December 10, 2025
Nick Fuentes is a far-right extremist and white nationalist whose rhetoric and online organizing have made him one of the most visible figures on the far-right. Here is what to know about Nick Fuentes, including how he promotes antisemitism and his involvement in the America First and Groyper movements.
Who is Nick Fuentes?
Nick Fuentes, 27, is a white supremacist, Holocaust denier who hates Jews. Fuentes gained notoriety amongst the fringes of society as a freshman at Boston University, when he attended the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where hundreds of torch-bearing far-right demonstrators chanted “Jews will not replace us.”
Fuentes prefers to be called a “Christian conservative” rather than a “white supremacist.” Raised Roman Catholic, he hailed the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade as the advent of a “Catholic Taliban rule – in a good way” and encourages other Christian nationalists to do the same.
America will cease to exist as a Christian nation, he says, “if it loses its white demographic core and if it loses its faith in Jesus Christ.” In a debate on Alex Jones’ InfoWars in May 2021, he said that Jews have no place in Western civilization because they are not Christian.
Fuentes routinely claims that Jews cannot be part of Western civilization because they are not Christian. In a 2021 debate on Alex Jones’s InfoWars, he said bluntly that Jews “have no place in Western civilization.” In his more recent 2025 appearance on The Tucker Carlson Network, he again described “Zionist Jews” as enemies of the conservative movement. He pushed the false idea that Jews have dual loyalty to Israel.
Banned from most major social media and podcast platforms except X, Fuentes continues to stream on Truth Social, Telegram, and Gab, where he uses his program America First with Nicholas J. Fuentes and his annual America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) to recruit followers — known as Groypers — and spread his white nationalist, antisemitic ideology.
What did Nick Fuentes say on Tucker Carlson’s show?
In his October 2025 appearance on The Tucker Carlson Network, Fuentes used the platform to promote a wide range of antisemitic conspiracy theories and tropes. Carlson, who has been criticized by some on the right for his anti-Israel views, faced criticism from many conservatives, such as Ben Shapiro, for giving Fuentes a national platform. Fuentes’ remarks were also condemned by mainstream conservatives and Republican leaders, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, Senator Rick Scott of Florida, and Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.
During the two-hour interview, Fuentes told Carlson that the main obstacle within the conservative movement was “these Zionist Jews,” explicitly blaming Jews for what he sees as the corruption of American politics and culture. He claimed that neoconservatism is “Jewish in nature” because it supposedly prioritizes Israel over traditional conservative principles, saying:
“As far as the Jews are concerned, you cannot actually divorce Israel and the neocons and all those things that you talk about from Jewishness: ethnicity, religion, identity,” Fuentes told Carlson. While he acknowledged that some Jews do oppose Israel, he said that among his enemies on the right, “I see Jewishness as the common denominator.”
Fuentes further described Jews as “a stateless people” who are “unassimilable” and said Judaism is incompatible with Western civilization, asserting that “they hate the Romans because the Romans destroyed the Temple. We don’t think that, as Americans and white people.”
He also advanced the dual-loyalty trope, arguing that Jewish Americans are loyal first to Israel and that “they have this international community across borders, extremely organized, that is putting the interests of themselves before the interests of their home country.”
Fuentes also tried to sanitize his antisemitism, claiming that some of his “best friends” are Jewish, while reiterating that he sees “Jewishness” as the defining trait of his political opponents.
Carlson at times claimed to distance himself—saying, “I’m not that interested in ‘the Jews’”—but he nonetheless validated much of Fuentes’s framing, echoing his hostility toward Israel and repeating that U.S. support for the Jewish state “hurts us” and that America “gets nothing out of it.”
Towards the end of the interview, Fuentes reaffirmed his broader ideology that the Jews did not have a right to.
“We do need to be right-wing. We do need to be Christian. We do, on some level, need to be pro-white,” he said. “Not to the exclusion of everybody else, but recognizing that white people have a special heritage here, as Americans.”
What is America First?
America First carries a historical and antisemitic context dating to the 1940s. Then, the America First committee was an isolationist group of some 800,000 members whose chief spokesman, the iconic pilot Charles Lindbergh, blamed American Jews for dragging the U.S. into World War II.
Today, the term has been repurposed by Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist activist who has built a far-right online following around his show America First with Nicholas J. Fuentes and the America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) — a self-styled alternative to the mainstream Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Fuentes and his followers, known as Groypers, claim to defend “traditional” American and Christian values, but their ideology is rooted in white nationalism, antisemitism, and authoritarianism.
They oppose immigration, women’s equality, and LGBTQ+ rights, while spreading antisemitic and “great replacement” conspiracies about Jews and nonwhite immigrants eroding Western civilization. Fuentes has openly questioned the Holocaust, once making a crude comparison between its victims and “cookies in an oven.” His rhetoric about “globalists” and “elites” recycles classic antisemitic tropes suggesting Jews secretly control media, finance, and government — ideas central to Nazi propaganda and today’s extremist movements.
Fuentes was banned from most major platforms but was reinstated on X (formerly Twitter) by its CEO, Elon Musk, in 2024, where he appears to have over a million followers. In 2025, Spotify removed his “America First” podcast for hate speech violations. His podcast is also banned from Apple Podcasts and YouTube.
How much of Fuentes’ following is really America First?
Ever since the September assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, Fuentes has been angling to become a leading voice among American conservatives. But it's questionable how many Americans are amplifying that voice.
A recent report by the Network Contagion Research Institute, a nonpartisan, multidisciplinary group of experts who study online disinformation, found roughly half of the accounts that promoted three of Fuentes’ most viral posts before Kirk’s assassination came from places where there are high concentrations of known content-engagement farms.
This “manufactured engagement,” the report said, caused Fuentes to “appear active, relevant,” led to an uptick in mainstream media attention and prompted an interview with Carlson. But the report posits that the façade amplified by foreign actors has served to elevate Fuentes' message -- a message that threatens Jews and liberal democracy.
What is a Groyper?
“Groypers” are followers of white nationalist activist Nick Fuentes, who has built an online movement targeting young, far-right audiences. The term originates from a meme featuring a smug-looking green cartoon frog or toad—closely related to, and likely derived from, Pepe the Frog, which has become a widely used symbol by the alt-right. The Groyper image serves as a mascot and online calling card for Fuentes’ followers.
Groypers describe themselves as “America First” conservatives, but their ideology is rooted in white nationalist and extremist beliefs. They oppose immigration, LGBTQ+ rights, women’s equality, and any perceived restrictions on hate speech. They claim that mainstream conservatives have betrayed “true” American values by promoting diversity and inclusion instead of defending what they view as a white, Christian nation.
Like Fuentes, Groypers spread conspiracy theories, deny the Holocaust, and promote antisemitic tropes, including the false accusation that American Jews have “dual loyalty” to Israel. Their movement thrives on online provocation, trolling, and confrontations—especially targeting mainstream conservative figures and institutions they view as insufficiently extreme.
