Nick Fuentes (Porvenir)

Early life and education
Fuentes was born on August 18, 1998, in Western Springs, Illinois. He is of Chicano, Irish, Italian, and Black descent. He attended Lyons Township High School. After graduating in 2017, he enrolled at Boston University.

In 2017, Fuentes partook in the openly white supremacist and neo-Nazi Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. At the rally, human rights activist Heather Heyer was murdered in an terror attack by fascist anti-SJW James Alex Fields Jr. The event is considered the spark that lit a major political shift and long-lasting civil unrest, contributing to the genesis of the Second Progressive Era. After receiving a slew of death threats provoked by his participation in the rally, Fuentes dropped out of college to focus on the America First podcast, an alt-right podcast he'd launched in 2015.

Political beginnings
After the Unite the Right rally, Fuentes became an online political figure overnight. Fuentes quickly formed a mentor-protégé relationship with equally polarizing fellow nationalist Michelle Malkin who helped Fuentes climbed the ladder of right-wing influence. As a result of her relationship with Fuentes, Malkin joined her apprentice in being blacklisted by mainstream conservative figures and organizations.

The America First podcast was hosted on YouTube initially, and gained a major following among the "Groyper Army", a loosely-affiliated group of white supremacists and internet trolls. As a result, Fuentes ascended to a leadership position within the "Army", and held the Groyper Leadership Summit in 2019 among other Groyper events.

In 2020, Fuentes was deplatformed from YouTube for spreading hate speech. Fuentes moved the show to DLive, and later also aired it on PplNetwork. When the AF show's permission on PplNetwork was announced in 2021, PplNetwork owner Diego Braun was swept by a wave of ire from neoliberal publications including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. Braun responded by pointing out that the contract formed between Carnaval Entertainment and Fuentes stated AF would be deplatformed the moment a blatant violation of PplNetwork's policies was perpetrated. Going further, Braun took part in a debate on the issue of immigration and race with Fuentes at Politicon 2021.

Throughout the Second Chicano Movement, Fuentes declared himself an unabashed enemy of efforts to grant mass amnesty to law abiding undocumented immigrants, and ease the immigration process. Despite his Chicano heritage, Fuentes stood in perpetual lockstep with white supremacists including Don Young, Ann Coulter, and Allen West. He was derided as a coconut by many Latinos, yet still proclaimed himself proudly non-White alongside his cries for nativism.

2034 gubernatorial campaign
Illinois Governor Kwame Raoul declined to seek a third term in 2034. Lieutenant Governor Mike Frerichs thus cleared the Democratic primary, and was the odds on favorite to win the general election. In the Republican primary, veteran former Congressman Rodney Davis was the only major candidate to initially declare, and also widely expected to be the nominee.

Fuentes expressed interest in seeking the governorship as early as January 2033. During a livestream, he told his audience he believed he could be best able to advance the nationalist cause from Peoria, and derided the prospect of a "establishment conservative" winning the race. After launching an exploratory committee, and reportedly receiving an encouraging phone call from aging paleoconservative Pat Buchanan Fuentes announced his underdog candidacy via PplNetwork. His running mate was former Miss America Erika Harold.

Rodney Davis was by every definition a mainstream Republican who enjoyed the support of President Todd Young and the rest of the party leadership. Fuentes used this to his advantage, and ran ads capitalizing on the historical unpopularity of Young and Washington D.C in general. Despite polling showing Davis consistently beating Fuentes by double digits, the Fuentes/Harold ticket snatched the nomination from the jaws of defeat by a comfortable 10% margin.

In the general election, Fuentes ran on his lifelong message of fearmongering immigrants. He also made no secret of his disdain for androids. By the mid-2030s, android sentience had nearly reached critical mass, to the point that the most high-end androids were nearly indistinguishable from human beings. This struck discussion particularly in the American Midwest about the rights of these androids and their obligation to human beings, eventually leading to the Android rights movement of the 2050s. Fuentes ran quite openly on quashing android rights, and even publicly used the derogatory slur "bot" on the campaign trail. He was bombastic, and aggressive, milking the fears of every Midwestern worker wary of replacement, and every factory boss clinging to their exploitable labor force. Frerichs refused to take a hard stance on the issue, and thus was painted by Fuentes as a "bot lover".

At the tender age of just 36 years old, Fuentes was elected Governor by just 48.5-48%. Democratic leaders were in dismay, having thought the race their's to lose and as such having spent little party money in Frerichs' favor. This misguided ambivalence on the part of the national DNC would later be considered accomplice to the radical political and social change the Midwest would endure.

First Term
Fuentes spent his first term enacting the policies he'd espoused in his campaign. In 2035, he rushed a bill through the Republican-dominated legislature prohibiting federal android policies from being automatically implemented in Illinois, which was uncontested by the President. Despite the GOP's drastically softened stance towards Hispanics, Fuentes in 2036 enacted a policy banning Illinois cities from declaring themselves sanctuary cities for undocumented immigrants.

In 2036, the middle of his first term, Fuentes was tipped as a potential hopeful for President, though he eventually declined to run.

Fuentes was challenged for reelection in 2038 by Democratic former Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss, and Libertarian Kash Jackson. Realizing their prior mistake of underestimating Fuentes in 2034, the DNC now spared no expense in sealing his defeat. Despite increased Democratic efforts, the three-way race saw Fuentes' reelection, 49-37-24%.