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The newly appointed College Republicans of America political director Kai Schwemmer has made racist, antisemitic, homophobic and sexist statements while espousing extremist rightwing views on abortion, a Guardian review of livestream recordings can reveal.

Schwemmer said he would accept a world in which slavery was legal if abortion was criminalised, describes himself as “very much an anti universal suffrage guy” and accepts a supporter’s description of him as “our Mormon Nick Fuentes” – referring to the white nationalist influencer whose platform he streamed on for years.

The comments were made after Schwemmer’s return from a two-year Mormon mission to Argentina, a period he recently claimed had seen him undergo a “process of growth” that led him to abandon previous racist beliefs. Schwemmer had previously expressed extremist and bigoted views.

The streams, many of which are not publicly available but remain accessible behind a paywall on Schwemmer’s Gumroad page, also contain previously unreported material from his earlier broadcasts. In one, he walks a user through a sequence of antisemitic leading questions on the Omegle platform before directing her to Fuentes’s streaming site. In others, he claims gay men are “weaponizing” gyms “to give you Aids” and celebrates a DNA test he says proved “I’m 0% Jewish”.

The Guardian emailed detailed requests for comment to Schwemmer and the College Republicans of America.

Jeff Tischauser, a senior research analyst at the Southern Poverty Law Center, a human rights organization that monitors hate groups, said he had been monitoring Schwemmer since 2022 as a far-right figure in the orbit of Fuentes, who has previously espoused support for Hitler.

Tischauser said: “Any time someone claims they have left the movement, you need to watch them closely to see if their actions match their rhetoric, and if they are being sincere.”

He added: “It does not seem like Kai Schwemmer is being sincere.”

‘I’m not a groyper’

Schwemmer attracted scrutiny after his appointment in March as political director of CRA, one of “four competing top college Republican factions” contending for members and for bragging rights over which best represents Donald Trump’s Maga movement.

His history as a broadcaster includes streams on Cozy.tv, a platform founded by Fuentes after bans from mainstream platforms, and his previous alignment with Fuentes’s far-right “groyper” movement drew immediate condemnation from Jewish advocacy organisations.

The ADL’s chief executive Jonathan Greenblatt reportedly said Schwemmer had “appeared at Fuentes’s conferences, streams on his platform and has spread conspiracy theories about ‘Zionists’ in America”. StopAntisemitism’s executive director Liora Rez said the appointment “undermines the credibility of the organisation”.

Reporting by Popular Information and Jewish Insider documented Schwemmer’s attendance as a special guest at Fuentes’s America First Political Action Conference in 2022 and his appearance in a pro-Fuentes documentary in which he said the influencer had “woke me up to immigration.”

In response, Schwemmer reportedly issued a statement saying his past comments “should not be taken to accurately reflect my views or demeanor now”, describing himself as “not a groyper” but “simply and unapologetically an American nationalist”. CRA president Martin Bertao was unapologetic, writing that he had “come to the decision that I would like to apologize… to absolutely NOBODY”.

Ben Lorber, a senior research analyst at Political Research Associates, a nonprofit that researches extremist groups, said said that, like Tischauser, he has been aware of Schwemmer as an individual affiliated with the groyper movements since the early 2020s.

Now, he said, “essentially, he’s trying to do exactly what Nick Fuentes has always called on his followers to do: to participate in Republican politics and to downplay their more extreme views”.

He added: “Fuentes is fine with people like Kai Schwemmer disavowing him, even though Schwemmer is walking a fine line. I’ve never heard him directly condemn Nick Fuentes.”

Materials reviewed by the Guardian show that as recently as last December, Schwemmer was expressing viewpoints and self-descriptions consistent with an allegiance to Fuentes’s brand of far-right politics.

‘Mormon Nick Fuentes’

The materials are streams first broadcast on platforms including Cozy.tv, where Schwemmer operated under his own name and the moniker “Kai Clips”. His regular show, Out of Touch, has run for at least 48 episodes since 2022. His broadcasts were interrupted by his missionary service.

Schwemmer has selectively archived episodes to YouTube and “alt-tech” site Rumble, but the episodes reviewed by the Guardian are not publicly available. The Guardian accessed them by paying a $5 fee on Schwemmer’s Gumroad page.

It is not clear whether the streams were always behind a paywall or were previously public and then deleted. Schwemmer reportedly deleted all X posts made before September 2025.

In a post-mission stream, Schwemmer described his politics as far right and expressed a desire to mainstream those positions.

“I’d consider myself dissident right – or, like, kind of reactionary right?” he said in response to a viewer’s question. He listed other terms for his position: “Dissident right, reactionary right, alt-right, alt-light. Like, there’s all of these different words for it.

“But frankly, I just call myself a conservative.”

He acknowledged problems with the word vis-a-vis his own politics. “The issue is when you hear conservative nowadays in the political realm that we’re in … conservative could mean, like, pro gay-marriage.”

“We ought to use it prescriptively,” he said, adding that this would “force non-conservative or non-Republican politicians to admit that they are not such”.

In the same stream, a viewer donated $10 asking if Schwemmer could be “our Mormon Nick Fuentes”. He cited no political differences with the white nationalist influencer.

“Nick and I disagree on lots of things,” Schwemmer joked. “I’m pro lifting weights. I’m very unabashedly pro lifting weights. I obviously am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, so you got that divide there.”

He added: “If I can activate young people the way that he does in the Utah sphere, then certainly I will try my best to do that.”

In an August 2025 debate on the Politically Provoked podcast, asked directly whether he was a Nick Fuentes fan, Schwemmer replied: “Yes, I am. I am a fan of Nick.”

Additionally, Schwimmer appeared on a viral episode of the YouTube show Jubilee last July, in which journalist Mehdi Hasan debated “far-right conservatives”, although he was not asked to define his political position on that broadcast.

Lorber said: “Schwemmer knows better than everyone that a lot of young men in conservative politics sympathize with Fuentes and agree with a lot of what he says, you know, or find it very distasteful to disavow Fuentes.”

‘I’m very much an anti universal suffrage guy’

In streams during the past year, Schwemmer expressed extremist views on abortion, women’s rights, and race.

In an appearance on the YouTube channel Modern Day Debate, archived as members-only content by that channel in July 2025, Schwemmer teamed up with another streamer who broadcasts under the alias Shell Shock to argue against abortion. Asked by an opponent whether a 15-year-old who had been sexually assaulted by her uncle should carry the resulting pregnancy to term, Schwemmer answered: “Yes, I would agree with that.”

Later in the same discussion, he went further. An opponent, 1st Amender, asked Shell Shock to choose between a society where “abortion is banned and slavery is legal” and one where “slavery is banned and abortion is legal.” Shell Shock chose the society that banned abortion and had legal slavery.

When 1st Amender suggested Schwemmer was more reasonable on this point, Schwemmer corrected him: “No, I agree with Shell Shock.”

In the same debate, the host read out a viewer’s question: “Do you believe married women have the right to vote? What about single women?”

Schwemmer responded: “I believe they currently have the right to vote. But I’m in favor of probably like a family voting thing. I think that’d probably be a better way to do it.”

“Family voting” is a Christian nationalist proposal to restrict the franchise to male heads of households, who would act as political representatives of their wives and children.

“I’m very much an anti universal-suffrage guy,” Schwemmer added. “I don’t think there’s a good defense for allowing people to vote who don’t take the time to return shopping carts. I think that’s a huge issue. Allowing those people the same leverage in your electoral system as a homeowner. That’s crazy to me.”

Recent far-right proposals for rolling back democracy in the United States include repealing the 19th amendment, which established women’s suffrage when it was ratified in 1920.

Elsewhere in the same debate, Schwemmer said: “I’m against gay marriage.” He added he would be “in favor of repealing same-sex marriage protections”.

]In a September 2025 stream on the murder of Charlie Kirk, Schwemmer portrayed Indian H-1B visa workers as a kind of fifth column. “Unlike Americans, frankly, unlike most white people, they identify as a group,” he said. “Whether you’re an H-1B visa worker in the United States who’s from India or whether you’re living in India, you’re Indian.”

He added: “Your views and the way you do your job will not be American. Your perspective and your goals will not be aligned with America’s in the same way that an American student working in the tech sector will align their views with the American view.”

In a separate stream, Schwemmer reacted to a viral incident in which a Black TikTok creator responded to a man who had disrupted his gaming stream with racial slurs by publishing a follow-up video revealing details of the man’s life, including his enlistment in the US navy.

Schwemmer defended the man who used the slurs. “Am I insane? Or is calling someone a racial slur not as bad as getting them kicked out of the navy, making fun of their dead parent, publicizing their private information, and then making money off of ruining the guy’s life forever?”

‘What do you think about the people who run the media?’

Schwemmer has a history of antisemitic comments.

In a January 2023 stream advertised as his last before leaving on his mission, Schwemmer broadcast a series of Omegle interactions to his Cozy.tv followers. Omegle was a platform that connected random users for live video conversations.

In one exchange, Schwemmer talked to a user, a girl, and walked her through a series of leading questions: “What do you think about the media?”; “What do you think about the people who run the media?”; “What do you think about Hollywood?”; “What do you think about the people who run Hollywood?”; “What do you think about academia?”; “What do you think about the people who run academia?”

Then: “Hear me out on this one. About Jewish people.”

He pivoted to US foreign policy: “Why are we spending money on a country that’s not even our ally? They spied on us. They blew up our ship. Ever look up the USS Liberty incident?”

The USS Liberty was a US navy intelligence ship attacked by the Israel Defense Forces during the six-day war in 1967, killing 34 American crew members. The question of whether the attack was deliberate has lingered for decades, but the incident has long fuelled antisemitic rhetoric and has more recently emerged as a wedge issue in a Maga movement fracturing over the US alliance with Israel.

After the sequence of questions, Schwemmer told the user: “You’ve answered the questions correctly. You should go to cozy.tv.”

He then celebrated the exchange with his audience. “Yes! We radicalized another. We radicalized another one. We’re saving America. Let’s go. Let’s go, patriots.”

Omegle shut down in November 2023 following a wave of lawsuits citing the platform in connection with the sexual exploitation of minors, including a suit brought by a victim that demanded the site be closed as part of the settlement.

There is no suggestion that Schwemmer had any connection to these lawsuits.

It had also been the preferred platform of Paul Miller, known as Gypsy Crusader, a white supremacist and neo-Nazi who often appeared in cosplay garb and subjected interlocutors to racial abuse. Miller was sentenced in 2021 to 41 months in prison for illegal possession of firearms.

The January 2023 stream came after years of intermittent antisemitic commentary from Schwemmer.

In a Thanksgiving 2021 stream, he celebrated the results of an ancestry test on air. “I’m like 100% greater German,” Schwemmer said. “I’m 0% Jewish. I’ve got zero Jewish blood in me. Despite my high verbal IQ, I am not Jewish.”

Schwemmer’s history of homophobic commentary also stretches back years.

In a 10 January 2023 stream, he reacted to a Time interview with a historian who had written about the white supremacist origins of American fitness culture. The article noted that during the HIV/Aids epidemic, gay men “exercised to display that they had a healthy body at a moment when there was so much homophobia”.

Schwemmer responded: “Once again, gay men trying to take over straight male spaces. Gay men have been trying to subvert the gym. Do not let them do it.”

He added: “They’ve been weaponizing it. They’ve been weaponizing it to give you Aids. People are going to think this is an own on lifters. No, no, no. This is an indictment of gay people.”