Twitch's biggest progressive political streamer Hasan Piker has filed a $72.5 million defamation lawsuit against CNN contributor Scott Jennings, and his legal team is signaling this is only the beginning.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Piker's attorney and defamation specialist Daniel Watkins told Vanity Fair there is a "reckoning coming," saying that "other people and other entities will likely receive outreach from my law firm in the coming days."

The suit demands $27.5 million in compensatory damages and $45 million in punitive damages. Watkins says the more aggressive legal posture marks a marked contrast from Piker's previous tendency to let controversial, often baseless, accusations against him slide.

The Hollywood Reporter reports the dispute traces to Aug.

11, when Jennings, on his Salem Media podcast, presented a spliced video montage alleging Piker advocated for lynchings, using the out-of-context segment to urge Michigan voters to reject Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed over his ties to the streamer.

Watkins issued a formal retraction demand to Salem Media's chief legal counsel Christopher Henderson in late August; when it got no response, Piker filed suit.

Piker told Vanity Fair he had been "very deliberately anti-litigation for a very long time," but that something shifted when people like Jennings "started trafficking in outright lies, defamation, and slander."

Fox News reports that as Democrats swept the midterms, Piker taunted conservatives on X, writing "WE'RE GONNA PUT YOUR ASS IN JAIL EVERYONE GET MORE WOKE RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" to commentator Matt Van Swol, and later jibed at Laura Loomer.

Fox News notes he has no real power to make that happen, but the outlet frames him as an influential figure within the Democratic Party who campaigned with El-Sayed and appeared alongside Rep. Ilhan Omar.

Fox News also details the controversies around Piker, including remarks about Jewish voters that drew a rebuke from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who called them "malicious" and said they should not be tolerated.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, with midterms wrapping up and big wins for Piker-backed candidates, his team is eyeing next targets: he highlighted former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, who repeated the lynching claim on C-SPAN, and Sen.

Ted Cruz, who reshared Jennings's montage on X — Piker publicly taunted Cruz online, posting "Hey Ted you seen this?"

Watkins stressed the clips' severe impact on Piker's career, calling the misattributions "disgusting and vile and dangerous," citing reputational damage and a stalking incident at a public event.

Piker's warning to those who "outright fabricate quotes": "you should probably work on your retractions immediately."