# Badlands Daily: 9/1/26 - DHS Voter Fraud Surge, Driscoll Resigns & SCOTUS Ballroom Ruling

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Published: 2026-09-01T16:16:25+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/badlands-daily-9126-dhs-voter-fraud-surge-driscoll-resigns-scotus-ballroom-ruling/
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## Resource

CannCon flies solo for a packed Tuesday as election season officially kicks off with ballots going out in a matter of days. He opens with the Supreme Court allowing the White House ballroom construction to proceed even as the Chief Justice calls the project likely unlawful, then turns to a CNN exclusive on DHS launching an unprecedented surge of investigators into voter fraud cases across select states. The Schrodinger mail ballot executive order gets another update as a federal judge refuses to lift her block ahead of a September hearing. There is also a look at the twenty biggest midterm donors so far, a surprise resignation at Army Secretary that has everyone reading the tea leaves, and a genuinely strange California reparations development. He wraps with rants and a heads up about live coverage of closing arguments in the Charlie Kirk case immediately after the show.

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