…In May 2024, the group was bantering about a #Trump campaign staffer who’d been hired in Georgia & was working on outreach to minority voters, when #PaulIngrassia suggested she didn’t show enough deference to the Founding Fathers being white, acc/to the chat.

“Paul belongs in the Hitler Youth with Ubergruppenfuhrer Steve Bannon,” the first participant in the chat wrote, referring to the paramilitary rank in #Nazi Germany & the #Republican strategist.

#GOP #antisemitism #racism #WhiteSupremacy

POLITICO interviewed 2 people in the chat & granted them anonymity after they expressed concerns about personal & professional repercussions. One retained the messages & showed the text chain in its entirety to POLITICO, which independently verified that the number listed on the chain belongs to #PaulIngrassia. The person said he came forward because he wants “the government to be staffed with experienced people who are taken seriously.”

#Trump #GOP #Nazis #antisemitism #racism #WhiteSupremacy

Using an Italian slur for Black people, Ingrassia wrote a month earlier in the group chat seen by POLITICO:

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“No moulignon holidays … From kwanza [sic] to mlk jr day to black history month to Juneteenth,” then added: “Every single one needs to be eviscerated.”

#Trump #MAGA #GOP #Republicans #Nazis #antisemitism #racism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

#PaulIngrassia …made the remarks in a chain with a half-dozen #Republican operatives & influencers, according to the chat.

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“MLK Jr. was the 1960s George Floyd and his ‘holiday’ should be ended and tossed into the seventh circle of hell where it belongs,” Ingrassia wrote in January 2024, according to the chat.

“Jesus Christ,” one participant responded.

#Trump #MAGA #GOP #Republicans #Nazis #antisemitism #racism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism

#PaulIngrassia is scheduled to appear Thursday in a confirmation hearing with the #Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee, but his confirmation, which requires simple majority approval from the Senate, seems to be doomed.

#Trump #MAGA #GOP #Republicans #Nazis #antisemitism #racism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/20/paul-ingrassia-racist-text-messages-nazi-00613608

Today in Labor History October18, 1927: The murder trial began for Sholom Schwartzbard, accused of killing Ukrainian nationalist Symon Petliura because he slaughtered 15 members of Schwartzbard’s family in Pogroms. Schwartzbard was a Russian-born French Yiddish poet and an anarchist. He served in the French and Soviet militaries.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #ukraine #russia #soviet #communism #antisemitism #yiddish #assassination #poetry #books @bookstadon

Today in Labor History October18, 1927: The murder trial began for Sholom Schwartzbard, accused of killing Ukrainian nationalist Symon Petliura because he slaughtered 15 members of Schwartzbard’s family in Pogroms. Schwartzbard was a Russian-born French Yiddish poet and an anarchist. He served in the French and Soviet militaries.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #ukraine #russia #soviet #communism #antisemitism #yiddish #assassination #poetry #books @bookstadon

Dear Keir, it is because their fans are violent hooligans? That does not excuse any anti semitic behaviour at all, but violent football fans have been banned (see British hooligans of the 70s and 80s) as an example.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/16/maccabi-tel-aviv-fans-banned-from-game-at-aston-villa-in-europa-league

#Football#Antisemitism#Maccabi#Violence

Dear Keir, it is because their fans are violent hooligans? That does not excuse any anti semitic behaviour at all, but violent football fans have been banned (see British hooligans of the 70s and 80s) as an example.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/oct/16/maccabi-tel-aviv-fans-banned-from-game-at-aston-villa-in-europa-league

#Football#Antisemitism#Maccabi#Violence

"All members of the Young Republicans are between the ages of 18 and 40. The 'I love Hitler' guy (who also called Black people monkeys) is Peter Giunta, a man in his 30s and chief of staff to New York state Assemblymember Mike Reilly."

~ Jill Filipovic

#YoungRepublicans #JDVance#CharlieKirk #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny#Nazi #fascism
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https://jill.substack.com/p/the-gops-nazi-youth

"The guys yukking it up in the most revolting terms in the Young Republicans chat weren’t 'young boys'—they were early-ish career Republican political professionals. Peter Giunta, one of the chat’s worst offenders, is 31. He was recently a candidate for national chair of the organization, which pulls in about a million dollars in donations a year."

~ Bulwark

#YoungRepublicans #JDVance#CharlieKirk #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny#Nazi #fascism
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/jack-smiths-not-so-subtle-message-no-kings-timothy-snyder-totalitarianism-young-republicans-vra-redistricting

"There are two issues here. One is that the MAGA right has a legitimate Nazi problem. The second is that the MAGA right believes there are two standards: The ultra-permissive one that applies to them and their followers within which there are zero consequences for even the worst behavior, and the far stricter one that applies to liberals or any other perceived political opponents."

#YoungRepublicans #JDVance#CharlieKirk #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny#Nazi #fascism
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"When he noted a procedural error made by a Jewish colleague, his wife Brianna Douglass — who sits on the national committee of the Vermont Young Republicans — chimed in to say, 'I was about to say you’re giving nationals to [sic] much credit and expecting the Jew to be honest.'

Many of the participants in this group chat are older than the recent college grads who staffed up DOGE and dismantled the federal government."

#YoungRepublicans #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny#Nazi
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"I can’t find the age of Bobby Walker, the vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans, but he was recently touted by his organization as 'a veteran GOP strategist from Albany.' Samuel Douglass, a Vermont state senator, joined in a conversation in which Walker mocked a friend who 'dated this very obese Indian woman for a period of time;' Douglass added, 'she just didn’t bathe very often.'”

#YoungRepublicans #JDVance #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny#Nazi #fascism
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"All members of the Young Republicans are between the ages of 18 and 40. The 'I love Hitler' guy (who also called Black people monkeys) is Peter Giunta, a man in his 30s and chief of staff to New York state Assemblymember Mike Reilly."

~ Jill Filipovic

#YoungRepublicans #JDVance#CharlieKirk #racism #homophobia #antisemitism #misogyny#Nazi #fascism
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https://jill.substack.com/p/the-gops-nazi-youth