Christopher Mathias
@letsgomathias · New York · joined 30 Mar 2010
Reporter. Author of To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right. Formerly HuffPost. Words: Guardian, Zeteo, MSNBC. letsgomathias@protonmail.com.
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@TPM @RockofDixie @DLamontJenkins Had anti-fascists not been closely watching various fascist groups over the past decade, the public would not know that a current GOP nominee for the Florida House of Representatives is an unrepentant white supremacist https://t.co/zArOFz6ZL0
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@TPM @RockofDixie @DLamontJenkins Rawson's participation in the deadly Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville, and his connection to the RockOfDixie account on Twitter, was first noted by anti-fascist researcher ShermanMarching https://t.co/mmwztLY5Kd
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@TPM @RockofDixie A note: this story would be possible without the work of anti-fascist researchers. Rawson's involvement with League of the South was first noted in a 2014 blog by Laura Sullivan. Laura passed away earlier this year. Here's @DLamontJenkins's tribute: https://t.
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@letsgomathias @TPM But stop calling us NAZI and RACISTS!
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@TPM @RockofDixie I asked Florida GOP & Republican National Committee for comment, detailing how Rawson:
-marched at deadly Nazi rally w/ white supremacist flag
-had dozens of white supremacist donors
-once wrote "public lynchings worked"
They did not respond. https://t
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@TPM TPM can reveal indications that Rawson used pseudonymous social media account on X — @RockOfDixie — to express even more extreme sentiments .
“Multiculturalism kills and public lynchings worked" — the GOP nominee for a seat in Florida's legislature
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@TPM Those comments were made under his own name on X. Still, there are indications Rawson may have still felt the need to operate a pseudonymous social media account where he could express even more extreme sentiments...
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@TPM Rawson has neither renounced League of the South or apologized for his participation in its events. In recent years Rawson — again, the GOP nominee for a seat in the Florida legislature — condoned slavery and called for the execution of queer people
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@TPM Rawson won the primary anyway.
A new TPM analysis of his campaign donors reveals he received a big boost from members of the very white supremacist groups that invaded Charlottesville
Dozens of donations adding up to over $15,000
https://t.co/zArOFz6ZL0 https://t.co/
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@TPM About a week before last month's primary election, Florida Politics published story — based off old anti-fascist research —detailing parts of Rawson's involvement with League of the South.
This is how extreme League of the South is: https://t.co/zArOFz6ZL0 https://t.co/SB
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@TPM Rawson, GOP nominee for Florida legislature, can also be seen in a photo from Charlottesville (left side in sunglasses) standing near James Alex Fields Jr.
Not long after this photo was taken, Fields drove car into protesters, killing Heather Heyer & injuring dozens of ot
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@TPM Last month Marshall Rawson won upset victory in GOP primary for seat in Florida House of Representatives.
Here he is arriving at infamous 2017 Unite the Right rally. He's greeted, by name, by members of League of the South, a white nationalist/southern secessionist group
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NEW: @TPM can reveal GOP nominee for Florida legislature:
-marched at deadly Charlottesville Nazi rally w/ white supremacist group's flag
-has *many* white supremacist donors
-appears to advocate lynching
He is expected to win Nov. election https://t.co/zArOFz6ZL0
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Some personal news! So thrilled and honored to be joining TPM as a reporter. Can't wait to get to work.
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Had a great conversation with @ahylton26 about Patriot Front’s march in DC, and how the scariest thing about it is that what those neo-Nazis believe - and what the GOP believes - are in many ways the same https://t.co/P2LvgZ8Ik1
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while DOJ is working on trumped-up charges against Minneapolis protesters, the Border Patrol "Commander-At-Large" who terrorized that city is sitting down for friendly interviews on white supremacist podcasts.
my latest for @MSNOWNews https://t.co/hzZSNzB1AG
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So @PublishersWkly just gave my book about antifa a STARRED review!
To Catch A Fascist is an “urgent, eye-opening debut” that is “by turns heart-pounding and heartening glimpse of the fight against fascism in the shadows.”
!!!!
https://t.co/x20xHDBWwT
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Against accounts of the same size
15 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. reaches fewer people than peers, but engages them much harder.
Median views1 046this account1 052median for 10K–100K
Reach, %1.87%this account3.70%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %3.07%this account1.66%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 1 046 | 1 052 | 0.99× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 1.87% | 3.70% | 0.51× |
| Engagement rate | 3.07% | 1.66% | 1.85× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
Views per post
9.6K26 Aug
76.3K14 Sep
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826
1.1K
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456
625
831
708
Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
1.89%26 Aug
1.97%14 Sep
3.15%
3.60%
3.63%
2.89%
3.10%
3.03%
3.03%
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3.07%
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.66%.
What the audience does
Likes61.8%1 486 in total
Reposts28.3%681 in total
Replies3.5%84 in total
Bookmarks6.4%153 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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