# Why We Vote Ep. 180: True the Vote's Catherine Engelbrecht & the CIA Venezuela Docs

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Podcast: [Badlands Media](https://stenobird.com/podcast/badlands-media-5934327)
Published: 2026-07-22T03:49:28+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/why-we-vote-ep-180-true-the-votes-catherine-engelbrecht-the-cia-venezuela-docs/
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Duration seconds: 5700

## Resource

Fresh off President Trump's big election speech, CannCon and Ashe in America bring on a heavy hitter: True the Vote founder Catherine Engelbrecht, one of the original voices in the election integrity world. She revisits the Georgia GBI saga, the Konnech story that sent her from FBI briefings to a stage in the Arizona desert telling a room to stop filming, and a $5 million check that raised more questions than it answered. Then the guys roll up their sleeves for the main event: a page-by-page walk through a newly declassified intelligence report on Venezuela, Smartmatic, Sequoia, and voting machines that could allegedly tell when they were being audited. Expect hash files, virtual machines, a New Jersey voter roll mess, and a running theory that the real playbook was written abroad but run at home. Plus moisturized elbows, honey, and a Voldemort-grade book reference.

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