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(12,622 posts) Thu Mar 5, 2026, 12:13 AM Yesterday

'Nazi heaven': Inside Miami campus Republicans' racist group chat

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s Republican Party started a group chat primarily for conservative students last fall — and within three weeks it was filled with racist slurs, someone wrote dozens of ways of violently killing Black people and the chat was renamed after what one member described as “Nazi heaven.”

In WhatsApp conversations leaked to the Miami Herald, participants used variations of the n-word more than 400 times, regularly described women as “whores,” used slurs to talk about Jewish and gay people and mused about Hitler’s politics.

Interspersed throughout were discussions about events promoting the Republican Party at Florida International University. The school told the Herald the chat logs are part of an ongoing criminal investigation.

The conversations included some of the campus’ top conservative leaders: the county GOP secretary, FIU’s Turning Point USA chapter president and the former College Republicans recruitment chair.

The secretary of Miami-Dade Countyâ€™s GOP started a group chat for conservative students â€” and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"
— Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) 2026-03-05T03:14:52.738Z

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'Nazi heaven': Inside Miami campus Republicans' racist group chat (Original Post) In It to Win It Yesterday OP

Hey...remember when Trump went after Universities for antisemitism on campus??? progressoid Yesterday #1

"Well, isn't that special?" BurnDoubt Yesterday #2

This message was self-deleted by its author dalton99a Yesterday #3

What is wrong with these people? And I'll Scrivener7 Yesterday #4

It may very well be mostly men in the chats, but judging by Nazi Germany, women are on board as Martin68 11 hrs ago #12

No one said they are. But this is a men's movement. In fact, it literally rises from the Men's Movement. Scrivener7 6 hrs ago #13

"For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them." tanyev Yesterday #5

Summer internships with ICE. Marcuse Yesterday #6

Miami's gone full on Nazi. carpetbagger Yesterday #7

SooooOOOOooo.... do Republican chat rooms ALWAYS devolve into a Nazi group chat??? Multichromatic Yesterday #8

Maybe it's a genetic defect that causes this mdbl Yesterday #9

Nazi heaven? Now there's an oxymoron Clouds Passing Yesterday #10

If it walks like Nazi, talks like Nazi and smells like a Nazi... Martin68 11 hrs ago #11

progressoid

(53,044 posts)

1. Hey...remember when Trump went after Universities for antisemitism on campus???

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Thu Mar 5, 2026, 01:25 AM

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I'm sure they'll take care of this too, right?

Right...

r...

BurnDoubt

(1,617 posts)

2. "Well, isn't that special?"

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Thu Mar 5, 2026, 01:26 AM

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In stead of “Social Media”, can we just call it pus?

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dalton99a This message was self-deleted by its author.

Scrivener7

(59,289 posts)

4. What is wrong with these people? And I'll

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Thu Mar 5, 2026, 07:14 AM

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wager money that it's mostly men.

What is going on? What are they so afraid of?

Martin68

(27,515 posts)

12. It may very well be mostly men in the chats, but judging by Nazi Germany, women are on board as

Reply to Scrivener7 (Reply #4)

Fri Mar 6, 2026, 11:02 AM

11 hrs ago

enthusiastically as men. Some of the worst anti-semites and racists I've met have been women. It's a romantic fallacy to suggest that women are immune to the disease.

Scrivener7

(59,289 posts)

13. No one said they are. But this is a men's movement. In fact, it literally rises from the Men's Movement.

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Fri Mar 6, 2026, 04:11 PM

6 hrs ago

tanyev

(49,089 posts)

5. "For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them."

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Thu Mar 5, 2026, 08:09 AM

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Looks like they have taken that Bible passage and reassigned it to Hitler.

😒

Marcuse

(8,939 posts)

6. Summer internships with ICE.

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Thu Mar 5, 2026, 01:04 PM

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carpetbagger

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7. Miami's gone full on Nazi.

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Thu Mar 5, 2026, 01:13 PM

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I've noticed the change. I lived there in the 1970s, had family there, and kept close ties over the years. If you had asked me 10 years ago where I'd retire, I'd have said either San Antonio or Homestead. But the last few year's I've been there, it's not felt at all like home, the Panamericanism is gone, the environmentalism is gone, the religious tolerance is gone. When I was in grade school there, the most certain way of getting punched in the face (by a non-Jew) was to trash talk about Jews.

Multichromatic

(115 posts)

8. SooooOOOOooo.... do Republican chat rooms ALWAYS devolve into a Nazi group chat???

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Thu Mar 5, 2026, 03:34 PM

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I'm sure J.D. Vance will get on TV any minute now and say these were "just kids" and it was "all harmless fun"

mdbl

(8,529 posts)

9. Maybe it's a genetic defect that causes this

Reply to In It to Win It (Original post)

Thu Mar 5, 2026, 04:05 PM

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What other passable explanation could there be for such vile behavior. Does the college have a code of conduct? Sounds like they should all be kicked off campus for good.

Clouds Passing

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10. Nazi heaven? Now there's an oxymoron

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Thu Mar 5, 2026, 05:43 PM

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Martin68

(27,515 posts)

11. If it walks like Nazi, talks like Nazi and smells like a Nazi...

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Fri Mar 6, 2026, 10:58 AM

11 hrs ago

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