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  The ladies are back from GART and still riding the high of a week that blended straight into Independence Day weekend. Ashe in America, Christy Lupo, and Jackie Espada open with the aftermath of convention season: half packed suitcases, golf carts, VIP dinners, and a costume moment involving Bit of Whimsy that earns its own shout out. A photo challenge walks through the group's favorite GART and...

CannCon, Alpha Warrior, and Cam Cooksey celebrate America's 250th birthday weekend with stories from a massive Fourth of July party, fireworks, barbecue, and reflections on what makes the United States unique. The conversation shifts to World Cup soccer, including controversial officiating decisions, Team USA's appeal victory, and standout tournament moments. The hosts also dive into viral reactio...

Jon Herold returns after the Fourth of July weekend with a candid discussion about the official end of DOGE and the intense reactions surrounding it. Using government spending data and DOGE's own published numbers, he questions whether the initiative lived up to the expectations set by its supporters while exploring why factual criticism is often labeled as "black pilling" within the truth communi...

CannCon and Zak Paine celebrate America's 250th birthday before diving into the stories shaping the country's future. They examine media coverage of Patriot Front, escalating Teen Takeover incidents, and the growing debate over free speech, public order, and cultural decline. The conversation shifts to America's Christian foundations, the SAVE Act, election integrity, and concerns surrounding Demo...

Burning Bright kicks off a fresh chapter of the show with Zak Paine, and things go big picture fast, think Rome's staying power versus America's 251st year, and whether this moment finally feels different. They trade theories on why 2025 and 2026 haven't unfolded the way many expected, why getting dragged into the reactive "micro" can cloud the bigger "macro" view, and what Trump's approach to the...

Jonathan Drake is back from Deadwood, hair growing long and spirits high after a GART weekend full of trial by jury shenanigans, whip mishaps, and a courtroom drama that left at least one Canadian juror bribed with citizenship. But once the recap wraps, it's back to business with Lysander Spooner. This week Jon dives into Section Three, unpacking why a hung jury should actually mean acquittal, how...

Lightning delays, a crowd that shrank from 375,000 to a very dedicated 150,000, and a president determined to give his speech anyway, welcome to America's 250th birthday party. Badlands Media brings you the full Salute to America broadcast from the National Mall, where Trump walks through two and a half centuries of flags, founders, and fireworks with a rotating cast of genuine American legends on...

Happy 250th!. Jon Herold and Chris Paul kick off Independence Day weekend with fireworks (literal and rhetorical), breaking down Trump's Mount Rushmore anniversary speech and his stop at the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library. They dig into the "communism is a bigger threat than Pearl Harbor" line, unpack what "third term" chatter actually means once you filter out the media panic, and get into...

On the eve of America's 250th birthday, Badlands Media brings you full coverage from the base of Mount Rushmore, where South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and President Trump take the stage under the granite gaze of four presidents to talk about, well, everything that makes this country tick. Expect soaring rhetoric about the Declaration, some genuinely moving famil...

It's the eve of Independence Day, and the OnlyLands crew is celebrating a little early with fireworks mishaps, hot dog eating contest predictions, and a cacao sponsor read that somehow works in the Aztecs. Things turn more substantive once President Trump's live Mount Rushmore address plays, sparking a genuinely spirited debate among the hosts over Israel's place in America's problems, whether art...

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince are back from GART and not wasting any time. A parasite called cyclosporiasis is ripping through Michigan and beyond, and Jordan reads the New York Post's most colorful victim profile of the year. A Michigan couple faces second degree murder charges after their 7-year-old son died at 255 pounds, prompting a raw conversation about parenting, dopamine addiction, and per...

Jon Herold comes in on July 4th Eve light on prep and heavy on chat energy, which turns out to be exactly right for a holiday Friday. Bill Pulte fired dozens of ODNI intelligence officials this week for allegedly withholding information from leadership, and Jon floats the theory that Ratcliffe may be the one directing the firings while Pulte provides cover. The New York Times reported that the US...

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week and the runup to America's 250th with a discussion-heavy Friday. The New York Post reveals the FBI had Democrat insider Alexis Podesta wearing a wire inside Gavin Newsom's inner circle since June 2024, and CannCon connects it back to Alpha's "tickling the wire" prediction, noting the huge implications for both Newsom's presidential hopes and the California...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright do a Fourth of July revisit of Roland Emmerich's 1996 blockbuster Independence Day, written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin and starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Randy Quaid, Harvey Fierstein, Vivica A. Fox, and Harry Connick Jr. Both guys expected to have fun with a summer classic. Instead they arrive at the same brutal verdict. This is one o...

Two days before America turns 250, CannCon opens the show watching the Portugal Croatia game go to a heart stopping VAR review, which promptly triggers a chat troll named Barry into a full patriotic meltdown. What follows is one of the most chaotic first hours in SITREP history. Barry accuses CannCon of un-Americanism for watching soccer, the guys extend olive branches three times, Barry brings up...

It's July 2, 2026, the actual 250th anniversary of the Lee Resolution, and Frank opens by reading John Adams' letter to Abigail about the day that ought to be commemorated forevermore. Then straight into the Supreme Court's birthright citizenship ruling, Justice Thomas's dissent, and how the 14th Amendment has been quietly repurposed into something Trumbull and Howard would not recognize. For the...

CannCon and Ashe in America kick off Part 2 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island with Chapter 7, and the crash course on money is anything but boring. Before a single page is read, the Supreme Court hands down a ruling that Trump can fire FTC commissioners but not Federal Reserve board governors, and Clarence Thomas lights up his dissent by saying the problem is not with the pres...

Jon Herold comes in Thursday fresh off GART and immediately flags two stories that deserve more attention than they are getting. The FBI has surged over 260 intelligence analysts from every single field office in the country to support the Atlanta-based Georgia 2020 election investigation, with a July 17 deadline and mandatory overtime including holidays. Jon calls it the biggest resource deployme...

Ghost and Ashe in America walk through Season 4 Episode 5, a dense hour with three parallel crises of faith. Judas visits his old mentor Hadad in Bethany, and inside of three minutes Hadad has coached him through why he should be taking a stipend, investing at interest, and positioning himself for Secretary of the Treasury when Jesus takes the throne. The hosts unpack why the character is written...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior debut the rebranded Badlands Daily with a new intro and a packed Thursday. John Brennan sues the DOJ to preserve records, and Alpha delivers the standout analysis of the episode: this is a reverse indictment designed to force early discovery, protect his co-conspirators, and delay the RICO grand conspiracy case, a move so sharp it made Alpha genuinely angry. Trump tells B...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright mark the exact five-year anniversary of the first Devolution article, the same day Trump flew to the North Dakota Badlands to dedicate the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library and said "Badlands" on camera. After the celebrations, the show gets substantive fast. The election fraud disclosure landscape gets a full accounting: the DNI report, the White House task force...

Ghost opens this bonus episode with Thomas Massie's 420-0 House vote to expose which members paid off sexual misconduct allegations with taxpayer money, then delivers his GART closing remarks calling Congress a crime scene that needs a forensic team, not a press release. Colombia's post-election fallout gets a full breakdown: El Tigre's ties to Alex Saab and the Maduro orbit, Gustavo Petro's docum...

Episode 60 begins with an unexpected box of ceremonial cacao and quickly becomes a deep dive into what Shipwreck is calling her personal resistance. She is down 24 pounds since April, has become an evangelist for fiber, macros, and 15,000 daily steps on the treadmill, and shares why she now believes getting lean is a spiritual act rather than a vanity project. From there, a new bedtime routine. Ch...

On the eve of America's 250th, Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast welcomes Chris Ponder to kick off a brand new season of Space Revolution. The first 25 episodes tackled information, energy, and resources. This one launches the real fight: how do we as a human race actually triangulate truth and expose a lie fast enough to matter? Chris is an expert at reading the shapes and patterns God wove into the...

President Trump arrives in Medora, North Dakota on the inaugural flight of the newly designed Air Force One and by train to the exact platform where Theodore Roosevelt arrived 140 years earlier, to dedicate the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. He donates TR's actual Congressional Medal of Honor from the White House Roosevelt Room to the library, where it will be displayed alongside the med...