Badlands Daily: 5/27/26 - Paxton Crushes Cornyn, Tina Peters Release, DNC Implodes

CannCon and Ashe in America open Wednesday with a primary night that delivered. Ken Paxton defeats John Cornyn by 25 points despite being outspent 9 to 1, and Ashe frames it as the clearest proof yet that voter intent is real even inside a broken system. Al Green is unseated in Houston by a younger challenger, another product of the redistricting wave. Tina Peters is days away from walking out, and Ashe explains why the real story of Tina Peters is not the machines she copied but the material witness testimony she holds about the weaponization of government as treason. CannCon and Ashe debate the fake versus fraudulent election question with genuine intellectual honesty, discuss the sting operation theory for 2026, and compare the Paxton outcome to what happened to Massey. The DNC releases a post-2024 autopsy assessment, and PBS runs a segment where a Democratic strategist admits the party is being financially obliterated, with 12 million protest attendees apparently unable to find $5 to give the DNC. Ashe connects it directly to the dark money apparatus being cut off. The Colorado governor debate frames the real choice of the midterms: the system is sound versus the system must be transformed. CannCon and Ashe close with the post-partisan America argument and the Munk debate populism clip.