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Politico obtained 2,900 pages of exchanges over seven months among a dozen Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont.
An explosive new report from Politico exposed thousands of text messages from a Young Republican group chat in which members joked about gas chambers, slavery and rape. The group chat included
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'Meanest people': Outrage over leaked chats continue to rock the Young Republican world
The Young Republican National Federation (YRNF) is facing a widening internal crisis after the leak of a private group chat containing racist, antisemitic, and homophobic slurs by several of its members,
The Mirror US on MSN
Meet the ten Young Republican leaders linked to Hitler-loving comments
Ten members of the Young Republican Federation have been identified after thousands of racially charged messages on Telegram were leaked.
Some local G.O.P. officials who participated in the text exchanges are losing their jobs or being pressured to resign. But top Republicans have been dismissive.
The New Republic on MSN
Young Republicans at War With Each Other Over Racist Text Chain
The Arizona Young Republicans clearly don’t understand what was wrong with its members’ frolicsome participation in a racist, Nazi-loving text chain exposed in a gangbusters report by Politico. The local chapter released a statement Wednesday night in which the organization firmly rejected “any involvement in the ongoing political witch hunt targeting fellow Young Republican members” over the Telegram group chat reported on Wednesday,
The executive committee of the New York GOP State Committee voted to suspend the state’s young Republican chapter.
Young Republican leaders' private chats revealed racist, homophobic, and antisemitic language, including Holocaust references. These offensive messages, found across thousands of pages of messages, have sparked outrage and calls for accountability.