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

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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 County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — 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

[progressoid]

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

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

Right...

r...

[BurnDoubt]

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

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

[Scrivener7]

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

wager money that it's mostly men.

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

[tanyev]

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

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


😒

[Marcuse]

6. Summer internships with ICE.

[carpetbagger]

7. Miami's gone full on Nazi.

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]

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

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]

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

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]

10. Nazi heaven? Now there's an oxymoron