest during a heated debate Wednesday that the scores of young girls killed after the U.S. and Israel struck Iran are better off dead.

The prominent right-wingers are going after one another’s money.

Election deniers are lobbying the president to declare a national emergency.

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a Godly Sense Of Terror: Theocratic Fascist Joel Webbon Backs James Fishback

02/17/2026

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Kyle Mantyla

James Fishback is a radical far-right Republican candidate for governor in Florida whose campaign has overtly appealed to the white nationalist movement, with Fishback making multiple appearances on programs hosted by virulently antisemitic white nationalists and voicing his admiration for white nationalist Nick Fuentes and his "groyper" movement.

On Monday, Fishback made a second appearance on a program hosted by racist, antisemitic, and deeply misogynistic theocratic fascist Christian nationalist pastor Joel Webbon, appearing in person in Webbon's Texas studio.

When Webbon noted that there are activists in the white Christian nationalist movement who are skeptical of Fishback's campaign and feel that it's embrace of unsubtle antisemitism is just an election ploy, Fishback sought to reassure them.

"I listened to people like you, Joel, and I got more information about the issues that were actually affecting us, " Fishback said. "Israel chief among them."

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Webbon, for his part, needed no convincing regarding Fishback's views or what a victory in the GOP primary could mean for the white Christian nationalist movement.

"There is a nationwide impact if James Fishback wins," Webbon declared. "If he wins, what that signals—the message conveyed to all the neocons, to the GOP, from MAGA to Mitch McConnell, to everyone—is that this platform, this message is actually a viable winning message."

"A politician at a governor level can say 'Christ is king' and not wish people a happy Diwali and say, 'No, we don't hate anyone, but this is a Christian nation, the preeminence is given to Christianity,' Webbon continued. "If James wins, it's a shot across the bow. It sends a message to every politician in America."

"Even at the presidential level, people will be looking and say, 'This guy on that message, on that platform with no funding, without the Trump endorsement, without this, without that, without Miriam Adelson and all of her millions of dollars in support, this guy won,'" Webbon continued. "This is significant, and what it will do is it will strike terror—a godly sense of fear—in the hearts of every traitor, in the hearts of all our enemies, but it will also inspire hope."

Webbon said that if Fishback can win, then it'll inspire hundreds of far-right young white Christian men to run for office on the same platform and with the same messaging.

"To all of our listeners in Florida, and to listeners who aren't in Florida, July 20th, that's your deadline, move to Florida, register to vote," Webbon proclaimed. "It is absolutely vital that James Fishback wins."

"If he runs an organic grassroots campaign on 'Christ is king' and America first, and it's formidable for the third largest state in the Union for a governor position, it changes the entire political landscape," Webbon declared. "You need to recognize how significant this actually is and get behind James Fishback."

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In 2023, Webbon was among the contributors to a document called “The Statement on Christian Nationalism and the Gospel.” Drafted by Christian nationalists like Oklahoma state Sen. Dusty Deevers, former Trump administration official William Wolfe, and others, the document declared that the United States must formally “acknowledge the Lordship of Christ” in all its laws, “abolish abortion,” outlaw marriage equality, and “recapture our national sovereignty from godless, global entities who present a grave threat to civilization.” Wolfe is a close associate of OMB Director Russ Vought, a proponent of Christian nationalism who openly declared his intention to put federal bureaucrats "in trauma."

In addition to serving as pastor at Covenant Bible Church in Texas, Webbon is also the founder of Right Response Ministries, through which he organizes events like the “Christ Is King: How To Defeat Trashworld” conference that featured a variety of far-right Christian nationalist activists like Deevers, Steve Deace, Stephen Wolfe, Auron MacIntyre, Andrew Isker, and others.

It is important to remember that Webbon is a theocratic fascist who believesthat the American people are too degenerate, stupid, and cowardly to abide by the Constitution and must therefore be governed by a Christian dictator. This dictator, Webbon believes, must “rule with an iron fist” and force everyone to, at the very least, “pretend to be Christian.”

Under his preferred form of Christian nationalist theocracy, Webbon wants to see the Apostles’ Creed added to the Constitution; abortion, pornography, no-fault divorce, in vitro fertilization, and birth control outlawed; non-Christians kept out of his neighborhood and out of public office; Catholics relegated to second-class citizenship; immigrants shot for trying to enter the country; adulterers put to death; and women banned from voting and publicly executed for making false claims of sexual assault.

Fishback, it seems, is the embodiment of precisely the sort of candidate that Webbon wants to see running for office in order to bring about this theocratic vision.

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James Fishback is the radical right’s great white hope

Tucker Carlson: “Pretty soon, all winning Republican politicians will talk like this”

Written by Matt Gertz

Published 01/22/26

Far-right media figures including Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes are rallying around the Florida gubernatorial campaign of James Fishback, a hedge fund manager who rails against “white genocide,” praises the extremist “groyper” movement, and is currently polling at about 5% in the GOP primary.

Fox News has been the key media venue for would-be GOP candidates seeking to reach right-wing voters and attract support over several election cycles. Current Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis broke through in the 2018 primary by making himself a Fox fixture, and the front-runner to succeed him, network favorite and GOP Rep. Byron Donalds, has adopted the same political strategy, with at least 40 weekday appearances last year.

Fishback, the 31-year old CEO of the anti-“woke” investment firm he co-founded, has been on a tour of the right-wing political factions in recent years, from writing pieces for Bari Weiss’ site The Free Press to backing Vivek Ramaswamy’s presidential campaign before trying to get himself named to a seat on the Federal Reserve Board by promising to be President Donald Trump’s “bulldog.” After launching his gubernatorial campaign in November by painting himself as aligned with DeSantis, Fishback subsequently positioned himself as what The Bulwark’s Will Sommer described as “the first groyper candidate” — with a media profile to match.

Fishback worked his way up through interviews with “white nationalist influencer Ella Maulding,” “groyper leader Beardson Beardly,” “a Youtube show run by white nationalists in northern Idaho,” and “former Infowars host Owen Shroyer,” before breaking through with a fawning treatment from Carlson, as right-wing extremism expert Ben Lorber documented for The Nation.

Lorber reported that Fishback — along with groyper leader Fuentes — represents “an ascendant, Gen-Z America First wing of MAGA openly suspicious of Israel, economically populist and steeped in a white Christian nationalist worldview that scorns Jews, women, and nonwhite immigrants.”

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Carlson, a GOP power broker and White House regular who once used his Fox show to lift up Republican candidates like Vice President JD Vance, is currently focused on promoting such ideas and the noxious pundits and would-be GOP officeholders who espouse them on his streaming program. His hourlong interview with Fishback waspublished January 9.

“James Fishback is running for governor in Florida,” Carlson said as he promoted the interview. “Pretty soon, all winning Republican politicians will talk like this.” The landing image for the interview’s YouTube video featured text reading “WHO REALLY RUNS FLORIDA?” over photos of DeSantis — and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Discussing why he is running for governor as Carlson nodded along, Fishback railed against foreign students taking university slots from Floridians, “white guilt lessons” in schools, and H-1B “slave labor,” declaring that “the only systemic racism in America is against white Christian men.”

“I’m aware,” Carlson replied.

Fishback won Carlson’s support by promising that Florida would divest from Israeli government bonds and use the funds to help provide down payment assistance to married first-time homebuyers.

“You’ve got my vote,” he responded after Fishback laid out the proposal. “That’s all I needed to hear. Amen. Amen.”

Fishback’s turn on Carlson’s podcast spurred an outpouring of interest from higher-profile far-right media figures.

The following week, Fishback did ajoint interview with antisemitic misogynist streamer “Sneako” (real name: Nico Kenn De Balinthazy) and “looksmaxxing” influencer “Clavicular” (real name: Braden Peters).

Fishback discussed his proposal to, as he put it, implement a 50% tax on women who “hoe out on OnlyFans” to disincentivize them from doing so (“Say what you want about Saudi Arabia — there are no women hoeing out on the internet in Saudi Arabia,” Fishback said). He also alluded to an antisemitic conspiracy theory, saying of OnlyFans, “Let’s not get in trouble talking about who owns that platform.” Sneako endorsed Fishback later in the interview, while Clavicular praised his “insane reaction-baiting” but repeatedly poked holes in his policy proposals.

On Wednesday, Fishback appeared on thepodcast of Patrick Bet-David, who often provides a friendly platform for far-right extremists like white nationalist streamer Fuentes to spread their messages unimpeded. Bet-David praised Fishback for his “bold ideas.”

Fuentes himself has also taken notice of the campaign, praising Fishback on his show while stressing that he didn’t want to damage the candidate’s chances with an endorsement.

“I really like what I've seen from Fishback,” he said on his January 12 stream in response to a question from “FloridaGroyper” about the candidate’s Carlson interview. “I have to say I'm a bit conflicted still for a few reasons. I don't want to hurt him. That's kind of my first thing is I don't want to speak out of turn and hurt a politician by association if they're an ally. And the other thing is I didn't vet him myself.”

Fuentes commented that Fishback “seems really smart,” and said he was “really impressed” with the interview as well as with Fishback’s social media presence, adding that it had been “hilarious” when Fishback said that Donalds, who is Black, wanted to “turn Florida into a Section 8 ghetto.”

He later told Sneako and Clavicular that Fishback is “solid on the issues,” adding, “I watched him on Tucker — I don't think I disagreed with anything he said.”

And even before his appearance with Carlson, Fishback counted in his corner the gaming streamer Zack Hoyt, better known as Asmongold, who had more than 2 billion views on YouTube alone last year. In December, Hoytendorsed Fishback as “my guy,” cheering along with one of the candidate’s videos, praising his proposals as “based,” and urging his fans to “vote for people like this.”

Is this actually going anywhere?

Each of these far-right media figures have large followings — but trying to elect Fishback governor of Florida will put their influence to the test. The candidate is polling at or below 5% in recent surveys and had raised “just under $19,000” according to his most recent campaign filing.

While Fuentes is reportedly seeking to build a political movement — and recent reports suggest that his message is resonating with younger Republicans — this election cycle may be too soon for such candidates to succeed.

But for his part, Fishback says that his alternative media play will pay dividends.

“Ultimately, we are in an attention economy,” hetold Carlson near the end of their interview. “And the attention is going to go to the person who is going to connect and show up and earn the trust of voters.”

“You don’t get to earn the trust of voters in that Fox News studio in Washington, D.C.,” he added.

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