Christopher Mathias
@letsgomathias.bsky.social
Reporter covering the far right. Words in Guardian, Zeteo, MSNBC. Formerly HuffPost. Contact: letsgomathias@protonmail.com. Pre-order my book about antifa here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Catch-a-Fascist/Christopher-Mathias/9781668034767.
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3 yrs ago I started writing a book that is in stores TODAY. It's narrative nonfiction, anti-fascist spy thriller set in Trump era. It's timely as hell & I'm proud of it.
A thread of what people are saying abt it & why I hope you'll help make it a bestseller www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...
A thread of what people are saying abt it & why I hope you'll help make it a bestseller www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...
around this same time the NYT described Ida B. Wells as a “slanderous and nasty-minded mulattress”
“These sneaking and cowardly Sicilians, the descendants of bandits and assassins, who have transported to this country the lawless passions, the cutthroat practices and the oathbound societies, are to us a pest without mitigation. Our own rattlesnakes are as good citizens as they.”NYT editorial 1891
February 13, 2026 at 2:01 AM
around this same time the NYT described Ida B. Wells as a “slanderous and nasty-minded mulattress”
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To Catch a Fascist by Chris Mathias takes readers inside the underground fight against rising fascism in the U.S. where anti-fascists infiltrate far-right groups to expose white supremacists hiding in plain sight. Hear more at our event Feb 26 at Clinton Street Theater.
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February 12, 2026 at 10:03 PM
To Catch a Fascist by Chris Mathias takes readers inside the underground fight against rising fascism in the U.S. where anti-fascists infiltrate far-right groups to expose white supremacists hiding in plain sight. Hear more at our event Feb 26 at Clinton Street Theater.
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I am so excited for this event. If you've followed either @letsgomathias.bsky.social or @leahsottile.bsky.social, you'll know you're in for an insightful discussion about antifascist action. As always, grateful to @cstpdx.bsky.social for hosting great community events.
To Catch a Fascist by Chris Mathias takes readers inside the underground fight against rising fascism in the U.S. where anti-fascists infiltrate far-right groups to expose white supremacists hiding in plain sight. Hear more at our event Feb 26 at Clinton Street Theater.
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February 12, 2026 at 10:46 PM
I am so excited for this event. If you've followed either @letsgomathias.bsky.social or @leahsottile.bsky.social, you'll know you're in for an insightful discussion about antifascist action. As always, grateful to @cstpdx.bsky.social for hosting great community events.
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Many of you know the work @leahsottile.bsky.social and @ryanjhaas.bsky.social do here in the Northwest, but ahead of the launch of our first reported story next week, we wanted to share a recap of some of our past work. You may be new to us or you may have missed some; either way, let's catch up.
We Like to Dig.
Where we've been, and where we're going.
www.thewesternedge.media
February 12, 2026 at 8:32 PM
Many of you know the work @leahsottile.bsky.social and @ryanjhaas.bsky.social do here in the Northwest, but ahead of the launch of our first reported story next week, we wanted to share a recap of some of our past work. You may be new to us or you may have missed some; either way, let's catch up.
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Incredibly well-written with an edge-of-your-seat narrative pace, To Catch a Fascist taps into interviews with some 60 anti-fascist activists to sort fact from fiction about one of the most contentious issues of the day. open.substack.com/pub/hatecome...
What I Am Reading - To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right
Incredibly well-written with an edge-of-your-seat narrative pace, To Catch a Fascist taps into interviews with some 60 anti-fascist activists to sort fact from fiction."
open.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Incredibly well-written with an edge-of-your-seat narrative pace, To Catch a Fascist taps into interviews with some 60 anti-fascist activists to sort fact from fiction about one of the most contentious issues of the day. open.substack.com/pub/hatecome...
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Trump loves to throw the term "antifa" around whenever there's a coordinated act of resistance against him. But understanding what it actually means, and how its tactics can be scaled up to resist an increasingly fascist government, matters more than ever. @letsgomathias.bsky.social breaks it down.
The Truth About Antifa That Trump Doesn't Want You To Know
A new book sheds light on the underground anti-fascist movement working to infiltrate and eradicate neo-nazi groups
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Trump loves to throw the term "antifa" around whenever there's a coordinated act of resistance against him. But understanding what it actually means, and how its tactics can be scaled up to resist an increasingly fascist government, matters more than ever. @letsgomathias.bsky.social breaks it down.
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He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational
Homan: "Operation Metro Surge is ending. In the next week, we're going to deploy the officers here on detail back to their home stations or to other areas of the country where they're needed."
February 12, 2026 at 2:44 PM
He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational
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I just listened to Christopher Mathias' TO CATCH A FASCIST on audiobook via Libro.fm (because fuck Audible). Much-needed pocket history of recent antifascist work, plus it was riveting and inspiring. In short, it slapped. Buy it.
very very cool for my new book, TO CATCH A FASCIST, to be on the @bookshop.org list of 25 best-selling books last week, alongside Heated Rivalry & Wuthering Hts & George Saunders! bookshop.org/lists/booksh...
Bookshop.org Best Sellers of the Week
Last Week's Bestselling Books: Heated Rivalry and Fierce Nonfiction Rachel Reid’s enemies-to-lovers hockey romance series has made a powerful slap shot right into our weekly bestsellers.
bookshop.org
February 12, 2026 at 2:03 PM
I just listened to Christopher Mathias' TO CATCH A FASCIST on audiobook via Libro.fm (because fuck Audible). Much-needed pocket history of recent antifascist work, plus it was riveting and inspiring. In short, it slapped. Buy it.
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Thank you for this work @letsgomathias.bsky.social
Excited to check it out and we're going to add it to our reading circle.
Excited to check it out and we're going to add it to our reading circle.
February 12, 2026 at 4:28 AM
Thank you for this work @letsgomathias.bsky.social
Excited to check it out and we're going to add it to our reading circle.
Excited to check it out and we're going to add it to our reading circle.
“We had whistles, they had guns”
Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.
February 12, 2026 at 12:23 AM
“We had whistles, they had guns”
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The right casts “antifa” as a centralized enemy, but it’s a decentralized network that’s exposed pro-Trump extremist groups for years. Tomorrow we speak with To Catch a Fascist author Christopher Mathias. Yesterday, Jay Kuo covered DHS expanding detention and communities fighting back.
This Week In The Big Picture
The right loves to throw around the term “antifa” as though it represents a centralized leftist movement.
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:27 PM
The right casts “antifa” as a centralized enemy, but it’s a decentralized network that’s exposed pro-Trump extremist groups for years. Tomorrow we speak with To Catch a Fascist author Christopher Mathias. Yesterday, Jay Kuo covered DHS expanding detention and communities fighting back.
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"This axiom you hear a lot on the left,'We protect us' means you can't rely on your institutions to protect you. So it is up to you to organize with your neighbors, to show up for the most marginalized. Minneapolis is such an amazing demonstration of that."
-- @letsgomathias.bsky.social
-- @letsgomathias.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 8:22 PM
"This axiom you hear a lot on the left,'We protect us' means you can't rely on your institutions to protect you. So it is up to you to organize with your neighbors, to show up for the most marginalized. Minneapolis is such an amazing demonstration of that."
-- @letsgomathias.bsky.social
-- @letsgomathias.bsky.social
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🧵In Congress Pam Bondi called antifa a threat. Why? According to @letsgomathias.bsky.social, author of To Catch a Fascist, antifa are everyday Americans in hyper-local decentralized networks using OSINT, neighborhood watch, and more to unmask the MAGA Klan gaslitnation.libsyn.com/how-to-catch...
Gaslit Nation: How to Catch a Fascist: Antifa vs. MAGA
As Gaslit Nation has long warned: our institutions are complicit. Nazis infiltrate police departments, protecting an elite pedophile ring–protected by the FBI and DOJ. What can the American people do ...
gaslitnation.libsyn.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:22 PM
🧵In Congress Pam Bondi called antifa a threat. Why? According to @letsgomathias.bsky.social, author of To Catch a Fascist, antifa are everyday Americans in hyper-local decentralized networks using OSINT, neighborhood watch, and more to unmask the MAGA Klan gaslitnation.libsyn.com/how-to-catch...
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Oh hell yeah! @letsgomathias.bsky.social on Gaslit Nation! gaslitnation.libsyn.com/how-to-catch...
Gaslit Nation: How to Catch a Fascist: Antifa vs. MAGA
As Gaslit Nation has long warned: our institutions are complicit. Nazis infiltrate police departments, protecting an elite pedophile ring–protected by the FBI and DOJ. What can the American people do ...
gaslitnation.libsyn.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Oh hell yeah! @letsgomathias.bsky.social on Gaslit Nation! gaslitnation.libsyn.com/how-to-catch...
Such an good conversation, and so honored to get to talk to Kris!
From Patriot Front to ICE, we break down what modern fascism actually looks like — and how decentralized antifascists are holding the radical right accountable.
If you want to understand what I’ve seen from the inside, start here:
onoffense.substack.com/p/to-catch-a...
If you want to understand what I’ve seen from the inside, start here:
onoffense.substack.com/p/to-catch-a...
To Catch a Fascist: Christopher Mathias on Antifa and ICE
Journalist Christopher Mathias joins me to expose fascist street gangs, ICE, and the decentralized antifascist networks holding them accountable.
onoffense.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Such an good conversation, and so honored to get to talk to Kris!
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When people learn that I infiltrate neo-Nazi groups and later expose them publicly under my real name, they call me brave.
I’m not brave. I’m just angry.
New episode of On Offense with journalist Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias.bsky.social), author of To Catch a Fascist. 🧵
I’m not brave. I’m just angry.
New episode of On Offense with journalist Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias.bsky.social), author of To Catch a Fascist. 🧵
February 11, 2026 at 4:46 PM
When people learn that I infiltrate neo-Nazi groups and later expose them publicly under my real name, they call me brave.
I’m not brave. I’m just angry.
New episode of On Offense with journalist Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias.bsky.social), author of To Catch a Fascist. 🧵
I’m not brave. I’m just angry.
New episode of On Offense with journalist Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias.bsky.social), author of To Catch a Fascist. 🧵
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Reading this book now and I cannot put it down. It's a fascinating, vital read for our perilous times.
3 yrs ago I started writing a book that is in stores TODAY. It's narrative nonfiction, anti-fascist spy thriller set in Trump era. It's timely as hell & I'm proud of it.
A thread of what people are saying abt it & why I hope you'll help make it a bestseller www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...
A thread of what people are saying abt it & why I hope you'll help make it a bestseller www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...
February 11, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Reading this book now and I cannot put it down. It's a fascinating, vital read for our perilous times.
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February 11, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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Watch my interview with "To Catch A Fascist" @letsgomathias.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/OkkFzAW...
www.youtube.com/live/OkkFzAW...
February 10, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Watch my interview with "To Catch A Fascist" @letsgomathias.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/OkkFzAW...
www.youtube.com/live/OkkFzAW...
Overjoyed to see @publisherswkly.bsky.social give my new book 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.”
!!!!
www.publishersweekly.com/9781668034767
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.”
!!!!
www.publishersweekly.com/9781668034767
To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right by Christopher Mathias
Journalist Mathias’s urgent, eye-opening debut delves into antifa’s extralegal efforts to dox white nationalists. A “decentraliz...
www.publishersweekly.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:04 AM
Overjoyed to see @publisherswkly.bsky.social give my new book 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.”
!!!!
www.publishersweekly.com/9781668034767
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.”
!!!!
www.publishersweekly.com/9781668034767
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Got my copy of to catch a fascist by @letsgomathias.bsky.social at my local independent book store (always support your local book stores). Supper fucking excited to read it! Highly recommend to anyone curious about anti fascist activism and those who have been wanting to hear some inside stories
February 9, 2026 at 9:18 PM
Got my copy of to catch a fascist by @letsgomathias.bsky.social at my local independent book store (always support your local book stores). Supper fucking excited to read it! Highly recommend to anyone curious about anti fascist activism and those who have been wanting to hear some inside stories
very very cool for my new book, TO CATCH A FASCIST, to be on the @bookshop.org list of 25 best-selling books last week, alongside Heated Rivalry & Wuthering Hts & George Saunders! bookshop.org/lists/booksh...
Bookshop.org Best Sellers of the Week
Last Week's Bestselling Books: Heated Rivalry and Fierce Nonfiction Rachel Reid’s enemies-to-lovers hockey romance series has made a powerful slap shot right into our weekly bestsellers.
bookshop.org
February 9, 2026 at 3:57 PM
very very cool for my new book, TO CATCH A FASCIST, to be on the @bookshop.org list of 25 best-selling books last week, alongside Heated Rivalry & Wuthering Hts & George Saunders! bookshop.org/lists/booksh...
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Berlet did so much work in Illinois to counter extremism, including my own southwest side area as I learned about him first via the Marquette Park Neo-Nazis during the 70s.
If you’d like to see what he was organizing against in this no so far off time, I’d suggest this and Maruqette Park II:
If you’d like to see what he was organizing against in this no so far off time, I’d suggest this and Maruqette Park II:
February 9, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Berlet did so much work in Illinois to counter extremism, including my own southwest side area as I learned about him first via the Marquette Park Neo-Nazis during the 70s.
If you’d like to see what he was organizing against in this no so far off time, I’d suggest this and Maruqette Park II:
If you’d like to see what he was organizing against in this no so far off time, I’d suggest this and Maruqette Park II:
RIP Chip Berlet, a legend on this beat, who provided a blueprint for how to do anti-fascist research idavox.com/index.php/20...
Chip Berlet (1949-2026)
When neo-fascists began to be followed and recorded, it was Chip that was the one who made the first moves. He gave us the blueprint that antifascist researchers go by today. Thank you, Chip, we will ...
idavox.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:30 PM
RIP Chip Berlet, a legend on this beat, who provided a blueprint for how to do anti-fascist research idavox.com/index.php/20...
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This morning's reading for the commute.
February 9, 2026 at 8:00 AM
This morning's reading for the commute.