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White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes is making the rounds on podcasts with millions of viewers

Fuentes has drawn attention for his attempts to work “his way into the mainstream,” and he recently claimed he’s become “ubiquitous” among the right

Written by Jack Wheatley

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White nationalist streamer and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes is potentially spreading his extremist commentary to millions via guest appearances on numerous online shows. Since June, he's appeared on at least nine right-leaning podcasts and streaming shows — including some that don’t identify themselves as focused on news and politics — whose episodes have earned a total of over 7.2 million views on various social media platforms, as of publication.

In contrast, when Fuentes has posted the same episodes to his own Rumble account, he's gotten roughly a fourth as many views.

During these appearances, Fuentes has made comments such as “race is real” — an echo of his past commentary pushing “the idea that race is a biological reality” — and “Jewish people are an extraordinarily privileged group in America.” In recent months, Fuentes has drawn attention for his attempts to “leverage his rapidly growing audience” and work “his way into the mainstream,” and he recently claimed he’s become “ubiquitous” among the right, telling his audience: “Think about how far we've come in a year and a half … how similar to me they all sound.”

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  • Fuentes is a white nationalist who says he's become “ubiquitous” among the right in recent years

    • Fuentes is a white nationalist livestreamer who has peddled Holocaust denial, racism, misogyny, and election denial. Fuentes was present at the 2017 deadly “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, and addressed supporters outside the Capitol on January 6, 2021. On his show, America First with Nick Fuentes, which he streams on Rumble, Fuentes has crafted his persona around his disdain for Jewish people, telling his audience, “I’m just like Hitler.” He has also argued that “Blacks need to be imprisoned for the most part.” In the past, Fuentes has been banned from numerous social media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, and X (formerly known as Twitter), which reinstated him in 2024. [The New York Times, 9/9/25; Southern Poverty Law Center, accessed 8/29/25; Media Matters, 3/31/25; Reuters, 1/25/23; Axios, 5/3/24]
    • Fuentes says he has become “ubiquitous” among the right recently, telling listeners: “Think about how far we’ve come in a year and a half … how similar to me they all sound,” and “think about how ubiquitous I have become in just that short amount of time.” He told listeners: “I was banned from attending CPAC, kicked out of Turning Point USA, banned from attending any speaking events hosted by any conservative campus group. … I was called a Nazi, antisemite, Holocaust denying racist by … Benny Johnson. That was my — Now I’m just telling you that so you understand that’s where I came from. That went on from 2017 until the beginning of last year. And think about how far we’ve come in a year and a half … how similar to me they all sound. And what just took place last week. What took place with Bradley Martyn, with Dinesh D’Souza, with Candace Owens. Look at the trajectory — it’s exponential. Look at the change in the conversation, how the Overton window has been shattered.” [Rumble, America First with Nick Fuentes, 8/3/25]
    • Fuentes has used appearances on YouTube shows to promote ideas about race including that “race is real,” which he said is “simply the idea that race is a biological reality.” On the No Jumper podcast in 2022, Fuentes said: “Why do Blacks commit 60% … of the violent crime? I think because there is a genetic basis for their behavior. And you know, Africans lived in Africa for thousands and thousands of years without a lot of mixing with people on other continents. The idea that we would all behave and think and be exactly the same as groups, to me, is somewhat ridiculous.” In July 2023, Fuentes joined the podcast Fresh & Fit, part of which streamed on YouTube before it was later removed, and stated, “I don’t believe in the Holocaust.” He went on to deny that 6 million Jewish people were killed in a network of death camps. Vox describes “race realism” as a repackaging of “the idea that genetic racial inequalities in everything from income to incarceration are best explained by Black and Latino people having lower IQs than white and Asian people.” [Vox, 3/12/25; The New York Times, 9/9/25; Media Matters, 3/30/23, 7/12/23; YouTube, No Jumper, 10/19/22, 10/19/22]
    • Fuentes was recently featured in a Wired article about his “plan to conquer America.” The piece said he’s trying to “leverage his rapidly growing audience, and a new level of influence among more mainstream figures in the GOP and MAGA movement, to build a nationwide secret society of sorts, which he believes will help bring his vision of an America dominated by white Christians to fruition.” [Wired, 9/23/25]
    • Fuentes has also drawn attention recently for publicly feuding with popular right-wing commentators Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson. According to reporting by the Bulwark, Fuentes participated in an interview with Owens — who posted the interview to her subscribers-only channel — that “went off the rails after she urged him to get married and have kids.” The report added, “Fuentes responded, essentially, by saying that as a woman, Owens had no place to tell him what to do.” And right-wing host Tucker Carlson has described Fuentes as a “weird little gay kid living in his basement.” In response, Fuentes has repeatedly drawn attention to the fact that Carlson’s father had ties to the CIA. [The Bulwark, 8/7/25; Salon, 8/4/25]

  • By the numbers: Fuentes’ extremist views are seemingly being pushed to millions of people

    • Since June, Fuentes has appeared on nine right-leaning online shows, including some that don’t describe or categorize themselves as political. Those shows were streamed or uploaded to YouTube, Rumble, and/or Kick, where they have earned over 7.2 million combined views. (Clips from episodes were not included in the analysis.) These online shows were:
      • PBD Podcast, a popular right-leaning podcast hosted by businessman Patrick Bet-David which has provided a platform for guests to promote conspiracy theories and bigotry. The show’s YouTube channel says it “delivers engaging conversations on business, entrepreneurship, current events, politics, and sports.” The interview with Fuentes earned at least 2.7 million views on YouTube. [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 9/23/25, accessed 9/24/25; Media Matters, 5/13/24, 9/24/25, 3/14/25]
      • Raw Talk, featuring fitness influencer Bradley Martyn, who has hosted influencers including Adin Ross, Sneako, and Vitaly. Raw Talk is categorized as a comedy show on Apple Podcasts. The interview with Fuentes earned over 1.5 million views on YouTube. [Apple Podcasts, accessed 9/8/25; TMZ, 10/18/24; YouTube, Bradley Martyn’s Raw Talk, 7/29/25, 1/30/24, 6/27/23, 7/19/22]
      • Sam Hyde Show, a YouTube show hosted by comedian Sam Hyde, who is part of the comedy group Million Dollar Extreme. Hyde previously had his TV show on Cartoon Network’s ‘Adult Swim’ canceled after he had reportedly “amassed a following among the loosely knit movement of white nationalists, misogynists and anti-Semites that has come to be known as the alt-right.” The interview with Fuentes earned over 1.2 million views on YouTube. [YouTube, Sam Hyde Show, 8/9/25, accessed 9/15/25; The Hollywood Reporter, 12/8/16; Los Angeles Times, 6/6/17]
      • The Debrief with MyronGainesX, a show hosted by Myron Gaines (real name Amrou Fudl), who also hosts the Fresh & Fit podcast and authored a book titled Why Women Deserve Less. Gaines and his Fresh & Fit co-host Walter Weekes have reportedly “touted Fresh & Fit as a place to help men navigate ‘females, fitness, and finances,’” and “traffick[ed] in anti-woman and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric.” In his Rumble “about” section, Gaines describes himself as “a conservative political and cultural commentator.” The interview with Fuentes earned at least 432,000 views on Rumble and over 263,000 views on YouTube. [Rumble, The Debrief with MyronGainesX, 8/14/25, accessed 9/10/25; YouTube, The Debrief with MyronGainesX, 8/14/25; Hot New Hip Hop, 9/26/22; Media Matters, 3/16/23; BuzzFeed News, 9/28/22]
      • Stay Free with Russell Brand, a podcast hosted by the actor that has uncritically amplified right-wing conspiracy theories and figures. The show’s Rumble channel description notes, “Thanks for reading this when you could be obediently consuming propaganda. … Many of the old systems are corrupted and broken and yet a New Spirit is being born among us. For the first time new alliances are forming in the online world that could challenge these old and broken systems. Something ancient and original is Awakening within us.” The interview with Fuentes earned at least 394,000 views on Rumble. [Rumble, Stay Free with Russell Brand, 9/18/25; accessed 9/24/25; Media Matters, 5/1/23]
      • Nelk Boys' Kick stream, which has an “about” section on the channel that says simply, “We prank people sometimes.” The right-leaning streamers' interview with Fuentes earned at least 216,500 views on Kick, based on a view count on July 23. (The stream is no longer available on the platform.) [Kick, Nelk Boys, 7/21/25, 7/23/25, accessed 9/25/25; YouTube, 7/21/25, 7/21/25; Media Matters, 2/21/24, 3/14/25]
      • System Update with Glenn Greenwald, a show hosted by The Intercept’s co-founding editor and former author Glenn Greenwald. The Rumble show description claims the program is “for unencumbered analysis and investigative reporting, captive to no dogma or faction.” Other right-wing guests in 2025 include former Fox News host Tucker Carlson and conservative activist Chris Rufo, who led attacks on critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion. The interview with Fuentes earned at least 196,000 views on Rumble. [Rumble, System Update with Glenn Greenwald, 9/29/25, 9/23/25, 5/7/25, accessed 9/30/25; The Intercept, accessed 9/30/25; The New York Times, The Daily, 4/11/25]
      • Secret Scholar Society, which features host Warren Smith, whose website says that in his videos he “uses critical thinking to navigate the stories that makeup the world.” The interview with Fuentes earned at least 111,000 views on Rumble. [Rumble, Secret Scholar Society, 8/6/25; WSMedia.com, accessed 9/25/25]
      • Clavicular0's stream, which was on a Kick channel hosted by an influencer who promotes the use of steroids and appears to use incel language. In the past, the influencer, who goes by Clavicular, has uploaded videos with titles such as “I started tren at 18... and so should you,” “If you arent on roids... WHAT ARE YOU DOING,” and “Life tutorial for ugly men (SERIOUS).” In his tutorial for “ugly men,” he routinely uses the acronym “PSL,” an incel term that stands for “PUAhate, SlutHate and Lookism - three defunct online forums where the PSL rating system was created and proliferated,” according to Moonshot’s Incels: A Guide to Symbols and Terminology. The interview with Fuentes earned at least 34,500 views on Kick, based on a view count on July 28. (The stream is no longer available on the platform.) [Kick, Clavicular0, 7/27/25, 7/28/25; YouTube, 10/24/24, 5/30/24, 4/17/25; Moonshot, accessed 9/9/25]
    • The six episodes Fuentes cross-posted to his own channel have earned over 1.8 million views, as of publication. Fuentes earned at least 519,000 views on his episode with Myron Gaines, 296,000 views on his episode with the Nelk Boys, 281,000 views on his episode with Patrick Bet-David, 280,000 views on his episode with Bradley Martyn, 265,000 views on his episode with Glenn Greenwald, and 229,000 views on his episode with Clavicular. Media Matters did not find evidence of Fuentes uploading or streaming his interviews with Russell Brand, Warren Smith, or Sam Hyde on his own Rumble account. [Rumble, America First with Nick Fuentes, 8/14/25, 7/21/25, 9/23/25, 7/29/25, 9/29/25, 7/27/25]

  • During these appearances, Fuentes used the phrase “race is real” and said that Jewish people are “extraordinarily privileged,” he’s a “skeptic of democracy” but “less averse ... to an autocracy,” and that Andrew Tate’s commentary is “indispensable”

    • On System Update, Fuentes suggested that if he were in power, there would “need to be something done … something like voluntary segregation” or “reversing the Civil Rights Act.” Glenn Greenwald said to Fuentes, “Let’s envision a world in which you have, let's say quasi-dictatorial powers. … What about minorities who have been in this country for decades or centuries, generations? Black Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, gay people. Like, what is the ideal vision of America that Nick Fuentes would shape in terms of how those groups would be treated?” In response, Fuentes said nonwhite Americans “should have the same rights and dignity as every other American,” but his “only concern, and what it‘s born out of, and the kind of nativist rhetoric or even to that extent white nationalist or white identitarian rhetoric, is the idea that the white American experience is going away, it‘s going extinct” because of “the demographic change in America” and “ethnic enclaves ... being set up all across the country.” He added, “If I could go in a time machine, I would undo this demographic change.” [Rumble, System Update with Glenn Greenwald, 9/29/25]
    • Fuentes also claimed on Greenwald’s show that “there's subraces in Europe” and that “a lot of Hispanics have a kind of white phenotype.” Fuentes said, “I do believe that our race is a part of our distinct identity,” adding that those immigrating to America today are “racially different” as compared to “the immigrants of a hundred years ago,” who he said were “racially European.” He also said of the future: “White people won't have power, and that's disconcerting for white people.” [Rumble, System Update with Glenn Greenwald, 9/29/25]
    • On the PBD Podcast, Fuentes said nonwhite people are “not quite like us” and suggested that white and Black people have different “genetics.” Fuentes said that in college, “the big topic” of debates he was having in person and online was “demographic change. America was a white country. It’s becoming a nonwhite country through immigration.” He added, “They’re not quite like us — can they ever be like us? What does it mean to be white versus Black, or white versus any other race, for that matter? ... You have white people and Black people, they come from specific places, and they bring with them their genetics, they bring with them their culture, their way of doing things.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 9/23/25]
    • Fuentes also told Bet-David that he’s more concerned about “Jews” than Muslims, saying they are “more powerful” in American society because “they are extremely connected.” He also claimed that “their Jewish identity supersedes their local identity,” and that’s “detrimental for America.” [YouTube, PBD Podcast, 9/23/25]
    • On the Secret Scholar Society podcast hosted by Warren Smith on YouTube, Fuentes said, “I think race is real,” and argued that “as a society, we also have to judge based on groups.” A similar quote is attributed to Richard Spencer, who Politico reported is “the originator of the term ‘alt-right’ and an open white nationalist.” According to Spencer, “Race is real, race matters, and race is the foundation of identity.” [YouTube, Secret Scholar Society, 8/6/25; Politico, January/February 2017]
    • Fuentes also claimed on Smith’s show that democracy “has failed” and stated, “I’m less averse to a stronger executive, to a king, to an autocracy,” calling himself a “skeptic of democracy.” [YouTube, Secret Scholar Society, 8/6/25]
    • On an episode with Myron Gaines, Fuentes showered praise upon “manosphere” influencer Andrew Tate, who has pushed misogynistic rhetoric, with Fuentes saying, “I consider what you have built to be one of the most positive things that’s happened in the 2020s.” He also stated about Tate, “Your thing on patriarchy, in my opinion, is indispensable. It's literally indispensable.” Fuentes then added: “It's actually a good thing that we're in the Tate generation of young kids that are saying, you know, what color is your Bugatti and all. I think it's actually a really good thing.” [Rumble, The Debrief with MyronGainesX, 8/14/24; Media Matters, 3/16/23]
    • On Bradley Martyn’s show Raw Talk on YouTube, Fuentes said: “I’m a believer in race — I think that race is real.” Martyn asked Fuentes: “Like, are you a white supremacist?” to which he quickly replied: “No.” The U.S. Justice Department identified Fuentes as a white supremacist in a legal filing in 2021. [YouTube, Raw Talk, 7/29/25; United States Department of Justice, 2/13/21]
    • On a Kick stream with the Nelk Boys, Fuentes complained that “in our media, in Hollywood, American Jews are portrayed as the biggest victims” but said the “reality is, we all know, Jewish people are an extraordinarily privileged group in America.” He continued: “They’re one of the richest demographics, the most influential, the most educated. And, you know, people will say this is an antisemitic trope, but all you have to do is look at, when you look at ownership of the powerful elite institutions, whether it’s finance, whether it’s media, academia — these are just the facts — they’re overrepresented to an extraordinary degree.” [Kick, Nelk Boys, 7/21/25]
    • On the Sam Hyde Show on YouTube, Fuentes said of Jeffrey Epstein’s death, “It became a meme, you know, Epstein didn't kill himself. The meme should have been the Jews killed Epstein to keep him shut.” [YouTube, Sam Hyde Show, 8/9/25]