MADISON, Wis. — Today, new reporting from Raw Story details how the Wisconsin Federation of College Republicans’ (WICRS) has aligned themselves with Nick Fuentes’ ally and College Republicans of America’s political director Kai Schwemmer. Experts describe the normalization of extremists pushing fringe and hateful views like Nick Fuentes and Kai Schwemmer as indicating a shift towards violent extremism funded by the likes of the Uihleins, Republican billionaires trying to buy Wisconsin elections.

What to Know:

  • Schwemmer is a close ally of avowed white supremacist and anti-Semite, Nick Fuentes, who he appeared with multiple times.
  • WICR founded the College Republicans of America alongside the College Republicans of California.
  • Jacobs, WICR, and Penfield endorsed Tom Tiffany early in his gubernatorial primary.

Read the full story here or excerpts below:

Raw Story: MAGA fracture alarms as college Republicans show ‘extremist’ shift
By: Alexandria Jacobson l 4/27/26

“We are @KaiSchwemmer,” posted Nick Jacobs, president of the Wisconsin Federation of College Republicans.

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Kai Schwemmer, a student at Brigham Young University, the Mormon flagship in Utah, came under fire for his past association with Fuentes, whom he met and praised in a documentary, saying he “fell in love with the movement” after hearing Fuentes speak about immigration.

Schwemmer was promoted as a special guest for a Fuentes conference and has streamed on the “anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-Black, antisemitic” platform, Cozy.TV, founded by Fuentes and conspiracist theorist Alex Jones.

Schwemmer appeared to post misogynistic and homophobic content on fringe platforms, along with Adolf Hitler cartoons, Vice reported.

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‘Violence begets violence’

The College Republicans of America, which appointed Schwemmer, came to be in 2023 as a rejection of the College Republican National Committee, founded by the Wisconsin Federation of College Republicans and the California College Republicans.

Some of the biggest names in political megadonors have infused money into these groups and their leadership.

For one, Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, the billionaire founders of the shipping company Uline, donated $1 million total to the Wisconsin Federal of College Republicans in December 2025, according to filings with the State of Wisconsin Ethics Commission.

Jacobs, the Wisconsin group’s president, was the recipient of a $1 million check given away by tech billionaire and former Trump appointee Elon Musk as part of his massive $25 million spend on a state judicial race.

“Money from Uihleins has been reshaping Republican politics, flowing into Republican campaigns in the post-Citizens United era. This is a power couple who has been willing to dig deep, write very large checks and support their preferred candidates through all sorts of massive investments,” said Michael Beckel, money in politics reform director at Issue One, a bipartisan nonprofit focused on campaign finance reform.

“They are pushing a certain type of vision for the Republican Party. They are supporting certain types of Republican candidates … their money was also very supportive of not only President Trump and his campaigns over the years, but his January 6 rally.”