Republican Senate candidate Mike Collins has constructed a nationwide profile as a combative, Trump-aligned on-line provocateur — a mode that has repeatedly drawn scrutiny over his associations with far-right figures, inflammatory social media posts and accusations of antisemitism, which he has denied.
Now, one of many starkest examples of extremism within the Georgia congressman’s orbit seems a lot nearer to residence: his son-in-law, David Alan Scheer II, a pro-White nationalist and social media influencer with a monitor report of sharing antisemitic materials and Nazi imagery in feedback throughout the web.
Scheer, who’s married to Collins’ daughter, Summer, is featured in household pictures on Collins’ marketing campaign web site and social media. He attended Collins’ Senate major election-night victory get together and seems to have helped produce promotional work for Collins’ trucking firm. Scheer is registered to vote at a Collins-owned property adjoining to the congressman’s giant residence in Georgia.
On Instagram, Scheer not too long ago shared a number of posts selling Patriot Front, the White supremacist hate group that descended on Washington, DC, over July 4th weekend. He has amassed greater than 1.5 million followers throughout TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and Telegram by posting about health, masculinity and Christianity.
On those self same platforms, Scheer has promoted White nationalist ideology, unfold antisemitic conspiracy theories, referred to as for Muslims to be deported and shared an antisemitic infographic concentrating on Jews that he mentioned his spouse (Collins’ daughter) made.
On a podcast from final November, Scheer warned that White individuals have been being pushed towards extinction and mentioned restoring an America populated by individuals of White European descent would require “clearing our land of other people.”
The posts and feedback are the newest instance of a far-right determine in Collins’ orbit as he faces off towards Democratic incumbent Sen. Jon Ossoff in a pivotal race.
Collins, who constructed a nationwide fame as a web-based provocateur, has confronted repeated criticism for his associations with far-right and extremist figures. In May, he fired a longtime aide who posted from Collins’ marketing campaign account mocking a rival marketing campaign adviser’s spouse and her sexual assault claims.
Scheer has espoused hateful rhetoric towards Jews and Muslims. Just weeks in the past, after a monthslong social media hiatus, Scheer requested his followers on Telegram, which he has linked to on different platforms, to vote on a ballot on whether or not he ought to make a video on “why Gen-Z doesn’t hate Hitler.” He later deleted the ballot, however NCS saved the post.
In a YouTube video posted in November 2025 to his almost 350,000 subscribers, Scheer invoked the “Jewish Bolsheviks” conspiracy concept, an antisemitic narrative embraced by Nazi Germany that portrayed communism as a Jewish plot and blamed Jews collectively for Soviet atrocities.
“Sixty million Christians that were killed by Jewish Bolsheviks in the early 1900s right before World War II,” Scheer mentioned within the video. “They don’t tell us the history about Germany before World War II. All we’re told is, ‘Germany bad, Hitler evil, don’t ask questions, Holocaust, Holocaust, Holocaust, here’s 50 movies every year about the Holocaust and why it’s so bad.’”
Scheer inspired viewers to “do some digging” into who writes historical past textbooks whereas earlier claiming Jews have been accountable for “porn,” “killing JFK,” the 9/11 terror assaults and the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Scheer repeated the unproven declare that Jeffrey Epstein labored for Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad, and blackmailed politicians into supporting an “Israel first” agenda.
After a commenter on YouTube famous that his publish had a word of “anti-Semitism and white nationalism that is disturbing,” Scheer replied, “There’s nothing wrong with White Nationalism.”
Collins’ marketing campaign didn’t deal with NCS’s questions relating to Scheer and his feedback throughout social media. In a press release, a spokesperson for Collins mentioned, “Rep. Collins’ lifelong support for Israel is unquestionable and backed by his consistent record in Congress of standing up for Israel and her people.”
Scheer didn’t reply to NCS’s requests for remark.
In a post last year on Telegram, Scheer shared an infographic claiming Jews management the US authorities by way of monetary affect, attributing the graphic to his spouse.
The infographic argued that Jewish donors, advocacy teams and establishments had captured American politics and have been directing US coverage on behalf of Israel. One panel claimed that an “ethnically cohesive interest group” had seized management of US overseas coverage and concluded: “This is treason.” Scheer inspired followers to “Save it and Share it everywhere.”
On Telegram in June 2025, Scheer additionally posted a collection of antisemitic infographics blaming Jews for being accountable for “every single aspect” of gun management, abortion, the LBGTQ motion and “pornography and hook up culture.” Two claimed that Jews management the media and the Federal Reserve. The infographics present footage of outstanding Jewish politicians, activists, economists and enterprise homeowners with the Star of David on their foreheads or by their names.
Records recommend Scheer lives on a property owned by Collins and seems to have produced promotional movies for Collins’ trucking firm. Scheer has been registered to vote since September 2024 at a home adjoining to Collins’ property, in accordance to voter and property information.
He additionally seems to have narrated promotional movies for Collins’ trucking firm; in a single YouTube post filmed in entrance of vans, he mentioned he was making movies for a “client.” Videos reviewed by NCS present Scheer in July and November 2024 discussing a transfer to a brand new residence in a brand new state, across the similar time Georgia property information point out the brand new Collins-owned home was constructed.
Collins beforehand confronted criticism in 2024 over alleged antisemitic social media posts, his protection of January 6 rioters who he said deserved pardons and his associations with far-right activists and staffers.
The Republican enters the race as an underdog, even in a state that Donald Trump received in 2024, with merchants on prediction market Kalshi giving Collins roughly a 16% probability of victory. Major polls haven’t been printed since Collins received the Republican nomination in mid-June.
Much of that may be attributed to Ossoff’s recognition within the state, but additionally to a string of controversies which have adopted Collins throughout his years in public workplace.
In 2024, Collins shared a video of pro-Israel counterprotesters on the University of Mississippi that included a White scholar making ape-like gestures towards a Black lady. Collins later mentioned the incident was not the “focal point” of the video he shared that may have contained “potentially inappropriate behavior.” The NAACP urged an ethics investigation of Collins over the tweet, although one was by no means launched.
Collins has additionally drawn criticism for social media posts invoking political violence.
In February 2024, responding to a photo of a Venezuelan migrant arrested for alleged involvement in assaulting a police officer in New York City, Collins wrote: “Or we could buy him a ticket on Pinochet Air for a free helicopter ride back.”
The comment referenced a long-running far-right meme tied to Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, whose regime killed political opponents by throwing some victims from helicopters throughout the nation’s army dictatorship. The fees against the Venezuelan migrant have been later dropped after police mentioned he had been misidentified as being concerned within the assault.
The publish was quickly faraway from X for violating its guidelines about violent speech, although it was later reinstated after Collins pleaded to the proprietor of X, Elon Musk. After the publish returned to the platform, it included a word saying that whereas it violated the platform’s guidelines, “X has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Post to remain accessible.”
Collins celebrated by posting, “Never delete. Never surrender.”
In one other occasion, responding to a video about migrants close to the southern border in December 2023, Collins wrote, “This is when you switch from 40mm to the 105” — a reference to escalating from a 40mm spherical to a bigger 105mm artillery weapon.
In May, Collins’ marketing campaign made headlines when one in all his high aides posted a derisive tweet about an adviser to the PAC of Collins’ then-opponent, Derek Dooley, on the marketing campaign X account. The adviser’s spouse is a former NBC News staffer who had beforehand accused former anchor Matt Lauer of sexual assault, to which the publish made a mocking reference.
The Collins aide was fired over the controversy.
Also in May, Slate reported that Collins’ chief of employees, Kip Talley, participated in a gaggle chat with White nationalist figures Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer and mentioned efforts to help far-right activist, Charles C. Johnson, who has made feedback questioning the Holocaust, whereas he was jailed on contempt-related fees. Talley told Slate he acted in a private capability after listening to issues about Johnson’s remedy in custody and mentioned he didn’t act at Collins’ route.
Collins has additionally confronted criticism over his personal feedback.
In 2024, Collins replied to a publish from an antisemitic social media account that appeared to reference a Washington Post reporter’s Jewish heritage. “Never was a second thought,” Collins wrote.
After dealing with backlash, Collins defended the trade, writing: “I guess pointing out that a Washington Post journo excusing crime because she believes USA is on ‘stolen land’ makes her a garbage human is anti-Semitic? Y’all just see stuff that ain’t there.”
Last 12 months, Collins additionally dismissed issues a few leaked Young Republicans group chat that contained racist, antisemitic and pro-Nazi messages.
After Politico reported that members of the chat had praised Adolf Hitler, joked about fuel chambers and exchanged racist slurs, Collins responded on social media: “I don’t care about some group chat” and included a photograph of Laken Riley, the Georgia nursing scholar whose homicide by an undocumented immigrant turned a rallying cry for Republicans in pushing stricter immigration insurance policies.
Within a YouTube remark part from a video posted in November 2025, Scheer favored one remark in German quoting a Thirties marching tune co-opted by the Nazis referred to as “Erika.” In English it translates to, “On the heath, there blooms a little flower.”
Scheer inspired viewers to try his Telegram channel. Three days later, he wrote, “The support has been insane on the last video^ We’re going to retake America for Christian White men!”
In one Instagram publish from June 2025, Scheer posted a meme of a household cradling a child with an eagle within the background. The textual content overlay reads, “I want to make babies Not die for Israel.”
Scheer captioned the Instagram publish, “If you haven’t noticed, we all have a common enemy.”
The picture was taken from a Nazi propaganda poster from the 1930s that reads, “Die NSDAP sichert die Volksgemeinschaft,” which interprets to “The Nazi Party protects the people’s community.”
In a podcast posted last November, Scheer warned that White individuals have been being pushed towards extinction, saying “they’re trying to kill us” and claiming their share of the worldwide inhabitants had fallen from 30% within the Fifties to 7%.
He argued that restoring neighborhood required “clearing our land of other people” and later pushed for holding Somalis, Mexicans and Nigerians of their residence nations so he might “enjoy my slice of this world with my people.” Scheer additionally blamed “Israel and Zionist Jews” for insurance policies he mentioned have been supposed to “undermine the White Christian nature of America.”
“I know there’s people out there right now that are just cursing us at the screen, just completely just hating us,” Scheer mentioned. “And I feel bad for him, man. I pity them because, at the end of the day, if it’s a White European man, he’s my brother, and if he hates me, it’s because he’s misguided. There’s no other answer to it.”
He additionally mentioned, “I do believe that the more homogenous a culture is, the more it thrives.”
In the identical episode, Scheer made disparaging remarks about Black Americans and Indians. “If you look at how many Black people have been on welfare and EBT and food stamps, it’s like, actually they owe us like $2 trillion,” he mentioned, including that “that whole 40 acres and a mule thing” meant “y’all owe us $2 trillion now.”
Responding to Hindu commenters, Scheer instructed them to “get your country straight” and contrasted what he referred to as the “magnificent civilization” created by Christians with Indians “covering” themselves “in cow crap.”