🧩 BND Motif Index · M824
America First
Citizens before foreigners, in jobs, schools and aid, and a foreign policy run on the nation's hard interests alone, not on spreading democracy or protecting other peoples: make it easier for American citizens, we shouldn't be educating the citizens of other countries; the unapologetic pursuit of national power.
- 4claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 3right shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 DHS proposes $70,000 fee for foreign students to work in US 2026-10-07 to 2026-10-09
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-27 “Trump's pursuit of leverage benefits the American people.”
🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show 🎙️ Pod Save America - 2026-10-24 “The United States is pursuing an unapologetic pursuit of national power to protect its interests.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-23 “J.D. Vance can win by focusing on America First interests rather than expressing devotion to Israel.”
🎙️ The Megyn Kelly Show - 2026-10-08 “The Department of Homeland Security proposed a $70,000 fee for international students seeking to work in the United States.” 🧶 people online
M824 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works