In January 2026, New Hampshire State Rep. Matt Sabourin dit Choinière invited a convicted Holocaust denier — Germar Rudolf, a German activist with a criminal record in both Germany and the United States — to testify before a state education commission hearing. Rudolf has spent decades claiming, despite overwhelming evidence, that the Nazi gas chambers never existed. He has no place in a conversation about how we teach children the history of the Holocaust.

This wasn't a mistake or a misunderstanding. Sabourin dit Choinière proposed a formal amendment to add Rudolf's extremist organization to New Hampshire's Commission on Holocaust and Genocide Education — a nonpartisan body that helps public schools develop lesson plans on one of the darkest chapters in human history. The amendment failed, but the damage was real: Holocaust deniers called the hearing a "breakthrough" for their movement.

What happened next is just as troubling. Sabourin dit Choinière has faced no formal consequences from Republican leadership in New Hampshire. On Holocaust Remembrance Day, he posted a photo of himself presenting the amendment and called it being "ahead of our time."

Prominent conservatives — including Sen. Ted Cruz and former Trump deputy FBI director Dan Bongino — have spoken out against the rise of antisemitism on the political right, with Bongino calling it a "cancer" on the MAGA movement. But words aren't enough. Elected officials who use their platforms to legitimize Holocaust denial must face real accountability.

We are calling on New Hampshire Republican leadership and House Speaker Sherman Packard to formally censure Rep. Sabourin dit Choinière and make clear that elected officials who platform antisemitic extremists will face consequences — not silence.

History is not up for debate. Six million Jewish people were murdered in the Holocaust. That is not a conspiracy theory. It is fact. And our public schools deserve leaders who will protect that truth, not undermine it.