Jackson Hinkle

Jackson Hinkle
Born	September 1999 (age 24) San Clemente, California, United States
Nationality	American
Known for	The Dive with Jackson Hinkle
Occupation	Political commentator
Ideology	Marxism-Leninism
Religious affiliation	Orthodox Christian
Website
https://jacksonhinkle.tv/

Jackson Hinkle is a Marxist-Leninist YouTuber, influencer, and political commentator. He runs the Rumble shows The Dive with Jackson Hinkle and Legitimate Targets. He is also a founding member of the American Communist Party, serving on its Plenary Committee.

Early Work and Online Presence

Jackson was born in San Clemente, California in September 1999. In his adolescence, he was a surfer and local environmental activist who sought to keep his hometown's beaches and water clean. He attended San Clemente High School, where he wrote for the Triton Times school newspaper. In 2018, at 19 years old, Hinkle ran for San Clemente city council while simultaneously acting as Youth Director for Chooose, a small environmental activist group in the area. He lost the seat by three percentage points. Running again for the same position in 2019 after graduating, he focused on opposing "reckless overdevelopment", clearing nuclear waste from the beaches, addressing the rising problem of homelessness in Orange County, and above all "[representing] the needs of residents and businesses throughout our community, rather than those of wealthy campaign contributors and developers who seek to divide our community and destroy our ways of life." Though he lost, he gained an early understanding of politics on the local, regional, and national levels. Hinkle then attended Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, California, majoring in political science.

“Turn your passion into action. Since I was little, I have been passionate about protecting and preserving the ocean I surf, the mountains I hike, the slabs I boulder, and the plants and animals that inhabit all of these wonderful places. It is my passion to represent those who are underrepresented, those who have not been given an equal opportunity in life, or those who feel voiceless. I have a passion to protect the city I love from reckless overdevelopment, from the nation’s largest defacto nuclear waste dump, and from corruption in our local government. When action originates from a place of love, there is no stopping it." - Jackson Hinkle interviewed during his second campaign, Sept. 20th, 2019

Jackson supported the Bernie Sanders presidential campaigns of 2016 and 2020. Though being lauded by Variety and other magazines as one of the "most inspirational kids of 2017", internet nobodies, wannabes, and trolls learn of Jackson's "progressive activist" past and claim he became a grifter online in spite of his adolescent views; yet they have no concept of development or growth, upending their charges; not to mention, due to such lack of rigorous thought, they neglect the clear and consistent principles which he has had since early childhood.

During the COVID Pandemic, Jackson started his political show The Dive with Jackson Hinkle on YouTube and began streaming as JacksonHinkleTV on Twitch. He was censored and subsequently banned from Twitch, alongside Haz Al-Din, for their anti-imperialist coverage of the Russo-Ukrainian War. Twitch debate bros and Breadtubers praised the Amazon-owned company for this censorship-- however, of course, this only make Jackson (and Haz) more popular among online audiences and notorious or infamous among Redditors, liberals, and other (overlapping) anti-communist groups online. Both Jackson and Haz continued on Youtube-- garnering multiple strikes each on their respective accounts, meaning Jackson can be banned from YouTube permanently in fewer steps-- and on Rumble, an alternative, anti-censorship streaming platform. During this time, Jackson's YouTube cannel began growing somewhat rapidly due to his unwavering counter-hegemonic coverage of the Ukraine war, including not only his regular geopolitical-analytic news show, but Twitch debates and interviews as well. When The Dive reached 50-60,000 subscribers on YouTube, he was interviewed by Jimmy Dore on The Jimmy Dore Show and Primo Radical shortly after himself interviewing Aaron Maté of The Grayzone on The Dive. Soon after, Jackson, who had previously debated Twitch streamers such as Destiny, debated former federal informant Vaush on the OPCW coverup of the 2018 Syrian rebel gas attacks. Vaush rage-quit this debate after essentially calling Jackson a neo-Nazi for not entertaining his Anglo Box. Jackson soon became a regular guest on The Jimmy Dore Show, and began collaborating often with Aaron and Max Blumenthal, editors of The Grayzone, among others, on geopolitical and political analysis. He began to have interviews and conversations with Revolutionary Blackout Network members and others in independent media. Soon, he was put alongside journalists, philosophers, musicians, and other civilians on the Ukrainian kill list Myrotverets simply for being one of the only people in the U.S. opposing the war, opposing NATO expansion, and vehemently opposing current and historical American involvement in Ukraine-- all while growing immensely influential in American political discourse.

Jackson went on to gain hundreds of thousands of followers on YouTube during this time, garnering over 300,000 followers by 2023. In the midst of this rapid growth, he debated Sam Seder of The Majority Report on whether or not The Squad, a group of Democrat politicians posturing as "progressive", were in fact corrupt for taking bribes from George Soros, defrauding grassroots donors, ideologically aligning with the rest of the Democratic Party and their donors, and especially for their support for a 2021 bill funding United States Capitol security (effectively creating another intelligence agency). Seder's response to this all this is best summed up in his own words: "I don't care!"

Rise to Fame

After Jackson had surpassed 300,000 YouTube subscribers, he continued being interviewed on larger and larger shows. Jackson was interviewed by Addison Smith and later Alison Steinberg for One America News Network, Tucker Carlson for Fox News, George Galloway of Mother of all Talk Shows, Piers Morgan and others on TalkTV, Chinese news organization Guancha, the Russians With Attitude podcast, Alex Jones of Infowars, and more. He has interviewed many guests on The Dive, including Colonel Douglas MacGregor.

On July 26th, 2023, Jackson was invited on Piers Morgan Uncensored on TalkTV. Piers invited Konstantin Kisin to debate Jackson on the Russian SMO in Ukraine. Piers, in bad faith, called Jackson "bonkers", "Putin apologist" and a "Putin fanboy", constantly interrupted him and talked over him, and explicitly supported Konstantin's pro-NATO, anti-SMO arguments. This turned the "debate" into an overt two-on-one, in which Jackson arguably held his ground. Jackson's final question to Piers (before the host let Kisin have the last word) was an inquiry into why Piers was concerned with the civilian casualties and war crimes of the SMO, but not those civilian casualties, including Russians, in the Donbas region whose deaths (2015-- ) at the hands of the Euromaidan government spurred Vladimir Putin to militarily intervene. Piers ignored the question and passes the baton to Kisin to close the segment. This video's like to dislike ratio has been negative since it aired.

On October 9th, 2023, his YouTube account was suspended for "Ukraine misinformation".

Jackson dated Miss Russia 2022, Anna Linnikova, for a year before getting engaged on October 26th, 2023. Soon after, for various reasons, the couple called it off, with Anna posting erratically online and implying that he is a grifter. During this time Jackson stayed silent on these private matters while continuing to host The Dive.

On December 6th, 2023, Jackson filled in for George Galloway as host of the Mother of all Talk Shows webcast.

Jackson Hinkle experienced massive growth as of late 2023 due to his coverage of the war in Palestine. From October to December, Hinkle's X account was consistently among the top ten most viral on the platform. Of course, Twitter and YouTube took action to counter this growth, including changing YouTube community guidelines, Twitter community notes, and more. Due to this, Jackson focused less on YouTube output, as YouTube's community guidelines tightly constrict (censor) coverage of popular political topics, and especially counterhegemonic perspectives. Following this, on February 6th, 2024, Jackson was permanently banned from YouTube.

Jackson launched his new show, Legitimate Targets, on October 7th, 2024.

Content

Jackson primarily focuses on geopolitical analysis from a 21st-century American Marxist-Leninist point of view. He is well known for his daily coverage of wars, especially those in which the U.S. and its allies are involved. He often talks about Multipolarity, Socialism with American Characteristics, Globalism, news and social media, and various cultural topics from the perspective of the Stalinist Golden Center.

Links

• X
• Rumble
• LinkTree
• Telegram
• Patreon
• Discord