Entertainment After high school, Peters moved from Minnesota to
Los Angeles, Florida and New York while pursuing a career as a rapper named Fokiss. As a rapper, he performed at several night clubs and bars around Minneapolis and Duluth including 7th St. Entry at the landmark
1st Avenue. On May 30, 2017, Peters' agency was involved in a shootout that left two agents and the fugitive dead. TCAT had tracked Ramon Hutchinson, wanted for failure to appear for a DUI court date, from Minnesota to Greenville, Texas. TCAT used an automobile tracking device to find Hutchinson. When two agents (Gabriel Bernal and Fidel Garcia Jr) approached Hutchinson, he pulled out a gun and opened fire. Both agents and the fugitive died. Peters' bounty hunting agency closed in 2021 after Peters was found guilty of
disorderly conduct related to a domestic disturbance situation and was sentenced to
probation. Because of his ability to incite his numerous followers to harass those he targets, extremism researcher Katie McCarthy has compared him to
Alex Jones. In February 2023, following the
Ohio train derailment, a
tweet by Peters claiming that "journalists covering the story have been arrested" and dead fish and cattle were being found "as far as 100 miles away from the site" went viral, attracting about half a million likes. Only one journalist had been arrested. In the summer of 2023, Peters claimed that the
wildfires in Canada and the ones in
Hawaii were the result of attacks by orbital energy weapon platforms, similarly to
Marjorie Taylor Greene's statement about "Jewish space lasers". Experts have explained why this statement by Peters is clearly incorrect. Peters has called for the execution of
Hunter Biden,
Anthony Fauci,
Catholic Charities workers,
Taylor Swift, and
Travis Kelce for reasons ranging from Kelce promoting
COVID-19 vaccines and the Catholic Charities workers aiding migrants to Biden being a "presidential failson" and Swift promoting "
witchcraft". According to Peters' executive producer
Lauren Witzke, "It's not a Stew Peters rally unless we're calling for executions." Peters is identified as the communications director of a militia movement headed by one Edward Lang, who is serving a prison sentence for assaulting a police officer during the
January 6 United States Capitol attack. The North American Patriot and Liberty Militia was organized in 2024 in order to be ready to take action during the
2024 United States presidential election. The same year, he called on his supporters to start gathering books they dislike from public libraries in anticipation of a book burning event he plans to organize. In 2025, Peters and podcast guest comedian
Leonarda Jonie both became the subject of controversy from comments made about
Ohio born 2024 United States Presidential candidate
Vivek Ramaswamy. Jonie later stated on
social media that she would not rest until Ramaswamy was deported back to the country he came from and referring to
India as a "
shit hole." The comments brought about widespread condemnation. He has referred to Judaism as a "death cult built on the blood of murdered babies". He has repeatedly promoted the
white genocide and
Great Replacement conspiracy theories. He has falsely claimed that Black people are
genetically prone to committing crime, Peters has hosted noted white supremacists and antisemites such as
Nick Fuentes,
Peter Brimelow, and
Steven Anderson on his show. In 2022, Peters started the eponymous Stew Peters Network. Former
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Kandiss Taylor was also given a show, entitled
Jesus Guns Babies, based on her campaign slogan, on which she espoused conspiracy theories like
weather control. Paul Harrell, a writer and radio show host for the far-right news site
National File, also had a show on the network, called
The Millstone Report, on which he pushed the
Great Replacement conspiracy theory. Katie McCarthy, a researcher for the
Anti-Defamation League's Center on Extremism, said that Peters was one of a group of far-right influencers "trying to exploit the crisis in Israel and Gaza right now to promote their own hatred for the Jewish community." and claimed that the
New York City synagogue tunnel incident was a coverup for child sex trafficking. He has also claimed that Jews and Israel orchestrated the
January 6 attack in the U.S. in order to discredit American nationalists, and has promoted the
neo-Nazi propaganda film
Europa: The Last Battle. In April 2025, he said he wants a "final solution" to remove Jews from the United States. That May, he was banned by a
Virginia hotel from speaking at a conference for veterans of the 1967
USS Liberty incident after
StopAntisemitism, a pro-Israel advocacy group, posted a flyer for the event that included Peters and antisemites
Lucas Gage and
Jake Shields.
COVID-19 misinformation From early in the pandemic, Peters joined other conspiracy theorists in peddling disinformation about COVID vaccines and public health measures. Peters misrepresents scientific communications, and presents baseless theories as fact, to promote common conspiratorial disinformation narratives; COVID vaccination is part of an attempted genocide, military personnel get
HIV from the vaccine, and that vaccinated people are frequently victims of
strokes and penile rot. In 2022, Peters started to produce long videos:
These Little Ones, promoting the
QAnon conspiracy about elites kidnapping children to drink their blood;
Watch the Water, which claims that COVID-19 vaccines are derived from
snake venom in order to transform people into "a hybrid of
Satan," and
Died Suddenly, which promotes
misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines and
Great Reset conspiracy theories. Peters' Twitter account was suspended for a few months for breaching the platform's content policies, but was reactivated in mid-December 2022. Spotify and iHeartRadio have removed his content from their platform. who is presented as a biotech analyst and legal advisor. However, Lead Stories found that Kingston sold
Viagra and did not work on the
Pfizer vaccine. In the film, Kingston promotes various false claims, including that the mRNA vaccines are
bioweapons and that the COVID-19 vaccines contain
graphene oxide. David Martin, a conspiracy theorist YouTuber and financial analyst, falsely claims that the
SARS-CoV-1 virus was developed at the
University of North Carolina. The film implies that
Event 201 shows that the COVID-19 pandemic was known about beforehand, and includes footage from the far-right activist group
Project Veritas in which an alleged Pfizer executive talks about
gain-of-function research at Pfizer. It ends with Kingston claiming that
World War III has started, and that the culprits are the
World Economic Forum and the
Great Reset. Peters has also interviewed Senate candidate and senior advisor to the
United States Agency for Global Media (USAGM)
Kari Lake (known for promoting
Trump's false claims of winning the 2020 presidential election),
FBI Director Kash Patel and GOP congressmen Paul Gosar, Pete Sessions and Andy Biggs. ==Legal issues==