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Christopher Mathias
@letsgomathias
Senior reporter @HuffPost covering the far right. Writing for @AtriaBooks. Member @wgaeast. christopher.mathias@huffpost.com or letsgomathias@protonmail.com.
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Apr 25 • 26 tweets • 8 min read
I’m at Columbia this evening where a group of Christian nationalists will be marching in support of Israel Image
Oct 3, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Everywhere you look in established right & "New Right" circles, you see an unapologetic embrace of authoritarianism/monarchism. They're not hiding their hatred for democracy. "No enemies to the right." A "Christian prince." A "monarch/CEO." Eugenics... All w/ buy-in from GOP Jason has been doing great work on this
Aug 4, 2023 • 19 tweets • 9 min read
NEW @RichardHanania is a right-wing star. A @UTAustin scholar, his fans include JD Vance, Thiel, Musk, Sacks, Rufo. @HarperCollins will publish his book "The Origins of Woke"

HuffPost found he used a pseudonym for yrs to write for white supremacist sites huffpost.com/entry/richard-… Hanania used the pseudonym "Richard Hoste" to become a formative voice during the rise of the racist "alt-right" in the 2010s, writing for the most vile publications in America, including the Occidental Observer, Counter-Currents, Taki’s Mag, & VDare.
huffpost.com/entry/richard-…
Jun 30, 2023 • 21 tweets • 11 min read
NEW: Renton's a trans man. HIs mom — Miss Illinois 1996 — is a MAGA influencer traveling the US calling the existence of trans people 'demonic'

But Renton says his childhood with his mom was hell — a hell the GOP is trying to recreate for all trans kids huffpost.com/entry/trans-so… Renton's mom is Tania Joy Gibson. A former Miss America contestant, these days Tania speaks from the same stages as Eric Trump & Michael Flynn, talking abt how gender-affirming care for trans folks is a scheme by the devil to steal the "seed" of humanity https://t.co/sDldqLQHRrhuffpost.com/entry/trans-so…
May 7, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
Texas shooter reportedly wore Right Wing Death Squad patch. RWDS apparel has been ubiquitous in far-right/MAGA circles since '17

Here's Tiny Toese wearing PINOCHET DID NOTHING WRONG shirt - referring to a meme abt throwing leftists out of helicopters Here's the back of Tiny's shirt, which makes the meaning clear. (This shirt was everywhere at rallies from 2017 -2020.)
Mar 20, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Putting on a costume So many reporters here I just saw a reporter start interviewing someone but they turned out to be a reporter too
Mar 5, 2023 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
A thread on the eliminationist anti-trans rhetoric of CPAC — including Michael Knowles calling for trans people to be “eradicated from public life entirely” — & why it’s a five-alarm fire. Knowles isn’t some fringe figure. He works for a multimillion dollar media company. His videos get tons of views. He has one of the most-listened-to news podcasts in the country. Until recently, he co-hosted a podcast with Sen. Ted Cruz.
Mar 3, 2023 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
A small showing so far for former Trump advisor Sebastian Gorka — who we often forget is an alleged member of Nazi group Vitezi Rend — at #CPAC2023.

Gorka is raging against Dems for "mutilating boys & girls...sacrificing them on the altar of their transgender insanity" Image Haven’t thought abt in a while nbcnews.com/news/world/seb…
Mar 3, 2023 • 19 tweets • 12 min read
NEW: Meet the Sacramento dildo saleswoman behind the "Terrorgram Collective," a neo-Nazi network that advocates mass shootings & calls shooters "saints."

Her propaganda helped inspired a shooting at a gay bar. Now she's been unmasked. Meet Dallas Humber. huffpost.com/entry/dallas-h… Last year a man killed two people at a Slovakian gay bar. In his "manifesto" he specifically thanked the Terrorgram Collective for helping inspire him.

Humber narrates the Terrorgram Collective's audiobooks & videos. huffpost.com/entry/dallas-h…
Jan 29, 2023 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
New: A married couple in Ohio have been identified as the creators of a Telegram channel — w/ 2.5k subscribers — for parents who want to home-school their kids to become "wonderful Nazis."

This couple has posted audio of their kids shouting "Sieg Heil." huffpost.com/entry/home-sch… The channel, run by a pseudonymous couple called Mr. and Mrs. Saxon, includes lesson plans on various subjects, like Robert E. Lee (a “grand role model for young, white men”) and MLK Jr. (“the antithesis of our civilization and our people”).

huffpost.com/entry/home-sch…
Dec 31, 2022 • 22 tweets • 10 min read
Year-end thread — a year of reporting on a rapidly radicalizing GOP, a Nazi cop in Mass., a Patriot Front hate crime spree across the U.S., Jan. 6 revisionism, a Christian nationalist candidate back home in PA, & more. Started '22 w/ a story abt Brevard County — home to a very high number of arrested J6 rioters.

It's also home to a particularly vindictive group of MAGA pols who target their enemies w/ shocking cruelty, possibly inciting incidents of political violence. huffpost.com/entry/brevard-…
Dec 1, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Ye just said “I see good things about Hitler also” on InfoWars just Ye and Fuentes talking in vile antisemitic terms about Jews with no pushback from Jones
Nov 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Fuentes as vile as they come. Explicitly racist & antisemitic, praised Hitler, says n word, marched w/ Nazis in C’ville, cheered on J6 rioters at the Capitol, Holocaust denier, advocates political violence/killing lawmakers…

Now having dinner w Trump, de facto leader of GOP Have ended up writing a lot about Fuentes over the year, as he’s used the strategy of entryism to make inroads with the GOP… he’s been working towards this moment for years.

Here’s one story: huffpost.com/entry/paul-gos…
Nov 8, 2022 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
Hello from Camp Hill, PA where I’ll be attending Doug Mastriano’s election night watch party.

Follow along for updates. And for some background, here’s my latest story about Doug, & what his candidacy means about the future of the GOP. huffpost.com/entry/doug-mas…
Nov 4, 2022 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
New: My dispatch from PA, where I spent a shocking wknd w/ the Christian 'prophets' in Doug Mastriano's orbit, & saw the GOP's radicalization into a cult that views its victory as foretold, & democracy as a roadblock in a divine quest for domination huffpost.com/entry/doug-mas… I attended church at LifeGate in Elizabethtown, where Sunday service began with a man who claims to receive prophecies from God bringing a sword he made to the front of the room.

"This was in the office of Doug Mastriano for 225 days,” he said. huffpost.com/entry/doug-mas…
Oct 25, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: This canvasser was recently paid $10k by Florida GOP despite his well-known white supremacy, including marching w/ Nazis in Charlottesville in 2017, attacking leftists w/ a Confed flag in Fla., & posting racist & antisemitic slurs. W/ @mattshuham huffpost.com/entry/florida-… This is just the latest example of the GOP paying/promoting/endorsing Nazis who marched in Charlottesville. Others include white supremacists James Allsup, Dave Reilly & Nick Fuentes. huffpost.com/entry/florida-…
Oct 21, 2022 • 31 tweets • 9 min read
Good morning from Mannheim, PA where I’ll be covering the Great Awakening show here the next couple days.

This is a Christian nationalist, QAnon-friendly conference featuring Michael Flynn and tomorrow - GOP candidate for governor Doug Mastriano. Pastor Greg Locke talking about how he’s been targeted by “BLM, antifa, witches and warlocks” Image
Oct 13, 2022 • 15 tweets • 8 min read
NEW: Police officer John Donnelly attended/helped plan the deadly Nazi rally in Charlottesville. (Was Richard Spencer's bodyguard.)

He went to a Nazi party celebrating the rally & posted racist slurs.

Then he returned to being a cop for 5 yrs. Until now huffpost.com/entry/john-don… The Woburn, Mass. cop's role in Charlottesville — & his many racist posts, some calling for violence — were uncovered by the anti-fascist collective @UnmaskUTR, whose research HuffPost has verified.

After a HuffPost inquiry, Donnelly has been suspended. huffpost.com/entry/john-don…
Sep 24, 2022 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
Good morning from Harrisburg, PA, where I’ll be covering a Doug Mastriano rally a the statehouse, set to kick off in a couple hours Was here almost two years ago for this huffpost.com/entry/harrisbu…
Jul 15, 2022 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
New: Gab was key to the Tree of Life synagogue massacre. The site’s owner is a raging anti-Semite. The GOP nominee for PA gov, @dougmastriano, paid Gab $5k for “campaign consulting.” Now every new account on Gab automatically follows Mastriano. huffpost.com/entry/doug-mas… it flew a lil under the radar that Mastriano - who refuses to talk to mainstream press - sat down for an interview with Gab CEO Andrew Torba, who is an anti-Semitic piece of shit. “Thank god for what you have done,” Mastriano told Torba. This is Torba: huffpost.com/entry/doug-mas…
May 17, 2022 • 23 tweets • 12 min read
New: My dispatch from Idaho's Christian nationalist insurgency, where extremists are seizing power, in part, by targeting their opponents w/ shocking cruelty.

Now, a 'cry for help' & a warning from those targeted: Idaho is a blueprint & a bellwether.
huffpost.com/entry/far-righ… This is the story Idaho Lt. Gov Janice McGeachin — running for governor in today's primary — teased for everyone last week