Badlands Daily: 10/15/26 - Omar’s Citizenship, Maricopa Ballot Duplication & Starlink in Ukraine

CannCon and Ashe in America, swapping in for Alpha Warrior this week, dig into Ilhan Omar's citizenship story, from her ties to Feeding Our Future to her age, her father's naturalization and her amended financial disclosures, plus news that federal agents seized a member of Congress's phone.

Next they revisit Jack Smith's investigation, including Grassley's finding that the special counsel gathered names and donor data from Trump campaign circles. Then it's Maricopa County, where observers caught a worker making changes to the Novus ballot duplication system at night after logic and accuracy testing, and the hosts walk through why electronic adjudication and small-county audits leave room for fraud.

On the world stage, Ukraine accuses SpaceX of limiting Starlink as it takes Russian missile strikes, and the crew asks why Kash Patel is heading to Russia. They close with the military's treatment of a service member held before trial, the coming execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan and whether it should be public, and AI ads that put words in CannCon's mouth.