"We Need Help": Mike Collins Asked Black Georgia for a Favor. Here Is the File.

On Saturday, August 1, Rep. Mike Collins (Republican nominee for the United States Senate, currently representing Georgia's 10th District) walked into an invitation-only event in East Point and spoke to roughly a hundred Black conservatives. Capital B Atlanta's Chauncey Alcorn was there. Collins told the room, in three words, exactly what the meeting was for.

He does. Camilla Moore, who heads the Georgia Black Republican Council, put the number at roughly 15 percent of the Black vote for Collins to win, against the roughly one-point improvement that helped Republicans in 2024. That is a large ask in a state where the Black electorate has spent two decades being courted in October and legislated about in January.

This page's job is narrow: to put the documented record next to the request. Below is the complete file, in the order the items happened, with the sourcing attached. Read it and decide. Note as you go that four of the five items are things Collins did personally, which matters, because his entire defense rests on the fifth.

I. FEBRUARY 2024: THE DEATH FLIGHT

After reports that a migrant in New York City had assaulted police officers and been released without bail, Collins posted his suggestion for what should happen to the man.

"Pinochet Air" is not an obscure reference and it is not a generic toughness metaphor. Under Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile, security forces threw living prisoners from helicopters into the Pacific, a practice used across the Southern Cone in the 1970s and 1980s to make dissidents disappear without bodies to bury. A sitting member of Congress proposed it, as a joke, for a specific human being.

One detail completes the entry. The man Collins wanted thrown out of a helicopter was later cleared: he had been misidentified. The joke was aimed at somebody who did not do it, which is the ordinary risk of treating a category of people as interchangeable.

II. MARCH 2024: THE REPLY HE WOULD NOT DELETE

In March 2024, Collins replied approvingly to a post that disparaged Washington Post journalist Maura Judkis for being Jewish. Esther Panitch, then the only Jewish member of the Georgia General Assembly, called him on it. Her framing is the useful one, because it grants him the innocent version first:

He doubled down. He did not delete the post or apologize; he posted that his critics were inventing things: "Y'all just see stuff that ain't there." Remember that sentence. It is the earliest version of the defense he is still using in August 2026.

III. MAY 2024: "TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS"

On May 3, 2024, Collins shared video from the University of Mississippi, where a largely white crowd of college men had surrounded a Black woman protesting the war in Gaza. In the footage, one of them makes monkey noises and ape gestures at her while others chant. Collins's caption was three words of approval: "Ole Miss taking care of business."

The Georgia NAACP called for an ethics investigation. None was ever opened. Three days later Collins issued a partial retreat, saying the video contained behavior that "none of us should seek to glorify," and adding that if the student "is found to have treated another human being improperly because of their race, they should be punished appropriately, and will hopefully seek forgiveness." His position was that the racism had not been the focal point of what he shared.

Take that defense seriously for a moment, because it is the strongest one available to him: a busy congressman retweets a clip of campus protest, does not study every second of it, and is caught out by something in the frame. Fine. Then look at the caption again. "Taking care of business" is not a comment on protest policy or campus speech. It is praise for the handling of a person, and the handling in the video is a crowd of white men making ape noises at a Black woman. He did not have to watch closely to know what he was applauding. He had to watch closely to know he would need an excuse.

IV. NOVEMBER 2025 TO FEBRUARY 2026: THE CHIEF OF STAFF

Posts are cheap. Payroll is not, and this is where the file stops being about social media.

Slate reported, from messages it reviewed, that Kip Talley (Collins's deputy chief of staff, promoted to chief of staff in January 2026) took part in a group chat whose roughly thirty members included Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer... the two most recognizable white-nationalist figures in American public life. Spencer coined "alt-right" and led the Charlottesville torch march. Fuentes is the man whose movement this page wrote about a week ago.

What Talley posted in that chat is worse than membership. While the Holocaust denier and provocateur Charles C. Johnson was jailed between November 2025 and February 2026, Talley described using his congressional position to get him out.

Per the reporting, Talley contacted jail officials and the U.S. Marshals Service, arranged a call with Johnson and saw that commissary money reached him. Talley says he acted "solely in [his] personal capacity," not at Collins's direction. Collins's office declined to comment on the record. Talley has since been replaced, making him the second chief of staff Collins has lost since the campaign began. The first, Brandon Phillips, was arrested for animal cruelty in November 2022.

Set aside the question of what Collins knew. The relevant fact for a voter is simpler: this is who kept getting hired, and who kept getting promoted.

V. JULY 2026: THE MAN IN THE CAMPAIGN PHOTOS

On July 16, CNN's KFile reported that Collins's son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II, married to his daughter Summer, runs an online operation of more than 1.5 million combined followers across Telegram, Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, posting about fitness, Christianity and masculinity... and, alongside that, Nazi and antisemitic material including content from the white-nationalist group Patriot Front.

The specifics, as reported: he wrote in a YouTube comment that "There's nothing wrong with White Nationalism." He called for Muslims to be deported. He said white people face extinction and that restoring the United States as a white nation would require "clearing our land of other people." He posted about "Jewish Bolsheviks" killing sixty million Christians. And in November 2025, on a podcast, he offered his view of what Black Americans are owed:

That is the sentence to carry into East Point. Collins spent Saturday asking Black Georgians for their votes. His son-in-law spent last November explaining, for an audience, that Black Georgians are in debt to white people to the tune of two trillion dollars.

CNN also established that Scheer is not some distant relation glimpsed at a wedding. He was registered to vote at a property Collins owns. He appeared in Collins campaign photographs. He was at the victory party when Collins won the Republican runoff in June. After the story ran, the photographs of Scheer came down from the campaign's materials, which tells you the campaign understood precisely what it had.

VI. JULY 30: SEVEN MINUTES

Two days before the East Point meeting, Collins held a press conference outside Monroe County Hospital. Reporters asked about Scheer. The whole event lasted seven minutes.

He said "we've fully addressed that," then pivoted: "But Jon Ossoff refuses to disavow these Democrat socialist movements in our country." Pressed again, he called on someone else. When a reporter asked him directly to answer the question about his son-in-law, he did not. He said, "Listen, I appreciate y'all's time. I appreciate you coming out this morning," and walked off while a reporter was still asking whether he would address it at all.

His standing written answer is that "nobody speaks for me; I only speak for myself," and that he does not "believe or support those views" and has "always condemned racism and antisemitism regardless of the source." His campaign's response to the CNN story was that his "lifelong support for Israel is unquestionable," which answers a question nobody asked.

VII. WHAT IT MEANS FOR A GEORGIA BALLOT

Collins is not running in a safe seat, which is why the East Point meeting happened at all.

OssoffCollins

Likely voters statewide52%43%

Independents55%35%

Source: AARP Georgia poll, fielded July 13 to 16, 2026, 1,060 likely voters, margin of error plus or minus 3 points. Ossoff led by 33 points among voters 18 to 34, 29 among 35 to 49 and 5 among 50 to 64; Collins led by 24 among voters 65 and older.

A nine-point deficit in July is not a verdict, and Georgia of all states knows how fast a margin can close. But it explains the arithmetic behind Saturday. Collins needs a share of the Black vote no Georgia Republican has assembled in modern memory, and he needs it while this file is the top result for his name.

The defections are the part his campaign should find genuinely alarming, because they are not coming from Democrats. Shelley Wynter, the conservative WSB radio host who was among Brian Kemp's loudest boosters in 2022, endorsed Ossoff, saying he does not want a senator "running on going to Washington to just do whatever the president wants them to do." Jeff Flake, the former Republican senator from Arizona, endorsed Ossoff on the grounds that character matters. Ossoff's own summary is blunter: "Congressman Mike Collins is a known bigot who has no business serving in either chamber of the United States Congress."

Meanwhile the Georgia Republican Party has said essentially nothing about any of it, which is its own kind of statement.

So: "We need help." It is an honest request and it deserves an honest reckoning. The question in front of every Georgia voter, Black conservatives in East Point very much included, is not whether Mike Collins can produce a sentence condemning racism in the abstract. He has produced several, and they cost nothing. The question is whether a man builds this particular file (the death flight, the reply he would not delete, the caption on that video, the chief of staff, the photographs quietly removed) by accident, five separate times, over two years, and then walks away from a microphone rather than say one plain sentence about the man in the family pictures.

The ballots go out this fall. The file is above. Georgia can read.