Beneath The Headlines: Caravan To Midnight – Ep. 2698

February 16, 2026
 
Episode Description:
The news cycle is loud & narratives move fast. Conclusions are formed before the facts have time to settle. Tonight we look beneath the headlines.
Reports of foreign land acquisitions across American farmland, suspected biolab activity tied to foreign entities, and concerns over parallel authority structures operating inside U.S. borders continue to surface. At the same time, fallout from the recent large-scale document release connected to high-profile trafficking investigations continues to ripple through the political and media landscape.
Is this a collection of unrelated events — or part of a larger pattern?
National security expert Casey Fleming joins us for our first segment as he begins an eight-week Monday series, providing a strategic briefing on the broader architecture shaping domestic and global pressure points. From infrastructure positioning to cognitive influence operations, he outlines what deserves attention and what indicators listeners should monitor in the days ahead.
Then child-protection advocate Pamela Olson joins us. With decades of firsthand, on-the-ground experience working alongside teams rescuing trafficked children, she brings practical insight to the political and informational fallout surrounding document disclosures, enforcement findings, and what verified data reveals about the scale of child exploitation in this country.
Tonight’s program is about situational awareness. It is about understanding how seemingly separate developments connect beneath the surface. When the noise is stripped away, the structure becomes clearer.
Beneath the headlines, the patterns emerge.

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