Wow...

I wish I were exaggerating, but this is serious.

This post contains blatant, unmistakable references to well-known Nazi symbolism. And no - this isn't satire. It didn't come from an anonymous meme account or a fringe group.

It came directly from the official Department of Homeland Security (
@DHSgov
) account. Yes, the tweet is real - and that makes it deeply alarming.

Why do I say that?

The caption in the tweet:

"A Heritage to be proud of, a Homeland worth Defending"

contains exactly 14 words, a direct mirror of one of the most infamous slogans in white supremacist history:

"We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."

This phrase, known as the "14 Words" was coined by David Lane, a member of The Order (also called the Silent Brotherhood) - a white nationalist terrorist group active in the U.S. during the 1980s.

Lane was convicted for his role in the 1984 assassination of Jewish radio host Alan Berg, as well as numerous federal crimes, and was sentenced to 190 years in prison, where he died in 2007.

His slogan became a cornerstone of white nationalist ideology, widely circulated across hate groups, forums, tattoos, graffiti, and coded speech. Another version - Lane's so-called "second 14 words" - reads:

"Because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth."