Unpacking claim that 'one of ours, all of yours' phrase on Noem's podium is Nazi slogan

In mid-January 2026, a rumor circulated online that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security used a lectern displaying a Nazi slogan during a Jan. 8 news conference.

Users on social media platforms such as Threads (archived), Facebook (archived) and Reddit shared posts promoting the rumor along with an image claiming to show Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at a lectern displaying the following message: "One of ours, all of yours."

The rumor gained traction amid widespread focus on immigration enforcement after an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shot 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7, sparking protests and debate nationwide. 

Many Snopes readers reached out via social media and email to seek clarification on whether the slogan was authentic and actually originated with the Nazis.

The lectern at the DHS news conference did display the phrase "One of ours, all of yours," as confirmed by photographs from the credible photo repository Getty Images and a video from the news conference published by the official White House YouTube channel. 

However, we found no evidence confirming that the phrase originated verbatim in Nazi Germany, as social media posts suggested. The origin of the phrase was unclear, but it did not appear to have been used by the Trump administration or other presidential administrations before appearing on the lectern. Online searches for the origin of the phrase returned only results for more social media posts claiming it had roots in the Nazi regime, without providing further evidence. Searches of newspaper archives also found no instances of the Trump administration or other governments using the specific phrase. 

DHS denied the claim, with a spokesperson writing in an email to Snopes, "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."

The agency declined to comment on when it adopted the phrase in question or what inspired it. 

During the Jan. 8 news conference, Noem spoke broadly about immigration enforcement efforts and defended the agent who fatally shot Good. In response to a reporter's question about the incident, Noem said:  

This vehicle was used to hit this officer. It was used as a weapon and the officer feels as though his life was in jeopardy. It was used to perpetuate a violent act. This officer took action to protect himself and to protect his fellow law enforcement officers.

White House officials have said Good tried to run over the agent who shot her, though media analyses have challenged the veracity of that account.

Earlier in the news conference, Noem also expressed strong support for federal law enforcement, saying, "If you lay a finger on one of our officers, we will catch you, we will prosecute you, and you will feel the full extent of the law." 

Collective punishment

Snopes reached out to Page Herrlinger, a professor of history and chair of the department of Russian, East European and Eurasian studies at Bowdoin College, to ask about the origin of the phrase "one of ours, all of yours" and any potential connections to the Nazis. 

In an email, Herrlinger said she could not directly connect the phrase to the Nazis, but added that it "seems related to the practice (although not the explicit policy) of collective punishment used by the Nazis against their enemies" in Germany and throughout Europe. The Nazi Party employed collective punishment throughout World War II to hold entire communities accountable and retaliate against them for the death or injury of German soldiers.

Herrlinger elaborated:

Examples that come to mind: the collective retribution against Jewish communities after the murder of the Nazi official Ernst von Rath by the Jewish teenager Herschel Grynszpan in November 1938 - or the punishment of the family members of those involved in the July 1944 plot to kill Hitler (according to historian Robert Loeffel, it was related to the German practice of "Sippenhaft," which held families liable for the crimes of one of their members).

As far as I know, however, these acts of collective punishment were part of a broader system of terror in Germany, but not an explicit policy (in other words, collective retribution was used repeatedly but never codified by Nazi authorities, and this made it all the more powerful as a form of terror/repression).

One particular example of collective punishment referred to in many posts sharing the claim was that of the June 10, 1942, destruction of the village of Lidice in the the current Czech Republic (at the time under Nazi control and called the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia) in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the highest-ranking Nazi of the region. 

However, Nazi Germany was not the only government that employed collective punishment tactics. 

Other historical examples of collective punishment include the passage of the Intolerable Acts against Great Britain's Massachusetts colony in response to the Boston Tea Party in 1773, a major turning point in the relationship between the British Parliament and their 13 colonies that ultimately lead to the American Revolution. 

Historians estimate that between 1926 and 1953 — predominately under the leadership of Joseph Stalin — the Soviet Union engaged in collective punishment of perceived "class enemies," including "7-8 million arrested, with perhaps 1 million of these sentenced to death and executed in prison or later in camps," as well as the arrests and deportations of "Poles... Bessarabians... Volga Germans" and more, resulting in 20 million estimated deaths — or "13 million excluding peasants."