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He’s Got $250 Million to Spend on Communist Revolution
Fergie Chambers, né James, at his home in New Hampshire this past summer. (Jacob Kander for The Free Press)
Fergie Chambers is heir to one of the biggest American family fortunes. He’s also a revolutionary with ‘actual bloodlust’ building a mysterious commune in Massachusetts. His neighbors are scared.
By Suzy Weiss
12.04.23 — U.S. Politics
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Nestled into the mountains of the Upper Valley in New Hampshire, up a semi-paved road in a house next to a tiny cemetery lined with white picket fencing, Fergie Chambers, 38, leans over his kitchen island, worrying over his commune. 

“It feels like we’re throwing the same half-assed solutions at this over and over again and hoping it will yield something…

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Suzy Weiss

Suzy Weiss is a reporter and producer for The Free Press. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.

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