Federal agencies under Trump have been using white nationalist messages

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  Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

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  I'm Tamara Keith at Cover the White House.

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  I'm Odette Youssef.

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  I cover domestic extremism.

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  And I'm Mara Eliasson, senior national political correspondent.

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  And today on the show,

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  President Trump recently got a lot of attention for posting an overtly racist meme.

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  But researchers who specialize in extremism say it's much bigger than one errant post.

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  There's a pattern of government agencies under Trump using white nationalist messaging.

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  Odette, you have been reporting on this,

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  and I'm hoping that you can just start out by describing some of these messages and images coming from federal agencies so we can get a sense of what we're talking about here.

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  Sure, yeah.

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  So I'm going to point out just a few of the real top-line examples that have happened in the last year,

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  but this is just tip of the iceberg.

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  So in August,

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  the Department of Homeland Security posted an image to a couple of its social media accounts showing an image of Uncle Sam,

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  under the words, America needs you, join ICE now.

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  But the caption on that post read, which way American man?

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  Now, to most people, I don't think that would signal much at all.

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  Right, like, if I hadn't read your story.

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