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![Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_1031-wild-faith-400x300.jpg)
The Right Is Crafting Its Own Horror Story to Cast “Others” as Monsters
Author Talia Lavin discusses the legacy of the Satanic Panic and how right-wing superstitions fuel conspiracy theories.
![Former President Bill Clinton speaks during a Get-Out-The-Vote rally for Vice President and Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris on the first day of North Carolina early voting in Durham, North Carolina, on October 17, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_1031-bill-clinton-400x300.jpg)
Bill Clinton Sparks Outrage for Racist Comments on Gaza at Harris Rally
While rallying support for Kamala Harris, Clinton echoed some of Israel’s most eliminationist talking points.
![Border patrol agents talk to a group of migrant people, mostly from African countries, before processing them after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border, taken from Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico, on November 11, 2022.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_1031-borderpatrol-400x300.jpg)
ICE Has Secretly Been Recording Inaccurate Data, Hiding Racial Disparities
Records obtained by immigration advocates show Homeland Security falsely claimed not to collect racial data.
![Elon Musk awards Kristine Fishell with a $1 million check during the town hall at the Roxain Theater on October 20, 2024, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_1031-musk-400x300.jpg)
Elon Musk Attempts to Delay “Lottery” Scheme Lawsuit, Move It to Federal Court
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner has alleged that Musk's daily $1 million giveaway is an illegal lottery.
![UN Special Rapporteur Recommends Unseating Israel From UN Over Genocide in Gaza](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/Seg1-albanesegaza-400x300.jpg)
UN Special Rapporteur Recommends Unseating Israel From UN Over Genocide in Gaza
Francesca Albanese warns Israel’s continued impunity “is the nail in the coffin of the UN Charter.”
![Harvard professors hold a silent study session in the university’s central library on October 16, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/Truthout-Photo-1-Cover-Image-400x300.jpg)
Harvard “Embraces Diversity” on Day of the Dead, Unless the Dead Are Palestinian
I have been suspended from Harvard’s library for silently supporting students who protested about Palestine and Lebanon.
![Sendy Hernández Orellana Barrows, conservation program manager for the Council of Mexican Federations (COFEM), and Colin Barrows, a member of the CactusToCloud Institute, hike through a slot canyon in the the Ladder Canyon trail at Painted Canyon located in the Mecca Hills Wilderness near Mecca on October 13, 2022. Local organizations are working together to establish a new national monument in the Chuckwalla Valley, south of Joshua Tree National Park. The proposed Chuckwalla National Monument would protect important historical lands, cultural resources and biodiverse species.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_1031-chuckwalla-400x300.jpg)
Native Tribes Call for 3 New National Monuments to Protect Land From Extraction
Indigenous advocates say the Biden administration approving the protections would be “a first step” toward land back.
![Speaker of the House Mike Johnson speaks to supporters of former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, at a Trump Force 47 campaign office in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on October 28, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_1031-mike-johnson-400x300.jpg)
Speaker Mike Johnson Suggests Republicans Will “Reform” ACA Out of Existence
The Affordable Care Act is very popular, with three in five Americans rating it favorably, according to a recent poll.
![Immigration advocates and allies gather at Battery Park to launch an 18-day march to Washington, D.C. as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, Temporary Protected Status (TPS) holders and allies begin a 230-mile walk to continue building national support and awareness, on October 26, 2019, in New York.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_1031-dreamers-400x300.jpg)
Court Challenge Could Get in the Way of “Dreamers” Enrolling in ACA Plans
Nineteen states aim to stall a rule to allow recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program to enroll.
![Zachari Barnes, a freshman from Baltimore, scans a QR code in order to complete his voter registration on October 29, 2024.](https://truthout.org/app/uploads/2024/10/2024_1031-register-400x300.jpg)
Disabled People Still Face Barriers to Online Voter Registration in Most States
Shortcomings in web accessibility and other obstacles may disenfranchise 40.2 million eligible disabled US voters.