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Nick Fuentes
Nick Fuentes [Nicholas Joseph Fuentes] was arrested in November 2024. Fuentes has promoted white supremacy, trivialized the Holocaust and spread anti-Semitism, including during the coronavirus pandemic. Fuentes has also spread anti-Israel conspiracy theories, celebrated violence and promoted bigotry, racism and hatred of Zionists and Israel.
In August 2017, Fuentes participated in the white nationalist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
In May 2020, Fuentes founded the America First Foundation (AFF) and served as the organization’s president. As of March 2023, the AFF gab.com page said the organization had 501(c)(4) nonprofit foundation tax status.
In November 2022, AFF described itself as “a populist, nationalist movement reviving working class patriotism against the globalist agenda” with a mission to “promote, and advocate for conservative values based on principles of American Nationalism, Christianity, and Traditionalism.”
In February 2021, Fuentes organized the annual America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC), which he initiated in 2020.
In 2017, Fuentes began hosting a political live stream called “America First.” The show debuted on the Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN), which dropped Fuentes in the wake of the Unite the Right rally. Fuentes later opened his own YouTube channel, which was deplatformed in February 2020.
As of March 2023, the America First show was hosted by the streaming site cozy.tv.
Fuentes’s supporters are collectively known as “Groypers” or the “Groyper Army,” which takes its name from a white nationalist meme.
In 2017, Fuentes reportedly dropped out of Boston University. In May 2017, he had reportedly been accepted to Auburn University as a transfer student, but never enrolled.
As of December 2022, Fuentes was reportedly located in Berwyn, Illinois.
On December 6, 2024, Chicago Sun-Times reported that Fuentes was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor battery charge on November 27, 2024, after a woman accused him of “pepper spraying her and pushing her down the front steps of his…home.” The victim later filed a criminal complaint against Fuentes. Fuentes is scheduled to appear in court on December 19, 2024, in Maywood, Illinois.
Also on December 6, 2024, Fuentes posted on X, referring to his arrest: “Free me ni**a.”
On October 1, 2018, Fuentes was featured in a YouTube video where he promoted [00:00:32] the idea of there being a “white genocide” in America.
The assertion that there is a “White Genocide” is a conspiracy theory propagated by white supremacists, who often claim that the Jews are responsible for this genocide.
Fuentes said [00:00:50]: “If we had the restoration of a core American identity centered around ethnicity and race, well, we would tend to regard not-whites as outsiders and there might be backlash against them. And, to me, that’s almost inevitable…”
Fuentes continued [00:01:17]: “We have no identity and it’s just gang rape on America by the third world. It’s horrible. Everybody loses.”
On May 16, 2019, Fuentes said [00:03:18] on YouTube: “You know what our problem is? The fertility rates. We need to be making more beautiful white Christian babies. Enough is enough…the problem is…All the Muslims coming into Europe.”
On October 30, 2019, Fuentes featured in a video posted on Twitter where he made light of the Holocaust using the metaphor of cookies baked in an oven as a euphemism for Jews who were incinerated in crematoria by the Nazis.
Fuentes questioned [00:00:01] whether one could bake 6 million batches of cookies in 15 ovens, each taking an hour to bake, cooking 24 hours a day every day for 5 years.
Fuentes said [00:00:37]: “I don’t know, it certainly wouldn’t be 5 years right, the math doesn’t seem to add up there…I don’t think you’d result in 6 million, maybe 200-300,000 cookies…”
Fuentes went on to say [00:01:48]: “It just kinda doesn’t really make sense, this crazy cookie analogy...That's sort of an esoteric story...So 6 million cookies? Eh eh, I don’t buy it…”
On October 15, 2020, Fuentes tweeted: “My favorite comedy routine is when they grill me about whether or not I believe 6,000,000 Jews died in the Holocaust and if I feel sorry about it and then…scream at me that I should be ashamed for being a mean person.”
On December 5, 2022, Fuentes posted to Telegram: “Jewish People: Forgive Hitler today. Let it go. Goodnight.”
On October 30, 2024, Fuentes posted on X, referring to the results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election: “In January 2025 (like in 2017) we will not be getting a ‘Trump administration.’ We will be getting an administration filled with establishment hacks and Israel loyalists with Trump as its mascot…”
The concept of “dual loyalty” is an anti-Semitic accusation that alleges Jews are more loyal to Israel than to their own nations.
On October 29, 2024, Fuentes posted on X: “You are a cuck for the Jews *spits*.” Fuentes’s post was in response to an October 28, 2024 post on X by American politician Madison Cawthorn that said: “I, for one, hope that MORE of Hamas’s beepers go off.”
Cawthorn’s post on X was in reference to the pager explosions that occurred in Lebanon on September 17-18, 2024, during Israel’s war against Hamas, called “Swords of Iron.” For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
On March 5, 2023, Fuentes was featured in a Twitter video, in which he said [00:00:02]: “And, at the end of the day, you know what else has got to go in a Christian society?... This is the only one that hates Jesus in the world. Not Hinduism, not Islam, not Buddhism. But the other thing that’s gotta go from the public life at the highest levels is this Talmudic Judaism.”
On November 25, 2022, Fuentes featured in a Twitter video where he said [00:00:29]: “America welcomed Jewish immigrants throughout the 20th century…And then what do they do? They become successful in media and Hollywood, and then browbeat us and call us Nazis…and say we're murderers. Why?...because of our ancestors, who built this country that so graciously welcomed you here?...How dare you! Ingrate!”
Fuentes continued [00:01:02]: “I've heard enough about this Holocaust…How about we hear about the generosity of America that brought you here? We hear Holocaust museums. How about some gratitude museums? How about some gratitude? For Christendom?...Instead, all we get is…this blood libel, insults…You want to talk about a Holocaust?...The real Holocaust was Jesus Christ being crucified…”
On November 14, 2022, Fuentes posted on Telegram: “Jews have too much power in our society. Christians should have all the power, everyone else very little.”
On October 26, 2022, Fuentes featured in a video on Twitter where he said [00:01:47]: “Who else would be leading the revolution…the insurrection against the true kingdom?...Who else would be behind it, other than the devil?...you could say it’s the Left, and behind that is the Jews, and behind that is the devil.”
On November 11, 2019, Fuentes shared on YouTube a video of himself speaking on his show, discussing the difference between “paleocons” [the “Old Right”] and “neocons” [neoconservatives].
Fuentes said [00:00:14]: “The character of neoconservatism is Jewish…they’re all Jewish. You look at the 25 intellectuals who brought us to war in Iraq, and that’s the hallmark of neoconservatism, they’re all Jewish, or half of them are Jewish…all these guys; they’re all Jewish.”
Fuentes continued [00:01:05]: “Yeah, Jewish people are fine and everything...They kind of killed our savior…I guess we could still have ‘em in the country…We’ll be nice to you, I guess you could stay here and we’ll tolerate you, but you kinda have your own country already.”
Fuentes added [00:02:45]: “Jewish people like [political commentator] Ben Shapiro say that ‘America First’ is anti-Semitic. They much prefer ‘Israel First.’ Now they’ll never say that and they’ll call you anti-Semitic for even suggesting that they might believe that or say that…”
The term “Israel-Firster” is an anti-Semitic slur used against Jews to accuse them of dual loyalty. The term also applies to non-Jews to allege they are more loyal to Israel than to their own countries.
Fuentes later said [00:07:48] in the video: “God is on the side of the paleocons, the devil is on the side of the neocons…If you look at the paleoconservatives, it’s Christians, it’s Catholics…” He concluded [00:10:32]: “The neoconservatives, they’re Jewish…they’re Israel First. They believe in free trade; they want war, they want profit, and fundamentally…they’re agents of the devil.”
On August 5, 2019, Fuentes criticized conservative commentator Matt Walsh for condemning a white nationalist who carried out a mass shooting two days earlier in El Paso, Texas.
Fuentes called [00:02:12] Walsh a “Shabbos goy race traitor” because he worked for the Daily Wire, a conservative media outlet run by Ben Shapiro.
Fuentes continued [00:02:27], referring to Walsh: “Keep typing on Twitter.com, faggot. Faggot p**sy. Race traitor. You work for Jews.”
On March 25, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic, Fuentes posted a video on Bitchute in which he said [01:05:24]: “What was so funny about the coronavirus outbreak is that it was like all these Jewish people that got it, and because all these Jewish people got it you could really track all of their gatherings.”
Fuentes continued [01:05:49]: “This Jewish doctor exposed all these other people at the Shabbat dinner and then the goyim are asking themselves: what's a Shabbat dinner? Why are all the elites there? Why are all the big-name people at that dinner and what were they doing?”
Fuentes added [01:06:27]: “In a way…when it [the coronavirus] goes through the Jewish community, it kind of shows you all these little pockets where you see these gatherings happen, and you just have to scratch your chin and wonder, hm, I wonder, I wonder what's going on there…?”
Fuentes then said [01:06:51]: “Why is everybody there? Why are all these goyim there? Why are all these non-Jewish people there hanging out? It really makes you wonder…it's very possible that Ben Shapiro got it…at the secret gathering.”
Fuentes’s comments alluded to claims made in the anti-Semitic, fabricated text, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion that wealthy Jews conspiring to take over the world would meet in secret.
On November 24, 2024, Fuentes posted on X about Argentinian president Javier Milei. Fuentes wrote: “Javier Milei is a CIA/Israel-backed operative.”
On November 17, 2024, Fuentes posted on X: “Every single member of Trump’s new cabinet and the leaders of the House and Senate are all super-Zionists. / Republican control = Israeli control.”
Popular anti-Semitic conspiracy theories claim Jews control the world’s finance, media and governments. Some anti-Semites use the term “Zionists” as a euphemism for “Jews” to express supposed Jewish global power.
On November 16, 2024, Fuentes posted on X: “It is simultaneously true that Trump is cool as f**k and absolutely goated but also that Zionist subversives are drafting behind him and using his cultural cache to empower themselves.”
On October 7, 2024, Fuentes posted on X: “It is now obvious that October 7th was either staged or taken advantage of in order to justify Israel’s unfolding regional war to destroy Iran and its proxies. / Countless dead, billions in economic destruction— when will it be enough for this murderous regime?”
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Many Palestinian civilians participated in and supported the attacks, and Gazans working in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
Denial of the Hamas war crimes of October 7, 2023, among anti-Israel activists has been likened to Holocaust denial among neo-Nazis.
“Greater Israel” is a conspiracy theory which claims that Israel plans to expand its territory to encompass most of the Middle East and chunks of North Africa.
On August 16, 2019, Fuentes tweeted: “Israel has: / Murdered our sailors / Spied on our citizens / Bribed our Congress / Lied us into costly wars / Stolen classified American intel / Sold our military tech to China / Taken billions of taxpayer dollars / Stolen our nuclear weapons tech / Why does any American still support Israel?”
On September 15, 2020, Fuentes tweeted: “...everyone knows that Israel has had the ‘key to the White House’ for decades.”
On December 25, 2020, Fuentes tweeted: “Foreign powers and the deep state trying to goad us into a confrontation with Iran before Trump leaves office…it’s fake news! Israel largely responsible.”
On April 19, 2017, in an RSBN YouTube segment, Fuentes said [00:01:06]: “Who runs the media? Globalists. Time to kill the globalists…I don't want CNN to go out of business…I want people that run CNN to be arrested and deported or hanged…”
On February 26, 2021, Fuentes spoke [00:58:01] at the second AFPAC about his experience observing the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots in Washington, D.C.
Fuentes said [00:58:06]: “I saw hundreds of thousands of patriots surrounding the U.S. Capitol building and I saw the police retreating…I said to myself, ‘This is awesome!’”
Fuentes continued [00:59:51]: “And so to see that Capitol under siege, to see the people of this country rise up and mobilize to D.C. with the pitchforks and the torches. We need a little bit more of that energy in the future.”
On April 19, 2017, Fuentes said [00:00:01]: “The First Amendment was not written for Muslims, by the way. It wasn't written for a barbaric ideology that wanted to come over and kill us.”
On September 23, 2019, Fuentes said [00:03:05] regarding Jim Crow segregation: “Enough with the Jim Crow stuff…they had to drink out of a different water fountain, big f**king deal. Oh, no, they had to go to a different school…even if it was bad, who cares?...We all agree it was better for them, it’s better for us, it’s better in general.”
On February 26, 2022, Fuentes featured in a video on Twitter where he said [00:00:10]: “... people accuse us of hating black people. And we're the only ones that treat black people with, like, actual respect, honestly, respect enough to tell them hey, stop committing crimes, stop, stop being so illiterate in schools.”
Fuentes continued [00:00:33]: “We stand for real human beings truly, but we also stand for whites.”
Fuentes then mocked [00:00:46] American media executive Steve Bannon, saying: “Bannon is the fat retard that goes on these shows and says, we're gonna have African Americans votin' fifty percent for Republicans…”
Immediately afterward, Fuentes misquoted Bannon’s words, saying: “...and we're gonna flood the zone with n**ger votes.”
On July 26, 2022, Fuentes posted to Telegram: “there's not even that many gay people but everyone with monkeypox is gay lmao [laughing my a** off], its like aids. How do people not see whats going on here? its like black people with jail.”
On December 15, 2024, Fuentes posted on X: “Zionist shills are going crazy. I have been attacked and slandered more in the last 3 months than at any other time in my career. / They know the American people are waking up to the reality of our occupied government and will do anything to silence the people exposing it.”
ZOG stands for Zionist Occupied Government, an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that claims Jews secretly control Western governments. The phrase is frequently used by anti-Semitic and white nationalist groups.
On September 17, 2024, Fuentes posted on X: “Israel is a terrorist nation with nukes holding America hostage.”
On November 20, 2024, Fuentes posted on X: “I’m so sick of hearing about antisemitism. You can start complaining about bigotry again when you aren’t committing a genocide with your ethnostate while being the most privileged group in the world.”
On November 27, 2024, Fuentes posted on X: “Israel has no intention of making peace. They’re just waiting for Trump to take office because he will let them genocide Palestinians and bomb Iran even more than Biden did. They’ve been waiting since October 7th.”
On August 12, 2017, Fuentes reportedly attended the “Unite The Right” rally.
The “Unite the Right” rally took place in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017, with many far-right groups participating such as the National Socialist Movement (NSM) and League of the South (LS). White nationalist leader Richard Spencer organized the rally to protest the planned removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee. Violence erupted at the rally, with one counterprotester killed and at least 33 others injured.
On August 19, 2017, Fuentes reportedly said of the rally: “I thought it was an important moment for this segment of the Right Wing…to come together in a show of solidarity for our cause.”
