Christopher Mathias
@letsgomathias.bsky.social
Reporter covering the far right. Words in Guardian, Zeteo, MSNBC. Formerly HuffPost. Contact: [email protected]. Pre-order my book about antifa here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767.
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To Catch a Fascist
A searing, provocative investigation into the rise of white nationalist and neo-Nazi movements in the United States, centered on the anti-fascist g...
www.simonandschuster.com
You can read more about what antifa actually is in my book To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right, now available for preorder www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...
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like...it's very very grim.
November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
like...it's very very grim.
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New from me: The Trump State Dept. just added Antifa Ost to the U.S. foreign terrorist organization list based on attacks carried out in Budapest in 2023.
What they aren't telling you is that the neo-Nazis on the other side of the conflict also carried out attacks.
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
What they aren't telling you is that the neo-Nazis on the other side of the conflict also carried out attacks.
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
Antifa and Neo-Nazis clash — guess which Trump calls a foreign terror group?
The Trump State Department officially added a German antifascist group and three other European far-left groups to its list of foreign terrorist organizations last week. But the action, which freezes ...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
New from me: The Trump State Dept. just added Antifa Ost to the U.S. foreign terrorist organization list based on attacks carried out in Budapest in 2023.
What they aren't telling you is that the neo-Nazis on the other side of the conflict also carried out attacks.
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
What they aren't telling you is that the neo-Nazis on the other side of the conflict also carried out attacks.
www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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New details from a text shared with @thebaltimorebanner.com: “The trip back home was extremely tiring,” Tran told Nash in a text message shared with The Banner. “We were in shackles the entire trip. ... I felt like we were less than animals.”
Hagerstown nail salon owner Melissa Tran arrives in Vietnam after deportation
Hagerstown nail salon owner Melissa Tran arrives in Vietnam after deportation
Melissa Tran, a 44-year-old immigrant who built a family and a small business in Western Maryland, has been deported to Vietnam, a country she left as a child.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:46 PM
New details from a text shared with @thebaltimorebanner.com: “The trip back home was extremely tiring,” Tran told Nash in a text message shared with The Banner. “We were in shackles the entire trip. ... I felt like we were less than animals.”
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A powerful US Senate committee has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism hand over years worth of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to information obtained by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/senato...
Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.
www.wired.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
A powerful US Senate committee has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism hand over years worth of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to information obtained by WIRED. www.wired.com/story/senato...
“Wood’s near miss w/ executioner’s syringe came after months of meticulous attention to his case by… Jessica Schulberg, whose coverage helped set the stage for Wood’s miraculous escape”
grateful for @bgrueskin.bsky.social giving @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social her flowers www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
grateful for @bgrueskin.bsky.social giving @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social her flowers www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
Laurels and Darts: Execution forestalled in Oklahoma; White House tries to talk turkey, gets gobbled; RFK Jr.,purple-prose muse.
On the ground in Oklahoma at the eleventh hour. Plus: White House tries to talk turkey; gets gobbled up by ABC News. And RFK Jr., purple-prose muse.
www.cjr.org
November 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
“Wood’s near miss w/ executioner’s syringe came after months of meticulous attention to his case by… Jessica Schulberg, whose coverage helped set the stage for Wood’s miraculous escape”
grateful for @bgrueskin.bsky.social giving @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social her flowers www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
grateful for @bgrueskin.bsky.social giving @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social her flowers www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...
"Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, whose novel 'We Are Green and Trembling' won the award for translated literature, opened her remarks by saying, 'I’m going to speak in Spanish because there are fascists who don’t like that.' ”
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
A provocative bestseller wins the National Book Award for nonfiction
Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” criticizes Western indifference to civilian suffering in Gaza.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, whose novel 'We Are Green and Trembling' won the award for translated literature, opened her remarks by saying, 'I’m going to speak in Spanish because there are fascists who don’t like that.' ”
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
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as bad as shit is, very cool to meet a new folk hero seemingly every week
“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.”
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter
Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:15 PM
as bad as shit is, very cool to meet a new folk hero seemingly every week
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I’ll have more on Tisch’s appointment in part III of my Mamdani & the NYPD trilogy but here’s a salient bit from part II (for @wired.com)
www.wired.com/story/welcom...
www.wired.com/story/welcom...
November 19, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I’ll have more on Tisch’s appointment in part III of my Mamdani & the NYPD trilogy but here’s a salient bit from part II (for @wired.com)
www.wired.com/story/welcom...
www.wired.com/story/welcom...
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It’s been one hell of a week for poking holes in the idea that we’re living through is a natural reaction to the 'dreaded Woke Times’ when people were hounded out of public life for every innocent mistake etc.
A big indicator of this fascist moment, for me, was exposing Hanania’s past as pseudonymous white supremacist blogger, him issuing a non-apology apology then writing gutter racist shit under real name, & nevertheless enjoying mainstream success
reminder of who he is www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...
reminder of who he is www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...
November 18, 2025 at 4:48 PM
It’s been one hell of a week for poking holes in the idea that we’re living through is a natural reaction to the 'dreaded Woke Times’ when people were hounded out of public life for every innocent mistake etc.
A big indicator of this fascist moment, for me, was exposing Hanania’s past as pseudonymous white supremacist blogger, him issuing a non-apology apology then writing gutter racist shit under real name, & nevertheless enjoying mainstream success
reminder of who he is www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...
reminder of who he is www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A big indicator of this fascist moment, for me, was exposing Hanania’s past as pseudonymous white supremacist blogger, him issuing a non-apology apology then writing gutter racist shit under real name, & nevertheless enjoying mainstream success
reminder of who he is www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...
reminder of who he is www.huffpost.com/entry/richar...
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TODAY: @sirosenbaum.bsky.social debuts a new GRAPHIC MEMOIR! Introducing TEETH BEACH, pt. 1 flaminghydra.com/issue-444/#t...
On the beach
S.I. Rosenbaum debuts a new graphic memoir of devastation and love
flaminghydra.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:15 PM
TODAY: @sirosenbaum.bsky.social debuts a new GRAPHIC MEMOIR! Introducing TEETH BEACH, pt. 1 flaminghydra.com/issue-444/#t...
a two party system with one party completely & utterly devoted to a man who responds this way when asked by a woman about credible accusations he sex trafficked underage girls - like there’s no reforming a party like that
When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.'
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Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
a two party system with one party completely & utterly devoted to a man who responds this way when asked by a woman about credible accusations he sex trafficked underage girls - like there’s no reforming a party like that
Tom, standing outside an ICE concentration camp, screaming at the detainees inside: don’t worry this isn’t full fascism!
1. If America were fascist right now, I would not be posting here. Neither would you.
Instead, I - and you - would be trying to build networks of people *offline* who can support and protect each other, in the dark, rather than yelling at the president and his stooges in our own names. /2
Instead, I - and you - would be trying to build networks of people *offline* who can support and protect each other, in the dark, rather than yelling at the president and his stooges in our own names. /2
November 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Tom, standing outside an ICE concentration camp, screaming at the detainees inside: don’t worry this isn’t full fascism!
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This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
November 16, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This is nauseating: “As the emails stretch through the years, they show how that protected realm vanished into the mists of time, pulled under by the rising forces of the internet and the #MeToo movement.” A “Gone With the Wind” framing for sexual abuse and harassment.
Right wing screeching about the “war on Christianity” never includes complaints about secret police raiding houses of worship to rip families apart (or, for that matter, bombing churches in Palestine)
Here’s a story for every national news outlet:
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
In N.C., churchgoers are literally running into the woods as federal agents descend on the property.
“Inside the church, women and children sobbed as they wondered whether their loved ones had been taken.”
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 16, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Right wing screeching about the “war on Christianity” never includes complaints about secret police raiding houses of worship to rip families apart (or, for that matter, bombing churches in Palestine)
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Hair-raising story by @attackerman.bsky.social with new documents showing that a detained journalist is being held by ICE for his Instagram likes.
ICE Caged This Man For His Instagram Posts And Likes
New details about Yaa'kub Ira Vijandre's detention show his posts supporting Palestine and the wrongfully convicted representing, in Homeland Security's eyes, support for terrorism
www.forever-wars.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Hair-raising story by @attackerman.bsky.social with new documents showing that a detained journalist is being held by ICE for his Instagram likes.
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🚨🚨 NEW: Body Cameras Show How Police Acted During Minneapolis’ Largest Mass Arrest
Unicorn Riot is releasing the footage of 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the arrest of over 646 people the night after the 2020 elections.
View the story, videos, & a curated media guide at our website. 🧵
Unicorn Riot is releasing the footage of 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the arrest of over 646 people the night after the 2020 elections.
View the story, videos, & a curated media guide at our website. 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 12:52 AM
🚨🚨 NEW: Body Cameras Show How Police Acted During Minneapolis’ Largest Mass Arrest
Unicorn Riot is releasing the footage of 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the arrest of over 646 people the night after the 2020 elections.
View the story, videos, & a curated media guide at our website. 🧵
Unicorn Riot is releasing the footage of 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the arrest of over 646 people the night after the 2020 elections.
View the story, videos, & a curated media guide at our website. 🧵
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Tremane Wood is facing execution on November 13. I revisited his case to investigate how a group of judges and prosecutors have secretly coordinated in ways that have undermined Tremane’s final chance to live. www.huffpost.com/entry/oklaho...
November 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Tremane Wood is facing execution on November 13. I revisited his case to investigate how a group of judges and prosecutors have secretly coordinated in ways that have undermined Tremane’s final chance to live. www.huffpost.com/entry/oklaho...
Wrote article once tracing the white supremacist lineage of the phrase “diversity is not our strength” - and now the former Democratic gov, fresh off posting one of the most racist (& AI-generated) campaign ads in recent memory, says this www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-...
November 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Wrote article once tracing the white supremacist lineage of the phrase “diversity is not our strength” - and now the former Democratic gov, fresh off posting one of the most racist (& AI-generated) campaign ads in recent memory, says this www.huffpost.com/entry/steve-...
Tim is one of the best reporters in the country - just such a stupid decision on the part of Penske Media
2. Rolling Stone is owned by a large media conglomerate, which is ending remote work across its brands.
My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.
My home is Portland, Oregon, ~1,000 miles from the nearest office, so this marks the end of the line for me at RS.
October 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Tim is one of the best reporters in the country - just such a stupid decision on the part of Penske Media
wrote about this in my book, but the first time i saw/heard Americans use the term "remigrate" it was in the leaked private chats of the white supremacists who organized the deadly Charlottesville rally in 2017 — including Thomas Rousseau (now head of Patriot Front) & the leaders of Identity Evropa
October 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
wrote about this in my book, but the first time i saw/heard Americans use the term "remigrate" it was in the leaked private chats of the white supremacists who organized the deadly Charlottesville rally in 2017 — including Thomas Rousseau (now head of Patriot Front) & the leaders of Identity Evropa
need to consider that this administration's anti-antifa campaign is essentially directed by the likes of Glenn Beck, Andy Ngo, & Jack Posobiec
Glenn Beck says that after he aired a show on Antifa, FBI agents acting on the behest of Kash Patel came to get tips. Here's who the segment targeted, largely through strained connections and guilt by association: www.mediamatters.org/glenn-beck/g...
October 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
need to consider that this administration's anti-antifa campaign is essentially directed by the likes of Glenn Beck, Andy Ngo, & Jack Posobiec
the admin that imprisoned and tried to deport a student over a pro-Palestinian op-ed, calling it anti-semitism, calls outrage over "I love Hitler" texts by young Republicans "pearl-clutching"
Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."
He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.
He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.
‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones
Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.
www.mediaite.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
the admin that imprisoned and tried to deport a student over a pro-Palestinian op-ed, calling it anti-semitism, calls outrage over "I love Hitler" texts by young Republicans "pearl-clutching"
Always funny to think back about how the GOP uniformly blamed antifa for J6 in the immediate aftermath… fast forward a few years later and they’re like “no J6 was good and we did it and only we can assault Capitol police officers #BackTheBlue”
Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."
October 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Always funny to think back about how the GOP uniformly blamed antifa for J6 in the immediate aftermath… fast forward a few years later and they’re like “no J6 was good and we did it and only we can assault Capitol police officers #BackTheBlue”
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This was a lot of fun. Tune in for a longer chat about Andy Ngo, where Mike and I try to explain his schtick and the ways other right wing influencers have sought to emulate his “anti-antifa” formula
Half the Answer #41: Caitlin and Trent speak with Jared Holt and Michael Edison Hayden about the infamous right-wing "busybody journalist," online political influencer, and professional victim Andy Ngo. www.liberalcurrents.com/half-the-ans...
Half the Answer #41: Andy Ngo and the Portland Mythology
Caitlin and Trent speak with Jared Holt and Michael Edison Hayden about the infamous right-wing "busybody journalist" Andy Ngo, his work demonizing Muslim immigrants in grad school, and his transition...
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 14, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This was a lot of fun. Tune in for a longer chat about Andy Ngo, where Mike and I try to explain his schtick and the ways other right wing influencers have sought to emulate his “anti-antifa” formula