🧩 BND Motif Index · M820
Gaslit
People are said to have been told not to believe what they could see, the border is secure, nothing is wrong, until the truth makes the gaslighting plain.
🪨 Beliefs🗂️ Information integrity
- 6claims filed under it
- 3left shows it came up on
- 5right shows it came up on
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ 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.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
"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, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-27 “Donald Trump blames Democrats for affordability issues that he also calls a hoax.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast 🎙️ Pod Save America - 2026-10-21 “A news report showing France's nationwide protests as cheerful and festive is gaslighting propaganda.”
🎙️ The Matt Walsh Show - 2026-10-20 “The Biden administration incentivized illegal immigration and lied to Americans about border security.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-17 “Donald Trump is using fake inflation numbers to hide the truth about the economy.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-15 “Politicians use gaslighting to make citizens question their own reality.”
🎙️ The Michael Berry Show - 2026-10-03 “The Trump administration secured the border and stopped illegal entries.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton 🎙️ The Mark Levin Show 🎙️ David Pakman Show (podcast) 🎙️ The Dan Bongino Show
M820 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-20 · what this is · how the index works