An open letter to the U.S. Congress

Condemn White Supremacist Messaging in Official Government Communications

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I am writing to urge you to publicly condemn the use of white supremacist language and imagery in official Trump administration social media posts and to demand accountability for these communications. Multiple federal agencies have posted content incorporating phrases and symbols that experts in extremism identify as coded messaging to white nationalist groups. The White House and Department of Homeland Security posted an ICE recruitment ad with the phrase "WE'LL HAVE OUR HOME AGAIN," the title of a song written by a pro-white fraternal order and embraced by the Proud Boys. This song has been shared by hundreds of neo-Nazi accounts on Telegram since 2020, and its lyrics appeared in writings by the white supremacist who murdered three Black people in Jacksonville, Florida in 2023. After a reporter identified this connection, the Instagram post was deleted within 40 minutes. The White House posted images captioned "Which way, Greenland man?" and ICE posted "Which way, American man?" These echo the 1978 book "Which Way Western Man?" which white supremacist groups treat as foundational. According to sociologist Robert Futrell of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, this book claims Jewish people are plotting to destroy Western civilization, that Hitler was right, and that violence against Jews is justified. The Department of Labor posted a video captioned "One Homeland. One People. One Heritage," resembling the Nazi slogan "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Führer." The White House also posted the word "remigration," a European far-right concept centered on expelling nonwhite people and immigrants, which prompted tens of thousands of Germans to protest two years ago after neo-Nazis discussed implementing it. As Oren Segal of the Anti-Defamation League states, there are "two types of people to whom these messages will quickly look familiar: white supremacists, and those who study white supremacists." William Braniff of American University's Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab confirms that "when you add it all together, it's much harder to dismiss." This pattern of messaging from official government accounts is unacceptable and dangerous. I urge you to publicly denounce these communications and demand that the administration immediately cease using white supremacist language and imagery.

▶ Created on January 29 by Trans Rights Are Human Rights

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