# Badlands Daily: 5/13/26 - Dead Voters in Brooklyn, Warsh Confirmed, McConnell Being Handled

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Published: 2026-05-13T20:14:20+00:00
Episode link: https://badlandsmedia.podbean.com/e/badlands-daily-51326-dead-voters-in-brooklyn-warsh-confirmed-mcconnell-being-handled/
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## Resource

CannCon and Ashe bring Ash Wednesday with a show that ranges from the absurd to the consequential. Missouri's Supreme Court upholds redrawn congressional maps that effectively eliminate the only Democrat seat, and Mississippi sets a special session to redraw Bennie Thompson's district. Ashe and CannCon use the redistricting wave to make the deeper argument: the real problem is not who draws the districts but the 1929 cap at 435 representatives that makes political manipulation structurally inevitable. A Brooklyn Democrat assembly candidate has 90% of her 5,258 nominating signatures thrown out, including two from voters who have been dead for over a decade. Dr. Andrew Paquette's Why We Vote appearance the night before revealed 1.5 million cloned voter registrations in New York alone in 2020, and CannCon and Ashe show that US registered voter turnout hit 94.1% in 2020, higher than countries with compulsory voting. Kevin Warsh clears his Senate hurdle 51-45. Kash Patel eviscerates Senator Van Hollen live in committee. An undercover video catches a White House budget official calling Trump a madman. Trump calls out Mitch McConnell's Democratic-aligned handler Robert Karim by name.

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