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On Badlands Daily for 10/26/26, CannCon opens with the fight over Alaska's ranked choice voting, the confusion of two candidates with the same name on the ballot, and the debate over whether President Trump is laying groundwork to step in if Alaska's election goes sideways. From there the show turns to election integrity, with reported vote discrepancies in Los Angeles, mail-in ballots, Maricopa C...

President Trump speaks at the Port of Corpus Christi, Texas, on October 27, 2026. He opens with breaking news: a ship in the port carrying a million barrels of oil from Venezuela, to be refined right here in Texas, then reports that the port has just come off one of the busiest months in its history under his administration. He talks through American energy production, exports and the jobs tied to...

Ashe in America, Christy Lupo and Jackie Espada kick off Halloween week in costume and catch up on fall weather from Denver to the South. First up is the story behind Halloween: Stingy Jack tricking the devil and the turnip that became the jack-o'-lantern, the strange roots of bobbing for apples, and how costumes went from warding off spirits to pure fun, plus the costumes the hosts have made over...

On Y-Chromes Ep. 97, the crew breaks down a wild NFL weekend from top to bottom. They start with the Niners taking their first loss of the season and the Dolphins grinding out a win, then get into Tom Brady and the never-ending roughing the passer debate, including which calls actually deserved a flag and which ones are ruining the game. From there it is Joe Burrow and the Bengals, Matt LaFleur's...

Jon Herold opens the week on Brazil's election, where Lula's surprise win over the Bolsonaro camp has Jon skeptical. He flashes back to the USAID and Brazil connection, looks at the voting machines and Lula's former lawyer on the court, and covers the market rout that followed the result. Then the focus shifts to the US midterms: long early voting windows and mail-in ballots, when states are allow...

This time Jon Herold and Zak Paine break down conspiracy theories, blue heron and Diné tribe. First up, the focus shifts to conspiracy theories, with Flávio Bolsonaro, Brazil and Twitter in the mix. Then the talk turns to Trump administration, with Comey and DOJ in the mix. From there, the crew gets into ghost tour, with Bridgewater Triangle, Bermuda Triangle and English in the mix. Later, it's on...

One week out from the midterms, CannCon and Zak Paine open Tuesday's Badlands Daily on why every election is do or die and why citizens have to stay involved in the process. First up is the third federal charge against James Comey, a case that has played out under seal since October 5th, and what Comey and his friends could do with the details of their own plotting. Then the focus shifts to electi...

JB White opens Florida-Georgia week distracted and fired up, with a Victory Monday for the Gators and Jaguars even though neither team played. He starts with the homecoming week shooting at Florida A&M, where six juveniles were shot, and draws a straight line to gang activity in Atlanta, Miami, Jacksonville and Haiti. JB says young males need a strong hand, talks about his own work in Haiti an...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid open the week with Brazil's election, the planned summit between Trump, Putin and Xi, and Zelensky asking for a seat at the table. They also revisit a Glenn Beck breakdown on Ukraine that Trump reposted. Next they dig into the Leah Files fight with Sean Ryan, the red flags each side raises about the other, and a clip questioning the future of the petrodollar as BRICS co...

Burning Bright goes solo for The Peacemakers, a look at how Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are steering the world toward peace and a multipolar order while their opponents try to stop it. He opens with the Brazilian election result and the Democrats' talk of a blue wave in Congress, then breaks down a 55-second Obama clip on the Iran war, pulling out two claims he says are true and one he says is...

Jonathan Drake opens Episode 51 with a perfect central Illinois fall day, a theory about weather control by radio towers, tung oil on his patio furniture, and prayers for a Badlander lost in a house fire and for Polymathanon, who has a GiveSendGo running. He recaps Spooner's Proposition 5 and free banking: why a third party that inserts itself into private contracts at gunpoint is a usurper, why t...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open the Saturday edition with Chris's new multi-part article on the uniparty, and why so much of the truth community stops believing in it once election season starts. From there they get into early voting and Trump's comments on mail-in ballots, the Bulwark's report on voters registered at Scott Presler's Pennsylvania home, and a 2025 bomb threat that broke up an anti-T...

Cam Cooksey and the Flow chat take on Double Jeopardy built from the 1965 Alabama literacy test, the questions Black voters were made to answer before registrars would let them sign up to vote. Cam reads each question aloud, the chat plays as one team, and the answers come in fast from regulars and first-timers alike. Categories include Crime and Punishment, Papers, and States vs. the Swamp, cover...

The Friday crew dig into Final answer, field trip and smart kids, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the talk turns to Catholic school, with Vans in the mix. Then the crew gets into income tax, with Fifth Amendment, Registrar Key and President in the mix. From there, it's on to Jim Crow test, with Karen Reed and Rights in the mix. Later, the conversation moves to Final answer, with...

Matt Trump opens a two-part Halloween special on the history of horror movies, which he calls the most American genre of the most American art form, with classic trailers along the way. He goes from Caligari, Nosferatu and Lon Chaney to Universal's Dracula and Frankenstein, Tod Browning's Freaks, the Hays Code years and Val Lewton's Cat People. Then come the 1950s monsters, Hammer's Dracula, Willi...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright take on Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, opening with HAL 9000, the secret briefing on the monolith, and the cover story told to the crew at Clavius. The guys dig into why Kubrick's films are so hard to pin down, from Eyes Wide Shut to Full Metal Jacket, and whether you can separate the art from the artist. They listen through Bill Cooper's Mystery Babylon rea...

President Trump returns to his home state of Florida for a midterm rally, backing Ashley Moody for the U.S. Senate and urging voters to elect a Republican House and Senate on November 3rd. He defends the Second Amendment, goes after Ilhan Omar's name and record, and takes on gas prices, tariffs and inflation, crime and the border. He closes by laying out the agenda for the next two years, includin...

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince open with Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts out for the season with blood clots in his lungs, the press conference where he said he was vaccinated, and Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk's diagnosis. They then dig into HHS's 2026 update to the National Plan to Address Alzheimer's Disease, the inflammation and amyloid plaque debate, and RFK Jr.'s women's health priorities, incl...

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...