A former staffer for Georgia Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins has been exposed as an unabashed "twink fascist" who posted swastikas, racial slurs and Nazi rhetoric online for months, according to a Washington Post investigation published Thursday.
A Pattern Emerges
Parra interned for Collins in 2024 and later worked as a paid contractor for the congressman's leadership PAC, earning $7,700 for fundraising consulting in May 2025, the Post reported. His personal website features a glowing quote from Collins praising his "product." He has also touted stints as a social media surrogate for Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.
None of that squares with his private X account, which the Post says included a photo of him in a Ku Klux Klan robe (created, he claims, using Grok's AI image tool), a swastika built from the word "twink," repeated use of the N-word, and posts of "Deutschland Über Alles," the anthem the Nazis co-opted into a rallying cry for racial supremacy.
I do think that the white race contributes more to the world.
Preston Parra
Parra, who is half Colombian, insists he isn't a white supremacist despite that framing. He told the Post his accounts were private while he worked for Collins, adding, "What, is there supposed to be some kind of CIA background check?"
Ossoff Presses for Answers
Jon Ossoff, the Democratic incumbent Collins is trying to unseat, wasted no time capitalizing on the story. Speaking at a campaign event in Macon, he said the reporting "confirmed yet more extensive ties between Congressman Mike Collins and white nationalism, and Congressman Mike Collins and neo-Nazi ideology," and called on Collins to "release all the communications between his office and these white supremacists."
Collins' campaign didn't answer the Post's specific questions about Parra. It did release a statement calling antisemitism "abhorrent" and pivoting to accuse Ossoff, who is Jewish, of not sufficiently condemning antisemitism on the left.
Not an Isolated Incident
Parra is only the latest in a long line of Collins staffers embroiled in racism controversies. A previous chief of staff, Brandon Phillips, was let go after a post on Collins' account mocked a rival campaign staffer whose wife had attempted suicide following an alleged rape. His next chief of staff, Kip Talley, was fired after it emerged he participated in a group chat with white nationalists Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer. Collins' own social accounts have shared racist content, including a video of college students making ape sounds at a Black classmate, which Collins downplayed as "potentially inappropriate." His son-in-law has also shared racist imagery online; Collins says he "condemned racism and antisemitism regardless of the source."
MQ's Take
There's a particular kind of vertigo in watching a young gay man cosplay as a fascist while insisting it's all a bit, especially when the "bit" includes slurs, KKK cosplay and a Nazi anthem. Parra's "twink fascist" branding isn't just internet-poisoned irony; it fits a documented current in which anti-LGBTQ+ politics, white nationalism and the broader "anti-gender" backlash have become intertwined on the right. A queer person finding a home inside a movement working to strip queer people of rights isn't a contradiction to that movement so much as proof its ideology can absorb almost anyone.
Collins has had ample opportunity to draw a hard line against the extremism cycling through his staff and hasn't. Whether that's negligence or tacit comfort, Georgia voters get to decide what it says about who he'd be in the Senate.
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