Leaked text messages from Young
Republican leaders have created a growing scandal within the party. The texts, spanning several months and multiple states, reveal the young
GOP leaders engaging in racism, joking about Holocaust-style violence against political opponents and engaging in various other types of offensive remarks.
Racism, Holocaust jokes and more revealed in Young Republicans’ group chats
Politico revealed the offensive remarks Tuesday, based on text message chains from Telegram that were leaked to the news organization. In various chats are hundreds of instances of Young Republicans using racial, ableist and homophobic slurs. For example, William Hendrix, vice chair of the Kansas Young Republicans, used the word “n***a” and “n****h” multiple times, Politico reported. The chat also featured numerous references to other stereotypes about various groups of people, such as equating Black people with monkeys. Members of the chats joked about rape, including threats to assault members of a rival Republican organization. When one member of the chat joked about sending political rivals “to the gas chamber,” another expanded on the Nazi reference by saying, “Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic.”
Young Republicans — a GOP organization for Republicans aged 18 to 40 — sent over a period between January 2025 and August 2025.
Leaked text messages from Young Republican leaders have created a growing scandal within the party.
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