Homeland Security Investigations, the arm of ICE that normally works drug smuggling, human trafficking and child exploitation, has launched what its own internal guidance calls a "coordinated criminal voter fraud surge initiative" in nine states, running through the middle of October. CNN found the memo. Not Breitbart, not this show. California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington and Wisconsin. A DHS spokesman told The Federalist the agency is "ensuring that American citizens and only American citizens are electing American leaders." The department's own count, as reported by The Federalist: more than 24,000 cases of potential non-citizens on voter rolls flagged through the federal SAVE system since April 2025 and referred for investigation. CNN also notes, fairly, that the Justice Department has traditionally not run loud investigations close to an election. Homeland Security is not the Justice Department. Whether that is a problem or the whole point depends on where you have been standing for six years.
Also in today's episode: the United States and Iran trade the widest wave of strikes since the pause, with Jordan reporting 10 of 13 missiles intercepted and no confirmed American casualties; a Utah judge rules that the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk will stand trial for aggravated murder with the death penalty available, per NPR; the Dutch central bank quietly moves 86 metric tons of gold out of New York and Ottawa and puts it in London, and explains why in its own words; a federal judge dismisses the Justice Department's Title IX suit over California girls' sports on notice grounds, not on the merits; Minnesota's attorney general returns donations tied to the Feeding Our Future fraud after a recording surfaces; an Oklahoma city manager is arrested on 11 felony counts of false affidavit in voter registration; a Staten Island congressional staffer is struck by lightning fifteen feet from his car and walks to a neighbour's door for help; James Carville tells the Democratic Socialists to stop borrowing the word Democrat; and a boy who lost his most prized Pokémon card at a San Francisco event finds out what the internet does when it decides you matter.
There is a famine of truth in our land. Ten stories. Seven o'clock. The truth starts now.
