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Growing Fallout over 'Young Republican' Chat Leak
Over 2,900 pages of texts reveal elected Republicans and young party leaders using racist and homophobic language, leading to job losses and calls for resignations.
- On Tuesday, Politico revealed 2,900 pages of Telegram messages implicating elected Republicans and Young Republican leaders in racist and homophobic language.
- Luke Mosiman, Arizona Young Republican chairman, had promoted far‑right events, followed groyper accounts, and defended Turning Point affiliates, linking Arizona Young Republicans to the American Populist Union.
- Over seven months and 2,900 pages, the chats contained hundreds of slurs and violent rhetoric, with Peter Giunta posting `I Love Hitler` and apologizing for `more than 28,000 messages`.
- The Kansas state Republican Party disbanded its Young Republicans chapter and fired an aide to Kris Kobach last week, with the Young Republican National Federation calling the language `appalling` and urging resignations.
- Context‑first: The revelations exposed internal GOP splits and defensive leadership responses as Vice President JD Vance called the chats `anything said in a college group chat`, drawing Sen. Chuck Schumer's criticism, while a 2024 photo showed President Donald Trump with participants.
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Over the course of seven months, in 2900 pages of messages sent through Telegram, Republicans elected and leaders of local groups of young party activists in New York, Vermont, Arizona and Kansas regularly used racist and homophobic language and lightly invoked Hitler and the Holocaust. The texts, of which Politico reported on Tuesday, were part of a chat called “RESTOREYR WAR ROOM”, of about ten Republicans of Generation Z and millennials, some…
Sen. Hesselbein: Condemns vile messages sent by leaders of Young Republican groups including elected official
Statement by Senator Dianne Hesselbein (D-Middleton) Democratic Senate Leader: “Leaders of Young Republican Chapters around the country, including a State Legislator, repeatedly exchanged numerous vile racist, antisemitic, and sexist messages in a group text chat. According to news reports “they...
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Woman Makes Alarming Point About Young Republicans Caught In Racist Group Chat After Vance Calls Them 'Kids'
After Vice President JD Vance refused to condemn Young Republican leaders after their racist, misogynistic and antisemitic group chat was leaked online and referred to participants as "kids," liberal influencer Pottymouthpollyanna called out exactly what that implies.Earlier this week, Politico published 2,900 pages of leaked exchanges between a dozen state-level Young Republican leaders in different states.Young Republican leaders called Black …
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