# Brandon Herrera

> Brandon Herrera turned firearm YouTube videos into a congressional campaign. Known online as The AK Guy, he builds guns, tests them on camera, and parlayed a decade of that into two Republican primary runs for a Texas House seat - losing the first by a single point, winning the second when his opponent dropped out.

*American politician and YouTuber (born 1995)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/brandon-herrera

## Identity
- **Profile type:** YouTuber ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15222076))
- **Category:** YouTubers
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1995-11-20
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Herrera launched his YouTube channel in 2014 at nineteen, carving out a niche testing firearms and walking through historical weapons with a mechanic's eye and a policy edge. The AK Guy nickname stuck. By 2024 he'd leveraged the audience into a long-shot primary challenge against sitting Republican Tony Gonzales in Texas's 23rd district, a race that went to a runoff and ended with Herrera down by roughly one percent. Two years later he ran again, forced another runoff, and this time Gonzales bowed out - handing the nomination to the gun manufacturer who'd started filming in his twenties.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 77.2 / 100
- **Momentum:** 18.5 / 100  (trend: BREAKOUT)
- **Historical depth:** 4.6 / 100
- **Now attention:** 100.0 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 40.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 88.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #53
- **Total followers across platforms:** 4,270,000

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/TheAKGuy (@TheAKGuy)
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13495189/ (@nm13495189)
- **WEBSITE**: https://brandonherreraforcongress.com/
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTrSsPMmZavLbc3Ex7VhjDg (@@brandonherrera, 4,270,000 followers)

## Sources
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131549488)
- [Brandon Herrera](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Herrera)
- [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/artist/4c6ffd10-ad20-4c6f-a7aa-723f4bc55f91)
- [Brandon Herrera](https://www.themoviedb.org/person/4291888)

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