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This Leak Will RUIN HIM...

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This Leak Will RUIN HIM...

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Alright folks, so the stories we're gonna talk about right now are wild. And they perfectly represent so many problems within the Republican Party that we know exist, they know exist, they just don't want to do anything to address it or solve the problem. And so they just kind of ignored and pretend that it's not there. And what I'm talking about is the Republican Party's very clear Nazi problem. They've had this problem for years where their staffers or even their candidates have been caught liking things on social media, reposting things or posting things themselves. That are connected to the Nazis or far right white supremacist groups. And now a couple of candidates who are running in the 2026 midterms endorsed by Donald Trump have their own problems. So we're gonna talk about them here. We're gonna talk about why you should support their opponents as well. Of course, they're the Democratic opponents. Please make sure to subscribe down below, drop a like on the video, comment, let me know what you think about this story. And you know, we're not gonna start with Mike Collins. He's running in Georgia. We're gonna start all the way up in Ohio. Mike Collins has had some problems of his own, but we're gonna start with the Ohio candidate

John Hustead, who is a senator right now. And he has, he's had people on his campaign on his payroll who are pretty bad guys. So for example, Ohio Senate campaign staff are used Nazi soldiers as his profile photo. John Hustead's campaign after being contacted by the Washington Post said it would part ways with the political director, but only after they were contacted by the Washington Post. The campaign staffer for Senator John Hustead once used a photo of SS soldiers as his Facebook profile photo. And recently added to a public playlist of songs celebrating Rhodesia, a defunct white minority ruled nation, often venerated by white supremacists. So he is still very active in these communities. He is still very much doing these things while actively working on a Republican Senate, its Senate candidate's team, a Republican senators team. He goes to show you what's going on in the Republican Party. The staffer, 25 year old Stephen WoTek, was tapped in August to serve as Hustead's political

director in the closely contested Senate race between him and former Senator Sherrod Brown. And if you're in Ohio or no people that live in Ohio, tell them to vote for Sherrod Brown. He's a great guy. And a statement on Friday after being contacted by the Washington Post, a spokeswoman for Hustead said the campaign had decided to part ways with him. The staffer that is. He serves our country honorably as a lieutenant in the US Army and as a proud graduate of the Citadel. He studies military history and routinely re-enacts historical battles while he denies negative intent. His social media activity displays a complete lack of judgment and disregard for its impact on others. Hustead demands better of those who represent him upon learning about the post they decided to fire him. The campaign did not answer questions about whether and how they vetted WoTek's social media history before he was hired. It seems like some of these photos that he was uploading, his profile photo, are pretty obvious. It doesn't take a deep dive on someone to see their profile photo on social media. So either they have a non-existent vetting team or they knew about the photos and hired

him anyway. And I really don't know which one is worse. Probably the second one, but they're both pretty bad. Quote, I want to be unequivocal. I reject the racist and anti-Semitic ideology, the SS and Nazi Germany represented. I believe it is important to educate our younger generations, which is why I participate in historical re-enactments. WoTek said in a statement, he says he should have exercised better judgment when posting about my activities online and did not want it to distract from Hustead's race. I'm utterly heartbroken, but respectfully imparting ways with this campaign. But some Republicans, of course, have expressed concern that a small but growing faction of younger Republicans in the party have interacted with or expressed fealty to white nationalist and racist ideologies that have long been considered French. Leaks of offensive group chats and infighting over the bounds of acceptable political discourse have been fueling anxiety in the party. And we actually talked about one of these stories on the show a while ago when the story came out. Once again, I'm still under the weather, so I apologize if I see him a little all over the place. I'm still recovering. But back in October of 2025, the New York Young Republicans group chat leaked.

And some of these messages were awful. I mean, people saying that they love the Nazis, they love Hitler. They said that everybody that votes no on a certain bill are going to be going to the gas chamber and things like that. This is not just specific to one staffer on one campaign. This they issue across the Republican party and you're seeing it here. And look, he says, I'm heartbroken that I'm breaking. I'm not in so state of the race anymore. And I just reenact historical events and things like that. But you know, he's adding to playlists. He's uploading photos. His profile photo was a white supremacist or an SS soldier. This was his profile photo. And the label is a photo of SS soldiers holding captured Soviet banners once appeared on a Facebook account belonging to him. This was his profile photo. You know what I mean? A WoTex public Facebook profile, which is linked to from his profile on the federal employee tracker, ledger storm, shows that he follows a military reenactment group called LAH Living History Unit. It describes itself as a US based historical reenacting society portraying the one SS panzer division.

We are non-political group under the National World War II Living History Association. On its website, the group says it dresses up specifically as Adolf Hitler's bodyguards. What are you doing? This is the Republican party. These are the people that work within the Republican party. And you know, the people who are running these campaigns and these candidates either don't have the vetting team to figure it out or they don't care. And these are some of the photos of that Stephen WoTex had on his Facebook page where he was taking part in Nazi military exercises all the way back in 2018. Take a look at some of these photos that he had on his publicly available Facebook. This is what he was up to. Yeah, that's a guy working on a Senate campaign. Of course, he's quit now, but that's a guy that was working on a Senate campaign, a major, major Senate campaign. And of course, we have Mike Collins, the Republican running in Georgia against John Ossoff, who's had problems of his own. A former Mike Collins staffer posted KKK and Nazi images some Republicans see a pattern.

Similar to the article we just talked about, a former staffer for Mike Collins shared images in June and July on his ex account of a swastika and one that depicts himself in KKK robes. The images found in a search by the Washington Post follow other controversial actions and rhetoric from former Collins staffers and other Collins associates that have dogged his Senate campaign. A number of people in Collins's orbit have been accused of having ties to white nationalists or of making racist or anti-Semitic comments, and the congressman's own social media presence has also drawn scrutiny because he has set some really awful things on social media. Several Republicans in Georgia told the Post that they have grown increasingly worried about what some call a pattern of troubling associations and behavior. I mean, it seems to be very present in the Republican Party and that's not the only person on Mike Collins's team who had some ties to the Nazi ideology. His chief of staff, chief of staff, so like, you know, a candidate's right hand man, a senators or representatives right hand man or woman, and that chief of staff was in

a group chat with a bunch of nationalists who are famous for that ideology and he was participating in it. So this is a party wide thing. Not every Republican is a Nazi and associates with that ideology, not every Republican is a white supremacist, but every white supremacist and every Nazi seems to be a Republican. You know what I mean? It just seems to be kind of a pattern here and I want to show you Senator John Assoff who's running against Collins and has called this stuff out, has called him out for his hateful ideology and I want you to see this clip right here. It is great and of course I'm a big supporter of Senator John Assoff. This is another Democrat that people should be supporting and voting for if they are from the state of Georgia, living in the state of Georgia. So check out what Senator John Assoff had to say at a rally recently. It was great. Mike Collins, who's office kept some of America's most notorious white supremacists apprised of its efforts supporting a Holocaust denier. And we've seen some of the record because some of it leaked but Mike still refuses to release

those communications in full. Mike Collins needs to release every email, every text, every call, every single communication between those white supremacists and his office. Then there's the ex-staffer posting swastikas and clan regalia. Did you see that? In the neo-Nazi with a million followers who produces neo-Nazi propaganda at Mike Collins' house while at the same time producing promotional content for Mike Collins' business. Just stop and think about this for a second. A sitting congressman currently running for a senate hosts a neo-Nazi at his house and that neo-Nazi produces neo-Nazi propaganda from the congressman's house and the congressman won't or maybe can't get the neo-Nazi in his house to stop producing neo-Nazi content

from his house while he's running for senate. But Athens, a man who won't take responsibility for what happens under his own roof, can't be trusted with our national affairs. Yeah. Let him have a John. Let him have a John. He also called him a crumbling little bigot, which I just love. It's so accurate. And Mike still refuses to answer whether his business paid the neo-Nazi or he just accepted the neo-Nazi service as a gift. The press asked him and he ran away. He literally ran away from a press conference. Did you see that? It was Mike Collins alone standing in a field. A reporter asks if he paid the neo-Nazi, Mike won't answer. Another reporter asks if Mike Collins endorses white nationalism, Mike won't answer. Mike literally gets so scared you can see his hands shaking at the podium until he flees.

A crumbling little bigot. And the sad spectacle if his collapsing campaign. But that's not the only question Mike won't answer. Because Mike's like a scandal pinata every time you shake him, more misdeeds fall out. Oh my God. He is cooking. You know, this is one of the best campaigns in the country right now for the senate. It's John Ossoff and the people that are working on his campaign, people that are working to remind the C&T is cooking with gas. Cooking with gas. And he's right. Everything he said about Mike Collins is right. And this not only applies to Mike, but it applies to a bunch of Republicans in the party right now. And that is quite depressing. And that is, you know, even more so of a reason why we need to beat them in November, take back the house, take back the senate so one, we can stop Donald Trump, we can do some good things, and also kick these freaks out of office. Anyway, I will leave the video there. Thank you so much for watching. Please make sure to subscribe down below, drop a like on the video, comment, let me know

what you think about the story, everything we just talked about. Have an amazing rest of your day and we will talk soon.

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