Groyper Movement

The Groyper movement is an online movement organized around Nick Fuentes’s nightly “America First” livestream. Its members took the name from a meme — a variant of Pepe the Frog resting its chin on interlinked hands — which appeared on imageboards in 2017 and which Fuentes and his followers adopted as their identifier in 2019.

The 2019 campaign

The movement’s public profile came from a tactic rather than a programme. In October and November 2019, participants attended campus events hosted by Turning Point USA and used the question-and- answer sessions to confront mainstream conservative speakers, producing clips that circulated afterwards. The intent, as described in the material cited here, was to open a division between established conservative organizations and a younger, more radical constituency.

Stated aims

The most defensible way to characterize this movement is to quote it. Fuentes has stated that his aim is to remake the Republican Party into “a truly reactionary party” and to become “the right-wing flank” of it, and has described the country’s “white demographic core” as central to its identity. SPLC records those statements from his own broadcasts.

ADL, in testimony to the House Select Committee investigating January 6, describes the movement as composed of white supremacists presenting their politics in more nuanced terms than others in that milieu. That is ADL’s characterization, given to a congressional committee, and is attributed to it rather than asserted here.

Parallel institutions

The movement organizes an America First Political Action Conference, first held in 2020, scheduled against the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. ADL’s testimony records the 2021 programme as featuring pundits and white supremacist figures whose speeches expressed contempt for the Republican Party.

On January 29, 2022 the House committee investigating January 6 subpoenaed Fuentes and Patrick Casey over their involvement in “Stop the Steal”; both were outside the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

What was removed

The previous version of this page carried a four-phase chronology through the present and six claims of political impact — that the movement prompted organizations to change event formats and security procedures, “tested the boundaries of content moderation policies”, and “highlighted tensions within political coalitions”. None was sourced. Specific platform removals and a particular 2022 dinner were also asserted without citation and have been removed; those events are documented elsewhere and belong on pages that can cite them.