Nick Fuentes
Nick Fuentes is named in 11 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 2017 to 2025.
Quick facts
| Full name | Nicholas Joseph Fuentes |
| Born | August 18, 1998, Chicago, Illinois (raised in suburban Ridgeland) |
| Education | Boston University (attended 2016; dropped out after freshman year) |
| Known for | “America First” livestream; founder of the Groyper movement and AFPAC |
| Platform | “America First” livestream (banned from YouTube 2020 and Twitter 2021; reinstated to X 2022); moved to DLive and Cozy.tv |
| Organization | America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC), founded 2020 |
Key positions (documented by ADL, SPLC, and reporting)
| Position | Documentation |
|---|---|
| Holocaust denial | ADL documents that Fuentes “often praises Adolf Hitler and questions whether the Holocaust happened,” including his “cookie” analogy mocking the death toll |
| Antisemitism | ADL documents Fuentes calling for a “holy war” against Jews; in the October 2025 Carlson interview he named “organized Jewry in America” as the obstacle to national unity |
| White nationalism | “Demographics are destiny”; advocates ending all non-white immigration and an explicitly white, Christian America |
| Opposition to women’s suffrage | Has stated women should not have the right to vote; posted “Your body, my choice. Forever.” after the 2024 election |
| Anti-LGBTQ | During the 2019 “Groyper Wars,” demanded the removal of gay conservatives from movement leadership |
Biography
Nicholas Joseph Fuentes, born August 18, 1998 in Chicago and raised in suburban Ridgeland, began livestreaming as the host of “America First” in 2017 after attending Boston University and dropping out following his freshman year. He came up through online alt-right forums and built an audience of young men with a format modeled on gaming streams. The ADL, SPLC, and the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism all classify him as a white nationalist; the ADL documents that he praises Adolf Hitler, questions whether the Holocaust happened, and has called for a “holy war” against Jews.
In 2019 Fuentes organized what became known as the “Groyper Wars,” sending followers to disrupt Turning Point USA and other mainstream conservative events with hostile Q&A questions—a tactic the ADL described as an attempt to “sanitize their extremism by wrapping it in the conservative flag.” In 2020 he founded the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) as a white-nationalist counter-event scheduled against CPAC. AFPAC drew sitting and former elected officials: Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and former Rep. Steve King addressed it in 2021, and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke in February 2022.
Fuentes’s access to mainstream Republican figures expanded over the following years. On November 22, 2022, he dined with Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago alongside Ye (Kanye West) and Milo Yiannopoulos, who told NBC News he was “the architect” of the meeting; the dinner came roughly a week after Trump announced his 2024 campaign. By July 2024, The Intercept reported that Fuentes’s Groypers were “no longer pariahs among mainstream Republicans.” After Trump’s November 2024 victory, Fuentes posted “Your body, my choice. Forever.”, which spread widely as a post-election misogyny slogan.
In October 2025, Tucker Carlson hosted Fuentes for a roughly two-hour interview—the largest mainstream platform of his career, drawing more than 20 million views (as of late 2025; a self-reported platform figure)—in which Fuentes voiced admiration for Stalin and named “organized Jewry in America” as the obstacle to national unity. Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts’s defense of Carlson triggered a wave of board and staff resignations at the think tank. The episode helped open a public split on the right: at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest in December 2025, Vivek Ramaswamy condemned “heritage American” ideology, and Vice President JD Vance—whose wife Usha Vance had been targeted by Fuentes with racial slurs—said anyone who attacks his wife “can eat shit.”
Sources
- ADL (Anti-Defamation League), “Nicholas J. Fuentes: Five Things to Know” — https://www.adl.org/resources/article/nicholas-j-fuentes-five-things-know
- Southern Poverty Law Center, “Nick Fuentes Holds Racist Conference Across From CPAC” (March 4, 2023) — https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/03/04/nick-fuentes-holds-racist-conference-across-cpac
- Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, “White Power Rising: The Making of Nick Fuentes” — https://globalextremism.org/post/the-making-of-nick-fuentes/
- The Intercept, “Nick Fuentes’s Groypers No Longer Pariahs Among Mainstream Republicans” (July 18, 2024) — https://theintercept.com/2024/07/18/nick-fuentes-america-first-conference/
- NBC News, “The inside story of Trump’s explosive dinner with Ye and Nick Fuentes” (November 29, 2022) — https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/story-trumps-explosive-dinner-ye-nick-fuentes-rcna59010
- Wikipedia, “Nick Fuentes” — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Fuentes