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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...

Matthew Ehret takes on the Big Bang. He argues that the standard picture of a closed universe exploding out of a single point rests on one reading of redshift, and that it carries a bleak view of nature, economics and the human mind. Working through a slide deck, Matt explains the Doppler effect and how redshift became the yardstick for cosmic distance, looks at the projected collision of the Milk...

President Trump rallies in Park City, Kansas for Senator Roger Marshall, 15 days out from the midterms. The night opens with Senator Marshall taking on Democrat Adam Hamilton, followed by Ted Nugent firing up the crowd. Trump then walks on to God Bless the USA and makes the case for Marshall and Ty Masterson for governor, warns about Europe's migration crisis, and swipes at paid protesters and the...

Ashe in America sits down with Badlands' own Jonathan Drake for an episode called What Are You Building? They dig into the Supreme Court taking up the federal ban on home distilleries, Justice Gorsuch and the administrative state, and why regulation keeps getting in the way of small business. Drake talks about leaving the steady paycheck to build his own custom woodworking business, from Gandalf p...

Ashe in America, Christy Lupo and Jackie Espada open Monday's Alphas Make Sandwiches with Christy's idiom segment on "for the birds." She traces the phrase to World War II slang, a 1943 Stars and Stripes example and the theory about birds picking grain out of droppings, and a side trip into the movie Rio leads to Anne Hathaway's busy film year. Jackie then walks through three iPhone tips: setting...

CannCon is joined by Cam Cooksey and Alpha Warrior for Y-Chromes Ep. 96. CannCon opens with a big weekend as a Florida fan: the Panthers' back-to-back natural hat tricks, Brady Tkachuk's first goals in a Florida uniform, the Gators' win in Texas, the Packers' Sunday night win over Dallas and the Hurricanes moving to number one. The guys then dig into the officiating, from the taunting and roughing...

CannCon hosts a solo Monday edition of Badlands Daily, opening with a football recap before turning to the news. He covers the fatal Alamodome rappelling accident and the deadly fire at a Canadian military base in Alberta, then the Burisma and Blue Star proposal to train Ukrainian prosecutors through the McCain Institute. The main block looks at the midterms: the LA Times report on ICE raids and t...

JB White opens a victory Monday with Florida's second straight win over Texas, breaking down his young quarterback's 4th and 12 strike in his first start, along with Tennessee over Alabama, Auburn over Georgia and the controversial finish to FSU and Miami. Then he turns to President Trump's letter endorsing Bibi Netanyahu for reelection and Netanyahu's video thank-you. JB argues the real pressure...

Jon Herold opens the week with a Wall Street Journal report that Vladimir Putin floated a summit with Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at next month's APEC meeting in Shenzhen to talk about ending the war in Ukraine, with Zelensky left out of the room. He ties it to Trump holding off on new Russia sanctions and the deal to buy Russian diesel, and asks whether the meeting will actually happen. From ther...

President Trump holds a executive order signing, covering the stories of the day. First up, he moves to Melania, White House and President Xi. Then the speech shifts to Health Division, Nicole Safar and Bobby. The full speech, start to finish.

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid open with a start-time glitch Alpha blames on Dark Matter, then get into the shows Josh keeps assigning him: The OA's lost season 3, The Truman Show and simulation theory. Josh walks through Yarvin, Nick Land and Dark Enlightenment theory, public-private partnerships, and why he sees this moment as the turbulence of transition. From there it's geopolitics: the AI race w...

Burning Bright welcomes Matt McDonagh of Life in the Singularity for his first visit to The Narrative, and the two dig into the Aipocalypse. Matt traces his path from Wall Street and a machine-learning hedge fund to Bitcoin and superintelligence, then they cover rigged inflation math, lizard brain politics, Iran and the Strait of Hormuz, and the new Tesla Roadster demo as both a real event and a n...

Jonathan Drake is back after a week off building sets for his daughters' homeschool production of Fiddler on the Roof, plus a look at the cedar patio furniture coming together in his shop. Then it's on to the finish of Proposition 5 in Lysander Spooner's poverty essay: why free banking would flood the market with credit and drive interest to the lowest possible rate, how self-employment would forc...

Jon Herold and Chris Paul open with the White House press secretary's rough week and whether a president who breaks his own news even needs one, plus Chris's post on what being a bar attorney really means. Then it's on to Kristi Noem's move from Homeland Security to the Shield of the Americas, and why Jon says calling it a promotion is the kind of cheerleading that leaves people with the rug pulle...

Cam Cooksey goes solo for episode 70, fresh off a day of tearing out a bathroom, and spends most of the night working through a stack of Georgia campaign mailers. He opens with a chat question about the end goal of the truth movement, then goes through the mail piling up at his house: Rick Jackson's comic book flyers, the Sharon Cooper and Michelle Schreiner fight over Trump's legal fees, Keisha L...

President Trump rallies in Highland Heights, Kentucky, for Andy Barr in the U.S. Senate race and Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein in Kentucky's 4th District, with a push for Republicans on both sides of the river in Ohio and Kentucky. He covers Jon Husted and his football days, Mexico paying for the wall, the Gulf of America, the border and the jails emptied into the country, Governor Cooper and Willie Horto...

The Friday crew opens with a surprise: Meta wants Red Pill News on Facebook, years after the big purge. Then two horror stories from the shoe store days, a second-row report from Journey's final tour, and a fact check on Steve Perry's voice. From there: California license plates and the voter rolls, the woman who called ICE on her roofing crew after the job was done, why new-build homes keep falli...

GMoney sits down with Tommy, artist in residence at BTC Inc. and curator of the Bitcoin Museum and Art Gallery in Nashville, to talk about nine years at Bitcoin Magazine, how a freelance graphic designer ended up building one of the deepest Bitcoin art collections around, and the 100-year-old downtown building that once printed scrip money. They get into Ross Ulbricht's smuggled prison animation,...

Matt calls this one an experiment in a looser, more personal style. After his pro-white moment on OnlyLands last week, his X feed filled up with clips from Soirée Canadienne, a Quebec TV show that bused whole villages into a Montreal studio from 1960 to 1983 for campfire-style sing-alongs. He plays the clips, including 15-year-old Serge Veilleux in 1981, and asks why they now draw respect and even...

Badlands Media brings you President Trump's full remarks from his rally in Dalton, Georgia, where he campaigned for Mike Collins for U.S. Senate and Rick Jackson for governor ahead of the November 3 midterms. Trump opens by urging Georgians to vote early, since early voting runs through October 30, and looks back at the 2017 special election against Jon Ossoff. He goes after Ossoff on open borders...

Jon Herold takes on press secretary, Blue Star Strategies sat and Trump allies, with plenty of commentary along the way. First up, the conversation moves to press secretary, with Tesla Roadster in the mix. Then the focus shifts to Minority Report movie, with Roadster and Tesla in the mix. From there, the talk turns to compressed air, with Florida, Ron DeSantis and Tesla in the mix. Later, the crew...