Maine Union Boss Who Called Conservatives Nazis Just Made a Straight-Up Bolshevik Threat to Platner’s Opponents

Joe Biden called Trump supporters semi-fascists at a 2022 fundraiser and the left cheered.

Now the official spokesman for Maine's largest labor federation is fantasizing about lining his opponents up against the wall.

And he just put in writing who he wants to face the firing squad first.

The Threat Andy O'Brien Couldn't Take Back

Andy O'Brien – the communications director for the Maine AFL-CIO – posted a single line on X in response to a Democratic strategist who dared question Graham Platner's fitness for Senate.

Her crime was writing an op-ed in The Hill asking Democrats to consider whether a candidate's character matters.

O'Brien's response: "First up against the wall when the revolution comes."

That is the official spokesman for America's largest labor federation – a man whose business card says he represents 160 Maine unions and their workers – calling for the revolutionary execution of a Democrat woman who asked reasonable questions about a man accused of abuse, sexting outside his marriage on a known predator's app, and carrying a Nazi SS symbol on his body for nearly two decades.

O'Brien later claimed it was a joke – a reference to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – and apologized to anyone who was offended.

He had used the same line before, in an October Substack post defending Platner against his Nazi tattoo scandal, where he added the parenthetical "(Joke!)" after writing that DC consultants who lecture Mainers would be first up against the wall.

It wasn't a joke then either.

The Man O'Brien Is Protecting

Graham Platner is the Democrat Party's 2026 Senate nominee in Maine – their best shot at flipping a seat and retaking the Senate from Republicans.

His record: allegations from former girlfriends of arm-twisting, being locked in a room, and behavior The New York Times described as "toxic."

Sexually explicit messages exchanged with multiple women while he was married – messages his wife discovered, reported to campaign aides, and then publicly defended her husband over in a social media video.

A Nazi-symbol tattoo on his chest that he claimed he got drunk in Croatia with fellow Marines in 2007, not knowing it was the Totenkopf symbol used by SS concentration camp guards – until an ex-girlfriend told The New York Times he used to brag about it and called it "my Totenkopf."

Thousands of deleted Reddit posts where he called himself a communist, wrote that "all cops are bastards," blamed sexual assault victims, and agreed with posts calling rural white Americans "racist and stupid."

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Platner won the Democrat primary anyway.

Bernie Sanders campaigned with him.

Chuck Schumer welcomed him to DSCC headquarters in Washington for a show of party support.

And when a Democratic woman publicly asked whether his character disqualified him, the Maine AFL-CIO's answer was a firing squad joke.

The Pattern Andy O'Brien Pretended Not to See

Here is what makes O'Brien's threat particularly revealing.

Before he became Platner's most aggressive defender, O'Brien fashioned himself as Maine's amateur Nazi hunter – writing an article titled "It's time to fight back against white supremacist organizing in Maine" and lecturing readers that "unions actually help make people less racist."

He spent years condemning what he called "dehumanizing rhetoric against our Black and brown neighbors."

Then the man with the most scrutinized Nazi tattoo in American politics ran for Senate – and O'Brien became his communications enforcer.

Republicans in Maine who use heated language get denounced by O'Brien and his allies immediately.

A union communications director calls for the execution of a Democratic woman who raised reasonable questions about a candidate's character – and the left's outrage machine, in the words of one reporter, "develops laryngitis."

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What Maine Voters Now Know

The op-ed that set O'Brien off asked a question Democrats used to answer without hesitation: does party loyalty require ignoring what a candidate has done?

Its author, Laurie A. Watkins, wrote that a career spent fighting for Democratic causes does not answer that question.

She was right.

Maine voters – who a New York Times/Portland Press Herald/Siena poll found already believe Platner lacks "good character" and the "right kind of moral values" – now have something else to weigh.

His defenders are not arguing his case – they are threatening the people who question it.

Susan Collins is two points down in a race where the left just threatened to shoot its own dissenters – and Maine is watching.

Sources:

• Lucy Spence, "Union Spokesman Threatens Death By Firing Squad For Democrats Opposing Graham Platner," The Daily Caller, June 30, 2026.
• Staff, "Maine labor spokesman says Dems who buck Platner will be 'up against the wall,' calls it a joke," The Washington Times, June 30, 2026.
• Staff, "Labor Union Leader: Firing Squad for Democrats Who Break with Graham Platner," Breitbart, June 29, 2026.
• Staff, "Growing List of Controversies Threatening Democrat Graham Platner's Maine Senate Bid," Fox News, 2026.
• Staff, "Timeline of Graham Platner Controversies in Maine Senate Race," The Washington Post, June 10, 2026.