Politico exposed a Telegram chat among young Republican activists filled with racism, anti-Semitism, white-supremacist symbols and violent rhetoric. Messages included “I love Hitler,” gas-chamber threats and 251 slurs; participants named in the logs ranged from New York to Kansas. The leak prompted condemnation from both parties, calls to resign and immediate fallout: Kansas shut down its Young Republicans chapter, vice chair Will Hendrix was fired from the state attorney general’s office, and Bobby Walker lost a campaign job. Key figures, including Peter Giunta, issued apologies while alleging doctored messages.

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