‼️ Leaked AfD emails show party bosses approving money for lawyers...
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‼️ Leaked AfD emails show party bosses approving money for lawyers to stop a story, a "legal way out" pitched to Alice Weidel, a 2,000-name list of "antifascists" and a candidate who bugged a bedroom with an Alexa.
A call for an armed Reichstag takeover.
The 12 biggest finds 🧵
A call for an armed Reichstag takeover.
The 12 biggest finds 🧵
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‼️ AfD board members in North Rhine-Westphalia approved €1,000 for the law firm Höcker in 2018 with one stated aim, "to prevent all reporting on this case", emails show.
The case was a party staffer. WDR had asked about a penal order against her for incitement.
The case was a party staffer. WDR had asked about a penal order against her for incitement.
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‼️ As Alice Weidel's Swiss donation scandal broke in November 2018, an AfD member emailed her a "legal way out" in which the money would be booked as a loan, with interest.
Without interest, he wrote, it "would then be an illegal donation".
He called it "the only way out".
Without interest, he wrote, it "would then be an illegal donation".
He called it "the only way out".
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❗️ AfD headquarters suspected in 2019 that an ex-board member exported its member files and 1,465,178 bank-data records, emails show.
The tip-off was a SPIEGEL query about a €150 donation from Stephan Ernst, Walter Lübcke's convicted killer.
Georg Pazderski wanted charges.
The tip-off was a SPIEGEL query about a €150 donation from Stephan Ernst, Walter Lübcke's convicted killer.
Georg Pazderski wanted charges.
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❗️ An AfD state board member in North Rhine-Westphalia sent colleagues a list of 2,000 names and addresses of "antifascists" in 2016 to keep "a watchful eye" on them, an email shows.
He suggested naming them as witnesses after attacks so someone might "lose their nerve".
He suggested naming them as witnesses after attacks so someone might "lose their nerve".
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❗️ AfD NRW leader Marcus Pretzell moved in 2016 to expel a member who said she destroyed five ballot papers at the assembly that picked the party's state list, emails show.
A file note in the thread records a member saying he could get her sworn statement withdrawn.
A file note in the thread records a member saying he could get her sworn statement withdrawn.
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‼️ An AfD staffer proposed in 2017 accrediting a photographer he said worked for Antifa, then "hops nehmen" him on site, an email shows.
"We know what he looks like," he wrote, signing off "Heil und Sieg und fette Beute".
The party's managing director said to turn him down.
"We know what he looks like," he wrote, signing off "Heil und Sieg und fette Beute".
The party's managing director said to turn him down.
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‼️ An AfD Bavaria member emailed Alexander Gauland, Alice Weidel and Jörg Meuthen in 2018 urging the party to chant "Merkel verrecke" and "Mohammedaner verreckt" every day.
Both translate roughly as "croak".
She called it free speech after Deniz Yücel's "Deutschland verrecke".
Both translate roughly as "croak".
She called it free speech after Deniz Yücel's "Deutschland verrecke".
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❗️ An AfD regional leader told the NRW state board in April 2025 that a Bottrop board member sold a swastika flag at the party's info stand and distributed drugs at party events.
He said a majority "supposedly steered" by state MP Christian Blex blocked an expulsion motion.
He said a majority "supposedly steered" by state MP Christian Blex blocked an expulsion motion.
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❗️ 14 new members admitted via the AfD's Düren branch gave home addresses that were not theirs, the party's NRW office found in 2024, emails show.
The branch also uploaded 30+ board resolutions bearing its treasurer's signature.
He says he never signed them.
The branch also uploaded 30+ board resolutions bearing its treasurer's signature.
He says he never signed them.
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❗️ An AfD local-election candidate allegedly rigged an Alexa device to listen in on the bedroom of a house he rents out, an internal NRW party email from August 2025 says.
Police seized evidence, it says.
He was No. 2 on the party's list in Rhein-Sieg.
Police seized evidence, it says.
He was No. 2 on the party's list in Rhein-Sieg.
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‼️ A 2023 letter to the AfD's NRW office proposed armed soldiers and police occupy the Reichstag and take power temporarily.
"Politicians who exercise state authority in violation of the Basic Law can only be opposed by force," it says.
The office forwarded it without comment.
"Politicians who exercise state authority in violation of the Basic Law can only be opposed by force," it says.
The office forwarded it without comment.
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‼️ A flyer urging police and soldiers to "imprison every traitor to the people" in the police, army or government sat in Alexander Gauland's mailbox in 2020, an email shows.
It promised them monuments.
The forwarder asked how to get out "peacefully and without civil war".
It promised them monuments.
The forwarder asked how to get out "peacefully and without civil war".
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