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Your ILK. The secretary of the Miami-Dade Republican Party ran a group chat where members fantasized about killing Black people, and he's refusing to resign. Abel Carvajal started a WhatsApp group last fall for conservative students at Florida International University. Within three weeks it was overflowing with the n-word, used over 400 times, alongside antisemitic slurs, misogyny, and open worship of Nazi ideology. These aren't anonymous trolls. The participants included Ian Valdes, president of FIU's Turning Point USA chapter, and Dariel Gonzalez, a former recruitment chair for FIU's College Republicans, the next generation of GOP leadership in one of America's most important swing counties. Gonzalez called his Black professors "the coloreds." Valdes declared he'd never marry a Jewish person. He called for an immigration ban, then clarified what he meant: white people only. One participant, William Bejerano, rattled off a grotesque list of ways to murder Black people, crucifixion, beheading, extermination. They renamed the chat after a mythical Nazi civilization they lovingly called "Nazi heaven." And here's the kicker, Carvajal wasn't just a passive bystander. He used racial slurs himself, deleted dozens of his own messages, and recruited members of this very chat to serve as committee members in the Miami-Dade GOP. When a Black student was harassed out of the College Republicans, Carvajal mocked her departure with slurs. This is the SECOND time FIU's Turning Point chapter has been caught in a hate-filled group chat, the first was in 2018. Last year, Young Republican leaders across multiple states got busted in a nearly identical scandal. JD Vance's response? Don't worry about it, just "kids telling edgy jokes." This is who they are. FIU says the chat is now part of a criminal investigation. The Miami-Dade GOP board has called for Carvajal's removal. But Carvajal says he won't step down because the worst messages "were not mine."we know who you are.