Mail-In Ballots: Why the Supreme Court Just Sided With Election Integrity
Tuesday, August 25, 2026
You're listening to American Ground Radio with Louis R. Avallone and Stephen Parr. This is the full show for August 24, 2026.
Today's episode kicks off with the Supreme Court giving President Trump a win on mail-in ballots, putting the brakes on that Boston judge's nationwide injunction just ahead of the midterms. We dig into why ballot verification shouldn't be a partisan issue and take a swing at those states — Colorado, California, Utah — that seem to drift left every time they go all-mail. Then it's on to the Top 3: Canada gets slapped with 50% tariffs as trade talks collapse, Al Green files yet another doomed impeachment bill against Trump (after losing his own primary, no less), and Kyle Kirkwood takes the checkered flag in the wild Freedom 250 F1 race right through the streets of D.C.
From there, we get into a new survey showing conservatives are having more children than liberals, and circle back to our favorite soapbox: America needs more babies. American Mamas Teri Netterville and Kimberly Burleson share their weirdest random shower thoughts, from baseball cups to the bubonic plague death toll, plus a real conversation about whether ChatGPT and Grok are making us smarter or just better googlers.
We Dig Deep into two press-freedom stories: Florida's new mandate requiring public schools to teach the history of communism starting this year, which we strongly endorse, and California's new law shielding immigration and Medicaid-fraud-adjacent workers' identities, which we argue is designed to shut down investigative journalists like Nick Shirley. We tie that into James O'Keefe's recent appellate victory overturning a $130,000 judgment tied to his undercover 2016 election reporting.
We cover Justice Clarence Thomas's rare interview with Senator Ted Cruz, where Thomas pushed back on the idea that his conservative views betray his race, and we use it to argue that calls for "diversity" often mean diversity of complexion rather than diversity of thought. Our Bright Spot highlights the El Paso Independent School District requiring central office administrators, including the superintendent, to substitute teach several days a year, both to build empathy for classroom teachers and to save the district roughly $4 million annually. We close with a look at Haitian nationals self-deporting to Canada following the end of their Temporary Protected Status, and a Moment of Whoa about Columbia High School in Alabama snapping a 101-game losing streak.
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