# Groyper Movement The **Groyper movement** (also known as the **Groyper Army** or the **America First movement** in Fuentes's usage) is a young, extremely online white nationalist political movement led by [[Nick Fuentes]], representing the most explicitly extremist faction of the young [[The New Right Ecosystem]]. The Groypers combine open white nationalism, antisemitism, anti-immigration politics, and Catholic-inflected Christian nationalism into an ideology marketed to young men (primarily 16–25) through livestreaming, meme warfare, superchat-funded parasocial community, and organized harassment campaigns against both the left and the mainstream conservative establishment. The movement's name comes from **Groyper**, a fat, smug-looking variant of the Pepe the Frog meme adopted as the movement's mascot. The name is deliberately absurd — like much far-right internet culture, the humor functions as both recruitment bait and plausible-deniability shield ("it's just a meme"). ## Core Tenets 1. **White nationalism**: Explicit defense of white identity, white demographic interests, and the premise that America is fundamentally a white nation. Not coded or implied — stated. 2. **Antisemitism**: Systematic and escalating. Jewish conspiracy theories about media, finance, and government control. Holocaust denial and minimization. Fuentes has stated his "problem with Trump is that he is not Hitler." 3. **Christian nationalism**: America as an explicitly Christian (specifically Catholic) nation. Secular governance is illegitimate. This is the religious layer that distinguishes Groypers from purely racial white nationalist movements like [[Vitalism (New Right)]] or the earlier [[Richard Spencer]] alt-right. 4. **Total immigration restrictionism**: Complete immigration moratorium, including legal immigration — positioning to the right of even restrictionist mainstream Republicans 5. **Anti-establishment conservatism**: The core strategic distinction. The Groypers define themselves *against* the conservative establishment — [[Charlie Kirk]], [[Ben Shapiro]], and the mainstream Republican infrastructure are targets, not allies. The movement attacks TPUSA, CPAC, and Republican leadership from the right. 6. **Anti-feminism and misogyny**: Significant overlap with [[Manosphere Ecosystem]] ideology. Opposition to women's suffrage. "Your body, my choice" post-*Dobbs* rhetoric. This is the primary recruitment bridge between manosphere audiences and white nationalism. 7. **Anti-LGBT**: Advocacy for recriminalization of homosexuality; extreme anti-trans positions presented as defense of Christian civilization ## Institutional Infrastructure ### America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC) Annual gathering founded by Fuentes in 2020, styled as the white nationalist alternative to CPAC. AFPAC served as the movement's flagship event and its primary point of contact with elected officials. **Notable AFPAC speakers/attendees:** | Year | Notable Attendees | |------|------------------| | **2020** | Fuentes-aligned streamers and influencers; inaugural event | | **2021** | [[Paul Gosar]] (video appearance); Michelle Malkin | | **2022** | [[Marjorie Taylor Greene]] (in person); [[Paul Gosar]] (video); Fuentes opened by leading applause for Russia's invasion of Ukraine and making Holocaust jokes | | **2023** | Stew Peters; other aligned figures | In **April 2026**, Fuentes permanently discontinued AFPAC, citing safety concerns. The decision likely reflects a strategic shift: the annual conference drew law enforcement and media scrutiny that the streaming/[[Telegram]] infrastructure does not. ### Cozy.tv Streaming platform founded by Fuentes (~2022) after repeated deplatforming from [[YouTube]], Twitter, and DLive. Hosts Fuentes's nightly America First show and content from aligned streamers. Functions as a **self-contained media ecosystem** — audience, content, and monetization (superchats, donations) all within a platform Fuentes controls. This is the InfoWars model miniaturized for the streaming generation. ### America First Foundation Nonprofit founded in 2020, describing itself as "dedicated to crafting a new vision for the American nation" and championing "the role of God in society and upholding the principles of Nationalism, Christianity, and [[Traditionalism]]." Functions as the movement's legal-institutional shell. ### Telegram and Discord Primary coordination and communication platforms for the Groyper base. Telegram channels serve as both content distribution (clips from the nightly stream, memes, calls to action) and as the command-and-control network for organized harassment campaigns. ## The Groyper Wars The defining tactical innovation of the movement — and the clearest illustration of its structural function. ### Groyper War I (November 2019) Fuentes organized his followers to attend [[Charlie Kirk]]'s Turning Point USA campus speaking events and confront speakers with questions about immigration, Israel, and race from positions explicitly to Kirk's right. Targets included Kirk, Dan Crenshaw, and [[Donald Trump Jr.]] **Strategic achievement**: The Groyper Wars forced mainstream conservative figures into a lose-lose situation — engage with white nationalist framing and legitimize it, or refuse and appear to be dodging questions. The campaign established the Groypers as a coherent faction capable of disrupting conservative institutional events and positioned Fuentes as the leader of a youth movement that defined itself against the conservative establishment. ### Groyper War II (2024) The second wave targeted Trump's 2024 presidential campaign directly, pushing from the right on immigration policy, Israel support, and personnel choices. This escalation — from attacking conservative institutions to pressuring the movement's own leader — demonstrated the Groypers' growing confidence and the movement's willingness to act as an internal opposition force within the broader MAGA coalition. ## Revenue and Funding | Source | Amount/Scale | |--------|-------------| | **Livestream donations (superchats)** | ~$900,000 from ~11,000 donors since early 2025 (WaPo analysis) | | **Top donors** | 550 individuals (5%) contributed $407,000 (46% of total) | | **Bitcoin** | ~$250,000 from French programmer (Dec 2020); FBI-scrutinized | | **Merchandise** | America First branded products | | **Cozy.tv subscriptions** | Platform-level revenue (undisclosed) | The revenue model is parasocial: young, predominantly male donors fund a lifestyle and content operation through small recurring payments, punctuated by large donations from a core of committed supporters. This is structurally identical to the [[Andrew Tate]] Hustlers University model and the [[Alex Jones]] supplement empire — extremist content monetized through audience loyalty rather than advertising. ## The Pipeline Function The Groyper movement sits at a specific point in the [[White Nationalist Radicalization Pipeline]]: ``` Gaming communities / Discord servers ↓ Manosphere content (Tate, Sneako, fitness influencers) ↓ "Red pill" anti-feminist / anti-progressive identity ↓ Immigration restrictionism / "America First" politics ↓ Groyper streams / Cozy.tv / Telegram ↓ Explicit white nationalism, antisemitism, Holocaust denial ``` The pipeline's effectiveness depends on each step feeling like a natural extension of the previous one. The Groypers' deliberate use of humor, memes, and ironic detachment makes the escalation feel gradual and entertaining rather than ideologically jarring. A 17-year-old who starts watching fitness content moves through manosphere material to "based" political commentary to Fuentes's nightly stream without ever experiencing a clear threshold moment. ### The Manosphere Bridge The [[Sneako]]–Fuentes–[[Andrew Tate]] nexus is the most visible expression of the manosphere-to-white-nationalism pipeline. The January 2026 Miami "Heil Hitler" nightclub incident — featuring Fuentes, both Tate brothers, Sneako, and [[Myron Gaines]] (Fresh and Fit podcast) — demonstrated that these are not separate movements with occasional overlap. They are the same social network, sharing audiences, platforms, and physical spaces. ## Relationship to Other New Right Factions | Faction | Groyper Relationship | |---------|---------------------| | [[National Conservatism]] | Attacks from the right; NatCons are "too moderate" and "controlled opposition" | | [[Christian Nationalism]] | Substantive overlap; Fuentes's Catholic-supremacist variant is more extreme but shares the core premise | | [[Vitalism (New Right)]] | Aesthetic and demographic overlap (young men, fitness culture, anti-modernity); less antisemitic but shares racial premises | | [[Paleoconservatism]] | Intellectual lineage; Groypers radicalize and racialize paleocon themes | | [[Manosphere Ecosystem]] | Primary recruitment pipeline; shared audience demographics; Sneako/Tate as bridge figures | | [[Intellectual Dark Web]] | Adjacent in the radicalization pipeline but positioned further right; IDW figures are "gateway" content | | TPUSA / [[Charlie Kirk]] | Target and rival; Kirk represents the mainstream-right boundary Fuentes attacks | ## The Coercive Function The September 2025 **New York Times** profile documented that **Trump administration officials refused to criticize Fuentes on the record because they feared attacks from his Groyper army.** This is the movement's most significant structural achievement: without holding any office or formal power, the Groypers have established a **coercive capacity** that constrains the behavior of people who do hold power. The mechanism is organized online harassment — coordinated attacks on the social media accounts, employers, and personal lives of people who publicly criticize Fuentes. This is the same mechanism [[Libs of TikTok]] deploys against schools and hospitals, but directed inward at the Republican coalition rather than outward at progressive institutions. The result is a chilling effect: Republican officials who might otherwise condemn white nationalism instead remain silent because the cost of speaking is higher than the cost of silence. ## See Also - [[Nick Fuentes]] — Movement leader and founder - [[The New Right Ecosystem]] — The broader ecosystem containing the Groyper faction - [[Manosphere Ecosystem]] — Overlapping radicalization pipeline and recruitment base - [[White Nationalist Radicalization Pipeline]] — The pipeline the Groypers sit at the endpoint of - [[Charlottesville Unite the Right Rally]] — The event that catalyzed Fuentes's radicalization - [[Great Replacement Theory]] — The demographic conspiracy theory underlying Groyper ideology - [[America First Movement]] — The broader ideological lineage Fuentes claims - [[National Conservatism]] — The "respectable" faction the Groypers attack from the right - [[Christian Nationalism]] — Substantive ideological overlap; Fuentes's Catholic-supremacist variant - [[Vitalism (New Right)]] — Aesthetic and philosophical overlap in the young [[New Right]] - [[Eliminationist Rhetoric]] — The rhetorical pattern Groyper content exemplifies - [[Richard Spencer]] — Previous-generation alt-right; succession/displacement relationship - [[Andrew Anglin]] — Fellow traveler in the explicitly antisemitic far right - [[Sneako]] — Manosphere-to-Groyper bridge figure - [[Andrew Tate]] — Manosphere crossover; Miami "Heil Hitler" incident - [[Paul Gosar]] — Republican elected official who repeatedly attended AFPAC - [[Marjorie Taylor Greene]] — AFPAC 2022 speaker; mainstream-to-extremist bridge - [[Libs of TikTok]] — Deploys the same coercive-harassment mechanism, directed externally - [[StoneToss]] — Neo-Nazi cartoonist whose meme-comics circulate widely in Groyper online spaces