Badlands Daily: 8/14/26 - SPLC's Funding Scheme, AF1's Secret Switch & Brennan's Midterm Warning
CannCon and Chris Paul go deeper into the SPLC indictment, walking through the eye popping funding numbers behind the organization's growth over the past decade and the specific ways prosecutors say donor money was funneled to informants inside extremist groups. They connect it to a broader pattern of unaccountable NGO grant money and speculate on how far the fallout could spread. From there they dig into fresh CBS reporting confirming President Trump secretly swapped planes while a real missile threat loomed, with the actual Air Force One carrying top cabinet officials who did not even know…
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