"Leaked conversations from the WhatsApp group that were provided to the Herald show participants using the n-word more than 400 times and repeatedly expressing a desire to violently attack Black people. Nazi politics, including praise for Adolf Hitler, appeared so regularly that at one point, the group was renamed in honor of a "Nazi Heaven.""
""Ew you had colored professors?!" Gonzalez wrote in response to a message from a person who discussed Black faculty. "I reguse [sic] to be indoctrinated by the coloreds." In another chat, he said: "You can f-k all the [k-word] you want," using a slur to refer to Jewish people. "Just don't marry them and procreate.""
"Valdes frequently changed the name of the chat group; at one point, the name of the group was a reference to "Agartha," a mythical white nationalist civilization promoted by Nazi Germany leader Heinrich Himmler. The term "is not something you would know about unless you had spent a considerable amount of time in white supremacist circles.""
A WhatsApp group created by Miami-Dade Republican Party Secretary Abel Carvajal to promote Republican events at Florida International University became a platform for extreme hate speech within weeks. The leaked conversations reveal over 400 uses of racial slurs, frequent antisemitic comments, Nazi Germany references, and expressions of violent intent toward Black people. Participants included FIU College Republicans recruitment chair Dariel Gonzalez and Turning Point USA FIU chapter president Ian Valdes. The group chat contained jokes about gas chambers, slavery, and rape, with members expressing white nationalist ideology and references to Nazi mythology. The chat was repeatedly renamed to reflect Nazi and white supremacist themes.
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