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Jon Herold opens a quiet Monday by connecting the newly declassified China election documents to older intelligence community history, walking through 2016 era presidential daily briefings on Russia to argue the same pattern of suppression and fabrication runs through every major hoax of the Trump era. He digs into a batch of Trump Truth Social posts, including a firm defense of Netanyahu against arrest threats from New York's mayor, a warning to Iran over American soldier deaths, and pressure on Canada over wildfire smoke. There is also a rundown of the newly activated Alien Terrorist Removal Court, a State Department report on decades of Cuban subversion, and a quick detour into a viral Taco Bell food safety scare. Sponsor reads, some lighthearted chat banter, and a preview of tonight's Baseless Conspiracies round out a lighter Monday show.

Jon Herold spends "Post Disclosure Day" digging through the freshly declassified documents behind Trump's primetime speech, arguing the paperwork itself is far more damning than how Trump actually described it on stage. He walks through claims that China stole 220 million voter files, worked with Venezuela style tactics to manipulate machines, produced fraudulent driver's licenses for ineligible voters, and pressured US companies and journalists through financial leverage. Jon also digs into leaked intelligence community emails suggesting analysts deliberately downplayed or suppressed China related findings from President Trump's daily briefings, plus a striking Michigan voter registration fraud statistic. He shares mainstream media reaction to the speech, plugs his new Substack series compiling the documents, and previews more coverage on tomorrow's Power Hour. Sponsor reads and some lively chat interaction round out a document heavy Friday show.

Jon Herold calls it "E Day" as Washington braces for Trump's primetime election disclosure speech, and he spends much of the show digging through old intelligence community reports and executive order 13848 to argue that China's 2020 election interference was known and suppressed years ago while Russia's role got amplified. He walks through Paul Sperry's reporting on alleged Chinese hacking of voter databases, weighs in on the Politico piece about nervous Republicans ahead of the speech, and shares clips from Rubio's remarks on political terrorism and NSPM 7. There's also a look at the SAVE Act's uncertain path through the Senate following Lindsey Graham's death, leadership shakeups in Ukraine, and a philosophical detour on why he believes the country cannot "move on" from 2020 until it is addressed. Sponsor reads and a lively chat session round out the show, with a preview of tonight's speech coverage.

Jon Herold spends Hump Day bracing for Thursday's big election announcement, sharing poll results on audience expectations and urging people to prepare for a possible letdown rather than get their hopes too high. He plays clips from Amy Coney Barrett's testimony about threats to her family and her push for more Supreme Court security, offering some pointed pushback on her reasoning, then turns to DNI nominee Jay Clayton's rocky confirmation hearing exchange over election integrity. Other topics include new revelations about Jack Smith's team accessing lawmakers' private texts, a Wisconsin elections panel referring Elon Musk's million dollar giveaway for criminal review, Joe Biden's oddly delivered memoir trailer, a permanent switch to Daylight Saving Time, and a few Iran war updates. Sponsor reads and plenty of live chat banter round out the show, plus a preview of tonight's Devolution Power Hour with Burning Bright.

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Jon Herold spends Taco Tuesday weighing in on Trump's teased primetime address this Thursday, which insiders suggest may reveal declassified election intelligence and voting machine vulnerabilities, while journalist John Solomon urges caution about the swirling leaks. Jon walks through Trump's own comments ruling out foul play in Lindsey Graham's death, the appointment of Graham's sister to fill his Senate seat, and renewed speculation about what a "clean slate" election reset could mean. He also covers Trump swapping a planned Strait of Hormuz shipping fee for new Gulf trade deals, the formal notification to Congress restarting the clock on the Iran conflict, Schumer's opposition to the defense bill, and a fresh inflation report. Sponsor reads, some good natured ribbing about mullets and Lindsey Graham jokes, and a healthy dose of live chat banter round out a fairly newsy Tuesday.

Jon Herold opens a quieter Monday with the weekend's biggest shock, Senator Lindsey Graham's sudden death, and works through Trump's on camera tributes alongside the swirl of conspiracy chatter, replacement speculation for South Carolina's seat, and how the loss squeezes an already razor thin GOP Senate majority. He also revisits the ongoing Mitch McConnell health mystery and a widely shared "hostage photo" that fans are picking apart for signs of manipulation. Elsewhere, Jon breaks down Trump letting the housing bill become law without his signature, a curious international statement on Colombia's elections that echoes 2020 US election fraud arguments, a new Pentagon task force targeting media leaks, and Trump's declaration that the US will guard the Strait of Hormuz. A Kash Patel meme mishap, some sponsor reads, and a good chunk of live chat banter keep the mood light despite the heavier news.

Le parfum du fumé, le crépitement des brochettes posées sur le grill, la flamme qui lèche les pots en terre, saisit les légumes dans le wok : la question de la flamme nous a souvent passionnés depuis que Le Goût du monde existe, sans doute parce qu'en découvrant le feu, l'homme a aussi découvert la cuisine ! Du barbecue à l'alimentation préhistorique (et l'inverse), des braises de Polynésie aux brochettes sautillantes du quartier de la briqueterie à Yaoundé, des brochettes de boulettes d'agneau au Caire, aux Dibi, pots de terre et wok fumants : la cuisine à la flamme, l'art de la braise et le boucané n'ont pas fini de nous animer!  Escale cette fois à mi-chemin entre la Thaïlande et l'Égypte qui ont en commun en plus du riz et de la mangue, le goût pour la flamme.   Avec  Anne Coppin, cheffe globe-trotteuse formée en Thaïlande et passionnée par la gastronomie Thaï, sa richesse, sa diversité folle, elle a ouvert avec son compagnon Franck de Visme : Faaï (feu) 11 rue Trousseau, 75011 Paris, une table thaï dont la braise et la flamme sont le fil conducteur, la cuisine s'éloigne des sentiers battus pour raconter le raffinement, l'équilibre et la créativité bouillonnante de la gastronomie thaï contemporaine finalement très peu goûtée en France. On se laisse surprendre par la douceur du plat « Gaebg massaman nuea » un curry massamn, boeuf confits coco et épices, la gourmandise des brochettes grillées à la braise, nappées de sauce tamarin, piment et coco. Anne et Franck sont aussi les chefs de Naam à Belleville et à Lille.   Omar Dhiab a fait ses classes dans les grandes maisons avant d'ouvrir son restaurant, éponyme, vite salué par le Guide Michelin d'une étoile. Le chef avait à cœur d'ouvrir un restaurant plus bistro où il pourrait d'avantage exprimer ses racines égyptiennes et tunisiennes : ainsi, a vu le jour Elbi qui met l'accent sur les 5 cuissons, dont évidemment, la flamme. Sa cuisine suit une montée en température maîtrisée, du cru délicat aux cuissons rôties intenses. Hawawshi, pigeon aux épices, taamiya croustillants, sans oublier les marinades et sauces addictives. Elbi (le coeur) est situé 54 rue Paradis, Paris 10ème. Son restaurant gastronomique est 23 rue Herold, dans le 1er arrondissement de Paris.     ► Pour aller plus loin   La série autour du bœuf, des patates et de la sauce avec Jean-François Mallet : avec ici l'épisode sur la viande    « L'art de la braise en plein air », de Raymond Burren, aux éditions de l'épure.  La cuisine du feu ou l'art de la braise avec Kobus Braai.      Programmation musicale : Hey People Now, de Ziggey Marley et Nikka Costa. 

Le parfum du fumé, le crépitement des brochettes posées sur le grill, la flamme qui lèche les pots en terre, saisit les légumes dans le wok : la question de la flamme nous a souvent passionnés depuis que Le Goût du monde existe, sans doute parce qu'en découvrant le feu, l'homme a aussi découvert la cuisine ! Du barbecue à l'alimentation préhistorique (et l'inverse), des braises de Polynésie aux brochettes sautillantes du quartier de la briqueterie à Yaoundé, des brochettes de boulettes d'agneau au Caire, aux Dibi, pots de terre et wok fumants : la cuisine à la flamme, l'art de la braise et le boucané n'ont pas fini de nous animer!  Escale cette fois à mi-chemin entre la Thaïlande et l'Égypte qui ont en commun en plus du riz et de la mangue, le goût pour la flamme.   Avec  Anne Coppin, cheffe globe-trotteuse formée en Thaïlande et passionnée par la gastronomie Thaï, sa richesse, sa diversité folle, elle a ouvert avec son compagnon Franck de Visme : Faaï (feu) 11 rue Trousseau, 75011 Paris, une table thaï dont la braise et la flamme sont le fil conducteur, la cuisine s'éloigne des sentiers battus pour raconter le raffinement, l'équilibre et la créativité bouillonnante de la gastronomie thaï contemporaine finalement très peu goûtée en France. On se laisse surprendre par la douceur du plat « Gaebg massaman nuea » un curry massamn, boeuf confits coco et épices, la gourmandise des brochettes grillées à la braise, nappées de sauce tamarin, piment et coco. Anne et Franck sont aussi les chefs de Naam à Belleville et à Lille.   Omar Dhiab a fait ses classes dans les grandes maisons avant d'ouvrir son restaurant, éponyme, vite salué par le Guide Michelin d'une étoile. Le chef avait à cœur d'ouvrir un restaurant plus bistro où il pourrait d'avantage exprimer ses racines égyptiennes et tunisiennes : ainsi, a vu le jour Elbi qui met l'accent sur les 5 cuissons, dont évidemment, la flamme. Sa cuisine suit une montée en température maîtrisée, du cru délicat aux cuissons rôties intenses. Hawawshi, pigeon aux épices, taamiya croustillants, sans oublier les marinades et sauces addictives. Elbi (le coeur) est situé 54 rue Paradis, Paris 10ème. Son restaurant gastronomique est 23 rue Herold, dans le 1er arrondissement de Paris.     ► Pour aller plus loin   La série autour du bœuf, des patates et de la sauce avec Jean-François Mallet : avec ici l'épisode sur la viande    « L'art de la braise en plein air », de Raymond Burren, aux éditions de l'épure.  La cuisine du feu ou l'art de la braise avec Kobus Braai.      Programmation musicale : Hey People Now, de Ziggey Marley et Nikka Costa. 

Jon Herold digs into Trump firing the remaining Election Assistance Commission leadership and traces the history of the agency, from its role distributing COVID era election funds to its Dominion voting system certification timeline, connecting it to his long running election integrity coverage. He also unpacks reports that Israel shared intelligence about an Iranian assassination plot against Trump, which he ties to the plane swap and the renewed Iran bombing campaign. Rounding things out are Trump's Truth Social threat to withhold his signature on the housing bill without the Save America Act, a Qatari mediated push for new Iran talks, and a dig into whether CrowdStrike still has a hand in election security. Sponsor reads and some candid chat exchanges about karma, trust, and helping people keep the show moving at its usual loose pace.

Jon Herold works through a New York Times deep dive on the many ways Trump is using federal power to try to shape the 2026 midterms, walking through nationalization efforts, redistricting battles, election security cuts, and ongoing fights over voter rolls in states like Georgia and Minnesota. He shares some skepticism about whether these efforts have produced any real world results yet and invites the chat to weigh in. There is also a look at Graham Platner's Senate campaign collapsing under new allegations, Trump's on camera reaction to it, fresh testimony from Lance Twigs in the Tyler Robinson case, and a couple of business headlines including a wave of new chip manufacturing investment. Sponsor breaks and some lively back and forth with the chat round things out for a fairly dense Thursday show.

Jon Herold rolls into hump day with a lighter mood, opening with a shoutout to a fan painted portrait of his cat before diving into the noise around Trump's Air Force One travel plans and the speculation over why he's flying home the old fashioned way. He plays a few clips from the president's press gaggle, including some candid comments on assassination odds and the ongoing Iran conflict, then breaks down Trump's rocky NATO stop in Turkey and the fallout with allies like Spain and Denmark. There's a look at fresh DOJ action on noncitizen voting, a Nebraska lawsuit tied to overseas ballots, and another twist in the long running Seth Rich documents saga. Jon also works through a couple of sponsor segments and some good natured chat interaction along the way. It is a loose, conversational ride through a fairly newsy Wednesday.

Jon Herold kicks off a quieter Tuesday by admitting the news cycle feels stuck in neutral, with Iran, Ukraine, and the economy all in a holding pattern. He gets it out of his system on Team USA's early soccer exit before turning to the swirl of speculation around Mitch McConnell's health and whether Scott Jennings' account of their phone call adds up. There's a quick check-in on the Tyler Robinson case as new courtroom video surfaces, plus a rundown of Trump's push for a massive defense funding bill and a fresh headline on Marine Le Pen's ongoing legal saga in France. Expect some good-natured ribbing about world leader indictments, a Walmart price-drop story that raises more questions than it answers, and a few lighter moments from the live chat along the way. It is a laid back, conversational episode that still manages to touch on plenty.

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 community. Jon dives into the difference between hope and hopium, arguing that pursuing truth requires balancing optimism with realism. The episode also touches on the newly released National Resilience Strategy, Trump's Independence Day call with Vladimir Putin, ongoing geopolitical developments, and a lighthearted look at World Cup controversy after Trump's involvement in overturning a suspension for a U.S. player. Throughout the show, Jon makes the case that honest conversations should never be off limits, even when they challenge popular narratives.

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 secretly warned regional allies to tip off Iran that Israel was planning to assassinate its Foreign Minister and Parliament Speaker during active peace negotiations, and Jon says it fits the pattern of Israel simply not caring about talks it never wanted in the first place. The left and a Chinese commentator are now publicly discussing Trump's third term, which Jon reads as projection mixed with genuine worry, and he plays Steve Bannon's Economist interview making the principled case that the will of the American people is what the Constitution actually embodies. A Texas state rep Jon interviewed back in August 2025 just got appointed as Abbott's election integrity policy advisor, and Jon got cited as a conservative influencer in the Dallas Morning News for it. CannCon's $2.40 gas prediction lands at $3.82 nationally. Jon also closed out Badlands YouTube early today to avoid a second strike.

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 deployment he has seen toward election accountability and immediately asks whether a public briefing from Trump before or after the NATO trip, now being predicted by multiple sources, actually follows. John Brennan suing the Trump administration to preserve investigation records gets a careful breakdown: Jon is less worried about the merits of Brennan's case and more worried about what it says about whether deep state operatives inside the administration may have seeded communications that could be used to taint any future RICO indictments. The USPS mail-in ballot restrictions were blocked by Judge Emmett Sullivan, the same judge from the Flynn case, citing a 2021 settlement with the NAACP. The Save America Act apparently cannot even pass the House in its older form. The June jobs report came in at just 57,000 with significant downward revisions. Trump posted NATO spending numbers and Jon is watching for a move toward the exit.

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Jon Herold comes in Tuesday on a short show before heading to Deadwood and delivers two things worth staying for. First, a pointed and honest analysis of who is actually hyping the White House quantum computing posts as Q confirmation: Jon asked seven OG Anons who have no financial stake in being right, and all seven said it looks like a troll. The only people going all in are content creators trying to monetize. He asks why that is and lets the question sit. Then he plays the GART trailer, a mock news broadcast depicting a fictional future where Democrats flip the House in the midterms, Badlands Media gets indicted by a federal grand jury, and the community faces consequences for questioning elections. It is genuinely unsettling and clearly the setup for something bigger happening live in Deadwood this week. A federal judge also ordered Trump's SAVES voter verification database dismantled for violating federal privacy laws, Jon gives it a mixed read, and Rand Paul is subpoenaing Fauci again. No Daily Herold tomorrow. Whatever happens at GART, you will want a virtual ticket.

Jon Herold comes in Monday one day from Deadwood and GART, which means the show is lighter on prep and heavier on honesty. Reuters confirmed what Jon's source already told him: the White House has been sitting on the ODNI voting machine vulnerability report for months over concerns it could undermine voter confidence, and Jon asks the obvious question about what a limited hangout looks like if the report just says the machines need a software update. His source still says the election declass is on track for Wednesday. The White House and Department of War CTO both posted quantum computing content that the decoder community immediately lost its mind over, and Jon delivers a calm and mildly exasperated explanation of why a social media intern trolling is not a Q signal. Iran negotiations are in their now-familiar pattern: JD Vance says Iran agreed to UN nuclear inspectors and the US issued a 60-day oil waiver, Iran immediately denied making new commitments, and Jon sees both sides possibly contradicting each other on purpose to keep everyone confused. DHS is tying federal grants to election reforms including paper ballots and mandatory audits. The Biden audio tapes have been cleared for release. Keir Starmer resigned as UK prime minister. Colombia's president is claiming Israeli election software stole his election. Jon is not packed yet.

Jon Herold comes in on Juneteenth in surprisingly good spirits and with a lot to sort through. Tulsi Gabbard released her COVID declass video on her final day as DNI, and Jon's take is the same as it always has been: Fauci directing the intelligence community to suppress the lab leak was already true in 2021 and her saying it now does not make it more true, though it might finally convince the people who needed an authoritative figure to say so before they believed it. Jon also shares a rumor from a well-connected source that the election declass is delayed to around June 24 and is coming from the Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board rather than the DNI. John Solomon just announced he is stepping aside as editor in chief to serve as an unpaid government employee identifying classified documents, and Jon finds the timing interesting. Israel bombed Hezbollah immediately after the MOU was signed, JD Vance publicly criticized Netanyahu, and Jon sees it as the clean exit ramp he has been hoping for. CJ Pearson turns out to be a registered foreign agent taking $20,000 a month from the Bahamas, and Jon wants the whole influencer ecosystem audited. Also: Jon tracked down the screenshot evidence on CannCon's gas price bet and played the tape.

Jon Herold comes in Thursday with plenty to say about the people who are saying plenty. The MAGA hawk crowd that spent months cheerleading US military involvement in the Middle East is now loudly attacking Trump over the Iran deal, and Jon finds the shoe-on-the-other-foot energy deeply satisfying. JD Vance ran the White House press conference and delivered one of the most pointed defenses of Trump's Israel positioning Jon has heard from anyone in the administration. Tucker Carlson, who spent months calling Trump a slave to Netanyahu, is now posting clips calling the deal a betrayal, and Jon asks whether Tucker is running an op, just being inconsistent, or both. California's US attorney announced he expects election fraud charges while simultaneously explaining that proving outcome-determinative fraud requires charging thousands of voters, which Jon calls the real headline. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously to limit the federal government's power to disarm marijuana users. The federal probe expanded to America Votes, a major NGO funding the Ohio voter mobilization network, and Jon is genuinely enthusiastic about going after the NGO money trail. Jon also casually reveals he built a fully functional AI news aggregator that posts automatically to Twitter and has some other projects coming soon.

Jon Herold comes in Wednesday with a guest and a document to dig through. Tech investor Matthew McDonough joins to make the case that energy, not labor, is now the central lever controlling global power, framing the Strait of Hormuz blockade and the Iran conflict as moves in a larger energy dominance struggle against China. Jon then reads through the full leaked 14-point US-Iran memorandum of understanding line by line: the naval blockade lifts immediately, Iran gets its own frozen money back rather than new American cash, a $300 billion rehabilitation fund comes structured as financing rather than a gift, and Israel is conspicuously absent from the entire agreement. Trump's overnight Truth Social move gets its own breakdown: canceling Jay Clayton's DNI confirmation hearing in apparent retaliation after Democrats reneged on a FISA deal, which keeps Bill Pulte in place and ties FISA's fate to the Save America Act. Jon also shares word from a well-connected source that Tulsi Gabbard's promised 2020 election report is likely delayed past her departure, possibly surfacing around a rumored June 24 event. Gavin Newsom's lawyers sent Todd Blanche a letter calling the DOJ probe into him a fishing expedition.

Jon Herold comes in Tuesday on a hectic kid-shuttling day with a story that immediately raises questions. The FBI says it disrupted a terror plot involving explosive drones and a staged sniper attack targeting last weekend's UFC Freedom 250 event, with five suspects in custody and 23 more identified, but Jon notes none of them were arrested in Washington DC and wonders how surveillance happened just days after FISA 702 expired. Ghost joins for an extended breakdown of the Middle East endgame: Trump's strategy of simultaneously escalating and deescalating to box Israel into a corner, the bombshell that Naftali Bennett sabotaged the 2022 Russia-Ukraine peace deal while serving as mediator, and the prediction that Arab nations will drift toward Iran while Israel becomes politically isolated. JD Vance pushed back hard on claims Iran gets American money in the new deal, insisting not a single taxpayer dollar moves. Gavin Newsom announced he and his family are under DOJ investigation and called it political, though Jon suspects the real story runs through his wife's finances. The Supreme Court also rejected Carter Page's surveillance lawsuit on statute of limitations grounds, and Jon has thoughts about who that rule actually protects.

Jon Herold comes in Monday still processing the fallout from a post he made last night, and he wants to talk about it. After UFC 250 wrapped, a wave of decoder accounts had spent the week hyping the event's EBS color test as a sign something bigger was coming. Jon posted a good faith question asking what happens now that nothing did, and the response was less about the substance and more about attacking him personally. He walks through the replies, makes the case that this is cognitive dissonance in action, and explains why he keeps bringing up this specific behavior even though it gets him called names. On the news side, Trump posted that the Iran deal is complete, authorizing the immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and removal of the naval blockade ahead of Friday's signing. Trump also posted criticism of Israel's strike on Beirut as jeopardizing the peace process, which did not sit well with Mark Levin. FISA 702 has now fully expired with no replacement, and Jon makes his now-familiar point about the intelligence community continuing surveillance regardless. JD Vance pushed back on claims Iran is getting $24 billion in new cash, clarifying the difference between unfreezing assets and new money.

Jon Herold comes in Friday with the most material he has had all week, starting with Tulsi Gabbard's first round of declassification on US-funded biolabs. The release is four pages confirming what Russia disclosed back in 2022 and what the community has been saying for years while getting called conspiracy theorists for it. Jon uses the moment for some honest self-reflection: if this is true now, was it not equally true four years ago, and what does that say about how these stories tend to play out? Buried in the documents is a repeated mention of Black and Veatch, which Jon traces directly to Hunter Biden's Rosemont Seneca investments in Metabiota, adding a fresh wrinkle to Hunter's current media tour. The Iran deal saga continues its now-familiar whiplash: bombing threats, then cancellation, then Trump calling the leaked terms completely fake while JD Vance pushes back on the reporting. FISA 702 failed in the House with real Republican defections that Mike Johnson conveniently left out of his floor speech. The FBI raided an Ohio voter registration group, and Jon's live dig into their tax filings turns up a board stacked with Jim Mattis, John Kerry, and Dave McCormick paying themselves enormous consulting fees. Also, Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire and Jon is still working on it.

Jon Herold comes in Thursday on a slow news day that gets spectacularly un-slow mid-show. Trump posts a detailed plan to bomb Iran and take Kharg Island, Jon raises a Sun Tzu objection, and then within the hour Trump posts again canceling everything because a peace deal has been approved by every party in the region. Chris Paul had predicted the reversal in the Badlands private Telegram chat before it happened, and Jon finds that deeply satisfying. Jon also spends significant time on the New York Times Epstein book video and arrives at the opposite conclusion the Times intends: the entire narrative confirms the Epstein story was a coordinated op against Trump, not evidence of a coverup. MTG going on CNN to call Trump a traitor over the files does not help his read on her. Federal prosecutors issued subpoenas to JPMorgan, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo in a criminal political debanking investigation, and Jon says expand it immediately to PayPal, YouTube, Instagram, and every platform that kicked people off for political speech. The USPS just proposed new ballot tracking standards tied directly to Trump's election integrity order, and Jon connects it to the USPS blockchain voting patent that has been sitting quietly for years. Senate Democrats are apparently wargaming how to stop Trump from stealing the midterms, and Jon calls it the most telling projection he has seen in months.

Jon Herold comes in Wednesday on a lighter news day and makes the most of the material he has. Trump himself just debunked the June 30 Tulsi decode by announcing Pulte takes over on June 19, and Jon asks the obvious question: do any of the people who built entire posts around that date plan to retract them? Trump also signed the Secure America Act and made live comments claiming the reason Steve Hilton got approved quickly in California while Spencer Pratt got bumped is because he put enough heat on them. Jon reads that as an interesting but incomplete theory about how the fraud system responds to pressure. FISA 702 is expiring this week, Trump is posting that it must pass for World Cup and America 250 safety, and Jon's read is simple: the intelligence community does not need a law to surveil people and will continue doing so regardless. Jon also plays a Tim Pool 2021 clip where Pool calls election fraud talk voter suppression and warns it could get him demonetized on YouTube, then looks at Pool's current viral California fraud posts and has some thoughts about the consistency. The Save America Act hit 50 votes on a Mike Lee amendment with Susan Collins, SpaceX goes public Friday, and LA County voters are allegedly voting to raise their own taxes.

Jon Herold comes in Tuesday on primary day with a show that keeps arriving at the same uncomfortable destination. Iran shot down a US Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz last night and Trump posted the US must respond, which Jon notes creates an interesting tension with his earlier request that Israel not respond to Iranian attacks. Nithya Raman has officially bumped Spencer Pratt from the LA runoff, and Jon asks the audience directly: how many of you actually believe any of the ongoing California investigations are going to produce outcome-altering accountability rather than one arrested ballot harvester? Todd Blanche's DOJ nomination is in genuine trouble with Tom Tillis as the pivotal vote, and Jon has been saying Blanche was not getting confirmed since the day it was announced. He also spends time debunking the viral EBS color decode from the UFC White House event setup, demonstrates that every jumbotron in history displays those same colors during calibration, and finds 2015 UFC examples to prove it. Trump called for Thune to fire the Senate parliamentarian, and Jon says the real problem is Thune. India just deployed nuclear warheads for the first time. The Lindsey Graham primary in South Carolina is today and Jon does not love the situation regardless of who wins.

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Jon Herold comes in Monday on a show that keeps circling back to the same unresolved problem: the people who benefit from election fraud are not going to fix election fraud, and nobody on the side that wants to fix it has an answer for how to make that happen anyway. Spencer Pratt is being slowly bumped from the LA mayoral runoff, a former CIA officer's thread explains exactly how it is done and why it leaves no fingerprints, and Jon asks the question that has no clean answer: what do you actually do when you can prove the fraud but the system has no mechanism to correct itself? Trump's appointment of Pulte as acting DNI inadvertently killed the FISA 702 reauthorization, and Jon reads that as entirely intentional. NSPM 11 on AI and national security dropped over the weekend, and buried in it is confirmation of two classified NSPMs numbered 9 and 10 that nobody knew existed. The Antares micro reactor hit first criticality under Trump's 2025 nuclear executive order, becoming the first privately developed non-light water reactor to reach the milestone in 40 years. The Iran-Israel missile exchange is described as behind us for now, DOGE.gov is back up with still no savings counter update, and Jon has strong feelings about the Department of War maintaining an official list of approved religions.

In this special bonus episode, Morgan had the honor of speaking with Steph Herold, MPH, a Research Analyst and lead researcher of the Abortion Onscreen team (AHSIRH) who is featured in the upcoming documentary, "Hollywood Does Abortion." Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, “Hollywood Does Abortion” interrogates how abortion is depicted and discussed in film and on television. Steph has over 15 years of experience in the reproductive health rights and justice fields. She has won several awards including the Rosie Jimenez Award from the Women's Medical Fund. On top of that, Steph has co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publication and grey literature papers focusing on abortion onscreen, abortion stigma, and self-managed abortion. Steph is a subject matter expert featured in “Hollywood Does Abortion.” Morgan and Steph discuss the research Steph has worked on and talk about depictions of abortion in media. “Hollywood Does Abortion” premieres on Sunday, June 7th with additional screenings on June 8th and June 10th. For more information, check out the website HERE. You can follow Female Gaze: The Film ClubInstagramBlueSkyWebsite

Jon Herold comes in Friday on a show that starts with a funeral. DOGE.gov has been taken down after five months of no updates, and Jon is in genuine mourning over the loss of his reliable eight-second daily segment. Then things get more serious: Spencer Pratt is being slowly and obviously bumped from the LA mayoral runoff by late-arriving ballots while everyone watches, federal prosecutors confirm multiple California election fraud investigations, and Trump is posting about it in real time. Jon delivers his funniest and most logical takedown yet of the "just vote them out" solution to election fraud, complete with a mock ballot system for whether the audience should vote. The Save America Act was rejected 48-50 in the Senate with four Republicans opposing it, and Jon asks Elon Musk and others to explain how voting out people in a fraudulent system fixes the fraudulent system. Trump also told the Wall Street Journal he wants Pulte to shrink or possibly terminate the ODNI entirely, which Jon and Chris Paul have been saying for a long time. Seven Senate Republicans including Rand Paul, Josh Hawley, and Mike Lee joined Democrats to kill the FISA renewal. The US and Russia signed a Bering Strait tunnel design agreement today. Trump endorsed Lindsey Graham. Jon has thoughts.

Jon Herold comes in Thursday with a healthy amount of righteous indignation and Phil Scarborough's best news in years. Anna Paulina Luna filed assault charges after a Code Pink activist tapped her arm in a Capitol hallway, and Jon plays the video, compares it to Savannah Hernandez's actual assault, and asks the obvious question: what does calling that an assault do to people who have been genuinely assaulted? Phil Scarborough's Hines County, Mississippi story reaches its conclusion: a judge voided the 2023 Democratic primary after finding missing ballot boxes, missing voter registration forms, missing ballot books, and missing machine tapes, and ordered a new special election in 45 days. Jon calls it one of the first times since 2020 he has seen an election actually thrown out over fraud. John Bolton is expected to plead guilty to illegally retaining national security documents and pay over $2 million. Todd Blanche is being nominated as permanent attorney general and Jon does not think he has the Senate votes. Trump posted in real time calling out California's slow ballot counting as theft and saying the US attorney's office in Los Angeles is already investigating. The House also voted to rein in Trump's Iran war powers with a few Republican crossovers, and Jon sees a potential constitutional fight coming.

Jon Herold comes in Wednesday frazzled from summer kid logistics and ready to make sense of a busy primary night. Spencer Pratt made the LA mayoral runoff against Karen Bass, California's results are still trickling in as expected, and Jon is not confident November goes any better in a system he considers terminally compromised. Trump confirmed on camera that he did call Netanyahu crazy and curse at him for bombing Lebanon, calling himself a wartime president in the same breath, and Jon finds the wartime president framing notably worth paying attention to. The SPLC got a superseding indictment adding detail on $4.1 million paid to informants who participated in cross burnings and KKK activities, and Jon wants to know if anyone in the truth community is on that payroll. Kurt Olsen just joined the DOJ grand conspiracy probe under DiGenova, and Jon has a mixed reaction he is saving for an upcoming Ash conversation because she has reservations he respects. Todd Blanche told the Senate the anti-weaponization fund is simply not moving forward, period, and Jon makes the principled argument he has been making all along: taxpayer-funded payouts without personal accountability for the people who committed the crimes does not fix anything. Trump's Iowa endorsement also just lost.

Jon Herold comes in Tuesday on a chaotic summer schedule and immediately starts doing homework on a name nobody was floating. Trump just named Bill Pulte, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as acting DNI, and Jon pulls his background live: no intelligence experience, but a track record of going after Leticia James, Eric Swalwell, and Adam Schiff, a role in the Fulton County files raid, and a management style so disruptive that Scott Bessent allegedly threatened to punch him at a dinner. Jon does not know if this is a great pick and says so out loud, which puts him in roughly the same honest position as everyone else. Trump also posted that Iran talks have been happening every single day this week regardless of what the media is reporting, Rubio told the Senate the war is over, and Jon notes this is approximately the seventeenth time someone has declared it over. Spencer Pratt's LA mayoral primary is happening today and Jon does not expect him to win, but is watching closely to see whether a stolen race finally gets mainstream people in California asking the question the rest of the country has been asking for years. The Trump-Netanyahu story from Axios is almost certainly planted narrative warfare and Jon explains why.

Jon Herold comes in Monday light on prep and heavy on chat, which is exactly how a slow Monday should go. Tina Peters walked out of prison today after 606 days, and Jon gives it the credit it deserves while flagging that her clemency comes with probation conditions, not a pardon, and he wants to watch how the op around her story unfolds before getting too comfortable. The Iran situation spent most of the show in a confusing standoff: Iran claiming talks are fully suspended because of Israel's attacks on Lebanon and Hezbollah, and Trump posting mid-show that all troops heading to Beirut have been turned back and a fresh Hezbollah ceasefire is already in place. Jon notes the contradiction and lets the audience sit with it. A former Obama-era intel official submitted a memo calling the 51 intel officials' Hunter Biden laptop letter a coordinated deception operation, which Jon acknowledges is correct and calls five years overdue. California's primary is drowning in undisclosed AI slop and paid influencer campaigns, and Jon makes a clean argument for full public disclosure on both sides of political ad spending. Spencer Pratt is probably losing tomorrow. And Jon would like one straight white guy month.

Jon Herold comes in Friday on a light news day and makes the most of what he has got. Aliens.gov finally went live and turned out to be an immigration enforcement tracker showing arrest statistics by zip code, not a UAP disclosure portal. Jon explains why the rug pull was entirely predictable and why people need to stop letting a website name set their expectations. Trump's Truth Social post from the Situation Room lays out his final Iran demands in detail: no nuclear weapons, open Strait immediately, all mines removed, and no money exchanged until further notice. Iran's response was that Trump's statement reflects his wishes, not reality, which Jon says is exactly where this has been for weeks. The DOJ probe is now targeting Reid Hoffman's nonprofit American Future Republic, not Carroll herself, and Jon explains the distinction. John Solomon appeared on War Room promising a novel mechanism to speed transparency next week, and Jon notes this is the fourth time in two months he has made a version of that claim. A judge blocked the anti-weaponization fund while legal challenges proceed, Pam Bondi blamed Todd Blanche for the Epstein redaction errors in closed-door testimony, and Scott Bessent confirmed Congress would need to pass legislation before Trump can appear on a $250 bill. Also Jon found his old baseball articles. He is proud of them.

Jon Herold comes in Thursday with a show that touches his own legal situation more than usual. The DOJ just opened a criminal perjury investigation into E. Jean Carroll after revelations that she denied receiving outside funding while Reid Hoffman was secretly covering her legal fees. Jon sees it as a template for what should happen when people fabricate cases for money and attention, and notes he has a slam dunk case of his own he is now likely to pursue. Jill Biden's Atlantic book tour produced a gem: she claims she never saw Joe like that before or since the debate, floats the possibility he accidentally took codeine, and reveals his own advisers blocked a cognitive test. Jon connects it directly to Biden suing the DOJ to stop the Robert Hur audio from dropping on June 15. John Solomon dropped a clip predicting Tulsi Gabbard will release extraordinary 2020 election interference evidence before she leaves, and Jon gives it cautious credit while asking the same timing question he has been asking for two weeks. Trump's mail-in voting executive order got through a federal judge the same day Gavin Newsom signed a law blocking law enforcement from touching ballots, then threatened to tax Carroll fund recipients at 100%. Former CIA officer David Rush was charged after the FBI found 300 gold bars and $40 million in cash in his Virginia home.

Jon Herold comes in Wednesday on a slow news day that gets genuinely interesting when a chat member drops a link and Jon discovers 98,000 AI-powered Flock surveillance cameras mapped across the United States, run by a private company that shares data freely with law enforcement and ICE. He had never heard of them. Now he has feelings. Trump's cabinet meeting produced two notable moments: a detailed fraud task force update from JD Vance with Steven Miller claiming that stopping government fraud entirely could balance the federal budget, and Trump's tribute to outgoing DNI Tulsi Gabbard, which Jon uses as another reminder to temper expectations about her upcoming reports. On Iran, Trump said the country is negotiating on fumes with 250% inflation and an economy in free fall, and added that he does not care about the midterms, which Jon connects directly to the hibernation theory. Ken Paxton crushed John Cornyn in the Texas senate primary, making Cornyn the first Republican senator from Texas ever to lose his own party's nomination. SpaceX just received a $2.29 billion contract to build a military satellite network and Jon plays a 2022 Kash Patel clip that makes the whole thing feel less surprising. Joe Biden is suing the DOJ to stop the Robert Hur audio recordings from dropping on June 15.

Jon Herold comes in Tuesday on a slow news day that gets more interesting as it goes. Tim Burchett posted a video referencing a podcast where someone asked him whether Jews have too much control in Washington, and Jon is pretty sure he knows which podcast Burchett is talking about. He watches it twice, compares it to the actual question he asked, and lands on a point that matters more than the drama: if AIPAC money runs to Congress in the tens of millions while nobody asks tough questions, that is a foreign influence problem regardless of which country it comes from. The Iran ceasefire is wobbling after the US military conducted self-defense strikes on IRGC launch sites and boats around the Strait of Hormuz, Iran is threatening retaliation, and the deal is stalled over nuclear language and sanctions. James Comey's trial just got pushed from July to October 21, with the defense planning constitutional dismissal motions in July, and Jon is not surprised. Ken Paxton and John Cornyn are finishing the most expensive senate race in history, Jon puts zero stock in Kalshi's predictions, and a new internal DOJ email story about the Mar-a-Lago raid turns out to be a probable rerun of something John Solomon wrote two years ago.

Jon Herold comes in on Memorial Day a little lighter than usual, kids are in the backyard on the slip and slide, and the news is slow enough to get real about some things that need saying. The biggest one: everybody is getting very excited about the reports Tulsi Gabbard is expected to release before she leaves, covering Havana syndrome, COVID origins, and 2020 election fraud. Jon is asking the questions nobody wants to sit with: why are these reports being rushed out because she is leaving, were they always going to come on this timeline, and is a report released under these circumstances going to be complete or a limited hangout? Trump posted a lengthy Memorial Day Truth Social mandating that Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, and Jordan all sign the Abraham Accords simultaneously with any Iran deal, calling it the most historic document ever signed. Jon reads every word. Orange County had a cracked chemical tank threatening 40,000 residents before stabilizing. Jon is skeptical Spencer Pratt can overcome LA County's election system regardless of how well he campaigns. A former federal prosecutor was just indicted for allegedly trying to steal sealed Jack Smith documents, and Jon gives it measured credit while pointing out it is not quite the accountability he is actually waiting for.

Jon Herold comes in Friday expecting a relatively calm show and discovers live on air that Tulsi Gabbard has just resigned as DNI. Her husband Abraham has been diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer, her last day is June 30, and Erin Lucas, a CIA operations officer and former Grinnell chief of staff, will serve as acting director. Jon reads Trump's statement, looks up Lucas's background live, and gives an honest reaction: this matters, and we should not pretend it does not. New Fed chair Kevin Warsh is confirmed with his first meeting set for June 16, and Jon is watching for the Powell investigation to quietly reopen. Jon also spends real time on the viral Fox News mask story, demonstrates live that studio lighting creates neck shadows, and asks the one question nobody has answered: what was the motive? Then chat member Phil Scarborough calls in with first-hand documentation of the 2022 Hines County, Mississippi election: 21 missing precincts, missing thumb drives, twelve hours of chaos, a candidate who could not afford the audit, and a Democratic commissioner who went public saying the machines were used to steal his own race. New UFO files dropped from the Department of War and Jon is still not impressed.

Jon Herold comes in Thursday admittedly light on show prep and heavy on improvisation, which turns out to be a feature not a bug. Colorado Democrats just censured their own governor at a 90% vote for having the audacity to commute Tina Peters' sentence, and Jon asks whether this is a genuine internal party revolt or a coordinated effort to rehab Polis as a future national candidate. Former Biden deputy attorney general Lisa Monaco is now facing a DOJ referral alleging she shielded Microsoft from cybersecurity enforcement actions that her own office pursued against other, smaller contractors. Jon also picks up Joshua Bittle's thread on the $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund: the real story is not the political optics, it is whether Trump used the Judgment Fund to bypass standard congressional appropriations, and what that means for executive power going forward. The American Reserve Modernization Act would authorize the US Treasury to acquire up to one million Bitcoin over five years and codify Trump's strategic Bitcoin reserve into law. Jon is skeptical Congress will pass it and loves the idea anyway. Trump also appeared somewhere with a man whose belly button demanded and received the full attention of the show for approximately fifteen minutes. Jon has no regrets.

Jon Herold comes in Wednesday with a show that starts where yesterday's interview left off. Massey lost in Kentucky, Gallerian won with $15 million in AIPAC money, and Trump's endorsement record stays spotless. Jon uses the moment to ask the question that actually matters: if the election system is fraudulent and the voters do not determine the winner, what does a Trump endorsement actually mean? Is he swaying voters or does he already know who the system is going to pick? He also replays the Burchett clip that has Ashe fired up, pushes back on the blame the voters framing, and asks a pointed question nobody wants to answer: name one grassroots-activated candidate who got into Congress and stayed solid. Trump's Coast Guard speech included a casual reference to being around in 2032, which Jon flags as another devolution-adjacent hint. Two new executive orders dropped: one targeting Chinese money laundering networks and a second that formally integrates digital assets into the US financial regulatory framework, which Jon thinks crypto holders should be paying close attention to. Trump also posted a lengthy Truth Social calling out Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth McDonough and warning that without killing the filibuster Republicans will never win another presidential election.

Jon Herold comes in Tuesday with his best show prep in weeks and a live guest. Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee joins for a fast-moving fifteen-minute interview covering the most expensive House race in history, foreign money in Congress, dark money and NGO corruption, and Jon's favorite question: given the fraud, waste, and abuse, why should Americans keep paying taxes? Burchett's answer is the best Jon has gotten from any representative yet, and the moment where he tells Jon Congress is crooked as a dog's leg is going to be clipped by someone. Before the interview, Jon reads Trump's overnight Truth Social post announcing a planned military strike on Iran was called off at Gulf allies' request, and immediately wonders whether the attack was ever actually scheduled or whether this is another negotiating tactic. Trump also posted about 500,000 illegal mail-in ballots being sent in Maryland and called for a DOJ investigation. The DOJ is now exposing a two-decade-long California election fraud scheme, but Jon flags that none of the exposure touches voting machines. The 30-year treasury yield climbed to 5.2%, Elon Musk lost his OpenAI case in under two hours, and the Department of War just paused its defense board with Canada.

Jon Herold comes in Monday with his kids officially on summer break and a show that starts with economic warning signs nobody wants to talk about. The US 30-year treasury yield hit 5.16% this morning, the highest level since the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis, and Jon walks through exactly what that means for mortgage rates, housing, and stock prices. Student loan defaults just hit a new all-time high of $171 billion. Then Jon turns to the Kentucky primary circus: the Thomas Massey vs. Ed Gallerian race has degenerated into a Laura Loomer-driven psyop featuring unverified sexual allegations, $25 million in outside money, and a Trump endorsement post Jon reads in full and fact-checks in real time. He does not like Massey and still refuses to participate in the hit campaign against him, and explains exactly why that principle matters more than the outcome. Trump also settled his $10 billion IRS lawsuit and created a $1.776 billion anti-weaponization fund, which Jon cautiously questions: who decides who qualifies, and why are taxpayers footing the bill instead of the people who committed the crimes? Plus: Tina Peters is eligible for parole June 1, US-Greenland Arctic talks are quietly continuing, and Venezuela just deported Biden pardon recipient Alex Saab to the US.

Jon Herold comes in Friday on a lighter show day. A post claims Trump purchased up to a million dollars of NVIDIA stock on January 6, one week before the commerce department approved NVIDIA chip sales to China. Jon pulls the disclosure live and confirms the purchase is real, then asks the harder question: if the stock did not actually go up right after the sale, is it even insider trading? He also plays Trump's comments from Beijing defending the 500,000 Chinese students in American universities on the grounds that the university system needs the money to survive, and Jon does not love it. The Trump-Xi summit produced trade and investment oversight boards, a Boeing commitment that could grow to 750 jets, and up to $50 billion in farm and energy purchases. The DOJ, DHS, and USPS are now in active interagency talks to expand federal voter verification and mail-in ballot rules under the March citizenship executive order, which Jon calls a good start while remaining cautious about the midterms. Ratcliffe just showed up in Cuba with reform demands and a $100 million aid offer that Jon finds immediately objectionable, and the Minnesota House released a report accusing the Walz administration of enabling billions in fraud. Jon also announces the fall GART: St. Pete Beach, Florida, November 12 to 15.