The Arizona Young Republicans clearly don’t understand what was wrong with its members’ frolicsome participation in a racist, Nazi-loving text chain exposed in a gangbusters report by Politico. The local chapter released a statement Wednesday night in which the organization firmly rejected “any involvement in the ongoing political witch hunt targeting fellow Young Republican members” over the Telegram group chat reported on Wednesday,

Politico obtained 2,900 pages of exchanges over seven months among a dozen Young Republican leaders in New York, Kansas, Arizona and Vermont.

Ten members of the Young Republican Federation have been identified after thousands of racially charged messages on Telegram were leaked.

An explosive new report from Politico exposed thousands of text messages from a Young Republican group chat in which members joked about gas chambers, slavery and rape. The group chat included

The social media accounts of a number of Young Republicans accused of making offensive comments have been deleted or made private.

Arizonans are among a group of Young Republicans whose shocking leaked messages were recently made public in a Politico article.

The messages reveal how a group of rising GOP figures casually used language of racism, homophobia, and violence.

Newly exposed chat messages demonstrate racist, xenophobic, misogynistic and antisemitic comments by Young Republican leaders throughout the country, according to Politico. “They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers,