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Libs of TikTok's Chaya Raichik doxxes, harasses supporters of Alex Pretti, Renee Good

The far-right activist is sharing the names and photos of supporters and calling on their employers to fire them, a new Media Matters report documents.

Memorial to Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis

Memorial to Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis

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Chaya Raichik, the far-right activist behind Libs of TikTok, is doxxing people who criticize immigration authorities or express sympathy for Renee Nicole Good or Alex Pretti, the Minneapolis residents recently killed by federal agents, says a new report from Media Matters for America.

“Raichik’s strategy seems to be emboldened by the series of mass firings that occurred after Charlie Kirk’s assassination,” Media Matters’ Olivia Little writes. “She is spamming social media with details about individuals who have criticized [Immigration and Customs Enforcement] or spoken positively about Pretti — including their name, photo, and employer — in a seeming attempt to punish them, either by public harassment or professional retaliation.”


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For instance, Rhode Island teacher posted on social media, “May the courage we have all witnessed in everyday heroes like Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good and the people of Minnesota inspire us to be courageous where we live.” Raichik posted the teacher’s photo with the comment that Pretti and Good were trying to kill federal agents (they weren’t) and tagged her school. Raichik also wrote, “Are parents aware and OK with this person promoting violence teaching their kids?”

She shared a fellow right-winger’s post criticizing another teacher for being in an anti-ICE Signal chat group. She again shared the teacher’s photo and tagged the school, writing, “Do parents know that the person teaching their kids is on an anti-ICE resistance group chat which coordinates the doxxing and harassment of federal agents? Do you condone these actions?” The original post had noted that the teacher is gay and uses he/they pronouns and asked, “Would you feel comfortable with him teaching your kids?”

Raichik urged the North Carolina Board of Nursing to revoke a nurse’s license after he posted that the agents who put Pretti in harm’s way “better pray they never end up in a hospital, the nurses won’t be kind.” (Pretti was a nurse.) He included a laughing emoji, but Raichik took the comment seriously. She tagged his hospital and the nursing board, saying “This sounds like a threat against ICE agents. How can this person be trusted to care for people with opposing political views.”

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She also targeted a Maine school board member looking for whistles, which protesters use to alert residents to the presence of ICE or Border Patrol agents, and a Cincinnati bakery selling cookies inscribed with anti-ICE slogans.

“Public sentiment is overwhelmingly on the side of the individuals Raichik is doxxing, but she continues her campaign of harassment regardless,” Little concludes.

Raichik responded with a post on X, falsely claiming that the people she's harassing "advocate for violence."

Additionally, after Pretti’s and Good’s deaths, several right-wing media figures have tried to justify the killings. White supremacist Nick Fuentes, who like Raichik has dined with Donald Trump, called them “race traitors,” notes a Media Matters roundup, and he added, “One less asshole in the world. One less traitor in the world.”

Megyn Kelly said she wasn’t shot by Border Patrol, as Pretti was, “because I kept my ass inside and out of their operations.” She remarked, “I know I’m supposed to feel sorry for Alex Pretti, but I don’t.”

Steven Crowder called Good and Pretti “extremists who want to martyr themselves” and claimed the American people voted in support of operations like those ICE and Border Patrol are carrying out. In fact, many people are outraged by the brutality of these operations.

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Matt Walsh said Pretti “was part of an organized campaign to legally obstruct law enforcement operations on behalf of open borders communists who want to destroy the country. He was a domestic terrorist dressed in the same color scheme as Border Patrol agents who did exactly what he set out to do.”

Some also criticized Pretti for carrying a gun, for which he had a permit, even though right-wingers and the Republican Party as a whole have staunchly supported gun rights. “These are the types of things that happen, unfortunately and sadly, when you bring a loaded gun to a dangerous immigration raid, confront agents, and resist arrest,” Fox News host Jesse Watters said. Pretti did not threaten agents with the gun — he had a cell phone in one hand, and his other hand was empty — and he had been pushed to the ground when agents shot him.

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