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Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Hawk reads the order rather than the coverage, and the distinction matters. The Court did not decide whether any of this is lawful. It held that the states lack standing because the order has not been implemented, that a president may direct agencies within his own branch, and that setting prosecutorial priorities falls under Article II. The majority says explicitly that implementation may still prove unlawful. The dissent argues the two subsections cannot be read apart. Citizenship lists get built in one, investigations get prioritized in the next, and the government has conceded those lists will be incomplete. Two things most reports will miss. Judge Indira Talwani has injunctions in two separate cases and today's order reaches only one. And Steve Vladeck notes the Postal Service rule is already written, with a ruling on it possible within hours. Seventy days out, the practical timeline may matter more than the legal one. SUPPORT & CONNECT WITH HAWK- Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mdg650hawk - Hawk's Merch Store: https://hawkmerchstore.com - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mdg650hawk7thacct - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hawkeyewhackamole - Connect on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mdg650hawk.bsky.social - Connect on Substack: https://mdg650hawk.substack.com - Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hawkpodcasts - Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mdg650hawk - Connect on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mdg650hawk ALL HAWK PODCASTS INFO- Additional Content Available Here: https://www.hawkpodcasts.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@hawkpodcasts- Listen to Hawk Podcasts On Your Favorite Platform:Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3RWeJfyApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/422GDuLYouTube: https://youtube.com/@hawkpodcastsiHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/47vVBdPPandora: https://bit.ly/48COaTB

The federal government claims more than 250,000 noncitizens are on voter rolls in four U.S. states. Officials in those states, though, expressed doubts about the accuracy of those claims and the federal government has not publicly explained how it came to those conclusions. We look into the claims, and why state election officials are worried about what the government alleges.This episode: senior political correspondent Tamara Keith, voting correspondent Miles Parks, and political correspondent Jude Joffe-Block.This podcast was produced and edited by Casey Morell and Bria Suggs.Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show's perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at plus.npr.org.See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for sponsorship and to manage your podcast sponsorship preferences.NPR Privacy Policy

Follow Dr. G here: https://www.tiktok.com/@drg.bodylanguage The part Hawk keeps coming back to is why the temperature is rising now. The Save Act has not moved through the Senate. The Supreme Court has not ruled on the executive order aimed at mail voting. The effort to obtain state voter rolls has lost in court repeatedly. The midterms are coming and the numbers are not close. The Iran war has no exit. Canada walked away from a trade deal. That is a lot of corners at once, and Hawk expects the reaction to get sharper, particularly toward reporters. He also walks through why the 25th Amendment is not the remedy people imagine. If a president contests removal, Congress decides, and the threshold is high enough that party loyalty settles it. Go follow Dr. G, tagged in the description. SUPPORT & CONNECT WITH HAWK- Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mdg650hawk - Hawk's Merch Store: https://hawkmerchstore.com - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mdg650hawk7thacct - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hawkeyewhackamole - Connect on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mdg650hawk.bsky.social - Connect on Substack: https://mdg650hawk.substack.com - Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hawkpodcasts - Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mdg650hawk - Connect on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mdg650hawk ALL HAWK PODCASTS INFO- Additional Content Available Here: https://www.hawkpodcasts.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@hawkpodcasts- Listen to Hawk Podcasts On Your Favorite Platform:Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3RWeJfyApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/422GDuLYouTube: https://youtube.com/@hawkpodcastsiHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/47vVBdPPandora: https://bit.ly/48COaTB

Investigative journalist and O’Keefe Media Group founder James O’Keefe joins Tudor Dixon to reveal what his undercover investigations uncovered about vulnerabilities in America’s election system. O’Keefe takes Tudor inside his recent investigations in Michigan, Minnesota, Alaska, and California, including allegations involving non-citizen voting, voter ID requirements, absentee ballots, ballot harvesting, and Minnesota’s controversial voter “vouching” system. O’Keefe also discusses his investigation in Alaska involving Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s brother, the calls for his prosecution following his undercover reporting, and why he says his team carefully avoided illegally casting or obtaining ballots while documenting potential weaknesses in election safeguards. The conversation also turns to California, where O’Keefe says his reporting uncovered people paying homeless individuals to forge signatures on petitions and register to vote—an investigation he says ultimately resulted in an FBI arrest. Tudor and O’Keefe discuss the SAVE Act, election integrity, voter ID, censorship, the role of investigative journalism, and why O’Keefe believes exposing election vulnerabilities on camera is more powerful than simply telling Americans they exist. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Wednesday, August 19, 2026 Today, DeSantis ally and Palm Beach County clerk Mike Caruso has been arrested on child sex abuse charges; the Justice Department is asking the court to reinstate the charges against Abrego Garcia; a San Diego Padres coach has been arrested by ICE in Texas; Trump votes by mail again in Florida; election denier Tina Peters has been hired in northern California; Paramount is asking states to bear the costs of their delayed buyout of Warner Bros. Discovery; the Minnesota Attorney General is suing to extradite an ICE officer from Texas; border construction in Big Bend is suspended after bipartisan pushback; Disney and ABC have sued the FCC to stop the early license renewal process; North Carolina Governor Josh Stein has vetoed a Republican voter suppression bill; the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals says age restrictions on mail voting in South Carolina are unconstitutional; plus Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. 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Massive news is breaking as President Trump reveals shocking evidence that over 24,000 illegal immigrant votes were cast in the 2020 election!

The political landscape is shaking as shocking claims surface regarding voter roll audits, foreign interference, and declassified FBI reports!

Mike Lomas, Mike Hoeflich, and Glenn Wiggle open with the steady flow of clients relocating from Western New York to Florida before turning to a Virginia case in which a man found not guilty by reason of insanity left a mental health facility on an unsupervised pass and boarded a flight overseas. The hosts react to a New York pilot program extending free health care to sex workers in Buffalo and New York City, question the state's moratorium on data centers, and point to Virginia's data center corridor as evidence the projects bring investment rather than harm. They discuss a cocaine trafficking case involving Penn State fraternity members, then raise concerns about Flock camera surveillance being used for low-level offenses and misidentifications instead of missing children cases. Glenn walks through his hands-on experience building a team of AI agents to handle research, portfolio tracking, and inbox management, and the hosts consider what that means for back office work, offshore labor, and the advisor relationships they argue technology cannot replace. The conversation closes on brownfield redevelopment at former steel and power plant sites, the hosts' view of how each party's policies shape its voter base, immigration screening, and election integrity efforts including voter ID and voter roll cleanup.00:00:00 Clients heading to Florida00:01:50 Virginia insanity acquittal and overseas escape00:04:25 New York's free health care pilot for sex workers00:07:14 Data center moratorium and Virginia's example00:08:51 Penn State fraternity cocaine ring00:11:07 Flock cameras and surveillance overreach00:15:14 Building an AI agent team with Grok00:23:05 AI, back office jobs, and the advisor relationship00:29:32 Brownfield sites, solar panels, and energy00:32:58 Party incentives, immigration, and election integrity

Attorney General Todd Blanche says there's 'a possibility' the Justice Department will take the fight over state voter rolls to the Supreme CourtAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Attorney General Todd Blanche just said on national television that the Justice Department may take the voter-roll cases all the way to the Supreme Court. That's not a throwaway line — it's a signal the administration is prepared to force a constitutional question that lower courts have been ducking.In this episode of The Right Side, Doug Billings breaks down the core of the fight: the Trump administration's request for access to state voter rolls, the resistance from multiple blue states and activist groups, and why clean lists matter before the midterms.Doug explains why dirty rolls guarantee doubt, what the fierce opposition actually reveals, and why removing ineligible names is not suppression — it's basic competence. He makes the case that a republic that cannot verify its own voter lists is running on faith instead of evidence, and that sunlight and pressure are the only ways to force better behavior.This is about more than one court case. It's about whether the machinery of elections is still worthy of the country it's supposed to serve.Listen now for clear, unfiltered analysis you won't get from the media.Support the show at www.DougBillings.usSubscribe to the YouTube channel: @TheRightSideDougBillingsWe're in this together.Believe it.For the Republic!Cheers.#ElectionIntegrity #VoterRolls #Elections #SupremeCourt #TheRightSide #DougBillings #fyp Support the show

James Talarico is the latest Democrat to show his racism when it comes to black people voting, and the soft racism of lowered expectations. Deroy Murdock speaks his mind.

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This Day in Legal History: The Gulf of Tonkin ResolutionOn August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, one of the most consequential—and most cautionary—delegations of power in American history. The vote was overwhelming: unanimous in the House, and 88 to 2 in the Senate. The resolution authorized President Lyndon Johnson “to take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression” in Southeast Asia—and it became the legal foundation for the escalation of the Vietnam War, all without a formal declaration of war.The resolution passed after Johnson told the public that North Vietnamese torpedo boats had made unprovoked attacks on two U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. In the years that followed, serious doubts emerged about what had actually happened—particularly regarding the second reported attack, which may never have occurred at all. Congress, acting on the president's account and in a moment of Cold War urgency, handed the executive branch what amounted to a blank check for war. At the time there were only about 25,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam; that number would eventually exceed half a million.The significance of August 7, 1964 is that it became the defining lesson in the dangers of Congress ceding its war powers to the president. The Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war precisely because the founders feared executive war-making, and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution showed what happens when the legislature abdicates that role. The backlash shaped a generation of law: Congress rescinded the resolution in 1970, and in 1973 passed the War Powers Resolution over President Nixon's veto, trying to claw back some control over the commitment of American forces. It's a permanent reminder—resonant on a day full of stories about the reach of executive power—that authority handed over in a crisis is very hard to take back.The Trump administration's campaign to force states to hand over their voter registration data has now lost twenty-one court cases in a row—an unbroken streak of defeats as the November midterms approach. According to a Reuters analysis, the Justice Department has sued 30 states and the District of Columbia seeking their voter rolls, and it has gone zero for twenty-one, with federal courts from Pennsylvania to California to Michigan, plus the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, all rejecting the effort. Here's the detail that really tells the story: seven of the fifteen district judges who ruled against the administration were appointed by Trump himself, and some Republican state officials—in Idaho, Kentucky, Utah, and West Virginia—have resisted the requests too. This isn't a partisan split; it's a near-consensus rejection. The legal problem is structural. Under the Constitution, the administration of elections is primarily the job of the states, and courts have repeatedly found the federal government lacks the authority to simply demand statewide voter data. We've tracked the pieces of this all summer—the SAVE database fights, the threats to prosecute election officials, the mail-in voting order—and this is the throughline: a coordinated push for federal control over election machinery running headlong into a judiciary, staffed partly by the president's own appointees, that keeps saying no. The significance is that the courts are holding a hard line on the decentralized structure of American elections, and doing it unanimously enough that it's hard to dismiss as politics. It's a fitting counterpoint to yesterday's Voting Rights Act anniversary: sixty years apart, the fights over who controls the ballot continue. Analysis: Trump loses 21 straight court battles for state voter rolls as midterms near | ReutersCBS News · Brennan CenterPresident Trump has signed two new executive orders attempting to narrow birthright citizenship—despite the fact that the Supreme Court rejected his last attempt just over a month ago. Recall that on June 30, the Court held that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship to nearly everyone born on U.S. soil, striking down his earlier order. These new orders are narrower. The White House is taking aim at “birth tourism”—foreigners traveling to the U.S. specifically to give birth—and at denying birthright citizenship to children of some foreign diplomatic staff, with the possibility of extending limits to U.S. territories later. It's worth being precise here, because the two pieces are legally very different. The diplomatic-staff piece actually sits on firmer ground: the Fourteenth Amendment grants citizenship to those “subject to the jurisdiction” of the United States, and children of accredited foreign diplomats have long been recognized as a genuine exception. But the birth-tourism piece runs straight into the June ruling, which held that a child's citizenship doesn't depend on the immigration status or purpose of the parents. And crucially, these are executive orders—they set executive-branch policy, but they don't carry the force of a statute or override a constitutional holding. After his June loss, Trump had called on Congress to act; instead he's gone back to the executive-order well. The significance is a real test of what a president can do after the Supreme Court has ruled against him on constitutional grounds. Legal experts say it's unclear what practical effect these orders can even have, and fresh legal challenges are all but certain. It's an attempt to chip at the edges of a ruling the administration couldn't overturn head-on. Trump to sign orders on birthright citizenship, Axios reports | ReutersCBS News · Al JazeeraAnd finally, a New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $567 million into a teen mental-health fund and to substantially overhaul how its platforms work for young users—one of the most significant rulings yet in the wave of litigation over social media and children. Judge Bryan Biedscheid in Santa Fe found that Meta created a “public nuisance” in New Mexico, siding with Attorney General Raúl Torrez—the same AG who, as we noted yesterday, is suing the Justice Department over the Epstein files. Torrez had accused Meta of designing its products to addict young users and failing to protect children from sexual exploitation on its platforms. The “public nuisance” theory is worth flagging, because it's the same legal tool that drove the big opioid settlements: the idea that a company's conduct created a widespread harm to the public that it can be forced to help abate. And the money is only part of it. The judge imposed a five-year decree requiring concrete design changes—monthly limits on teens' time on Facebook and Instagram, restrictions on notifications, tighter controls on adult contact with minors, safeguards around AI chatbots, and enhanced review of child sexual abuse reports. This lands amid everything we've tracked: the Tennessee trial that just opened, the multistate penalty fight, the bellwether cases. Meta says it will appeal and that it's been working to remove harmful content. The significance is that a court hasn't just put a price on Meta's conduct—it has ordered the company to redesign its products for kids, backed by the public-nuisance theory. If that approach holds up on appeal, it's a template other states will follow, and it moves the social-media reckoning from damages into the far more consequential territory of forced design change. New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567 mln teen mental health fund | ReutersWashington Post · Yahoo Finance This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

Hawk lays out why the executive branch has no constitutional role in running state or federal elections, why only a handful of red states have handed over raw voter data, and why no blue state and no court is going to force that information out. There is also the collapse of the reflecting pool prosecutions. Janine Pirro dismissed the criminal vandalism charges after admitting there was no evidence, and the more likely motive was self preservation, since misrepresenting evidence to a federal judge carries disbarment and prosecution risk for the prosecutor, not the president. With the 2026 midterm elections roughly three months out, Hawk looks ahead to the window between Election Day and January, mail in ballots, chain of custody, and what happens when a Justice Department staffed for loyalty instead of competence keeps losing. Support Mark Elias and Democracy Docket. SUPPORT & CONNECT WITH HAWK- Support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/mdg650hawk - Hawk's Merch Store: https://hawkmerchstore.com - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mdg650hawk7thacct - Connect on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hawkeyewhackamole - Connect on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/mdg650hawk.bsky.social - Connect on Substack: https://mdg650hawk.substack.com - Connect on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hawkpodcasts - Connect on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mdg650hawk - Connect on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mdg650hawk ALL HAWK PODCASTS INFO- Additional Content Available Here: https://www.hawkpodcasts.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@hawkpodcasts- Listen to Hawk Podcasts On Your Favorite Platform:Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3RWeJfyApple Podcasts: https://apple.co/422GDuLYouTube: https://youtube.com/@hawkpodcastsiHeartRadio: https://ihr.fm/47vVBdPPandora: https://bit.ly/48COaTB

An absolute battle is unfolding! From sanctuary states refusing to turn over voter data to wild border developments unfolding overseas, this episode breaks down how tools like the SAVE database are exposing non-citizen voter registrations, triggering DOJ criminal investigations, and igniting the ultimate showdown over election integrity and national security!

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Todd returns from the EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh and turns to a renewed debate over election integrity. He examines reports that roughly 6,600 noncitizens were added to New Jersey's voter rolls through the state's motor-vehicle registration process, including the dispute between state officials and the software vendor over responsibility. Todd argues that the episode is evidence of serious vulnerabilities, challenges critics to address those concerns directly, and distinguishes evidence from conclusive proof. He also responds to changing media arguments about whether improper registrations occur and whether their scale matters. The conversation then moves to the SAVE America Act and its proposed safeguards: documentary proof of citizenship during registration, voter photo identification, and restrictions on mass-mailed ballots while preserving legitimate absentee voting. Drawing on remarks from Senator Mike Lee, Todd urges listeners to press Senate Republicans to act, contending that transparent, consistent safeguards are essential to restoring public confidence in American elections.

Todd returns from the EAA AirVenture show in Oshkosh and turns to a renewed debate over election integrity. He examines reports that roughly 6,600 noncitizens were added to New Jersey's voter rolls through the state's motor-vehicle registration process, including the dispute between state officials and the software vendor over responsibility. Todd argues that the episode is evidence of serious vulnerabilities, challenges critics to address those concerns directly, and distinguishes evidence from conclusive proof. He also responds to changing media arguments about whether improper registrations occur and whether their scale matters. The conversation then moves to the SAVE America Act and its proposed safeguards: documentary proof of citizenship during registration, voter photo identification, and restrictions on mass-mailed ballots while preserving legitimate absentee voting. Drawing on remarks from Senator Mike Lee, Todd urges listeners to press Senate Republicans to act, contending that transparent, consistent safeguards are essential to restoring public confidence in American elections.

Reason eleventy billion we need to pass the SAVE America Act, acting DNI Bill Pulte drops eye watering news about the voter rolls in more than a dozen states being compromised by the CCP. So... China IS controlling US elections....? Investigative reporter Catherine Herridge drops a sit-down with a former senior CIA official turned whistleblower and what he says about Covid and Fauci's handling of it will captivate you.  

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Part two of the New Jersey non-citizen voter registration story: CNN's homepage has nothing on it, but John Solomon of Just the News actually called the software company behind New Jersey's voter registration system — and they say there was no glitch at all. Larry walks through the DOJ's new investigation into the state, a very telling Freudian slip from former Governor Phil Murphy about how rarely voter fraud gets "uncovered," CNN and MSNBC's attempts to change the subject (TSA software risk, "Trump pouncing on it"), an old ABC News fact-check that aged badly, and Ro Khanna's real concern about this election cycle: keeping ICE away from polling places.Become a Townhall VIP member with promo code "LARRY": https://townhall.com/subscribeSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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President Donald Trump's televised speech on election security to the nation last week may have been more watched, but for Eric Eggers the bombshell information came the next day during the Homeland Security secretary's press conference. "Markwayne Mullin laid out the 278,000 non-citizens that they have identified on the voter rolls just from the limited data they've been able to access thus far,” Eggers notes. “They're being proactive, sending copies of letters to different states like New Jersey saying, ‘We found 19,000 people on your voter rolls that have the same name, address, birthday, social security number as people that are in our system as being non-citizens. So, we'd like to know what you're doing about it.'”

1210 - Side - something you're nostalgic for 1230 - Lou Cappelli Jr., Camden County Commissioner Director, joins us after the crime rates have plummeted and property rates have even started to increase! What has led to this turnaround? How has crime gone down so much in the city? Would Lou give any credit to President Trump for increased safety? Is school choice helping Camden? Are businesses coming back to Camden? What's the next challenge for the city? 1245 - Your calls. 1250 - Is the Camden school system better than Philadelphia's? Caller fight! 1 - Is the Smithsonian full of White Supremacists? Is objectivity a sign of white supremacy? 115 - A big win for humans over the machines. More calls. 135 - Lou Belasco, Executive Director of The Wildwoods, is here. Why is he not out filming right now? What big things are coming to the town as we hit the latter part of summer? When is Dom's favorite festival? 150 - Dom Giordano Presents: Progressive Women Gone Wild! 155 - Your calls to end the hour. 2 - As Mikie Sherrill and New Jersey were forced to admit that thousands of people on voter rolls are illegal aliens! Matt Rooney of SaveJersey.com and 1210 WPHT, joins us to discuss why she admitted this. Or was she forced to? How was her press conference today? What other Jersey headlines are making waves today. Is there a Central Jersey? 215 - Dom's Money Melody! 225 - More calls. 235 - Ally Triolo, RNC Election Integrity Communications Director, joins us this afternoon. What is her reaction Mikie Sherrill admitting there's thousands of illegal aliens on their voter rolls? How is the RNC protecting the ballot box? What's next for PA election integrity? 240 - Some more of your calls. 250 - The Lightning Round!

The Morning XTRA with Tug and Los delivers conservative talk on the biggest political, cultural, and news stories of the day. Smart analysis, unapologetic opinions, and real conversations every weekday morning. Every weekday from 6a to 10a! Today's show: Tug and Los recap the weekend, including the Braves' big wins and the conclusion of the World Cup, before diving into the biggest political and cultural stories of the day. The guys discuss the 2020 election, why some Democrats are beginning to question the direction of their own party, and why AOC is starting to sound more like Tug on certain issues. Plus, the guys break down the changing landscape of the Pride movement and whether cultural conversations in America are shifting. On today's show:• Flashback: Remember what happened on election night in 2020?• Why some Democrats are waking up to what's happening inside their party• The View's debate over testosterone• Why Olive Garden might feel safer than America's elections• Shakira, movies, and more to get us off the railsAtlanta's ONLY All Conservative News & Talk Station.: https://www.xtra1063.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Todd examines President Trump's election-integrity speech and argues that public confidence depends on confronting vulnerabilities instead of dismissing concerns. He criticizes ABC and NBC for not carrying the speech, framing their decision as another example of legacy media filtering information rather than letting Americans evaluate political arguments for themselves.The discussion centers on Trump's call for the SAVE America Act, including documentary proof of citizenship during voter registration and voter identification at the polls. Todd uses a changing-the-locks analogy to distinguish the existence of security weaknesses from proof that every weakness has been exploited. He also reviews Trump's claims about noncitizens appearing on voter rolls, foreign access to voter data, declassified intelligence, and the need to investigate election-related crimes—carefully noting that registration concerns or breached data do not, by themselves, establish that illegal votes were cast or election results changed.Todd's broader case is that secure elections require transparency, enforceable safeguards, and officials willing to answer disputed claims with evidence. He closes by urging listeners who support the legislation to contact their senators.

Todd examines President Trump's election-integrity speech and argues that public confidence depends on confronting vulnerabilities instead of dismissing concerns. He criticizes ABC and NBC for not carrying the speech, framing their decision as another example of legacy media filtering information rather than letting Americans evaluate political arguments for themselves.The discussion centers on Trump's call for the SAVE America Act, including documentary proof of citizenship during voter registration and voter identification at the polls. Todd uses a changing-the-locks analogy to distinguish the existence of security weaknesses from proof that every weakness has been exploited. He also reviews Trump's claims about noncitizens appearing on voter rolls, foreign access to voter data, declassified intelligence, and the need to investigate election-related crimes—carefully noting that registration concerns or breached data do not, by themselves, establish that illegal votes were cast or election results changed.Todd's broader case is that secure elections require transparency, enforceable safeguards, and officials willing to answer disputed claims with evidence. He closes by urging listeners who support the legislation to contact their senators.

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The Morning XTRA with Tug and Los delivers conservative talk on the biggest political, cultural, and news stories of the day. Smart analysis, unapologetic opinions, and real conversations every weekday morning. Every weekday from 6a to 10a! Today's show: Tug and Los react to President Trump's address to the nation and his claims of widespread election fraud, continuing the conversation on election integrity and the lingering questions surrounding the 2020 election. The guys also discuss Joe Rogan's comments that Democrats need cheating to win elections, why the debate over voter confidence remains a major political issue, and the latest reactions from both the media and political leaders. On today's show:• How can dead people be voting in the 2020 election?• Stephen Miller takes aim at Antifa• A masked New York woman's comments on eviction violence go viral• Who knew a refrigerator could become a case study for capitalism?• The science behind the "crazy liberal woman"• Don't send your kids to UC San FranciscoAtlanta's ONLY All Conservative News & Talk Station.: https://www.xtra1063.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Since Donald Trump constantly claims U.S. elections are rigged, can South Carolina trust its voter rolls?Following the sudden death of Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina is preparing for a special election that could have major consequences for the state—and for control of the U.S. Senate.But before voters choose Graham's successor, investigative journalist Alison Greene says South Carolina's voter-registration records need close scrutiny.In this interview with Lean to the Left host Bob Gatty, Greene explains why she has begun filing public-records requests for county voter rolls across South Carolina and why she is recruiting volunteers to help compare those records before the election. In several other states, including Texas and Florida, Greene has found that indeed elections have been rigged, due to voter roll tampering that largely benefited Republican candidates, not Democratic candidates. Will she find the same in South Carolina?The discussion covers:• How legally registered voters can disappear from voter rolls• Why voters should verify their registration before Election Day• Concerns about inaccurate, fraudulent, or “ghost” voter records• How county-by-county comparisons can reveal suspicious changes• Why the final 90 days before an election may be especially important• What South Carolinians can do to help examine the records• Why election transparency matters regardless of which candidate winsGreene stresses that unusual voter-roll changes should be investigated, not automatically assumed to be illegal. Her goal is to identify potential problems early enough for election officials, campaigns, and affected voters to address them before ballots are cast.Whether Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews wins or loses, South Carolinians deserve confidence that every eligible voter can participate and that the result reflects the will of the people.To volunteer with Greene's voter-roll research project, visit:itsuptous.grassrootsspeak.comThis episode is part of the Lean to the Left Truth Under Attack series examining election integrity, investigative journalism, whistleblowers, and threats to democratic accountability.Subscribe to Lean to the Left for independent political reporting, interviews, and progressive commentary.#SouthCarolina #LindseyGraham #ElectionIntegrity #VoterRolls #AlisonGreene #AnnieAndrews #GhostVoters #VotingRights #TruthUnderAttack #LeanToTheLeftCHAPTERS:00:00 Special Election Stakes01:09 Why Graham 2020 Looked Off02:53 ES&S Machine Pattern05:23 Shift to Voter Rolls06:01 FOIA Plan for Counties07:51 Voters Vanishing Example10:42 How Roll Hacking Works14:33 Ninety Day Danger Window18:40 Volunteer Roles Needed20:43 Ghost Voters and IDs26:36 ERIC and Cross State Checks28:33 Russian Fake ID Case32:56 How to Help and Wrap Up35:27 Truth Under Attack Outro

Tuesday, July 14, 2026 Today, Trump will give a Thursday night address likely to produce falsified evidence of foreign interference in the 2020 election; a federal judge has sanctioned two lawyers and referred Blanche and Woodward to the Bar for disciplinary action after finding Donald's lawsuit against the IRS was a fraud on the court; the Justice Department has finally turned over evidence in the shooting case of Renée Good by ICE agent Jonathan Ross in Minneapolis; 12 states have filed a lawsuit to block the Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. merger; the Governor of South Carolina has appointed Lindsey Graham's sister to take over his Senate seat for the remainder of the term; ICE agents have killed another person in a vehicle in Biddeford Maine sparking protests at Susan Collins' office; 20 agents from the FBI and other federal agencies were seen with U.S. Capitol Police officers entering Lindsey Graham's house; Katie Phang fires back at Todd Blanche's refusal to release court-ordered Epstein documents; plus Allison delivers your Good News. 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This Day in Legal History: The Fourteenth Amendment Is RatifiedOn July 9, 1868, South Carolina and Louisiana became the final two states needed to push the Fourteenth Amendment over the three-quarters threshold, and with their votes the amendment was ratified into the Constitution. It is, by almost any measure, the most consequential of the Reconstruction amendments and arguably the most important addition to the Constitution since the Bill of Rights.The amendment was written to answer the central question left open by the Civil War and the abolition of slavery: what did freedom actually mean, and who was entitled to it? Its first section does an enormous amount of work in a single sentence. It establishes birthright citizenship—declaring that all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to its jurisdiction, are citizens of both the nation and their state. It then forbids any state from abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens, from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law, and from denying any person the equal protection of the laws. Those three clauses—privileges or immunities, due process, and equal protection—became the constitutional text on which vast stretches of modern American law are built.The historical purpose was direct. The framers of the amendment, led in the House by John Bingham, wanted to overrule Dred Scott, which had held that Black Americans could not be citizens, and to constitutionalize the civil rights protections Congress had already tried to enact by statute—putting them beyond the reach of any future hostile Congress or Southern legislature. They understood that emancipation without citizenship and equal protection would be a hollow victory, and they wrote a guarantee that applied against the states, not just the federal government.The significance of July 9, 1868 is hard to overstate, because so much of what we argue about today runs directly through this text. The Equal Protection Clause is the basis of Brown v. Board of Education and school desegregation, of Loving v. Virginia striking down bans on interracial marriage, and of Obergefell recognizing marriage equality. The Due Process Clause became the vehicle for incorporating most of the Bill of Rights against the states, so that free speech, free exercise, and protections for the criminally accused bind state governments too. And the Citizenship Clause is the reason that birthright citizenship is a constitutional guarantee rather than a policy preference—as the Supreme Court reaffirmed just this past term. When you hear debates about who counts as a citizen, what process the government owes a person before it takes something from them, or whether a law treats people equally, you are hearing an argument about the amendment ratified on this date.A federal judge in Florida has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to keep giving four Republican-led states—Florida, Iowa, Indiana, and Ohio—access to a federal database those states use to check whether registered voters are citizens. The order, from U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell II in Pensacola, lets the states continue using the system while the underlying legal fight plays out.The database is called SAVE—Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements—a federal system historically used to verify immigration status for benefits. After a revamp last year, it became far more powerful for election purposes: users could search many records at once, and it exposed individuals' Social Security numbers. Several Republican-led states began comparing their voter rolls against SAVE and canceling the registrations of people the database flagged as noncitizens. The problem is what happens when the database is wrong or out of date—people who are in fact citizens can get flagged and purged.That risk is exactly why this ruling sits in tension with another one. Just weeks earlier, on June 22, a different federal judge in Washington, D.C., restricted broader use of the database, warning that relying on it could result in eligible voters being wrongly stripped from the rolls. So you now have two federal courts pointing in different directions—one worried about wrongful purges and limiting the database's use, and one ordering DHS to keep the spigot open for these four states. When trial courts split like this, the disagreement typically has to be resolved higher up, and it means the rules can differ depending on which state and which courtroom you're standing in.The significance is that this is a live fight over the machinery of voter-roll maintenance heading into a midterm election year. There's a genuine and legitimate interest in keeping noncitizens off the voter rolls—but there's an equally real risk that a blunt, error-prone matching process disenfranchises actual citizens who then have to fight to get back on. This ruling tilts toward giving states the verification tool; the D.C. ruling tilts toward protecting against wrongful removals. Watch the appellate courts, because the boundary between list maintenance and unlawful voter purging is about to get drawn more sharply.US judge orders four states be given access to citizenship data for voter checks | ReutersIn a closely related development, the Justice Department has sent letters to all fifty states warning that state and local election officials could face criminal prosecution if they allow noncitizens to remain on their voter rolls. The letters, from Harmeet Dhillon, who leads the Department's Civil Rights Division, give officials just five days to respond with a plan to comply. The federal government does have statutes on the books aimed at protecting the integrity of elections and barring noncitizens from voting, and the letters invoke several of them. But the ordinary way these laws work is that you prosecute a person who actually votes illegally, or who knowingly facilitates fraud. What's unusual here is the target: the letters put state and local election administrators—the people who maintain the rolls—on notice that they personally could be charged. That reframes routine election administration as potential criminal exposure for the officials doing it.Think about the position this puts an election official in. Maintaining accurate voter rolls is genuinely hard—people move, die, naturalize, and occasionally register in error—and every state already has processes for it. Now imagine being told by the U.S. Department of Justice that if the federal government later decides your rolls were inadequate, you could be a criminal defendant, and you have five days to send in a compliance plan. Even if few or no prosecutions ever materialize, the threat itself is designed to change behavior—to push officials toward more aggressive purging out of fear of personal liability. Critics call that coercion; the Department frames it as enforcement.The significance is about federal pressure on the decentralized American election system. Elections in this country are run by states and localities, deliberately, so that no single national authority controls the vote. Democratic officials in states like Michigan pushed back hard, noting they've already taken extensive steps to ensure only eligible voters can vote. The letters, arriving alongside the SAVE database fight, are part of a coordinated push ahead of the midterms, and they raise a serious question about the line between legitimate federal enforcement of election laws and using the threat of prosecution to lean on the officials who administer them.US Justice Department tells state officials they could be prosecuted over noncitizen voting | ReutersAnd in a very different kind of case, a former Olympic canoe racer, David Hearn, pleaded not guilty in D.C. Superior Court to a felony charge of deliberately damaging the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Hearn, who is 67 and competed in three Summer Olympics, entered his plea through an attorney at his first court appearance, and his lawyers have described the prosecution as an abuse of power built on what they call a “concocted narrative.”The Reflecting Pool sits on the National Mall between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument and had just undergone a roughly $16 million renovation. Hearn has said he was stopped by National Guard troops and U.S. Park Police and detained for about five hours after pausing at the pool during a 64-mile bike ride in June. He was later indicted on a single felony count of property destruction. The top federal prosecutor for D.C., U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, said six other people were arrested on misdemeanor charges connected to damage at the same site.The legal question worth watching is the gap between the charge and the conduct. Property-destruction law generally requires proof that the defendant intentionally caused the damage, and a felony charge usually turns on the dollar value of that damage. Hearn's defense is essentially that the government has manufactured intent and seriousness out of an innocent encounter—that a man pausing on a bike ride has been turned into a felony defendant. The judge apparently agreed there was little flight or danger risk: Hearn was released without court supervision pending an August 5 status hearing, which tells you something about how the court currently views the threat he poses.The significance here is less about one damaged pool and more about the exercise of prosecutorial discretion. Deciding whom to charge, and whether to charge a felony versus a misdemeanor versus nothing at all, is one of the most powerful and least reviewable choices in the legal system. When critics call a prosecution politically motivated or an abuse of power, they're pointing at that discretion. Whether this case is a legitimate property-crime prosecution (it isn't) or an overreach (it is) is exactly what the coming proceedings will test—and it's a useful reminder that the same charging power that holds genuine wrongdoers accountable can also be aimed in ways that raise real fairness concerns.Former US Olympian pleads not guilty in Reflecting Pool vandalism case | Reuters This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.minimumcomp.com/subscribe

The Trump Justice Department has sent letters to election officials in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., warning they could face criminal prosecution if noncitizens appear on voter rolls or vote in federal elections. The move has sparked criticism from officials across the political spectrum, while research continues to show noncitizen voting is exceedingly rare. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

On today's episode of The Alan Sanders Show, we look how the Left's conjuration of Graham Platner is nothing by a caricature of what they think modern American male is. President Trump declares the Iran MOU is over, as he returns to a kinetic campaign and the naval blockade. We also dive deep into the critical fight for clean voter rolls and election integrity as the 2026 midterms approach, plus a whole lot more. Alan breaks down the latest headlines, exposes media spin, and discusses what these developments mean for everyday Americans. Packed with insight, humor, and straight talk, don't miss this timely conversation on masculinity, leadership, and securing our Republic. Please take a moment to rate and review the show and then share the episode on social media. You can find me on Facebook, X, Instagram, GETTR, TRUTH Social, TikTok, YouTube and Rumble by searching for The Alan Sanders Show. And, consider becoming a sponsor of the show by visiting my Patreon page!

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