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Iowa Dem admits being ‘uncomfortable’ with whiteness as she seeks to flip competitive House seat
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FIRST ON FOX — A Democrat running for Congress in Iowa admitted to feeling «uncomfortable» by the whiteness of her hometown in Minnesota after returning from a stay in New Mexico years ago.
Sarah Trone Garriott, 47, who is running unopposed in the Democratic primary for one of the most competitive congressional districts in the country, is coming under fire for her comments as she seeks to unseat incumbent Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa.
«Yeah, I remember the first time I came back to northern Minnesota to visit, and I was kind of shocked at how many white people there were,» Trone Garriott recalled of the area of the U.S. where she grew up in a resurfaced podcast episode released nearly a decade ago.
«The feeling was very different. I was like ‘whoa,’ and again I was uncomfortable in a different way,» she added.
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State Senator Sarah Trone Garriott, a Democrat from Iowa and U.S. congressional candidate, works behind the counter at the West Des Moines United Methodist stand during the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, US, on Wednesday, Aug. 13, 2025. (Scott Morgan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
About 78% of Iowa’s third congressional district that Trone Garriott wants to represent in Congress is white, according to a breakdown by DataUSA.
Republicans argue the candidate’s past and recent comments are out of step with the district’s demographics.
«Every time Sarah Trone Garriott’s handlers let her loose, the wicked witch of woke finds a new way to insult Iowans,» Zach Kraft, a spokesperson for the Republican National Committee, said.
«We haven’t even reached the general election yet, and she has already managed to call nearly every person in the state racist, sexist, and bigoted,» he added.
Trone Garriott’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment on previous remarks. Nunn’s campaign also did not respond when reached about his competitor’s comments.
According to the Cook Political Report, Iowa’s 3rd congressional district is among the 16 «toss-up» races in the 2026 midterms, with a slight R+2 lean.
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State Senator Sarah Trone Garriott, a Democrat from Iowa and U.S. congressional candidate, right, greets attendees at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa, on Aug. 13, 2025. (Scott Morgan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Nine years after Trone Garriott recorded the podcast interview, her comments highlight a wariness of homogeneity and underscore the candidate’s belief that representation should be tied to demographics.
In a separate interview with the University of Iowa in 2022, Trone Garriott hinted at support for demographic mandates and quotas for positions within the government, like those she learned about after meeting with legislators from Kosovo.
«They actually have quotas, and I know that’s a dirty word for some people, but they have requirements of how many people from different ethnic backgrounds, religious minorities — and gender balance is part of their structure,» Trone Garriott said of the Balkan nation.
«And so, there’s kind of a preference for those folks that are underrepresented to be in government. Which I think is really important to bring those voices out,» she added.
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State Sen. and candidate for Iowa’s 3rd congressional district Sarah Trone Garriott speaks during the Polk County Democrats’ spring dinner on April 7, 2026, in Des Moines. (Cody Scanlan/USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
Trone Garriott was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After earning her undergraduate degree in Duluth, Minnesota, she went on to obtain a Master of Theological Studies from the Harvard Divinity School, and a Master of Divinity from the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
She worked as a volunteer with the anti-poverty program under AmeriCorps VISTA in New Mexico — where she was apparently awoken to the ‘whiteness’ of her Minnesotan hometown.
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Trone Garriott began her career as an ordained minister for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), spending time in ministry in Pennsylvania, Chicago, Virginia and finally Iowa.
From there, Trone Garriott embarked on a political career in the Iowa State Senate, where she has served since 2021. She announced a bid last year to unseat Rep. Nunn in the state’s third congressional district.
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WATCH: Smithsonian director admits she sees history as ‘tool’ of ‘social justice’ in resurfaced 2025 clip
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After an explosive series of congressional hearings on alleged woke «ideological capture» at the Smithsonian, a resurfaced video of a presentation by National Museum of American History Director Anthea Hartig shows her calling «history as a practice» a «prime tool of social justice.»
In a series of July hearings on Capitol Hill, Hartig defended the Smithsonian’s record of objectivity and nonpartisanship. However, in a resurfaced presentation to University of California, Los Angeles students in February 2025, Hartig described «a number of ways in which your National Museum of American History is taking an equity-based, justice forward, community driven and necessarily humble approach to public history and to service.»
Later in her presentation, Hartig asserted that the «United States’ long and violent racial history continues to be present in our reckoning, if you will.»
She said that «redress in the form of reparation, of course, goes beyond acknowledgement of wrongdoing; it should leverage responsibility, it should think about the act of correction, as we pursue restorative justice and, for us [on the call], restorative justice through history.»
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From left, Anthea Hartig, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, Mike Gonzalez, Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow, The Heritage Foundation, and Matthew Spalding, professor in constitutional government and dean of Hillsdale College’s Van Andel Graduate School of Government, testify during the House Oversight and Government Reform Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee hearing titled «Rewriting American History: Examining the Smithsonian’s Efforts to Reshape the Past,» in Rayburn building on Tuesday, July 21, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
During her testimony on Capitol Hill last month, Hartig stated: «Our work is governed by the Smithsonian standards of scholarship, accuracy, independence and nonpartisanship.» She said, «the museum does not take sides in America’s political debates,» but instead, «We preserve and document the evidence of American life in all of its breadth, so that the public can encounter the past and draw their own conclusions.»
However, in her presentation to UCLA, she asserted that «history as a practice … is for me a prime tool of social justice.»
Hartig began her talk with a land acknowledgement and a slide showing a picture of an American flag defaced with words that appeared to read «Defund the Police.» Her caption said the photo was from a Black Lives Matter protest in Washington, D.C., in 2020. Another photo Hartig showed later in the presentation depicted a protester holding a sign that read, «America loving you is complicated.»
She remarked that the museum opened in 1964 as «this kind of Cold War, you know, ‘We’re going to be the best and most technologically advanced country in the nation, and we’re going to show everyone how we did that’ … We clearly have moved away from that.»
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The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History is being called out for being «ideologically captured» and presenting woke revisionist history on the weekend of America’s 250th birthday. (Kevin Carter)
Instead, Hartig highlighted what she called the museum’s «bold new vision» to become the «most accessible, inclusive, relevant, and sustainable public history institution in the country.» This, the vision states, will allow the museum to «serve an audience that reflects the full racial, class, gender, ethnic, and geographic demographics of the United States.»
To this end, Hartig said the museum «joined a very collaborative Smithsonian-wide collecting effort around Black Lives Matter … to document and preserve and share objects focused on Black Lives Matter to show the history of the movement starting in 2012.»
She shared a picture of protest signs outside the White House from the summer of 2020 and spoke highly of «these phenomenal, ephemeral statements, signs … expressing that kind of very heartfelt and incredibly poignant [message].»
Hartig also praised an anti-ICE organization called «Tsuru for Solidarity» as a «truly remarkable group,» highlighting its collaboration with the Black Lives Matter movement.
According to its website, Tsuru for Solidarity is a «nonviolent, direct action project of Japanese American social justice advocates and allies working to end detention sites and support directly impacted immigrant and refugee communities that are being targeted by racist, inhumane immigration policies.» Its website also states, «We stand on the moral authority of Japanese Americans who suffered the atrocities and legacy of U.S. concentration camps during WWII and we say, ‘Stop Repeating History!’»
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Activists burn a U.S. flag at Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House July 4, 2020, in Washington, D.C. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Besides the Black Lives Matter initiative, Hartig said the museum is pursuing a «proactive multilingual strategy to support language justice.»
She explained that «the idea, of course, [is] that everyone has the right to communicate in the language in which they feel most comfortable to be understood and to understand.»
To this end, she said that since the fall of 2019, «all exhibitions and signage and digital projects will be at least bilingual in English and Spanish and a number of them in more languages depending on the project and communities of origin.»
Hartig asserted, «We’re under attack for speaking complicated truths» and urged students to «raise your voices and speak them together.»
She said, «It continues to grow resolute in my mind, [history] is the key that unlocks the mysteries of humanity, of meaning, of place, of conquest, of love, power, authority and self.»
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«We are tellers of stories and seekers of truths, hopefully embracers of nuance, ambassadors of empathy and defenders of inalienable rights,» she said.
Fox News Digital reached out to the National Museum of American History, the Smithsonian Institution, Black Lives Matter and Tsuru for Solidarity for comment.
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El papa León XIV visitará la Argentina en noviembre: estará en Buenos Aires, Córdoba y Luján
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La última visita de un Papa a la Argentina
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El papa León XIV confirmó que visitará la Argentina del 8 al 11 de noviembre, en una histórica gira. La noticia la anunció la Santa Sede, que la difundió luego de una fuerte expectativa tras el anuncio de su viaje a Perú, del 11 al 17 de noviembre.
León XIV realizará un Viaje Apostólico a Uruguay, Argentina y Perú del 6 al 17 de noviembre. El jefe de la Iglesia Católica aceptó la invitación de los respectivos Jefes de Estado y de las Autoridades eclesiásticas de esos países.
El papa visitará Montevideo, Paysandú y Florida del 6 al 8 de noviembre; Buenos Aires, Córdoba y Luján del 8 al 11 de noviembre; y Lima, Chiclayo, Cuzco y Pucallpa del 11 al 17 de noviembre. Todavía se mantiene en reserva el programa del viaje, que desde la Iglesia aclararon que “se dará a conocer a su debido tiempo”.
El Gobierno celebró la confirmación de la visita del papa León XIV a la Argentina
El canciller Pablo Quirno celebró en su cuenta de X la confirmación de la visita del papa León XIV a la Argentina: “Hace algunos meses tuve el honor de entregar personalmente al Santo Padre la invitación del Presidente de la Nación para visitar la Argentina. Hoy recibimos con enorme alegría la confirmación de esa Visita Apostólica. El Papa León visitará Argentina del 8 al 11 de Noviembre. Continuaremos trabajando junto a la Santa Sede para que sea una visita histórica para todos los argentinos”.
El viaje a Perú
Días atrás el presidente interino de Perú, José María Balcázar, había anunciado que León XIV, que tiene nacionalidad peruana, llegaría al país en la primera quincena de noviembre en una visita que duraría al menos ocho días.
“En la primera quincena de noviembre estará en Perú, llega a Lima” y luego irá a otras ciudades entre las que figura Chiclayo, donde el papa ejerció como obispo, declaró el presidente peruano a la radio RPP.
La visita del sumo pontífice está en preparación “y se está hablando de ocho a diez días de duración”, agregó el gobernante.
El papa León XIV nació en Chicago, Estados Unidos, pero se nacionalizó peruano en 2015. Robert Francis Prevost trabajó durante más de 20 años en ese país como misionero y obispo de Chiclayo.
Perú, con 34 millones de habitantes, es uno de los países más católicos de la región. Más del 80% de su población practica esa religión. Ha sido visitado por los papas Juan Pablo II (1985 y 1988) y Francisco (2018).
Entusiasmo de Milei por el viaje del papá
El presidente Javier Milei se venía mostrando muy entusiasmado con la posibilidad de que el papa León XIV visite el país, algo que no lograron ni Cristina Kirchner, ni Mauricio Macri, ni Alberto Fernández con el papa Francisco.
En perfecta sintonía con su jefe, el canciller Pablo Quirno le entregó en mano al pontífice hace un par de meses la carta de invitación de rigor, trámite que bien podría haber cumplido el embajador ante la Santa Sede. Hasta escribió días pasados un insólito tuit en el que “anticipa”, simpáticamente, la supuesta concreción de la visita antes de fin de año, causando perplejidad en la Secretaría de Estado del Vaticano, que es la que anuncia los viajes papales.
Tanto entusiasmo no se corresponde con la enorme brecha de muchas de las posturas que enarbola el presidente con las del catolicismo en general y de los últimos papas en particular. Con solo mencionar sus diferencias con la Doctrina Social de la Iglesia —como buen libertario— alcanza, comenzando por su rechazo al concepto de justicia social (aunque tiene una coincidencia no menor en la condena al aborto). Diferencias que fueron más manifiestas durante el papado de Francisco por el perfil del argentino, que lo llevaron a calificarlo de “comunista”.
El presidente Javier Milei y el papa León XIV. (Fotos: Reuters / AP)
En los últimos meses, Milei sumó otra diferencia no menor: su posición respecto de la utilización de la inteligencia artificial (IA). Sobre todo, su oposición a la regulación de la IA, como lo expuso en un reciente artículo en el diario británico Financial Times, al expresar su deseo de que el país se convierta en un polo de innovación tecnológica con mínima intervención estatal. Allí manifiesta su “compromiso” de no regularla “para que pueda desarrollarse libremente, sin la mano mortal de una regulación prematura y mal comprendida”.
Su toma de posición —previsible— se produjo poco después de que el papa León XIV difundiera su primera encíclica, Magnifica Humanitas (Magnifica Humanidad), en la que ya en los primeros párrafos aboga por una regulación de la inteligencia artificial. “Es necesario adoptar instrumentos normativos adecuados, capaces de salvaguardar la justicia y de contener los efectos distorsionados del poder tecnológico”, afirma. No obstante, aclara que “la cuestión no se limita a la regulación”, sino a otros aspectos como la educación.
León XIV es claro en cuanto a los beneficios y los riesgos tecnológicos. “La tecnología puede curar, conectar, educar, cuidar la Casa Común, pero también puede dividir, descartar, generar nuevas injusticias. En abstracto, en sí misma, no es una solución a los problemas de la humanidad, como tampoco es en sí misma un mal, pero no es neutral, porque toma el rostro de quien la concibe, la financia, la regula, la utiliza”. En definitiva, celebra los avances, pero alerta ante el peligro de la deshumanización.
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