Fact Check: Did Kristi Noem use problematic slogan ‘One of ours, all of yours’ at DHS press conference?

This story has been updated with a comment from the Department of Homeland Security.

Update: DHS spoke to Billboard regarding the slogan's usage. 

The Department of Homeland Security responded: “Calling everything you dislike ‘Nazi propaganda’ is tiresome. DHS will continue to use all tools to communicate with the American people and keep them informed on our historic effort to Make America Safe Again.”

WASHINGTON, DC: A phrase popped up on a Department of Homeland Security podium at a press conference in January 2026 and it has been making the rounds online ever since.

People are claiming it’s a problematic slogan, even calling it fascist rhetoric, 'used' by DHS Secretary Kristi Noem.

The phrase in question, 'One of ours, all of yours,' got plenty of backlash.

Claim: Kristi Noem’s podium at DHS used the slogan ‘One of ours, all of yours’

Social media posts and public figures have claimed that a controversial line, 'One of ours, all of yours' was prominently displayed on Kristi Noem’s podium during a January news conference and that it directly reflects a fascist slogan advocating collective punishment.

Noem was on the dais speaking during a press conference addressing the capture of suspects involved in the July 2025 shooting of an off-duty US Customs and Border Protection Officer in Fort Washington Park, at One World Trade Center on January 08, 2026 in New York City.

It so happened to be a day after the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent during a confrontation in Minneapolis. In the conference, Noem addressed the Trump administration's ongoing immigration enforcement efforts in New York City.

Footage and Getty Images photos from the conference show the slogan 'One of ours, all of yours' on Noem's podium.

Among the most vocal critics was Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello. He has accused the Trump administration of saying the alleged problematic slogan during a Department of Homeland Security press conference. Morello shared a post on Instagram that features a photo of him holding a guitar and a photo of Noem standing at the podium.

Fact Check: Partially true

While a number of online posts and photos show the phrase 'One of ours, all of yours' printed on the podium of Secretary Noem during a DHS briefing on immigration enforcement, right after the fatal ICE shooting of Renee Good.

It is important to note that Morello alleged that 'Trump admin quoted (verbatim) the slogan." However, Noem actually did not say those words. The slogan was printed on the podium as a visual element

While critics like Morello have labeled the phrase a 'mass murder slogan,' historians and fact-checking reports do not confirm that 'One of ours, all of yours' was an actual slogan used by Germany in written propaganda or orders.

The phrase is often linked rhetorically to historical practices of collective punishment, such as reprisals after the 1942 Lidice massacre, where the destruction of an entire village and mass killings followed the assassination of an officer and framed as one German life justifying annihilation of "all of yours". But there is no record of the exact English wording appearing in the German speeches.

The search for the same has surged because it's being applied to contemporary political rhetoric (eg, criticisms of figures like Kristi Noem or Trump administration statements perceived as embracing far-right themes). 

The debate now centers on interpretation and historical parallels, not whether the text was physically there. This has fueled viral discussions labeling it authoritarian or worse, with DHS downplaying it as solidarity messaging.