Best of the Program | Guests: Charlie LeDuff & Delano Squires | 8/5/26
August 5, 2026
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5 min read“I’m going to knock on 120 doors,” Charlie LeDuff told Glenn Beck, describing his plan to confront elderly Michigan voters whose names appear on hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations they never made. LeDuff, a journalist who evokes old-school smoke-and-typewriter reporters, has been digging into ActBlue, the Democratic fundraising platform, and what he calls a pattern of elder abuse and identity theft. His findings, combined with a separate segment on water system hacks and a conversation about the collapse of the black family, make up this episode of The Glenn Beck Program—a wide-ranging show held together by a throughline: the systems Americans trust are being exploited, often invisibly, and the fixes require local action, not just national politics.
ActBlue and the “Small Donor” Myth
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:38) **Charlie LeDuff on ActBlue Fraud in Michigan** - LeDuff explains his investigation into ActBlue donations for Michigan candidate Abdul El-Sayed, alleging widespread identity theft and elder abuse.
- 2 (10:58) **Black-Brown Coalition and El-Sayed's Weakness in Detroit** - LeDuff argues the "black-brown coalition" is a myth created by Ivy League elites, and that El-Sayed failed badly in his own backyard.
- 3 (15:44) **The Water System Hacking Crisis** - Glenn reports on an ongoing cyberattack against U.S. water systems, with at least 30 systems in Minnesota and more in seven other states being compromised.
- 4 (18:35) **How Iran Breached U.S. Water Infrastructure** - The vulnerability is exposed: industrial controllers left on the open internet with factory-default passwords.
- 5 (20:27) **Iran's Drone Industry and Technology Exchange** - Iran is not a backward nation; it has built a sophisticated drone industry and traded technology with Russia.
- 6 (22:26) **The Patient Enemy: Iran's Regime vs. ISIS** - Glenn distinguishes between the Iranian regime and its people, emphasizing the regime's patience and long-term strategy over the flash-in-the-pan approach of ISIS.
- 7 (23:29) **The Fall of Babylon: A 2,500-Year-Old Warning** - Glenn uses the story of Cyrus the Persian conquering Babylon to illustrate the vulnerability of infrastructure.
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Show Notes
Michigan Enjoyer columnist Charlie LeDuff joins to discuss Abdul El-Sayed's campaign funding. Was it fully funded by fake donors? Due to a series of recent cyberattacks on water utilities throughout the country, Glenn encourages listeners to learn who's in charge of the water system in your city and what questions to ask the leaders. The Heritage Foundation Center for Human Flourishing Director and BlazeTV contributor to "Fearless" Delano Squires joins to discuss the role that black voters play in the Michigan Senate primary race.
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