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Senate Candidate’s Staffer Uses Extremist Chat to Aid Holocaust Denier

5/29/2026

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Kip Talley, staffer for Senate hopeful Mike Collins, used a group chat with Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer to seek the release of Holocaust denier Charles Johnson.
Kip Talley said he was contacting the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Justice and U.S. Marshals to improve Charles Johnson’s conditions.
He later claimed personal capacity, noted Mike Collins’s office declined comment, and said the episode adds to Collins’s controversies.

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Kip Talley, staffer for Senate hopeful Mike Collins, used a group chat with Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer to seek the release of Holocaust denier Charles Johnson.
Kip Talley said he was contacting the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Department of Justice and U.S. Marshals to improve Charles Johnson’s conditions.
He later claimed personal capacity, noted Mike Collins’s office declined comment, and said the episode adds to Collins’s controversies.