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Jon Herold breaks down the DOJ charging two former senior FBI officials, Nikki Cole Flores and Bradley Benavidez, with lying to Congress about the Foreign Influence Task Force's role in the Hunter Biden investigations, including Flores' message that she was 'basically running a shadow government' across the FBI. Jon explains why lying-to-Congress cases in front of a DC jury feel like low-hanging f...

Frankie Val celebrates Jay Gulinello's birthday and brings Jim Lee of ClimateViewer back on to put the week's big cyber news into plain English. With governments and intelligence agencies telling websites to patch or shut down, Jim walks through how AI tools like Claude Mythos are finding critical holes in code used everywhere, including a 10.0 severity GitLab flaw going back to 2014, and what a c...

President Trump takes the stage in Sioux City, Iowa, to rally for Ashley Hinson in the Senate race days before the midterm election. Trump goes after Minnesota's leadership and a memo telling illegal alien criminals how to evade capture, touts his tax cuts and the end of the death tax for family farms, and talks up most favored nation deals that he says brought the lowest drug prices. He covers th...

JB White checks in from Orange Park, tired but fired up, with a Friday show on Ukraine, the CIA and the fight for discernment heading into the midterms. JB pushes back on the idea that Ukraine has given America nothing, pointing to the Army Transformation Initiative, small drones at every level, and a war game where Ukrainian drone operators took out most of an American tank brigade. He argues the...

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week on the anniversary of the Beirut barracks bombing, with a salute to the Marines of 1/8 before getting into the news. The guys dig into the Russia and Ukraine seesaw, the history of Tsar Alexander II backing Lincoln while England and France worked to break up the Union, and the Fox and Friends meltdown over JD Vance refusing to get involved in Israel's elec...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior trade war stories and Marine Corps memories on episode 172 of SITREP, opening with a tribute to the men who never came home and a reminder that freedom is protected by blood, not paper. It starts light, with a day of dump runs and CannCon's story of hauling roofing debris after a hurricane in a heavy-duty truck and trailer filled to the brim. From there the conversation g...

Matt McDonagh is back for episode four of Life in the Singularity, and this week he pulls back the curtain on the difference between a model and the harness built around it. He explains why the model is probabilistic while the harness is deterministic, how guardrails keep outputs in bounds, and when it actually makes sense to fine-tune a model instead of leaning on the big general ones. From there...

Ashe in America and CannCon continue The Creature From Jekyll Island with Chapter 19, Greenbacks and Other Crimes. G. Edward Griffin argues the Civil War was driven by economic and political interests more than the question of slavery, and walks through how both the Union and the Confederacy paid for the war with fiat money. The crew covers Lincoln's greenbacks and why the bankers hated them, Conf...

The Department of Justice and FBI Director Kash Patel announce a newly unsealed RICO indictment against Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas, along with relatives and associates accused of cashing in on legislation, access and influence. The First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia lays out the charges: an alleged criminal enterprise operating in plain sight, narcotics and...

Jon Herold breaks down the federal racketeering and money laundering case against Virginia State Senator L. Louise Lucas, 82, charged along with her daughters over a cannabis business. Jon reads the indictment, from a police chief warning her to stop selling marijuana to claims she used her office to push legislation that benefited the family enterprise, and asks why the case predates the Trump ad...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior team up for the Thursday Badlands Daily, after a rocky start with Alpha's audio cutting out. First up is the Treasury memo on the Biden investigation and the Blue Star Strategies Ukraine story, then the Social Security Administration database and how it is being used to check voter rolls. From there the hosts cover Liz Harris and the Maricopa canvass, Judge Carter and the...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright dig into industrial complex, decode industrial and Ukraine war. First up, the talk turns to red line, with State Department, Canada and Donald Trump in the mix. Then the crew gets into longer trusts, with Democrats, Donald Trump and Atlantic in the mix. From there, it's on to mouth open, with Polymarket and Data Republican in the mix. Later, the conversation moves to...

Shipwreck opens the night with a Halloween baking update, the struggle of royal icing, half-finished witch hat cookies, and a Sam's Club membership tip. Then it's into the week's online drama: a researcher's unaired Sean Ryan Show interview, Sean Ryan's explanation of why he shelved it, and why Shipwreck still values sources who show their work even when she doesn't agree with them. Next up is a p...

Steve Kwast, joined by co-hosts Mindy and Ashe in America, opens a new series on Space Revolution about the most important preparation for the future: understanding human nature, human purpose and our interior life before new technology reshapes the world. Mindy frames the big questions. How do we build a society grounded in love, service, relationships and meaningful effort? How do we use technol...

President Trump heads to Pendleton, South Carolina, to rally for Darlene Graham, sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, 13 days out from the election. Trump praises Lindsey and his respect for Darlene, then goes after her opponent Annie Andrews on transgender policy, guns, the Supreme Court and policing. He urges the crowd to vote early, shouts out Evander Holyfield in the crowd, and stops mor...

President Trump hosts a White House roundtable on the federal push against scam centers, cybercrime and the fraud rings that target American families, especially senior citizens. The President opens by laying out how foreign scam networks have drained savings from Americans for years, and says his administration is closer than anyone has ever been to shutting them down. Sean Cairncross, Todd, Mark...

Jon Herold breaks down part two of the Democracy Files on The Daily Herold for 10/21/26. The hour centers on a group of about 200 former USAID officials and their United Democracy Alliance. They talk openly about a moment when the federal government is declared illegitimate, a set of red lines they are refining into indicators and metrics, and a plan for authority to fall to friendly governors whe...

CannCon and Ashe in America open the Wednesday Badlands Daily, StreamYard gremlins and all. First up is the back-and-forth with Newsom's office and why the crew is bullish on the 2026 midterms, starting with lifelong Jewish Democrats in Michigan who are rethinking their votes. Then they cover Republicans distancing themselves from Trump, the push to expand Trump accounts to adults, and a fresh rou...

JB White is back with the RattlerGator Report for 10/21/26. JB tells the audience that Trump's endorsement of Netanyahu is a chess move, not a collapse of the strategy, and asks whether Russia is really open to the deal. He takes on the Russian Orthodox Church's Third Rome claim, the DC, Vatican City and City of London power centers, and the latest Data Republican exposures. Then he defends the El...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid break down a packed Tuesday night of news on DEFCON ZERQ. The show opens on Lindsey Graham's Ukraine bill and claims that cartel money is tied to the war. Then the crew digs into the multibillion dollar fraud stories and what Trump's new bounties and rewards could shake loose. From there, the focus turns to the midterms: paper ballots, the No Kings protests and whether...

Badlands Media special coverage of President Trump's rally at Pitt-Greenville Airport in Greenville, North Carolina on October 20, 2026. After a walk-on video and music, Trump thanks the crowd in a state he says he won all three times and makes his case for Michael Whatley for U.S. Senate against former Governor Roy Cooper. He hammers Cooper over the release of inmates during COVID, a deadly train...

President Trump and Vice President JD Vance announce the Fraud Whistleblower Incentive Program from the Oval Office, joined by citizen journalist Nick Shirley and members of the White House fraud task force. Trump credits Nick's reporting on the Minnesota daycare fraud and the infamous "Learing Center," then lays out the plan: anyone who reports fraud at fraud.gov gets a 1% commission on whatever...

Jon Herold admits up front that it's a slow news day, so he hands the wheel to the chat and still finds plenty to chew on. He starts with Chris Paul's new Illusion series, reading from "The Web of Infinite Wrongness" on the two-party illusion and the uniparty, and argues the movement keeps cheering for one side of a uniparty it says it doesn't believe in. When chat insists you need a solution befo...

CannCon and Zak Paine dig into blood clots, child sexual and Republican primary. First up, the conversation moves to blood clots, with Jalen Hurts, Eagles and Ilhan Omar in the mix. Then the focus shifts to Somali fraud, with Rhode Island, Department of Education and Pell Grants in the mix. From there, the talk turns to child sexual, with Rhode Island in the mix. Later, the crew gets into China un...

This time Jon Herold and Zak Paine dig into secret space, slot machine and black goo. First up, the talk turns to Lieutenant Dan, Francis Scott Key Bridge and World Behind. Then the crew gets into COVID, Snake Eyes and France. From there, it's on to Simpsons, Lone Gunman and Cyrus. Later, the conversation moves to slot machine, with Hades, Donald Trump and Ned Campbell in the mix. After that, the...