Popular MAGA Influencer Illegally Donated to a Political Campaign

A prominent MAGA influencer with millions of followers who has “never set foot in the United States” illegally donated to a QAnon congressional candidate, independent journalist Jacqueline Sweet reported for rolling stone Wednesday.

Rumen Naumovski is behind Resist the Mainstream, a right-wing content farm that has over 450,000 followers on

In 2022, Naumovski illegally donated more than $3,000 to support far-right congressional candidate Ron Watkins, who was accused of being “Q” himself. Although Naumovski owns a US-based media company, he still resides in North Macedonia and admitted in a opinion article for The Daily Wire that he had actually “never set foot in the United States.”

that of Naumovski two donations Totaling $3,127, it was Watkins’ largest reported campaign contribution in the first quarter of 2022, according to Open secrets. And in the weeks following the donations, Watkins urged his supporters on social media to join Resist the Mainstream’s Telegram channel on several occasions.

Both donations were made in February 2022 and are traced to an address in St. Petersburg, Florida, to the office of a registered agent of Raww Digital LLC, the marketing company that owns Resist the Mainstream. Naumovski is the owner of Raww Digital LLC, but his home address is listed in Veles, North Macedonia.

Watkins eventually returned the money in April 2022. Naumovski said rolling stone that he didn’t know he needed a green card to donate to a political campaign. Foreign nationals are in fact rod to contribute to a political campaign.

Media Questions reported in 2023 that a dozen influencers linked to the QAnon movement boosted Resist the Mainstream and that, although it had been on and off mainstream social media platforms, the right-wing network had amassed enormous success in alternative spaces – platforms such as Truth Social, Rumble, Gab and Gettr.

Naumovski’s social media accounts have become staples of the MAGA Republican online landscape, and their posts have been shared by the likes of Andy Biggs, Dan Crenshaw, Eli Crane, Mike Lee, and Nancy Mace, as well as other prominent MAGA influencers. Accounts have shared content push election fraud conspiracies on the vote of non-citizens, a a non-issue that has been debunked repeatedly.

In Naumovski’s case, it is more than clear that some non-citizens are trying to interfere in American politics, but they come in the form of anonymous influencers producing right-wing content and leading hordes of supporters.