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Topic
Department of Homeland Security
Episodes · 12 months
14
Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Feb 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 0 of 3,584, 1 of 3,862, 0 of 4,115, 7 of 4,226, 5 of 4,731, 0 of 4,438, 0 of 4,230, 1 of 4,319, 0 of 4,515, 0 of 4,419, 0 of 4,624, 0 of 4,594.
All time
16
+4 via 4 narrower
On record
13
took a position
Where they standLast discussed
5mo ago
Jun 5, 2026
Where they stand
Camps of opinion · 2Positions people took on this topic in transcripts, grouped by school of thought. The bar shows each camp's share of the people sorted into a camp. It is not a poll and not a share of any audience, and people whose position fit no camp are left out of it. Within a camp, people with demonstrated expertise on the topic come first, then those who reached the most listeners on it. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Share of people placed in a camp7 people
57%
43%
- Investigate Agency Misconduct4 people · 57%
- Prioritize Agency Reopening3 people · 43%
Investigate Agency Misconduct
The Department of Homeland Security is compromised by leadership corruption, ideological bias, and systemic efforts to mislead the public.
4 people · 4 episodes
The leadership of the Department of Homeland Security is motivated by white nationalist ideology and is overseeing an administration that is actively fostering violence against black and brown people.
“So you can see these people who are absolutely determined to get rid of black and brown people from the United States and at the same time create a system of of violence against those people, of incarceration of those people, and of expulsion of those people.”
Heather Cox Richardson · Feb 2026 · 5 episodes · 2.1M views on this topic
The Department of Homeland Security is engaged in a coordinated effort to fabricate propaganda to mislead the public about events and government operations.
“And amidst all this, the Department of Homeland Security has been caught red-handed fabricating violent propaganda to justify the deployment of the military and to possibly justify the invocation of the Insurrection Act.”
MeidasTouch · Nov 2025 · 1 episode · 199K views on this topic
Richard BlumenthalUnrated
The Department of Homeland Security requires a complete overhaul and rebuilding to implement necessary reforms and ensure accountability for the agency's current lawlessness and brutality.
“My feeling is that we should demand a complete overhaul, a rebuilding of DHS and the agencies at fault here.”
MeidasTouch · Feb 2026 · 1 episode · 169K views on this topicPrioritize Agency Reopening
The Department of Homeland Security must be fully operational to protect citizens and address current national safety risks.
3 people · 2 episodes
JA
The Department of Homeland Security should be immediately reopened to ensure the safety of all Americans.
“The reality is under what like it shouldn't be a political issue. Democrats, Republicans, this is not a partisan football. This is about protecting everybody of all political stripes who live inside of this country. And I I just somehow we got to get them to see reason on this and and let let it reo”
Ruthless Podcast · Mar 2026 · 2 episodes · 156K views on this topicCS
Democrats are to blame for current safety risks because they have defunded the Department of Homeland Security.
“And again, you have to go back to Democrats have defunded DHS. This is on them. This is on them. They are putting our country, our citizens at peril over them.”
Ruthless Podcast · Mar 2026 · 2 episodes · 156K views on this topicBG
Brent GardnerUnrated
Democrats should reverse course and reopen the Department of Homeland Security to ensure national safety.
“Democrats need to reverse course on this. They need to come to the table. They need to reopen the government and they need to look for some of the solutions that Americans want.”
Ruthless Podcast · Mar 2026 · 1 episode · 90K views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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Episodes discussing this topicIncludes episodes tagged with a narrower subject. Each is marked with the subject it came in through.
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Over time
Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Aug 2020