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At a Trump/Vance campaign rally in Saginaw, Michigan, late last week, attendees held up placards bearing the slogan “Reclaim America.” That’s the main slogan of the Texas-headquartered white supremacist hate group Patriot Front, which took to social media to question whether the signs were a tacit endorsement.

• Video from the event shows Trump supporters waving placards with the “Reclaim America” slogan behind the speakers.
• Patriot Front, which specializes in spreading white supremacist propaganda and holding events where chino-clad masked men march around chanting and waving flags, portrays itself as a protector of “European heritage.” Leaks and infiltration of the group have revealed it is a hardcore racist neo–Nazi organization.
• Members of Patriot Front have been charged with conspiracy to riot and the organization is being sued in at least two high-profile cases.
• This week, the official Patriot Front Telegram channel proudly announced the Trump campaign had “adopted” the reclaim America slogan, posting: “The phrase "Reclaim America" is a well-known slogan of Patriot Front. It remains unclear whether the Trump campaign is aware of this connection and PF's use of the phrase, especially since a simple Google search of the slogan will return a plethora of results featuring the organization.”
• The Trump/Vance campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

Foreign policy rarely matters much in US presidential elections, but this year could be an exception. In a contest likely to be decided by small margins in a handful of states, the fallout from the conflicts in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, with a potential war with Iran looming, could have a significant impact on Kamala Harris’s prospects.

On the other side of the coin, the outcome of the election on 5 November will affect the Middle East in unpredictable but potentially momentous ways. Despite the clear limits on Washington’s ability to control Israel, its closest partner, the US remains by far the most influential external power in the region.

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U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Thursday agreed to unseal additional filings from special counsel Jack Smith laying out his election interference case against former President Trump, something Trump’s attorneys signaled they plan to challenge.

Chutkan agreed to a request from Smith to unseal exhibits that accompany his 180-page brief asserting that prosecutors can still bring much of their Jan. 6 case against Trump in the wake of a Supreme Court decision granting former presidents broad criminal immunity.

A battleground county in north-eastern Pennsylvania will have ballot drop boxes this fall after its county manager faced pressure and reversed her decision to eliminate them.

The announcement on Friday came less than a month after Romilda Crocamo, the county manager in Luzerne county, said she was getting rid of the county’s four drop boxes over concerns the county could not secure them. “I cannot secure the drop boxes. And, you know, sometimes I have to make difficult decisions,” she said in an interview last month.

But voting rights groups sued Crocamo last week, saying she could not unilaterally get rid of the drop boxes.

Carter-Goodheart said the comment from the sitting lawmaker - to go back to where she came from - was painful to hear, but on par with her experience as a native woman in Idaho.

“It touches upon all aspects of my identity, my ancestry, my culture, my daily life,” she said. “It's like constantly being reminded that people see me as an ‘other,’ that my culture and my history is undervalued and that my existence is politicized.”

“I'm still processing it,” she added. “I'm absolutely shocked and floored that he became so unraveled.”

“If he had just the emotional intelligence to say, to just stop what he was saying to restrain himself, we could have had an amazing dialog about racism today,” Carter-Goodheart said. “He missed that moment for education and growth.”

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