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Devolution Power Hour Ep. 451: SPLC Indicted, Election Memo Drops, DPA Invoked

Jon Herold and Burning Bright break down a week loaded with actual movement. A newly declassified DNI memo from January 2020 quietly confirms what many already suspected: US election infrastructure was vulnerable enough to be manipulated at scale. Then the SPLC gets hit with a sweeping federal grand jury indictment for wire fraud, money laundering, and secretly funding the very extremist groups it claimed to fight, including paying an operative over $270,000 to help organize the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. The guys connect this to the broader color revolution playbook and coordinated infiltration of online movements, including their own. Devin Nunez quietly exits TMTG for an intelligence advisory role, raising questions about the Russiagate investigation's next moves. Virginia's redistricting referendum ends in a contested mail-in ballot flip. And Trump invokes the Defense Production Act to overhaul the US energy grid, which the guys frame as the foundation of a long-planned nuclear transition.

The Shipwreck Show Ep. 51: Gravity, Flat Earth, and the Lie About Vegetables

Tonight on The Shipwreck Show… we’re asking the questions you're probably not supposed to ask.• What is gravity… really? And what was Operation Dominic?• Do vegetables actually exist… or is that just something we've all accepted without thinking?• Flat Earth — crazy conspiracy… or uncomfortable questions?• TPUSA staged questions? Let's talk about it.• And here's a wild one — you may already have cancer… and it may never harm you. So what does that actually mean?This episode is about curiosity, critical thinking, and questioning the things we’ve always been told are settled.Some of this will sound ridiculous.Some of it will sound uncomfortable.All of it will make you think.Welcome to The Shipwreck Show. Where we explore… everything

Space Revolution Ep. 15: We Want Peace in Space

What if the biggest obstacle to humanity's next great frontier isn't the technology, but us? Lt Gen (Ret.) Steven L. Kwast sits down with cohost Jonathan Drake to kick off a new series of first-principles conversations tackling the question no rocket scientist can answer: is natural law universal?
They trade the jet fuel for moral fuel, digging into what the founders actually meant by natural law (spoiler: not "law of the jungle"), why humility, wisdom, and obedience form the only stable launchpad, and how trial by jury was designed as the people's final veto on tyranny. Drake walks through Lysander Spooner's six truths about money and political power, while Kwast shares how his space company is training AI on physics rather than language so it can recognize deception by the laws of nature themselves.
The takeaway is bracing and oddly hopeful. If we head into space without sorting out our relationship with each other first, the revolution will be bathed in blood. If we do the work now, we get peace. No pressure.

The Daily Herold: 4/22/26 - SPLC Indicted, Nunez Exits & Virginia Rigged

Jon Herold comes in hot today with what might be the most satisfying indictment in recent memory. The Southern Poverty Law Center has been charged with wire fraud, false statements, and money laundering after secretly funneling millions of donated dollars to KKK members, Aryan Nation organizers, and even a paid informant who helped plan the 2017 Charlottesville rally. Jon breaks down the indictment, connects it to how psyops and narrative warfare actually work, and asks the uncomfortable question: who else is running this playbook? Also on the docket: Devin Nunez quietly stepping down from TMTG to focus on Trump's intelligence advisory board, which Jon thinks could be a bigger deal than anyone is giving it credit for. Virginia's redistricting referendum passed via a suspiciously well-timed mail-in ballot dump, Trump called it rigged on Truth Social, and Seth Keschel's numbers back that up. Plus: Iran fired on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz while the ceasefire was being extended, the US Army's nuclear chief was escorted out after an O'Keefe sting, and the Trump administration wants to bail out Spirit Airlines with half a billion dollars. No, really.

Breaking History Ep. 144: Trump's Joker Mask, Greater Israel & the Arc of Empire

Matt Ehret and Ghost return to unpack a world that feels increasingly like a chessboard with too many players. They open with Matt's running map of "control scarcity," the quiet wave of refinery shutdowns and sabotage hitting Texas, Australia, Colorado, India, and Russia, and what that means for global energy and food supplies. From there, the conversation swings into the strange theater around Maria Corina Machado, Trump's Venezuela playbook being rerun on Iran, and the idea that Trump has donned a Joker mask to bait the warmongers into exposing themselves.
The guys dig into Trump's reading of 2 Chronicles 7, the planned 250 foot Triumphal Arch in D.C., and its eerie lineage back through Napoleon and Titus, complete with Napoleon's 1801 promise to rebuild Solomon's Temple. Netanyahu's messianic complex, the animus toward Jesus baked into certain theological sects, devolution theory, the Southern Poverty Law Center indictment, and the House of Abraham project all get a turn. Professional, a little irreverent, and heavy on historical receipts.

Badlands Daily: 4/22/26 - SPLC Indicted, Intel Memo Drops, VA Gerrymandering Aftermath

CannCon and Ashe in America come in hot on Wednesday with a show that delivers. The Virginia gerrymandering amendment passed 51/49, and Ash breaks down the multiple constitutional violations the Virginia Supreme Court allowed to stand, setting up a messy legal fight ahead. A newly declassified intel memo confirms US intelligence secretly warned in early 2020 that foreign adversaries had the capability to access and manipulate election infrastructure, and then withheld that information from the public while China and Iran did exactly what was predicted. The Southern Poverty Law Center is indicted on 11 counts of wire and bank fraud and money laundering after being caught paying the KKK and other extremist groups to manufacture the racial threat they were supposed to be fighting. The New York Times obtains secret Supreme Court shadow docket memos from 2015 and 2016, raising serious questions about who is actually running the show. Plus, Kevin Warsh's Fed nomination hearing, three Democrat congress members resigning in a week, and a principled debate on due process in the Cherfilus-McCormick resignation.

RattlerGator Report: 4/22/26 - The Technological Republic, SPLC, and Middle East Triangulation

JB White is still sick, still showing up, and still not pulling punches. This episode digs deep into Palantir's Alex Karp and Jeff Park's "The Technological Republic," walking through all 22 points of their framework for what America must become to survive the AI age. JB agrees with most of it, pushes back hard on one, and ties it all together with his take on national identity, hollow pluralism, and why the SPLC's manufactured race narrative finally appears to be meeting its end. He also touches on the brewing Saudi Arabia vs. UAE tension in the Middle East, explains why Trump has to navigate it carefully, and shares why he believes the Iran chapter is already closed. A packed show from a man who refuses to take a sick day off from critical thinking.

DEFCON ZERQ Ep. 040: Rep. Tim Burchett on UFOs, DNA Harvesting & AI Wars

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid sit down with Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee for a conversation that was supposed to be fifteen minutes and turned into forty five. Nobody complained. The trio covers the congressman's long standing push for UAP transparency, the skiffs where officials get shown things specifically so they cannot discuss them, and why Burchett believes the real issue is not little green men but where all those tax dollars are actually going.
From there the conversation widens into DNA data mining, Jeffrey Epstein's two genetic research companies, allegations of genetic alteration programs inside the federal government, and the Smith Mundt Modernization Act that quietly made domestic propaganda legal. Burchett also weighs in on AI regulation by people who still drive AMC Gremlins, accountability for deep state actors, and the mentality of skipping elections that he says leads straight to totalitarian rule.
After the interview Alpha and Josh debrief, unpack the Epstein DNA angle in detail, analyze the US and China AI race, and break down the Brennan grand jury subpoena withdrawal and what it likely means.
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Badlands Book Club: Stolen Elections Finale

CannCon, Ashe in America, and Colonel Towner Watkins wrap up Ralph Pizzullo's Stolen Elections and they are not holding back. The crew digs into the book's most explosive update yet: CIA collusion in election theft, Chinese components baked into voting machines, and a fake ID scheme tied to mail-in ballot fraud. Virginia's sneaky redistricting ballot language gets called out for the psychological manipulation it is. J. Alex Halderman gets the controlled opposition treatment he deserves. And Olivetti's shadowy ties to IBM, JPMorgan, Operation Gladio, and the mafia add a whole new layer to the Smartmatic origin story. The verdict? Decentralize elections, prosecute the Americans involved, and maybe burn the book on the way out. Next up: Creature from Jekyll Island. You voted. We move on.

Geopolitics with Ghost Ep. 100: Israel's Isolation, Mossad in Italy & the Jesus Statue - 4/21/26

Episode 100 of Geopolitics with Ghost lands on a milestone moment. Ghost opens with an IDF soldier destroying a Jesus statue in Southern Lebanon, calling it a symbol of the Greater Israel project made visible. From there, Ghost breaks down Netanyahu's incentive structure, his Kahanist cabinet, and why he cannot afford peace. The IDF's new forward defense zone in Lebanon gets mapped out, with Mount Hermon as the likely next target. Ghost then connects the 2023 Lake Maggiore Mossad boat incident to Italy's Equalize spying scandal, implicating Israeli intelligence in the theft of Italian financial databases to target the Wagner Group and Putin. Israel's international isolation is accelerating: Italy suspends its defense agreement, Hungary's new leader threatens Netanyahu with ICC arrest, and Russia detained 40 Israelis at a Moscow airport. Ghost wraps with EU arms spending corruption, the US quietly renewing Russian oil waivers, and an ADF rescue operation in Eastern Congo tied to rare earth mineral conflicts.