Wednesday Headlines: January 14, 2026
The Great America Show
Fawcett Strategies
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🗓️ 14 January 2026
⏱️ 6 minutes
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John Fawcett breaks down the biggest stories of the day, including the massive Verizon outage affecting hundreds of thousands of users, a landmark Supreme Court ruling that challenges ballot harvesting laws in Illinois, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services withholding funds from California over illegal Medicaid spending and the FBI's raid on a Washington Post reporter's home amid a classified information leak investigation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. I'm John Fawcer with this Great America Show Midday Update for Wednesday, January 14th. Happy Wednesday, folks. Well, if you have Verizon, you probably looked at your phone today and you wondered why the heck isn't this thing working. Verizon has experience and is still experiencing a massive outage for users all across America. Hundreds of thousands of customers affected by this outage, |
| 0:21.8 | it's unclear they're saying what caused the outage, but I think it comes at a highly peculiar time |
| 0:27.3 | as things with Iran are starting to ramp up a little bit. Tensions are starting to run a little bit |
| 0:34.7 | high. And a massive win for truth justice in the American way this |
| 0:38.7 | afternoon from the Supreme Court. Supreme Court this afternoon handing a crushing blow to the |
| 0:43.1 | radical left's ballot harvesting machine and a stunning seven to two decision. The High Court ruled that |
| 0:48.9 | Republican Congressman Mike Boast of Illinois has legal standing to challenge Illinois's |
| 0:53.8 | unconstitutional law that allows |
| 0:56.0 | mail-in ballots to be counted up to 14 days after the election. This ruling reverses the Seventh |
| 1:01.6 | Circuit and sends back the case to the lower court, where Illinois' late ballot scheme will now be |
| 1:06.9 | evaluated on the merits. This is a game changer, folks, and it's one that we've been waiting for for years. |
| 1:12.9 | Democrats and their media allies have relied on late arriving ballots to shift the results |
| 1:17.9 | of election days or even weeks after the polls closed. |
| 1:20.9 | We've all seen it. |
| 1:21.9 | We saw what happened on election night in 2020 at 2 o'clock in the morning. |
| 1:26.6 | We've watched what happened for congressional races this last election back in 2020 at 2 o'clock in the morning. We've watched what happened for congressional |
| 1:28.1 | races. This last election back in 2020, two weeks to call a race, it's unacceptable. We all remember |
| 1:35.7 | what happened. They're not going to pull the wool over our eyes ever again. The Supreme Court |
| 1:40.8 | finally opened the floodgates for Republicans to sue the hell out of these people to stop it. |
| 1:45.7 | Chief Justice John Roberts right in the majority made it clear that candidates have a personal stake in the rules governing their elections. |
| 1:53.9 | This destroys the liberal argument that Republicans can't sue unless they can prove a specific fraudulent ballot, cost them the race. |
| 2:02.0 | And it may prove a little interesting for President Trump and his election cases that are set to be coming. |
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