On January 6, 2021, White nationalist Nick Fuentes stood outside of the U.S. Capitol, addressing a crowd of thousands, as rioters streamed into the building. Hailing the “American people rising up and taking our country back,” Fuentes urged the crowd to “not leave this capitol until Donald Trump is inaugurated President.” They were there, he reminded them, to “put Donald Trump back in office…so that he can take every last illegal alien and throw them back over the border,” and so “we can finally free ourselves from the parasitic global special interests.” While Fuentes agitated outside, his movement’s blue “America First” flag was among those carried by insurrectionists into the Capitol, and one groyper sat in Vice President Mike Pence’s chair in the Senate chamber.

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