WaPo Report: Mike Collins’ Former Staffer Posted Nazi, KKK Imagery; Son-in-Law Is “Pro White Nationalist”

A newspaper report today linked conservative GOP Representative Mike Collins of Georgia to some unsavory characters, which readers are meant to believe reveals something about Collins’ character.

Those unsavory characters are former staffers, The Washington Post reported. The social-media posts of one of those staffers features Nazi and Ku Klux Klan imagery.

The problem for Collins: He’s in a tight race for the U.S. Senate against far-left incumbent Jon Ossoff, who holds a slim lead against the congressman in the RealClearPolitics average of polls.

Swastika, Klan Robes

As the Post reported, winning the seat is nearly a must for the GOP. It holds a slim, six-vote advantage in the upper chamber, 53-47. If Ossoff and anti-Collins Republicans get their way, that lead might go to five if the GOP keeps all other seats.

Thus, the latest August hit piece from the far-left Post, which combed social media clearly with the help of anti-Collins GOP actors.

“Several Republicans in Georgia told The Post that they have grown increasingly worried about what some call a pattern of troubling associations and behavior,” the newspaper reported:

“In the South, we have a saying: You lay down with dogs, you get up with fleas,” said Debbie Dooley, an original tea party organizer and conservative advocate in Georgia who backed Collins’s rival in the primary. “Well, Mike Collins has got a lot of fleas on him.”

Those fleas include former staffer Preston Parra, 24, who posted the Nazi and KKK images. He “interned for Collins for two months in 2024 before working as a contractor for his leadership PAC the next year,” the Post continued:

Overhaul PAC paid Parra $7,700 for fundraising consulting in May 2025, according to Federal Election Commission filings, and in an interview, Parra said he worked for the group for several months. That was shortly before Collins announced his Senate bid.

Why a 24-year-old was “consulting” on fundraising is a mystery.

But Parra describes himself as a “twink fascist” — “twink” being lavender slang for a young homosexual. He told the Post he considers himself a “provocateur” who creates “satirical” content. He said that Collins didn’t know about his personal activities on social media.

“In the Twink Fascist Ameri-Euro Empire we will not be bombing Gaza, unlike Jon Ossoff intends to do if he’s elected and emboldened by the Zionist left,” Parra wrote today over a full-length nude photo of himself, nether anatomy barely covered:

Free Twinks. Free Palestine!

Parra proudly reproduced the Post piece.

Other Staffers

Other staffers have also been trouble for Collins. His campaign cashiered former chief of staff Brandon Phillips because Collins’ X account ridiculed an opponent’s operative. The congressman called the X post “despicable.”

“In July, Collins replaced his subsequent chief of staff Kip Talley after Slate reported on his participation in a group chat that included Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer, both of whom are white supremacists and antisemites,” the Post reported:

In the chat, Talley detailed his efforts to help Charles Johnson — who ran far-right websites and has promoted conspiracy theories including Holocaust denial — in jail. …

In a statement to Slate, Talley said that Collins did not direct his participation and that he “acted solely in my personal capacity after hearing concerns that an acquaintance I have known for years was being mistreated in custody and denied basic medical care.”

The Post also pointed to CNN’s revelation that Collins’ son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II, “a pro-White nationalist and social media influencer with a track record of sharing antisemitic material and Nazi imagery in comments across the internet.”

Scheer has promoted the Patriot Front, CNN warned. He has also boosted “White nationalist ideology, spread antisemitic conspiracy theories, called for Muslims to be deported and shared an antisemitic infographic targeting Jews that he said his wife (Collins’ daughter) made.”

And “on a podcast from last November, Scheer warned that White people were being driven toward extinction and said restoring an America populated by people of White European descent would require ‘clearing our land of other people,” CNN reported.

GOP Kentucky Senator Rand Paul’s son, William, also toiled for Collins. He “confronted Rep. Mike Lawler (R-New York) at a bar, hurling antisemitic insults at him in an exchange that was witnessed by a … reporter,” the Post continued.

The Post did not disclose those “insults” to readers.  

GOP Reaction

Like Ossoff, who said Collins is unfit for office after the CNN report, Republicans want the two-term congressman gone.

“We do not need a senator that thinks he’s a media influencer on X and has no integrity,” Dooley told the Post. “Ethics matter. I cannot support him.” 

Conservative radio talker Shelley Wynter endorsed Ossoff because former Collins staffer Phillips hired “a person he had a personal relationship with for a job she did not actually perform,” the Post reported:

The ugliness of the Republican primary also played a part in his decision, he said.

“It’s the meanness and mean-spiritedness that turns off many voters,” he said of the tone of Collins’s campaign.

For his part, Collins faces trouble for what Phillips did, Politico reported two days ago.

“The Office of Congressional Conduct … in January released a report saying it found ‘substantial reason to believe’ that Collins’ office used official funds for unauthorized purposes,” the website explained:

Those purposes, according to the report, included appearing to hire and pay “a district intern who had a preexisting personal romantic relationship with the office of chief of staff who did not perform duties commensurate with her compensation.”

Collins’ chief of staff at the center of the accusations, Brandon Phillips, is no longer on payroll.

The RCP average of polls has Ossoff ahead of Collins 44.3-42.