1. United States
2. Ohio
3. Letter

I am writing to urge you to publicly condemn the Department of Homeland Security's use of white nationalist imagery, Nazi slogans, and extremist music in its official communications and to demand immediate accountability from agency leadership. Less than two days after ICE agent Jonathan Ross fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis, DHS posted a recruitment message on Instagram featuring the song "We'll Have Our Home Again" by Pine Tree Riots. This song has been popularized in neo-Nazi spaces and contains lyrics about reclaiming "our home" by "blood or sweat," language commonly used in white nationalist calls for race war. The same lyrics opened the manifesto of Ryan Christopher Palmeter, who killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, in 2023. This is not an isolated incident. In July 2025, DHS shared an image titled "A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending" alongside the 19th-century painting American Progress, frequently cited in white nationalist and "great replacement theory" circles. In December 2025, the agency shared a meme bearing a watermark from iFunny, a platform criticized for hosting racist and extremist content. The Department of Labor also drew criticism this week for a post mirroring a Nazi slogan. Most alarmingly, when Secretary Kristi Noem spoke, a podium displayed a slogan echoing Nazi rhetoric, demonstrating that this extremist messaging has reached the highest levels of department leadership. Alice Marwick, director of research at Data & Society, noted that while extremist language was previously spread by supporters with plausible deniability, "now they're being done directly by the administration." This represents a dangerous shift where official government messaging from a federal law enforcement agency with the power to detain, deport, and use lethal force is deliberately echoing white supremacist rhetoric. I urge you to issue a public statement condemning these actions, demand the immediate removal of all such content, and call for congressional oversight hearings to investigate how white nationalist messaging became part of official DHS communications strategy.