Nicholas Joseph Fuentes (born August 18, 1998) is an American far-right political pundit and live streamer who promotes white supremacist, misogynistic, and anti-semitic views. His YouTube page was permanently terminated in February 2020 for violating YouTube's hate speech policy. Fuentes has promoted antisemitic conspiracy theories against Jews and called for a "holy war" against them, and has denied the Holocaust. He has been described as a neo-Nazi by various sources. Fuentes identifies as a member of the incel movement, a supporter of authoritarianism, and as an integralist and a Christian nationalist. Collaborating with Patrick Casey, a former leader of the neo-Nazi organization Identity Evropa in 2019, Fuentes's followers, known as Groypers, began to heckle Turning Point USA's Culture War Tour, including a speaking event for Donald Trump Jr. In 2020, seeking to establish a white supremacist conference to rival CPAC, Fuentes began holding the annual America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC). Fuentes attended the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, and was also an attendee and speaker at events preceding the January 6 United States Capitol attack. He has encouraged the use of jokes and irony among white nationalist groups, stating that it "is so important for giving a lot of cover and plausible deniability for our views". In November 2022 Fuentes and American rapper Kanye West had a private dinner with then-former President Donald Trump. The meeting was broadly condemned by commentators, and The New York Times described it as "what may be the most discomfiting moment in U.S. history in a half-century or more" for American Jews.
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For Conservatives to Resist Anti-Jewish Ovations on the Far-Right, Committed Christians Have the Answer There are already plenty of pundits weighing in on polarization and division in American life. However, as a senior pastor for over 40 years, I can’t help but address one major problem that’s becoming all too bipartisan. I’m talking about the meteoric rise in antisemitism, which has clearly infected both political parties. This age-old bigotry has expanded in both overt and covert forms, not just in the U.S., but around the world.In the wake of the Tucker Carlson-Nick Fuentes controversy, anyone assuming that rising anti-Jewish animus in this country stems only from woke progressives is sadly mistaken. (Townhall; 1.25.26) READMORE>>>>> Prominent evangelical calls Tucker Carlson’s anti-Israel comments ‘worse than Nazi Party’ A prominent U.S. evangelical leader has warned that parts of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement are turning against Israel and suggested that some of the rhetoric is worse than the Nazi Party platform of 1920. “Right now we are having a movement within the MAGA movement that is anti-Israel,” Dr. Mike Evans, founder of the Friends of Zion (FOZ) Heritage Center and Museum, told the Jerusalem Post. In October, Carlson interviewed Nick Fuentes on his podcast. Fuentes is known for his deeply antisemitic, racist, and misogynistic worldviews. Both men decried conservatives who support Israel. According to The Guardian, Carlson called out Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), former president George W. Bush, and Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, calling them "Christian Zionists." (Premier Christianity 12/5/25) READMORE>>>> MAGA Antisemitism Fails with Conservative Christians In the last couple of weeks, the Republican Party has been torn over questions of antisemitism and free speech after the MAGA influencer Tucker Carlson gave a friendly interview to Nick Fuentes, a Nazi sympathizer and an open antisemite. Senator Ted Cruz slammed Carlson vocally and warned about a growing antisemitic sentiment in the party. A few weeks earlier, Senator Cruz and Mr. Carlson engaged in a debate on Carlson’s show over American support for Israel – a conversation that moved from politics into theology as their differing Christian views of Jews became evident. Senator Cruz defended the idea that Jews are God’s Chosen People. In response, Mr. Carlson argued that the current Israeli government cannot be considered the heir of these biblical promises. A dispute unfolded within the conservative camp between two approaches to Jewish-Christian relations – one rooted in the philosemitic theology of Christian Zionism and the other reflecting supersessionist currents on the Christian far right, arguing that the church replaced the Jews with Divine blessings. It is interesting to examine what conservative Christians think about Jews in general and to what extent they agree with Senator Cruz that Jews still enjoy Divine blessing today. (Times of Israel 11/29/25) READMORE>>>> Christ the Christian Nationalist Sunday? Schriver is, unfortunately, not an outlier. Outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a group of young men waved “America First” flags while chanting “Christ is King!” shortly before the pro-Trump crowd stormed the building in hopes of blocking Trump’s electoral defeat. The group mixing “America First” and “Christ is King” were followers of far-right commentator Nick Fuentes, a controversial antisemitic Catholic Christian Nationalist. Fuentes, who argues the U.S. is “a Christian nation,” pushes the “Christ is King” slogan to support his White Christian Nationalist vision. Other extremists and antisemitic figures also often post “Christ is King” on social media, meaning the growing popularity online of the phrase is occurring because of those also pushing hateful politics. And a Christian Nationalist conference earlier this year was held with the theme, “Christ is King: How to Defeat Trashworld!” It included prominent Christian Nationalist speakers like Steve Deace, Andrew Isker, Calvin Robinson, Joel Webbon, and Stephen Wolfe. ”(A Public Witness 11/18/25) READMORE>>>> Conservatives: Stop pretending like Nick Fuentes is our friend About a week ago, my family and I watched Bonhoeffer on Angel. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s a kid-friendly account of WWII from inside Germany. One thing that struck me was how Deitrich Bonhoeffer and his family were stunned by Hitler’s rise to power, and the wave of anti-Jewish hatred that spiritually consumed their nation. It was not something they expected. Previously, they’d written off Hitler as fringe, a vocal minority, and a problem to be ignored until it disappeared on its own. Americans in 2025 are not more intelligent than the Germans were in 1925. We are not more evolved. We are not more educated. We are not morally superior. (Christian Post 11/15/25) READMORE>>>> On Nick Fuentes and the rise of the woke right The political right cannot restore civilization while imitating the nihilism of the left. It cannot claim to defend the West while rejecting the moral order that gave the West its coherence. The rise of Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and the growing faction known as the “woke right” is one of the strangest spectacles in contemporary political life. What began as a reaction against the absurdities of progressive identity politics has corrupted into its own version of the same phenomenon. The language and posture of resistance have become the very essence of the movement. They no longer serve truth, but performance. Hence, we may call it the woke right, a mirror image of the woke left, equally intoxicated by critical theory’s vocabulary of suspicion, power, and perpetual grievance. (Catholic World Report 11/14/25) READMORE>>>> Support for Israel among U.S. conservatives is starting to crack. Here's why" Some very influential leaders, all of whom I like — Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene — have taken a very controversial stance in regards to the nation of Israel," he said. Last week, Carlson hosted a prominent white nationalist named Nick Fuentes on his show. Although Carlson disagreed with Fuentes on his most antisemitic statements, such as American Jews are more faithful to Israel than they are to the United States, he did broadly align with Fuentes on his views about the country itself. (NPR 11/8/25) READMORE>>>> No Enemies to the Right? Inside the GOP’s new civil war Now, in 2025, recent events have dragged this originally unspoken fact into the light. The controversy revolves around two of the Right’s biggest figures: Media personality Tucker Carlson and Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts. Also at the center of it is Nick Fuentes, an avowed white nationalist, antisemite and founder of the self-proclaimed “Groyper” movement.m Who are the ‘Groypers’ and Nick Fuentes? To understand the current crisis, one must first understand Fuentes. He is the leader of the “Groyper Army,” a loose-knit movement of young, online activists. They are “America First” adherents who openly espouse white nationalist, antisemitic and racist ideologies. The Groypers’ primary tactic is to disrupt mainstream conservative events (which they mock as “Conservative Inc.”), such as previously confronting speakers like Charlie Kirk or Ben Shapiro with loaded, antisemitic questions. (Baptist News Global 11/4/25) READMORE>>>> Tucker Carlson Is Wrong About Christian Zionism Why do so many Americans support Israel? In his recent interview with “Groyper” Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson was the latest to ask a question that has vexed politicians, journalists, and scholars. “They’re not Jewish; most of them are self-described Christians,” he marveled. “They’re Christian Zionists. Like, what is that?” This was not the first time Carlson has discussed what he called the “brain virus” of Christian Zionism. In June, Carlson grilled Senator Ted Cruz about the theological sources of his foreign policy positions. When Cruz paraphrased Genesis 12, Carlson was incredulous that God’s promise to bless those who bless Abraham, his descendants, and their land could refer to the modern state of Israel. Last year, Carlson hosted the country singer John Rich. They did not discuss Israel specifically, but Rich echoed a conspiracy theory that evangelist C.I. Scofield’s success was orchestrated by rich Jews in order to promote Zionism among Christians. Carlson is increasing their prominence on the right, but such ideas have been popular on the left for decades. Beginning in the 1980s, a whole genre of books and articles contended that American Christians’ enthusiasm for Israel was based on an “end-times” scenario derived from the Victorian theologian John Nelson Darby, and mainstreamed by Scofield in the early 20th century. (The Free Press 11/2/25) READMORE>>>> |
November 11, 2025: Mother Jones reported: Earlier this week, Tucker Carlson welcomed prominent white nationalist Nick Fuentes onto the former Fox News host’s video podcast. As my colleague Kiera Butler described their conversation: Fuentes “made the case for the importance of Americans ‘to be pro-white,’ sang the praises of brutal Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, and bemoaned the problem of ‘organized Jewry in America.'” Much of their friendly chat involved lambasting Republicans who support Christian Zionism—the belief among some evangelicals that Christians should support the state of Israel. Carlson said that Republican Christian Zionists like Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee were “seized by this brain virus.” November 3, 2024: MSN reported: Nick Fuentes, an American far-right political pundit and white supremacist known for his highly controversial views, is sending a message to the Gods— or rather, Barron Trump. In one of his segments, Fuentes puts his hands up in the air and repeatedly shouts: “Barron! If you can hear us, please red pill your dad! Barron! Barroooon!”
November 4, 2024: The Mary Sue reported: Let’s get the big thing out of the way first: Nick Fuentes is a truly repulsive human being. He’s antisemitic, anti-women, anti-trans; a whining little incel. He’s the one who tweeted “Your body, my choice” after Donald Trump won the presidential election, and he got doxxed as a result. He turns the stomachs of all normal people. A terrible, disgusting man. And yet, even he thinks Matt Gaetz and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. are weird. Yes, really. On November 13, Donald Trump nominated Matt Gaetz for Attorney General. (Years feel like they’ve passed since then, but it was legit only last week.) Did he have any qualifications whatsoever for the job? No, he did not. And then there was the issue of his alleged sex crimes. Back in 2020, Gaetz was indicted on the charge of sex trafficking a 17-year-old, and after his recent nomination, an anonymous client of lawyer Joel Leppard accused Gaetz of having sex with a minor. (The Mary Sue 11/24/24) READMORE>>>>> November 20, 2023: Michael Brown reported: I pointed this out in my August 8 article denouncing an anti-Semitic rant by Nick Fuentes, where he said (to rousing applause and shouts of affirmation), “‘Word is getting out that we got to rid of Jewish power in America,’ and despite ‘them’ doing everything in their power to stop it — censoring and canceling and killing — ‘we are here to say that America is not a Jewish nation. America is a Christian nation.’” I noted that, “You’ve got to see the video for yourself, but, to paint the picture here in words, at this point in the speech, on the screen behind him, giant angel wings flap on his right and left, as if he was some kind of angelic messenger. It really does seem like a sick attempt at satire. But I repeat, it is not.
December 14, 2023: Religion News reported: Newsone reported: Here’s un-closeted white supremacist Nick Fuentes—a friend of the GOP who has literally called for a “white uprising” to get Trump back in office—saying that when conservatives are back in control of the country, atheists, “devil worshipers,” many people from the “Jewish community,” and anyone else who doesn’t support a Christian theocracy in America should be put to death, and that the act would even be more important than stopping “non-white people” from migrating here. January 29, 2022: A House committee investigating the storming of the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, subpoenaed Fuentes for his involvement in the anti-democracy “Stop the Steal” movement.
October 28, 2022: Religion News reported: The different variants of Christian nationalism begun to show themselves and develop. Even as Locke was becoming a major Christian nationalist voice, Nick Fuentes, the white nationalist head of the group America First, and a Catholic, was on the rise as well. While Locke has advocated for burning rosaries, Fuentes has celebrated the idea of “Catholic Taliban rule." |
November 9. 2022: NPR reported: House and Senate Republicans are speaking out against former President Donald Trump's dinner last week with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, and white nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes.
November 27, 2022: David Goldenberg, the Anti-Defamation League director of the Midwest regional office, told the Chicago Sun-Times: “Fuentes is among the most prominent and unapologetic antisemites around. He’s a vicious bigot. He’s been condemned across the political spectrum. … He’s a white supremacist who really is seeking to forge a white nationalist alternative to the mainstream GOP."
November 27, 2022: Religion News Serviced reported: Last year the 24-year-old right-wing media personality told an audience that the United States will cease to be America 'if it loses its white demographic core and if it loses its faith in Jesus Christ.'
November 28, 2022: In a NewsNation interview Mike Pence said: “President Trump was wrong to give a white nationalist, an antisemite and a Holocaust denier, a seat at the table and I think he should apologize for it."
November 29, 2022: WBEZ Reported: White nationalist Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, who met with former President Donald Trump last Tuesday at his Mar-a-Largo estate (brought there by the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, under fire for his own antisemitic statements), was raised in suburban Chicago
November 29, 2022: Kevin McCarthy said to reporters: "I don't think anybody should be spending any time with Nick Fuentes. He has no place in this Republican Party. I think President Trump came out four times and condemned him and didn't know who he was." When a reporter pointed out to McCarthy that the former president only denied knowing Fuentes — not condemning his ideologies, McCarthy said: "Well, I condemn his ideology, it has no place in society; at all."
December 6, 2022: The Hill reported: Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist leader who recently dined with former President Donald Trump, was caught on camera hurling a drink at customers at a Hollywood In-N-Out Burger over the weekend.
Jan. 4, 2021: A broadcast of “America First” aired in which Fuentes said: “Republicans just screwed us every day for two months straight, and we have no recourse. Why? Because we have no leverage. What are we going to do to them? What can you and I do to a state legislator besides kill them? We should not do that. I’m not advertising that, but I mean, what else can you do, right?”
Aug. 12, 2017: In a FaceBook post Fuentes said: “You can call us racists, white supremacists, Nazis, & bigots. You can disavow us on social media from your cushy Campus Reform job. But you will not replace us. The rootless transnational elite knows that a tidal wave of white identity is coming. And they know that once the word gets out, they will not be able to stop us. The fire rises!”