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Christopher Mathias

@letsgomathias.bsky.social
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Reporter: @talkingpointsmemo.com. Author: To Catch A Fascist (one of the New Yorker's "Best Books of 2026"). Words in Guardian, Zeteo, MS NOW, The Nation, The Handbasket. Formerly HuffPost. Get in touch: ChrisM@talkingpointsmemo.com.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
very cool to see my new @talkingpointsmemo.com colleague @joshkovensky.bsky.social joining Posting Through It to talk with @jaredlholt.bsky.social & @michaelehayden.bsky.social about all his great reporting! open.spotify.com/episode/59Tb...
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144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
clicked to read about political ad spends on anti-trans shit, ended up reading something quickly beautiful/profound about hope seemingly against all odds lol, by @katelynburns.com www.burnsnotice.com/we-may-have-...
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We May Have Just Seen the Tides Turn on Trans Rights
Some conservative PACs have backed off from running anti-trans ads. Is this a sign of what's to come for trans people?
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
For my newsletter this morning, I found a small glimmer of political hope for trans people in the US and wrote about it: www.burnsnotice.com/we-may-have-...
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We May Have Just Seen the Tides Turn on Trans Rights
Some conservative PACs have backed off from running anti-trans ads. Is this a sign of what's to come for trans people?
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Journalists may not have much. But we retain the right to call the frauds and bootlickers masquerading as the pillars of the media industry a bunch of scumbags. Truth, after all, comes free." remarkable @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social piece www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-free-a...
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The Free and Unfree Press
Journalism, and its adversaries.
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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NYC: Posting Through It will be at NYU on 10/28! My friend @letsgomathias.bsky.social will talk about To Catch a Fascist. There will be some Strange People on the Hill and Emcee @jaredlholt.bsky.social will also have us talk about many other things. Be there! www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...
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Save the Date: PTI Live in NYC | Posting Through It
Jared and Mike invite you to join them at NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge on Wednesday, Oct. 28, at 5:30 p.m. It's a free event, but RS
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 23/09/2026
@letsgomathias.bsky.social shares details from his investigation into the most extreme Republican candidate running in the 2026 midterms, who is all but guaranteed to win his seat: www.tiktok.com/@talkingpoin...
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TPM Reporter Christopher Mathias reveals the most extreme candidate running for office right now. #florida #politics #fl #investigation #exposed
TikTok video by Talking Points Memo
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
TPM Reporter @letsgomathias.bsky.social just did a video going through all the highlights of his latest investigation www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8TPMwmb/
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TPM Reporter Christopher Mathias reveals the most extreme candidate running for office right now. #florida #politics #fl #investigation #exposed
TikTok video by Talking Points Memo
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
One of those reporting moments that's so vivid in my memory is Kid Rock doing a sound check in an empty auditorium at the 2024 RNC, just rapping "Trump! Trump! Trump!" to empty seats newrepublic.com/post/215697/...
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MAGA Festival With Kid Rock Canceled After No One Wanted to Go
The “Freedom Fest” is no longer happening after dismal ticket sales.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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You don’t have to hand it to Richard Hanania
The so-called "former" white supremacist's work doesn't show accountability—or that he's actually moved on from his earlier views, Christopher Mathias writes.
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Molly Redden @mtredden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Exclusive: In late 2024, FBI agents were looking at Sen. Susan Collins’ role in a massive illegal bribery scheme alleged by a former federal contractor. Then Trump gutted the FBI and DOJ, leaving no one to carry on the investigation – it’s dead. 🧵
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Lynchings, slavery, secession, Charlottesville — & soon, a key card to 400 S. Monroe" After my @talkingpointsmemo.com story abt Marshall Rawson, the publisher of Florida Politics calls for him to be frozen out of legislative process — no committees, no bills... floridapolitics.com/archives/820...
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Lynchings, slavery, secession, Charlottesville — and, soon, a key card to 400 S. Monroe
Marshall Rawson is headed to the Florida House. Will anyone say a word?
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 19/09/2026
through a coincidence of Libby holds timing, END TIMES FASCISM by @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social arrived yesterday with TO CATCH A FASCIST by @letsgomathias.bsky.social
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Kaleidic Riot @badmenbad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Very informative conversation between @socialistdogmom.bsky.social & @letsgomathias.bsky.social Researching & unmasking fash is a very important form of bottom-up community defense. NSPM-7 is an attempt to deem that community defense "terrorism." pca.st/episode/b7c3...
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To Catch A Fascist: An Interview with Christopher Mathias
Molly interviews Christopher Mathias about his new book, To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right. It's a rollicking tale of infiltrating nazi groups and exposing their private…
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
University of Florida’s College Republicans chapter was disbanded after members were discovered doing Nazi salutes. The group has come back to life, and, as one of its first acts, hosted Marshall Rawson, the Florida legislature candidate who TPM revealed was at Charlottesville.
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We Asked 28 GOP Officials If They’d Denounce the GOP Nominee Who Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville
This week I asked 28 current and former Republican Party officials in...
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David Kurtz @davidkurtz.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BY THE NUMBERS... 28: How many Florida GOP elected @letsgomathias.bsky.social contacted about Marshall Rawson, a GOP nom for state rep who marched in Cville 22: How many of those 28 had endorsed Rawson 3: How many responded 0: How many renounced Rawson. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/marshal...
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We Asked 28 GOP Officials If They’d Denounce the GOP Nominee Who Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville
This week I asked 28 current and former Republican Party officials in...
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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“I’m not going to platform nonsense,” Newberry, FL mayor + Marshall Rawson endorser told @letsgomathias.bsky.social. "You don’t matter. I don’t matter. The voters do." Another endorser, Fort White's mayor, said “I personally hope he does win the election here” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/marshal...
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We Asked 28 GOP Officials If They’d Denounce the GOP Nominee Who Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville
This week I asked 28 current and former Republican Party officials in...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We Asked 28 GOP Officials If They’d Denounce the GOP Nominee Who Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville talkingpointsmemo.com/news/marshal...
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We Asked 28 GOP Officials If They’d Denounce the GOP Nominee Who Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville
This week I asked 28 current and former Republican Party officials in...
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
You can't make up details like this.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New for @talkingpointsmemo.com: Marshall Rawson, GOP nominee for Florida legislature, marched w/ Nazis in Charlottesville, condoned slavery, & called for execution of gay people. Does GOP even care? Is there a limit to MAGA's "never punch right" ethos? talkingpointsmemo.com?p=1558029&pr...
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We Asked 28 GOP Officials If They’d Denounce the GOP Nominee Who Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville
This week I asked 28 current and former Republican Party officials in...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My @talkingpointsmemo.com investigation into Marshall Rawson among the many disturbing stories about the GOP's Nazism listed in this @jamellebouie.net piece www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/o...
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Opinion | The G.O.P. Has Gone Off the Deep End
The Republican fringe is becoming the Republican mainstream.
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
In response to my @talkingpointsmemo.com story, the Florida Democratic Party issues statement calling on Florida GOP leaders — Ron DeSantis, Byron Donalds, and Ashley Moody — to take a stand against Marshall Rawson. "We don't need to send a Nazi to Tallahassee." floridadems.org/2026/09/flor...
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Peter Montgomery @petemontdc.com · 15/09/2026
TPM's @letsgomathias.bsky.social on "the prospect that an unrepentant white supremacist will attain elected office in one of the country’s most populous states with no pushback from the Republican Party" talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 15/09/2026
@letsgomathias.bsky.social joined @jragazzo.bsky.social on YouTube Live to talk about his piece, the modern GOP's "never punch right attitude," and "the screaming emergency" of having Charlottesville marchers as Republican state leg nominees. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/youtu...
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TPM Live: Chris Mathias on the Charlottesville Marcher Poised to Take Office in Florida
ICYMI, TPM’s new reporter Chris Mathias just published a new investigation revealing...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's my official first day as a reporter at @talkingpointsmemo.com! Hit me up with tips/ideas: chrism@talkingpointsmemo.com. & join me and @jragazzo.bsky.social at 2pm to hear us discuss my story abt the Charlottesville marcher poised to take office in Florida talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/youtu...
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YouTube Live at 2 PM ET: Chris Mathias on the Charlottesville Marcher Poised to Take Office in Florida
ICYMI, TPM’s new reporter Chris Mathias just published a new investigation revealing...
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Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Exclusive: Pentagon employee Jennica Pounds aka @datarepublican.bsky.social put antifascist websites under a bright light, calling them an "elaborate doxxing scheme." Some of the sites exposed violent extremists before they were prosecuted by the USG for terrorism. www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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Pentagon insider smears antifascists who unmasked Nazi terrorists later convicted by DOJ
Days after the State Department designated an Italian tech group as a terrorist entity, thousands of antifascist sites on its web hosting service wound up on a searchable online research tool describe...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Washington Post picks up on the story, asks the former congressmen who endorsed Rawson for comment www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Rawson has responded to my @talkingpointsmemo.com story. He neither denies or apologizes for: -condoning slavery -calling for gay people to be executed -advocating lynching -marching w/ Nazis in Charlottesville -his involvement w/ League of the South, a neo-Confederate/southern secessionist group
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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
If you’re in NYC, come see me chat it up with @michaelehayden.bsky.social and @letsgomathias.bsky.social at NYU on Oct. 28 ipk.nyu.edu/events/book-...
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Book Talk | Michael Edison Hayden & Christopher Mathias | Strange People on the Hill: How Extremism Tore Apart a Small American Town & To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right – Insti...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Neither Florida GOP/national GOP responded to my requests for comment. If the party can't denounce Rawson, who -condoned slavery -called for gay people to be executed -appeared to advocate lynching -marched w/ Nazis in Charlottesville -was part of League of the South not sure there's a red line
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
When I was reaching out to Rawson’s campaign donors, I ended up stumbling upon a story in of itself: Josh Doggrell was fired from Alabama police department in 2015 over his involvement in League of the South When I searched his name I found out… he’s now a Lt. in an Alabama sheriff’s office
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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Sam Dickson, a former lawyer for the Ku Klux Klan who became a leading figure in multiple white supremacist groups, gave $1,000 to Rawson’s campaign. Here's what he said to @letsgomathias.bsky.social when he reached out for comment. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
An analysis of campaign donations found that Marshall Rawson also received upwards of $15,000 from dozens of people with either established ties to white nationalist organizations or well-documented histories of extremist, racist activism. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Allegra Kirkland @allegrak.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
In 2017, Marshall Rawson marched with the neo-Confederate League of the South at the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville. In November, he's poised to win a seat in the Florida legislature. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Ben Silverstein ❌👑 @bensilverstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
A Republican nominee for the Florida state legislature marched in Charlottesville with one of the neo-Confederate groups found liable for conspiring to commit violence at Unite the Right. Reporting from @talkingpointsmemo.com talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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Liliana Segura @lilianasegura.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Read the whole thread:
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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
From "very fine people" to "stand back and stand by" to Jan.6 "will be wild".... @davidkurtz.bsky.social writes about an America where someone like Marshall Rawson can win public office: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Layla A. Jones @laylaayanna.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Voters in Florida nominated a man who marched alongside neo-Nazis at the deadly 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia for a seat in the Florida House.
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
this is a particularly bad picture for a politician to be in. first of all, he's at a nazi rally. and as Chris point out, he's standing just a few feet away from a guy who is about to commit a hate crime murder. but you can also see Taylor Wilson (sonnenrad shield) & Alex McNabb (bald).
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The Space Pope @popecrocodylus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The Florida GOP did not respond to a request for comment about Rawson’s involvement with the League of the South, his attendance at Unite the Right, his white supremacist campaign donors, or the post he appears to have made on X advocating lynchings."
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Most current GOP candidates focus on racial gerrymandering and purging African-Americans from the executive ranks of institutions like the military. But one GOP candidate likely to enter the Fla legislature appears to support literal lynching
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
GOP candidate strongly favored to win seat in Florida legislature talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
All the men identified giving Marshall Rawson money are violent white supremacists. For example, Michael Tubbs dreams of race war. “Comfort zones need to be breached. Only blood will settle our future. Let the vermin bring it on and don’t be shy about it,” Tubbs posted to Fb in 2017.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Big Exclusive here from our new reporter: Charlottesville marcher is on his way to the Florida state legislature. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
The Republican nominee for a seat in the Florida House of Representatives...
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ace @aceanbender.com · 14/09/2026
just finished this book yesterday, it's a remarkable work of journalism (and a riveting read) on a topic that couldn't be more relevant right now. there's even a bit of dispelling myths about autism when describing the people drawn to anti-fascist research!
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Josh Kovensky @joshkovensky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Marshall Rawson, who is expected to win a seat in the Florida legislature, marched with neo-Nazis at Charlottesville. Great, comprehensive story that gets at the state of the modern, MAGAfied GOP from @letsgomathias.bsky.social talkingpointsmemo.com/news/florida...
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Exclusive: He Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville. Now He’s Expected to Join the Florida Legislature.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
There’s some weird idea that the alt-right disappeared after Charlottesville, but if that was the case, why do guys like this keep running for office?
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
TPM, meanwhile, issues reporting suggests the GOP nominee currently favored to win a Florida legislature seat is a pro-slavery, pro-lynching, pro-secession, pro-execution-for-gay-people participant in the neo-Nazi Charlottesville rally
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