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Burning Bright kicks off a fresh chapter of the show with Zak Paine, and things go big picture fast, think Rome's staying power versus America's 251st year, and whether this moment finally feels different. They trade theories on why 2025 and 2026 haven't unfolded the way many expected, why getting dragged into the reactive "micro" can cloud the bigger "macro" view, and what Trump's approach to the presidency actually reveals about his long game. The conversation drifts north of the border too, with a candid look at how immigration and cultural shifts in Canada are reshaping political attitudes across generations. Expect...

Jonathan Drake is back from Deadwood, hair growing long and spirits high after a GART weekend full of trial by jury shenanigans, whip mishaps, and a courtroom drama that left at least one Canadian juror bribed with citizenship. But once the recap wraps, it's back to business with Lysander Spooner. This week Jon dives into Section Three, unpacking why a hung jury should actually mean acquittal, how a 19th century Supreme Court case quietly rewired the presumption of innocence, and why calling Spooner an anarchist misses the point entirely. Expect a deep, sometimes cheeky exploration of natural law, the...

Lightning delays, a crowd that shrank from 375,000 to a very dedicated 150,000, and a president determined to give his speech anyway, welcome to America's 250th birthday party. Badlands Media brings you the full Salute to America broadcast from the National Mall, where Trump walks through two and a half centuries of flags, founders, and fireworks with a rotating cast of genuine American legends on stage beside him, from a 107 year old D Day veteran to the crew of Artemis II. Expect Second Amendment talk, a full throated case against communism, some record breaking economic numbers, and a surprising number of...

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

There's a full read through of the newly surfaced National Resilience Strategy, a surprisingly stealthy White House document with some very devolution flavored nuggets on federalism...

On the eve of America's 250th birthday, Badlands Media brings you full coverage from the base of Mount Rushmore, where South Dakota Governor Larry Rhoden, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, and President Trump take the stage under the granite gaze of four presidents to talk about, well, everything that makes this country tick. Expect soaring rhetoric about the Declaration, some genuinely moving family history from the Governor, a fired up case against communism from the President, and a victory lap through economic numbers, military wins, and inventions Americans apparently take credit for inventing all of them. There's music, there's chanting...

It's the eve of Independence Day, and the OnlyLands crew is celebrating a little early with fireworks mishaps, hot dog eating contest predictions, and a cacao sponsor read that somehow works in the Aztecs. Things turn more substantive once President Trump's live Mount Rushmore address plays, sparking a genuinely spirited debate among the hosts over Israel's place in America's problems, whether artificial intelligence should ever get near an election, and if "good times create weak men" actually holds up. Along the way expect tangents on the World Cup's mysteriously glitchy high-tech soccer ball, a Beavis and Butthead shirt, and...

Jordan Sather and Nate Prince are back from GART and not wasting any time. A parasite called cyclosporiasis is ripping through Michigan and beyond, and Jordan reads the New York Post's most colorful victim profile of the year. A Michigan couple faces second degree murder charges after their 7-year-old son died at 255 pounds, prompting a raw conversation about parenting, dopamine addiction, and personal accountability. The DOJ just charged 455 defendants in 45 states on National Healthcare Fraud Takedown Day, with $6.5 billion in stolen funds at stake. Kennedy terminates the COVID-19 Emergency Use Authorization, stripping legal protections from the shots and dropping...

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...

CannCon and Chris Paul close out the week and the runup to America's 250th with a discussion-heavy Friday. The New York Post reveals the FBI had Democrat insider Alexis Podesta wearing a wire inside Gavin Newsom's inner circle since June 2024, and CannCon connects it back to Alpha's "tickling the wire" prediction, noting the huge implications for both Newsom's presidential hopes and the California governor's race. The FBI assigns 260 analysts to a priority Fulton County 2020 election investigation under Kash Patel, and CannCon walks through why investigating enough jurisdictions establishes the systemic pattern even if every election cannot be checked. Mitch...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright do a Fourth of July revisit of Roland Emmerich's 1996 blockbuster Independence Day, written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin and starring Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Judd Hirsch, Randy Quaid, Harvey Fierstein, Vivica A. Fox, and Harry Connick Jr. Both guys expected to have fun with a summer classic. Instead they arrive at the same brutal verdict. This is one of the most heavy handed political programming vehicles of the 90s, and it goes down way rougher than nostalgia suggested.

The conversation covers the pornographic scale of the destruction played for jokes...

Two days before America turns 250, CannCon opens the show watching the Portugal Croatia game go to a heart stopping VAR review, which promptly triggers a chat troll named Barry into a full patriotic meltdown. What follows is one of the most chaotic first hours in SITREP history. Barry accuses CannCon of un-Americanism for watching soccer, the guys extend olive branches three times, Barry brings up a girlfriend with colon cancer, and then the whole thing spirals into a poll on whether to forgive or deport him. The audience calls him a Patel Patriot sock account. It only gets weirder...

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

For the interview, Frank calls KrisAnne Hall in Oxford, where she has been accepted to study at Oxford's law school for the summer. She walks through her three published errors on the SCOTUS ruling, why jus soli is a...

CannCon and Ashe in America kick off Part 2 of G. Edward Griffin's The Creature from Jekyll Island with Chapter 7, and the crash course on money is anything but boring. Before a single page is read, the Supreme Court hands down a ruling that Trump can fire FTC commissioners but not Federal Reserve board governors, and Clarence Thomas lights up his dissent by saying the problem is not with the president but with the Constitution itself. Then Griffin takes it from barter to Byzantine, walking through four types of money, the natural price-stabilizing power of gold, the Monopoly board explanation...

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...

Ghost and Ashe in America walk through Season 4 Episode 5, a dense hour with three parallel crises of faith. Judas visits his old mentor Hadad in Bethany, and inside of three minutes Hadad has coached him through why he should be taking a stipend, investing at interest, and positioning himself for Secretary of the Treasury when Jesus takes the throne. The hosts unpack why the character is written not as a scheming villain but as a precocious, earnest guy whose novelty wore off, whose ego never got the death the other disciples got, and who runs back to his old...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior debut the rebranded Badlands Daily with a new intro and a packed Thursday. John Brennan sues the DOJ to preserve records, and Alpha delivers the standout analysis of the episode: this is a reverse indictment designed to force early discovery, protect his co-conspirators, and delay the RICO grand conspiracy case, a move so sharp it made Alpha genuinely angry. Trump tells Bill Pulte at DNI to declassify anything he wants, and Hillary Clinton responds on CNN by openly hoping career appointees slow-walk and refuse to cooperate, which CannCon and Alpha read as pure panic. The...

Jon Herold and Burning Bright mark the exact five-year anniversary of the first Devolution article, the same day Trump flew to the North Dakota Badlands to dedicate the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library and said "Badlands" on camera. After the celebrations, the show gets substantive fast. The election fraud disclosure landscape gets a full accounting: the DNI report, the White House task force with John Solomon and Derek Harvey, and the Florida RICO probe are all running simultaneously, and the guys raise the uncomfortable question of whether all three could end up tainting each other. Jon delivers the most detailed...

Ghost opens this bonus episode with Thomas Massie's 420-0 House vote to expose which members paid off sexual misconduct allegations with taxpayer money, then delivers his GART closing remarks calling Congress a crime scene that needs a forensic team, not a press release. Colombia's post-election fallout gets a full breakdown: El Tigre's ties to Alex Saab and the Maduro orbit, Gustavo Petro's documented anti-cartel record being memory-holed, and the contradiction of neocon Republicans backing a man who was Maduro's lawyer. Venezuela's twin 7.5 and 7.2 magnitude earthquakes have left 2,000 dead and 10,000 missing, and Ghost flags the Clinton Global Initiative activating on...

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

From there, a new bedtime routine. ChatGPT recommended three books to help her wind down, and she reviews each one, including a Danish hygge guide, a Matt Haig quote collection she found suspiciously liberal, and a Debbie Macomber...

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

Chris is an expert at reading the shapes and patterns God wove into the universe, and he argues the same shapes show up in Sumerian tablets, in the Declaration of Independence, and in the way words themselves carry meaning. The...

President Trump arrives in Medora, North Dakota on the inaugural flight of the newly designed Air Force One and by train to the exact platform where Theodore Roosevelt arrived 140 years earlier, to dedicate the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library. He donates TR's actual Congressional Medal of Honor from the White House Roosevelt Room to the library, where it will be displayed alongside the medal earned by TR's son on D-Day. Trump delivers a sweeping address drawing five lessons from TR's life for America's 250th year, covering everything from TR's 1884 grief and physical transformation in the Badlands to the charge up...

Jon Herold comes in Wednesday with guests in the house, Trump landing in his hometown of Bismarck on the new Air Force One's first flight, and a source update that is carefully honest about what it does and does not say. A White House task force led by John Solomon and Derek Harvey is quietly gathering thousands of pages of 2020 election intelligence from the CIA, NSA, ODNI, FBI, and DOJ for declassification, and Jon flags it as a fourth separate track alongside the RICO case, the DNI report, and the PIAB review. His source says the evidence coming will...

CannCon and Ashe in America open July with the 250th anniversary countdown underway and a Wednesday show packed with vindication and consequence. CannCon's canary trap theory on the fake Alito retirement story gets picked up by Miranda Devine and hits a million views, as Nina Totenberg's bizarre on-air apology only strengthens the case that a Supreme Court leaker just got caught. CannCon and Ashe dig into the NRSC v. FEC decision, which strikes down party coordinated spending limits and which CannCon argues is Citizens United on steroids, then dismantle the ruling's admission that only provable quid pro quo counts...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid come back from the Great American Restoration Tour in Deadwood with the forty thousand foot view sharpened. They open with the MK Ultra hearings where Dr. Kinzer basically confirmed under oath that MK Ultra never actually ended, then chase Anna Paulina Luna's tease that influencer disclosures are coming and unpack how private corporate intelligence agencies really move money to influencers through oil and gas shell companies.

Then the payoff. Last week on air the guys asked Trump for a JFK speech and a five by five. This week Trump posted a JFK...

CannCon and Ashe in America open with the highlights from GART 12 in Deadwood, where the audience acquitted them in a mock ECPA trial built around a fictional near-future where questioning elections is a federal crime. From there, the show shifts to a fact-check of Trump's Truth Social post welcoming Tina Peters to the White House, where Ashe corrects the record on her age, her isolation conditions, and the Republican Party's actual role in her release. The Colorado Supreme Court shocks everyone by striking down a redistricting plan that would have turned an evenly split congressional map into seven Democrat...

Jon Herold comes back from GART fired up about a Supreme Court that had a very busy few days. Birthright citizenship survives, Trump's executive order gets struck down, and Justice Thomas writes a 90-page dissent Jon agrees with completely. The Slaughter case overturns a 91-year-old precedent and hands Trump significantly more power to remove executive branch officials, which Trump is rightly celebrating. But the ruling Jon thinks actually matters most barely got covered: the Watson decision allows states to count mail-in ballots that arrive after election day as long as they were postmarked in time. Jon walks through why...

CannCon and Zak Paine, fresh off GART in Deadwood, cover the Supreme Court's biggest decision day of the term as rulings drop live on air. The court upholds Title IX protections for biological female sports 6-3 in West Virginia v. BPJ, strikes down coordinated party spending limits in NRSC v. FEC, and expands presidential firing power over independent agencies by overturning 91 years of precedent. The birthright citizenship case goes against Trump's executive order, prompting an unusually measured public response from him as he quietly drops the sports and surgery provisions from his Save America Act messaging, a shift CannCon...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open Episode 191 fresh off the Great American Restoration Tour conference in Deadwood, swapping stories from the weekend, including a Secret Service motorcade sighting ahead of a Trump visit and the new trial by jury experience that debuted at the event.

The main topic is heavy: the Yemenite Children Affair, a documented Israeli government scandal in which as many as 4,500 Yemenite Jewish infants disappeared between 1948 and 1954. Parents were denied death certificates and bodies, yet some later received IDF conscription notices for children they had been told were dead. Jon walks through the 400,000 declassified...

Zak Paine and Ghost hold down Monday's show solo while CannCon travels back from GART, and they cover a weekend full of overlapping stories across three continents. Trump's weekend Truth Social post warning about communism finding its moment looks almost prophetic within hours, as California State Senator Scott Wiener gets publicly heckled at a trans march and again at dinner by his own coalition over his record on Gaza. Ghost connects a major Iraqi corruption sweep, including $11 million in cash and 98 billion dinars seized from a former deputy oil minister, directly to a string of rogue tanker incidents disrupting...

Chris Paul and Burning Bright return from Gart to break down Gore Verbinski's 2025 dark sci fi comedy Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, written by Matthew Robinson and starring Sam Rockwell, Juno Temple, Haley Lou Richardson, Michael Pena, and Zazie Beetz. The premise is delightfully strange. A man from the future shows up at a Los Angeles diner on his 117th attempt to recruit the exact right combination of patrons to stop a rogue AI from ending the world. The guys give Verbinski his flowers (Pirates of the Caribbean, Rango) and argue this film is far smarter than its...

Tesla once wrote that he hoped to live long enough to see "Bulwer's dream realized." Turns out that is a real reference, and Matt Ehret spends Part 2 unpacking exactly what it means. The dream belongs to Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a 19th century novelist whose fictional tale of a hidden super race wielding a mysterious energy called Vril went on to directly shape Madame Blavatsky's Theosophy, Aleister Crowley's magical orders, the Nazi Thule Society, and H.G. Wells' Martian invasion thesis. Ehret traces Tesla's tele-automaton back to this same lineage of machine worship, then follows Bulwer-Lytton's own bloodline straight to...

Former ICE Denver Field Office Director John Fabbricatore joins Ashe for a conversation that goes well beyond talking points. He was there in Aurora when Tren de Aragua took over an apartment complex, while Colorado officials insisted it was a Republican fabrication. He was inside HHS trying to locate the hundreds of thousands of unaccompanied children the Biden administration let into the country and then lost track of. From cartels double dipping on smuggling fees to NGOs that somehow always seem to find hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts, this episode walks through exactly how the narrative diverged...

Jon Herold, Chris Paul, and Burning Bright broadcast live and freezing from a deck in Deadwood, South Dakota for GART weekend, and somehow still manage to get into the substance. Trump's truth post calling out the American energy cartel gets a full breakdown, with Burning Bright connecting it back to January's oil executive dinner and floating a theory that Trump may be laying groundwork for an actual DOJ investigation into price manipulation. The guys dig into Trump's pattern of tying must pass legislation, this week a housing bill, to the Save America Act, arguing it is a deliberate sabotage...

CannCon and Chris Paul bring Badlands Daily live from GART 12 in Deadwood, South Dakota with a Friday show full of Supreme Court decisions and congressional takedowns. Venezuela is hit with back to back 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes as the country was beginning its reintegration into global trade, and Trump immediately offers federal assistance. The Brandon Gill versus SNAP hearing clip goes viral: the SNAP director cannot confirm that drinking soda every day is unhealthy while testifying in front of Congress, and Gill reveals her advocacy group is funded by General Mills, which profits directly from SNAP dollars. A House Oversight...

Alpha Warrior and Josh Reid had to actively look for things to be sad about this week and could not find any. Yesterday and today the White House went full blown Q in public for the first time. The "Q means Quantum" post hid a special character at line 48, which decodes to Q drop 48 about Q clearance and the Department of Energy. The fake Always Trust 47 post landed at 14:25 Eastern, which decodes to Q drop 1425 reading "given we have now undeniably on purpose verified ourselves to be an inside source." Then the War CTO posted at 9:18 matching Q drop 918...

Ghost opens episode 116 with Trump's latest gaggle confirming the Hormuz naval blockade is history, US farmers are getting paid to feed Iran, and critics like Ted Cruz need to be "educated" on the deal's terms. The IAEA inspections dispute gets the full treatment: Ghost breaks down how Iran only denied inspecting its bombed facilities, not all facilities, and why the media is deliberately misrepresenting the gap. Pakistan PM Sharif and Iran's president both confirm ballistic missiles were never on the table, period. Ghost then turns to the Jerusalem News Syndicate summit, walking through Mark Levin's unhinged speech, Netanyahu's "kill...

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...

CannCon and Ghost open the final show before GART week in Deadwood with a Tuesday packed with stories that connect in ways most people are not seeing. An AP investigation with a named whistleblower reveals the DEA knowingly allowed 74,000 fentanyl pills to flood New Mexico between 2023 and 2025 to catch bigger fish while running the "one pill can kill" public campaign at the same time. Bill Pulte walks into ODNI and CNN immediately runs a smear piece while Letitia James attacks his qualifications despite simultaneously backing Jay Clayton, who has identical gaps in intelligence experience. Ghost and CannCon apply the...

Jon Herold and Zak Paine open Episode 190 with a laugh at Zak's expense after a fake Q alert briefly fooled him live on air, followed by a genuine debate about what the White House Q meme actually signals and why the decoder community is not the same thing as the Q drops themselves.

Then the show picks up where Episode 189 left off on the GATE program, and this week the audience showed up with receipts. Jon walks through a GATE curriculum binder from Monterey that instructed children to keep its contents secret from their parents, a New...

Was Hitler a Christian nationalist hero or a black magician puppet of Satanic bankers? Matt Ehrett, filmmaker and author of "Black Sun Rising," joins Ashe to answer that question and then some. From the Thule Society's demon-summoning sessions at Wewelsburg Castle to Michael Aquino running Operation Phoenix in a US military uniform after being initiated into the Church of Satan, this episode goes places your high school history class definitely did not. Ehrett and Ashe also cover Canada's fake independence day, George Soros getting kicked out of China in 1989, and why the same ancient occult formula that built Nazism...