Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga., has a white supremacy problem, the kind that’s not easily papered over by press releases and campaign photo ops — the kind that may devour his Senate bid.
As a staunch ally of Donald Trump’s racist regime — and one who backed the bigoted “big lie” about the 2020 presidential election being rigged — Collins is trying to unseat Sen. Jon Ossoff, the Democratic incumbent. And he’s having to do so while fending off recurring reports about his associations with unabashed bigotry.
As Capital B recently reported, Collins acknowledged to Black conservatives in a closed-door meeting that his campaign needed “help” after a CNN report about his son-in-law David Scheer, a white nationalist influencer. Before that, Collins’ now-former chief of staff was exposed for apparently being in a group chat with some of the country’s most well-known white nationalists.
And a new report from The Washington Post highlighted someone else Collins has had in his orbit: a former staffer named Preston Parra, who has described himself as a “twink fascist,” promoted Nazi propaganda, posted racist slurs and shared a photo of himself in a Ku Klux Klan robe.
The Post reported that Parra, 24, interned for Collins in 2024 and then worked as a contractor for the congressman’s political action committee the following year:
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.
Parra told the Post he’s not a white supremacist but said he does think “the white race contributes more to the world” — which is literally a white supremacist worldview. He also said his posts on X were private when he worked for Collins:
Collins was not aware of Parra’s personal X account when he worked for the lawmaker because he had made it private, Parra said. “What, is there supposed to be some kind of CIA background check?” he said.
Parra’s consulting website, meanwhile, quotes the Georgia congressman as praising the “product” he provides:
Parra’s consulting website says that Collins praised the quality of his “product,” although it does not say when Collins made the remark or what specifically he was referring to. “You can grade it by the amount of people that are watching it and pushing it back out,” the site quotes Collins as saying. … Collins’s campaign did not respond to a question about whether he stood by his comment endorsing Parra’s work.
Even if Collins ultimately denounces and seeks to distance himself from all of this bigotry, the fact that it seems to waft around him like a lingering stench is damning on its own. And it’s clearly a political liability.
On Thursday, Ossoff rebuked his Republican opponent’s ties to white supremacists, referring to him as “the bigot congressman Mike Collins” and demanding that he address the public.
Another story at play here is that of young extremists in the MAGA movement, like Parra, and their corrosive influence on the Republican Party. Recent months have brought numerous stories exposing the racist and antisemitic ideology metastasizing among young conservative operatives.
It’s a crisis that veteran GOP staffers have warned about — and one that is now roiling Collins’ bid for a crucial Senate seat.
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