🧩 BND Motif Index · M1736
They only win when they cheat
One side is said to cheat as a matter of course, its victories owed to fraud and fraud its business model, so any win of theirs is suspect before a vote is counted.
- 6claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 14right shows it came up on
- 1fact-checker
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Rigged election
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (1 left-leaning, 0 center, 14 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- 🐘 Bannon's War Room 4 claims
- 🐘 The Benny Show 2 claims
- 🐘 The Michael Berry Show 2 claims
- 🐘 Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 1 claim
- 🐘 Louder with Crowder 1 claim
- 🐘 PBD Podcast (podcast) 1 claim
- 🐘 Ruthless 1 claim
- 🐘 The Dan Bongino Show 1 claim
- 🐘 The Jesse Kelly Show 1 claim
- 🐘 The Mark Levin Show 1 claim
- 🐘 The Matt Walsh Show 1 claim
- 🫏 The Young Turks (podcast) 1 claim
- left-leaning
- right-leaning
➕ 3 more shows
🎙️ 3 more shows
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Told on the left 0
claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one
🦗 No claim heard only on the left so far.
Told on the right 4
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-06 “Democrats use illegal voting by foreign nationals as their business model to win elections.” 2
- 2026-11-03 “Democrats do not care about getting out the vote and are instead focused on the vote versus ballot dichotomy.” 2
- 2026-11-03 “An insidious dark force on the left steals elections through lies and cheating.” 2
- 2026-10-28 “Democrats only win when they cheat, and they are trying to stop the SAVE Act to prevent winning through voter ID.” 1
Told on both sides 1
claims heard on left- and right-leaning shows alike
- 2026-10-31 “The Democratic Party manipulates the voting system.” 13
Fact-checked 1
claims a fact-checker examined: the verdict is theirs, behind the link
- 2026-11-05 “Broken ballot machines in Westchester County are said to show Democrats trying to steal the election.” 🔎 NewsGuard Reality Check
M1736 · first seen 2026-11-09 · last 2026-11-11 · what this is · how the index works