Lucas Gage (born Angelo John Gage; May 18, 1984) is an Italian-American political influencer and former chairman of the National Youth Front, a

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group.

Early life and military service

Lucas Gage was born in

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on May 18, 1984, and moved to the United States at the age of two. He has two younger sisters. He grew up in

New Jersey New Jersey is a U.S. state, state located in both the Mid-Atlantic States, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern United States, Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the urban area, heavily urbanized Northeas ...

in an Italian-American household. After witnessing the

9/11 attacks The September 11 attacks, also known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into ...

on television, Gage enlisted in the Marine Corps Delayed Entry Program at 17. He attended boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, and graduated as a

United States Marine The United States Marine Corps (USMC), also referred to as the United States Marines or simply the Marines, is the maritime land force service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is responsible for conducting expeditionary ...

. He then completed Marine Combat Training and Engineer School, graduating as a Combat Engineer. Gage served with the 8th Engineer Support Battalion at

Camp Lejeune Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune ( or ) is a United States military training facility in Jacksonville, North Carolina. Its of beaches make the base a major area for amphibious assault training, and its location between two deep-water ports ( ...

, North Carolina, and was deployed twice to Iraq for

Operation Iraqi Freedom The Iraq War (), also referred to as the Second Gulf War, was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States-led coalition, which resulted in the overthrow of the Ba'athist governm ...

in 2003 and

Operation Enduring Freedom Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) was the official name used by the U.S. government for both the first stage (2001–2014) of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the larger-scale Global War on Terrorism. On 7 October 2001, in response ...

in 2004. He was honorably discharged as a corporal after four years of service.

Post-military life

After leaving the military, Gage struggled with

post-traumatic stress disorder Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder that develops from experiencing a Psychological trauma, traumatic event, such as sexual assault, domestic violence, child abuse, warfare and its associated traumas, natural disaster ...

(PTSD), which affected his personal relationships and led to depression. He dropped out of college twice and had difficulty maintaining employment.

Extremist activities

By 2012, Gage began posting on

racist Racism is the belief that groups of humans possess different behavioral traits corresponding to inherited attributes and can be divided based on the superiority of one Race (human categorization), race or ethnicity over another. It may also me ...

websites, promoting

anti-zionist Anti-Zionism is opposition to Zionism. Although anti-Zionism is a heterogeneous phenomenon, all its proponents agree that the creation of the State of Israel in 1948, and the movement to create a sovereign Jewish state in the Palestine (region) ...

narratives. He joined the National Youth Front (NYF), the youth wing of the

American Freedom Party The American Freedom Party (formerly the American Third Position Party or A3P) is a far-right white supremacist political party in the United States. In November 2009, it filed papers to be on a ballot in California, and was launched in Januar ...

(AFP). He ran unsuccessfully for a congressional seat in New Jersey with the AFP in 2014. He was disqualified for filing paperwork incorrectly. By January 2015, he had become the chairman of NYF, replacing Caleb Shumaker after Shumaker was forced out of the group because of his

interracial marriage Interracial marriage is a marriage involving spouses who belong to different "Race (classification of human beings), races" or Ethnic group#Ethnicity and race, racialized ethnicities. In the past, such marriages were outlawed in the United Sta ...

. He resigned later that year after encountering several fundraising challenges and undergoing a name change due to a threatened lawsuit. He handed control of the organization to

Identity Evropa Identity Evropa () was an American far-right, neo-Nazi, neo-fascist, and white supremacist organization established in March 2016. It was rebranded as the American Identity Movement in March 2019. In November 2020, the group disbanded. Leaders ...

founder Nathan Damigo. On

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(later called X), according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Gage "posted repeatedly... about

Holocaust denial Historical negationism, Denial of the Holocaust is an antisemitic conspiracy theory that asserts that the genocide of Jews by the Nazi Party, Nazis is a fabrication or exaggeration. It includes making one or more of the following false claims: ...

and 'Jewish supremacy,' promoting long-standing

antisemitic tropes Antisemitic tropes, also known as antisemitic canards or antisemitic libels, are " sensational reports, misrepresentations or fabrications" about Jews as an ethnicity or Judaism as a religion. Since the 2nd century, malicious allegations of J ...

". In 2023, Gage rebranded himself as a pro-Palestine activist, amassing over a hundred thousand followers on social media for his strongly anti-Israel rhetoric during the

Gaza war The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel fought since 7 October 2023. A part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian conflict, Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflict, Gaza–Israel conflicts dating ...

. The ADL identified him as one of five key

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on X who had used the conflict to gain an audience, whose combined follower count increased by over 1070% in the period, Gage reaching over 286,000 in late 2023. In June 2024, according to the ADL, Gage attended a far-right rally in

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originally organised as the 2024

America First Political Action Conference The America First Political Action Conference (AFPAC ) is an annual White nationalism, white nationalist and Far-right politics, far-right political conference. Founded in 2020 by political commentator Nick Fuentes, many of its attendees are ...

(AFPAC), organised by

white supremacist White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races. The belief favors the maintenance and defense of any power and privilege held by white people. White supremacy has roots in the now-discredited doctrine ...

activist

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, and also attended by Sulaiman Ahmed, an online disinformation influencer, and

David Duke David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American politician, neo-Nazi, conspiracy theorist, and former grand wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. From 1989 to 1992, he was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for the ...

, formerly grand wizard of the

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. In June 2025, Gage released a song named "Boom Boom Tel Aviv", which quickly went viral on social media.

Social media bans

Gage has been banned from multiple social media platforms, including

(now X) and

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, for

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and inciting violence. On the platform X, Gage was known for posting racist and antisemitic content, leading to his account being banned in January 2021. He circumvented the ban and returned under the name Lucas Gage in late 2022. On March 6, 2023, Gage posted documents on X showing his legal name change from Angelo John Gage to Lucas Gage, which he filed on August 2, 2022, with the

Superior Court of New Jersey The Superior Court is the state court in the U.S. state of New Jersey, with statewide trial and appellate jurisdiction. The New Jersey Constitution of 1947 establishes the power of the New Jersey courts: under Article Six of the State Constitu ...

in Ocean County. In October 2023, Gage quoted

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was the dictator of Nazi Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his suicide in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the lea ...

's ''

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'' and suggested that Israel was undeserving of sympathy following the

Hamas The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas (the Arabic acronym from ), is a Palestinian nationalist Sunni Islam, Sunni Islamism, Islamist political organisation with a military wing, the Qassam Brigades. It has Gaza Strip under Hama ...

attacks on

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. He also claimed to have received $165 from X for high engagement on posts about

Leo Frank Leo Max Frank (April 17, 1884August 17, 1915) was an American lynching victim convicted in 1913 of the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan, an employee in a factory in Atlanta, Georgia, where he was the superintendent. Frank's trial, convicti ...

, a Jewish man lynched in 1915. In December 2023, his X account was suspended again for three months due to violations of the platform's rules against inciting violence.

References

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