WXIA: “Senator Jon Ossoff, representing Georgia, called on his campaign rival, Republican Mike Collins, to release communications involving his office and white nationalists. That includes emails, texts, phone records, and encrypted messages involving Collins, his staff, and any associates.”

Atlanta, Ga. — Senator Jon Ossoff held a press conference yesterday to demand that GOP U.S. Senate nominee Mike Collins release every form of communication between himself, his associates, and any notorious white nationalists with ties to Collins or his office. 

Sen. Ossoff’s demands follow the sudden replacement of Collins’ top aide, Kip Talley, who was revealed to have worked with white nationalists, including Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer, to try to get a Holocaust denier out of jail. 

Collins’ U.S. Senate campaign has been plagued by a number of controversies, including recent Washington Post reporting that exposed a former Collins staffer who uplifted Nazi imagery and depicted himself in a costume of the Ku Klux Klan, and an ongoing federal investigation into Collins by the House Ethics Committee. Collins has also faced public outrage over his antisemitic harassment of a Jewish reporter and his praise for the viciously racist harassment with monkey sounds of a Black woman on a college campus.  

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WXIA: Sen. Ossoff Demands Collins Release Communication Files

• [WXIA] Moments ago, Senator Jon Ossoff, representing Georgia, called on his campaign rival, Republican Mike Collins, to release communications involving his office and white nationalists.
  
• [WXIA] That includes emails, texts, phone records, and encrypted messages involving Collins, his staff, and any associates. That call follows reporting about former Collins chief of staff, Kip Talley. Reports found Talley had communications with white nationalists, Nick Fuentes and Richard Spencer. Collins has faced several controversies involving people in his political orbit. Here’s what Senator Ossoff said about that moments ago.

• [SEN. OSSOFF] Here you have a record of one of his senior aides briefing some of the country’s most notorious white supremacists on the efforts that Mike Collins’ office is undertaking to lobby on behalf of a prominent Holocaust denier through intervention at the FBI and the DOJ with the “use of the levers of the legislative branch.”
  
• [SEN. OSSOFF] The congressman needs to come clean. He needs to explain this in full today, and, above all, he needs to release these records in full because Georgia voters deserve to see them.

• [WXIA] So the new ask here is to release the records. Collins has been asked about this repeatedly. […] 

WSB-TV: Ossoff Demands Collins Release All Files 

• [WSB-TV] Incumbent Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff demanded his Republican opponent, Congressman Mike Collins answer questions about the controversial activities of a former staff member.
  
• [WSB-TV] Senator Ossoff says a former staffer with Collins’ congressional office tried to intervene on behalf of an alleged white nationalist.
  
• [SEN. OSSOFF] We are just a few weeks until Georgians begin to vote to elect a Senator who will serve a six-year term. And Georgians deserve to understand the full extent of this candidate’s ties to some of the nation’s most notorious white supremacists. […]

WANF: Ossoff and Collins Heat Up Attacks Before Midterms

• [WANF] As we inch closer to election day, the candidates for senate are turning up the heat on their attacks. For some, the war of words is turning visual.
  
• [WANF] In Fulton County today, Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff printed out what he says are communications between his opponent’s former chief of staff, Kip Talley, and two white supremacists. […]

WCTV: Sen. Ossoff Calls Out Rep. Collins

• [WCTV] Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff calling out his GOP Senate opponent Mike Collins. Ossoff demanded Collins release all communication between himself, his associates and any notorious white nationalists with ties to Collins or his office. 

• [SEN. OSSOFF] We have a sitting member of Congress who represents Georgia in the U.S. house. His office is intervening using official resources. On behalf of a prominent Holocaust denier. And his senior staff is briefing some of the nation’s most notorious white supremacists on those efforts.

• [SEN. OSSOFF] Congressman Mike Collins needs to come out today. And he needs to release these records and these communications in full. […] 

GPB: Ossoff Renews Calls For His Opponent To Answer For Former Staffer’s Ties To Extremists
By Sarah Kallis | September 23, 2026

KEY EXCERPTS

• Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff is calling on his opponent, Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Collins, to release communications between a former member of his staff and the Department of Justice and FBI.
  
• Leaked text messages appear to show former Collins aide Kip Talley attempting to secure the release of a Holocaust denier from jail in 2025.

• Ossoff said it’s time for transparency.

• “This is one of the most senior aides to Congressman Mike Collins at the time saying he’s going to, quote, ‘use the levers of the legislative branch,'” Ossoff said. “Here he says he’s reaching out to people at the FBI and DOJ.” […]

• Collins has faced controversy throughout his campaign for alleged antisemitism and racism in his orbit, including former staffers and his own son-in-law.

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