White supremacist group’s slogan waved at Trump event

At a campaign event last week for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate JD Vance, attendees waved placards emblazoned with a slogan that is also used by a notorious white supremacist group. Meanwhile, anti-drag and anti-LGBTQ hate sees a resurgence this week, and a new report shows extremists and conspiracy theorists spinning up lies in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
It’s the week in extremism, from USA TODAY.
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.
America’s far-right spent much of 2022 and 2023 uniting in opposition to the LGBTQ+ community, particularly by targeting drag shows and the people who attend and perform in them. This trend had shown signs of easing off in 2024, but new incidents show far-right extremists have not given up on this line of attack.
Social media has been inundated with conspiracy theories and disinformation about the major hurricanes that hit Florida recently. Much of that disinformation has been spread by extremists, according to a new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue.
That’s how many instances of online hate against South-Asians were identified by researchers from Moonshot, a research group that monitors extremist activity, in August on websites frequented by domestic violent extremists. 
That’s double the amount from January 2023, according to a report from Moonshot and the organization Stop AAPI Hate.
The analysis notes that anti-South Asian slurs spiked in August 2024 amid the political ascendance of two South Asian political figures: Kamala Harris (the 2024 Democratic nominee for U.S. President) and Usha Vance (the wife of J.D. Vance, the 2024 Republican nominee for Vice President).