Far-right streamer Nick Fuentes urges followers to vote Democrat in US midterms
The gist
Far-right streamer Nick Fuentes told his followers to vote Democrat in the 2026 US midterms.
He calls it a tactic to push the Republican Party toward his ideology.
How it unfolded
- 2024Fuentes is reinstated on Elon Musk's X after bans from Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Reddit, and removal from Spotify, for hate-speech violations.
- 2025 to Mar 2026The Washington Post estimates Fuentes earned nearly $900,000 from 'superchat' donations on his streams.
- Jun 2026Andy O'Brian, a longtime Fuentes follower, says he was jolted awake by banging on his Los Angeles door and faced close to a dozen LAPD officers, one asking, 'Are you trying to kill a guy named Nick?'