By Tim Reid and Bianca Flowers WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Three separate controversies involving leaked text messages from private online group chats have rocked U.S. political circles this month, revealing racist,

Carley Shimkus and Paul Mauro break down the Maine Senate race dividing the Democratic Party and the FBI’s multi-pronged NBA gambling case.

Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner covered up a tattoo on his chest that resembled a Nazi symbol, a spokesperson for Platner’s campaign confirmed to NBC News.

In the private text messages, Ingrassia, a MAGA attorney and podcaster, said he has a “Nazi streak,” and that he believes Martin Luther King Jr. Day ought to be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell.” He also called for an end to other holidays that celebrate Black history, which he referred to using an Italian slur for Black people.

The Cornell Daily Sun retracted an opinion piece by professor Karim-Aly Kassam after his artwork was criticized as antisemitic by some readers.

The song in the video, MGMT’s “Little Dark Age,” was released in 2018, though it’s been slowed down to an absurd degree. And while nothing in the song suggests sympathy with far-right ideology (quite the opposite, in fact), the song was adopted by far-right content creators in late 2020 to pair with Nazi and white supremacist imagery.

Three men serving life sentences in the California prison system, two of whom have visible Nazi face tattoos, are accused of attacking and killing another inmate at Salinas Valley State Prison in Monterey County.

Podcast co-host Jennifer Welch called White House deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller a 'Nazi Jew' during an interview with CNN's Abby Phillip.