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  • The New Right’s Antisemitic Agenda to Conquer America

    The New Right’s Antisemitic Agenda to Conquer America

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    Nick Fuentes speaks at a pro-Trump march on 14 November 2020 in Washington DC. © Jacquelyn Martin/AP

    Tucker Carlson leaned forward, his voice a mix of folksy curiosity and barely veiled admiration. “Nick Fuentes, thank you for doing this,” he said, slapping a tin of nicotine pouches onto the scarred wooden table. “I want to understand what you believe, and I want to give you a chance… to just lay it out.” What followed was a two-hour-plus podcast episode that didn’t so much crack open the Overton window of American conservatism as shatter it entirely. Fuentes, the 27-year-old white nationalist firebrand whose “Groyper” army of online trolls has long haunted the fringes of the MAGA movement, wasn’t grilled on his praise for Adolf Hitler or his Holocaust denial. Instead, he was handed a megaphone—reaching nearly 5 million YouTube views in days—and used it to declare “organized Jewry” America’s existential threat, gush over Joseph Stalin as a “fan,” and blame women for the nation’s moral decay.

    This wasn’t a rogue ambush; it was a coronation. For years, Fuentes operated in the shadows—banned from platforms, shunned by CPAC, even mocked by Carlson himself as a “weird little gay kid” in an August spat. But in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s September assassination and a roiling GOP civil war over Israel, the firewall against him is crumbling. From Heritage Foundation boardrooms to Young Republican group chats, Fuentes’ antisemitic gospel is seeping into the mainstream right, threatening to redefine “America First” as a code for white Christian nationalism. As one GOP strategist whispered to me off the record: “Fuentes isn’t infiltrating MAGA—he’s becoming it.”

    Our investigation—drawing on leaked emails, internal Heritage memos, exclusive interviews with disgruntled staffers, and a deep dive into Fuentes’ financial empire—reveals a calculated conquest. Backed by a post-Kirk surge in followers (over 100,000 on X and Rumble since September), Fuentes is positioning himself as the “alt-Charlie Kirk,” infiltrating youth orgs and think tanks while his Groypers wage guerrilla warfare online. The result? A Republican Party fracturing along lines of faith, foreign policy, and outright bigotry, with Trump’s “big tent” looking more like a siege tower aimed at American Jews.

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    Tucker Carlson at the White House on Oct. 14. © Alex Brandon/AP

    The interview, aired October 27 on The Tucker Carlson Show, was billed as a bridge-building exercise. Carlson, exiled from Fox but thriving with 5 million subscribers, framed it as a quest for understanding: “You’re clearly ascendant… enormously talented. More talented than I am, for sure.” Fuentes, the Berwyn, Illinois, native who once urged Trump to drop out in 2016, obliged with a manifesto. “The big challenge to unifying the country… is organized Jewry in America,” he intoned, echoing tropes of a “transnational gang” pulling strings. He admired Stalin for “turning the USSR into a global superpower” and beat back the Nazis—omitting the purges that killed millions, including Jews. On women? “It’s the women… extremely liberal… frumpy, obnoxious, loudmouth… Their sense of their own looks and sexual value is very inflated.” Carlson, self-admitted “a little sexist,” nodded along, decrying “Christian Zionists” like Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee as heretics infected by a “brain virus.”

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    UNITED STATES – OCTOBER 29: Chairman Ted Cruz, R-Texas, attends the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee hearing titled “Shut Your App: How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans, Part II,” in Russell building on Wednesday, October 29, 2025. © Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via AP Images

    Pushback was perfunctory. Carlson quibbled on antisemitism—”It’s against my Christian faith”—but never circled back to Stalin or Hitler, whom Fuentes has called “really f***ing cool.” By contrast, his June grilling of Cruz devolved into shouts over Israel policy. “Why grill a senator fighting for conservatism but pattycake with a podcaster praising genocide?” one Heritage alum fumed to me.

    The episode exploded: 13 million X views, 2.6 million on YouTube in 24 hours. Fuentes crowed on X: “We don’t need permission from foreign agents & paid shills… The Tucker show was the first conversation… totally unsanctioned by Israel.” Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) rallied: “The more they go after @TuckerCarlson, the more I will watch.” But the backlash was swift and bipartisan.

    GOP Reckoning: From Cruz to McConnell, a Line in the Sand

    At the Republican Jewish Coalition’s (RJC) annual summit in Las Vegas—meant to toast a fragile Gaza ceasefire—the interview hijacked the agenda. College-aged Jewish Republicans waved “Tucker is not MAGA” signs; speakers like Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) thundered, “In our party we will not tolerate antisemitism.” Sen. Ted Cruz, without naming Carlson, eviscerated the platforming: “If you sit there with someone who says Adolf Hitler was very, very cool… and you say nothing, then you are a coward and you are complicit in that evil.” He’d seen “more antisemitism on the right in the last six months than in my entire life,” a “poison” facing an “existential crisis.”

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    Sen. Mitch McConnell walks to the Senate Chambers in the U.S. Capitol Building on July 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. © Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

    Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) piled on, skewering Heritage’s defense of Carlson: “Last I checked, ‘conservatives should feel no obligation’ to carry water for antisemites and apologists for America-hating autocrats.” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) called Carlson “a bad person… changed a lot over the last 20 years.” RJC CEO Matt Brooks was “appalled, offended and disgusted,” vowing a “reassessment” of ties with Heritage. Even Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) quipped from the “Hitler-sucks wing of the Republican Party.”

    Democrats pounced: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer deemed it “deeply disturbing,” urging Heritage allies to “disavow this dangerous mainstreaming.” The irony stung—GOP attacks on “leftist antisemitism” rang hollow amid leaks of Young Republicans’ chats joking about gas chambers and a Trump nominee’s “Nazi streak.”

    Fuentes reveled: In a post-interview video, he urged, “We are done with the Jewish oligarchy… the slavish surrender to Israel.” His Groypers—Pepe the Frog variants co-opted by alt-right incels—swarmed, doxxing critics and claiming infiltration: “There’s groypers in every department.”

    Heritage’s House of Cards: Staff Shakeup and Soul-Searching

    No institution felt the quake like the Heritage Foundation, conservatism’s intellectual fortress and architect of Project 2025. President Kevin Roberts’ Thursday video—defending Carlson as a “close friend” and decrying a “venomous coalition” of cancellers—ignited a firestorm. “The American people expect us to be focusing on our political adversaries on the left, not attacking our friends on the right,” Roberts intoned, adding that “canceling [Fuentes] is not the answer.”

    Internally, it was mutiny. Tax researcher Preston Brashers tweeted a “NAZIS ARE BAD” meme and clips of Fuentes’ Hitler fandom, prompting Chief of Staff Ryan Neuhaus to demand resignations: “Resign if so outraged… addition by subtraction.” By Friday, Roberts reassigned Neuhaus to a senior adviser role at the Simon Center, installing EVP Derrick Morgan as acting chief. An all-staff email, subject: “Heritage’s Stand Against Antisemitism and for Civilizational Truth,” touted anti-hate initiatives but insisted on “balanced” Israel policy: “Space between believing Israel can do no wrong and blaming it for every wrong.”

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    Heritage President Kevin Roberts introduces Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis before a speech at the Heritage Foundation, Oct. 27, 2023, as part of the Mandate for Leadership Series in Washington. © Jess Rapfogel/AP

    Board trustees rebelled. Princeton’s Robert P. George blasted “no enemies to the right” as incompatible with “inherent and equal dignity of all,” refusing to normalize “white supremacists… antisemites.” Trustee John Coleman: “You cannot be a faithful Christian and anti-Semitic.” Mark Goldfeder quit Heritage’s antisemitism task force: “Makes continued participation impossible.” Ex-staffer Tim Chapman, now at Advancing American Freedom, accused Heritage of “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” with populists.

    Roberts doubled down in interviews: “To appeal to [Fuentes’] millions of disaffected young men… not to cancel him.” But whispers of a board “emergency meeting” (denied by VP Mary Vought) and donation-page Carlson scrub suggest damage control. “Heritage’s one-voice policy is cracking,” a current staffer told me anonymously. “We’re the intellectual backbone—now we’re carrying water for Stalin fans?”

    Kirk’s September 10 assassination—by Tyler Robinson, a left-leaning gamer radicalized over trans issues—created a void Fuentes exploited ruthlessly. Leftist conspiracies briefly fingered Groypers (debunked; no ties), but Fuentes spun it: “We’re being framed… based on literally zero evidence.” His post-Kirk episode: 2.5 million Rumble views. Spotify yanked his show for hate speech, but X reinstated him under Musk.

    Fuentes’ model? Infiltrate and radicalize. Groypers trolled Turning Point USA in 2019’s “Groyper Wars,” grilling Kirk on Israel and immigration. Jan. 6 arrests included Groyper links; now, they’re in “every department,” per Fuentes. Financially? America First Foundation: $44K in FY2024 (up from $4K prior). Subscriptions ($15-$100/month) and merch fund his Rumble empire—second-most watched Q3 streamer.

    Legally unscathed: A November 2024 battery charge (pepper-spraying a woman after doxxing) resolved with anger management, 75 hours community service, $635 restitution, and an apology—dismissed if complied. Victim Marla Rose: “Consequences for… hate.” Fuentes’ retort to critics? “Shut the f— up. You don’t know what you’re talking about.”

    Fuentes’ Carlson chat doubled as a misogyny manifesto. Women? “Baby machines” with “inflated” value, driving “hoeflation” and erectile dysfunction via porn. “Men are the responsible party but have no authority.” Carlson: “I don’t know a single happily married woman who’s liberal.” Bare Marriage research contradicts: Patriarchal “authority” correlates with exhaustion, pain, and passive-aggression.

    On Israel: A proxy for antisemitism. Carlson’s “Christian Zionists” rant alienates evangelicals; Fuentes eyes Vance as 2028 prey: “We’ll be in Iowa.” Laura Loomer, Jewish MAGA enforcer: “They say I don’t belong… because I’m Jewish.” Trump—philo-Semitic, pro-Israel—holds the tent, but his exit looms.

    As George Washington wrote in 1790: May Jews “continue to merit and enjoy the good will” of Americans. Fuentes’ vision? An America where they don’t. With Kirk gone and Heritage wobbling, the Groypers march. The right’s soul hangs in the balance: Will it debate evil—or embrace it?

  • Pro-Trump Firebrand Laura Loomer Turns on MAGA Allies

    Pro-Trump Firebrand Laura Loomer Turns on MAGA Allies

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    Who Is Laura Loomer? A Look at the Far-Right Figure Linked to Trump’s Campaign. © Getty Images

    WASHINGTON – In the high-stakes arena of President Donald Trump’s second term, where loyalty to the America First agenda is the ultimate litmus test, few voices cut as sharply as Laura Loomer’s. The firebrand conservative activist, once a fringe provocateur chaining herself to Twitter’s headquarters in protest, has evolved into a self-appointed guardian of MAGA purity. With 1.8 million followers on X and her podcast Loomer Unleashed reaching thousands weekly, Loomer wields influence that rivals official advisors – and lately, she’s turning that blade inward, clashing with fellow travelers like Tucker Carlson and even White House picks. What some dismiss as chaotic infighting, however, looks to true believers like the necessary purge of complacency in a movement still under siege from the deep state.

    Loomer’s recent salvos have rattled the administration’s inner circle, where officials whisper about her unchecked access to Trump and speculate on shadowy funding behind her crusades. According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, the 32-year-old has claimed credit for ousting over a dozen national security holdovers she brands as “deep state” saboteurs – including National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, whom she boasted of engineering his firing last month after a White House sit-down with the president. Trump, ever the dealmaker, later downplayed her role, but the timing spoke volumes: Firings followed her accusations like clockwork.

    “They can attack me all they want, I’m more America First than them,” Loomer told the Journal in a defiant interview, framing the backlash as antisemitic targeting – a charge that resonates deeply in a base still smarting from years of media smears. Her collaboration with Israeli-American cyber analyst Yaacov Apelbaum, who fed her opposition research on alleged “Muslim sympathizers” in the administration, underscores her hawkish stance on national security. Apelbaum, who helped amplify Hunter Biden’s laptop scandals pre-2020, defended her to the Journal: “She doesn’t hate Muslims, she’s terrified of Muslims.” Loomer, a self-proclaimed “Islamophobe” banned from platforms like Facebook and Instagram for her unfiltered rhetoric, has long railed against Islamist threats, from 9/11 “inside job” theories to warnings about curry-scented White Houses under Kamala Harris.

    But it’s her intraparty broadsides that have MAGA traditionalists squirming. Loomer dubbed ex-Fox host Tucker Carlson “Tucker Qatarlson,” accusing him of being “bought off by the Muslim Brotherhood” and slamming his son for working with Vice President JD Vance. She piled on Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, calling the Georgia firebrand a “loud-mouthed bitch” for allegedly funneling government cash to her daughter – a claim Greene dismissed as “racist, hateful” and un-MAGA. Even Joe Kent, the counterterrorism chief whose wife perished in a 2019 Syrian suicide bombing, drew her ire for a report framing threats as “violent extremism” rather than “Islamic terrorism.” Kent fired back on X, hinting Loomer was “paid by the side that’s too afraid to come at me directly,” prompting her to demand he delete the post.

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    Tucker Carlson speaks at a memorial for conservative activist Charlie Kirk, September 21, 2025, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona. © AP Photo/John Locher

    These aren’t random potshots; they’re a calculated effort to enforce ideological hygiene, Loomer insists. On her podcast earlier this month, she clarified her rogue status: “I’m not working for President Trump. I’m not getting paid by President Trump… And yet, I feel like every single day, it’s a full-time job just to make sure the president is protected.” White House insiders, per the Journal, beg to differ – they’re “tired” of her end-runs around official channels, launching informal probes into her motives and donors. Concerns spiked over her attacks on non-security targets, like a Food and Drug Administration official and a push for Venezuelan drilling licenses, which smelled of ulterior interests to skeptics. Loomer denies pay-for-post schemes, attributing her funding to “ideologically motivated donors” who share her zeal for rooting out anti-Trump elements in intel roles.

    Politico reports paint a similar picture of escalating tensions, highlighting Loomer’s broadsides against Trump’s inner circle. She’s torched Attorney General Pam Bondi for not purging the Justice Department fast enough, decried Surgeon General nominee Casey Means – a wellness guru sans medical license who “talks to trees and spiritual mediums” – as a clownish pick, and howled over Trump’s Mideast diplomacy. When the president lifted Syrian sanctions and inked a Qatar investment deal – a nation she brands a Hamas financier stoking U.S. campus protests – Loomer erupted: “We cannot accept a $400 million ‘gift’ from jihadists in suits,” she posted on X, scorning a potential luxury 747 handover (which Trump clarified would benefit the nation, not him personally). She even swiped at the new Pope Leo XIV as “anti-MAGA” and a Marxist after Trump’s praise, and sparred with Elon Musk over H-1B visas, decrying lax vetting of administration hires.

    Her White House odyssey is a saga of near-misses: She lobbied for a job but got rebuffed, pivoting to press credentials (still pending) and her consulting outfit, Loomered Strategies, which churns out opposition dossiers. Last September’s campaign trail antics – jetting on Air Force One to the Harris debate and 9/11 memorials – irked the inner circle, yet Trump called her a “strong person” and “free spirit.” Steve Bannon, another self-styled MAGA conscience, hailed her on his show as “a warrior in the information war,” even as she dropped a bombshell claiming foreknowledge of Joe Biden’s advanced prostate cancer diagnosis, announced Sunday by his office.

    Critics like Peter Montgomery of the left-leaning People For the American Way call her “dangerous” for having Trump’s ear, but from a right-wing lens, Loomer’s chaos is the antidote to bureaucratic drift. In a town infested with RINOs and globalist whispers, her unfiltered fury keeps the flame alive – exposing cracks before they widen into chasms. The real scandal, conservatives argue, isn’t her volume; it’s the administration’s pearl-clutching over a loyalist who dares question sacred cows. As intraparty sniping escalates – with Carlson and Candace Owens peddling antisemitic fever dreams about Charlie Kirk’s assassination, blaming shadowy Israeli plots in hummus-scented rooms – Loomer’s retorts, like accusing Carlson of Doha payoffs, remind us: True MAGA demands vigilance, not velvet gloves.

    Netanyahu’s dismissal of those theories as “insane” echoes the base’s fatigue with fringe distractions, and Loomer’s pushback – tying it to suppressed Biden dirt via Apelbaum’s analysis – positions her as the movement’s unapologetic defender. Owens shot back that Israel backers like Loomer are “scraping the very bottom of the barrel,” but in the coliseum of conservative media, that’s just blood in the water.

    As Trump navigates his encore, Loomer’s shadow looms large: A credential-less agitator with the president’s nighttime ear, claiming victories from the outside. White House officials insist no further meetings are planned and she’s no advisor, but actions – like Wednesday’s suspension of Army official Nicholas Waytowich over her exposé on the anti-ICE app Red Dot – tell a different tale. “I don’t work for the administration, and I don’t control hiring,” she shrugged to the Journal. “I’m posting facts.”

    In MAGA’s endless war for the soul of America, Loomer isn’t turning against the movement – she’s sharpening its sword. Whether that fortifies Trump or fractures the tent remains the billion-dollar question, but one thing’s clear: In the fight against the swamp, complacency is the real enemy. And Laura Loomer? She’s anything but.