🧩 BND Motif Index · M193
Foreign meddling
A foreign power secretly meddles in another country's politics, boosting its favored side and spreading lies.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Who rules🗂️ Money and power🗂️ Political manipulation
- 29claims filed under it
- 3left shows it came up on
- 1center show it came up on
- 9right shows it came up on
- 6claims retold online
- 2fact-checkers
⚠️ 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
⤵️ under it: 🧩 Fifth column 🧩 The Israel lobby 🧩 Foreign asset 🧩 Election meddling 🧩 The regime-change playbook
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Culture police 🧩 Funding conspiracy 🧩 Guilt by association 🧩 Money in politics 🧩 Monroe Doctrine 🧩 Owned politician 🧩 Shadow war 🧩 Slush fund
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 1
"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.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Brazil police raid suspected Trump election interference operation 2026-10-05 to 2026-10-06
- 📰 Montenegro detains head of russian war blog rybar 2026-10-09 to 2026-10-10
- 📰 French protests escalate with violent clashes and property damage 2026-10-19 to 2026-10-20
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-21 “Russia's only successful strategic objective has been to divide the U.S. and NATO.”
🎙️ The Bulwark Podcast - 2026-10-20 “Russian trolls and foreign actors are orchestrating social unrest and violence in Europe.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-16 “U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra should be expelled from Canada for interfering in Canadian affairs.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-15 “Russia interfered in the Brexit referendum to weaken the EU.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-14 “Russia attempted to interfere in the Brexit referendum to achieve its own hostile ends.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-14 “Foreign adversaries have access to vital parts of voting machines to change votes.”
🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-11 “Trump's actions regarding the 2016 election involved senior campaign advisors working with Russian oligarchs.”
🎙️ Surrounded (Jubilee) - 2026-10-10 “Montenegro detained the founder of a pro-Kremlin war blog, the founder of the pro-Kremlin war blog Rybar, along with his wife and three others, on suspicion of attempting to destabilize the country.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-10 “USAID funding was used to elect communists in Latin America who are anti-American.”
🎙️ The Benny Show 🎙️ Verdict with Ted Cruz - 2026-10-08 “Libs of TikTok is an operative for Israeli interests.”
🎙️ Candace (podcast) - 2026-10-08 “The Trump administration is actively interfering in the Brazilian election to ensure Lula da Silva loses.”
🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show 🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-08 “The U.S. government interfered in the Brazilian election to unseat Lula da Silva.”
🎙️ The Kyle Kulinski Show - 2026-10-07 “Trump-linked consultants were paid through a D.C. law firm to advise Republika Srpska's pro-Russian government on elections.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-06 “Canadian separatists, particularly from Alberta and Quebec, are collaborating with the United States to break up Canada.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-06 “ActBlue functions as a foreign money laundering funnel for the Democratic Party.”
🎙️ The Benny Show - 2026-10-06 “Donald Trump uses economic pressure and instability in foreign countries to justify regime change or new leadership.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-06 “Communism is on the run in South America now that USAID money no longer props up the left.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-06 “The US State Department used funds to help communist leaders take power in Latin American countries like Brazil.”
🎙️ The Jesse Kelly Show - 2026-10-06 “The Trump regime is attempting to install authoritarian puppet regimes across South America using agents like an agent.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-05 “Russian oligarch close to Putin funded part of Donald Trump Jr.'s wedding.” 🔎 Snopes
- 2026-10-05 “American policy toward Brazil may have influenced the recent election results.”
🎙️ Fox News Rundown 🎙️ The Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC) - 2026-10-05 “The Lula administration in Brazil was created through the use of US agency apparatus and funding.”
🎙️ The Benny Show - 2026-10-05 “USAID and NGOs fund initiatives to censor conservatives in Brazil.”
🎙️ Louder with Crowder - 2026-10-05 “USAID has functioned as a funding source for the globalist far left.”
🎙️ Bannon's War Room 🎙️ Timcast IRL (podcast) - 2026-09-29 “Russia hijacks trusted media brands to spread false news.” 🔎 NewsGuard Reality Check
- 2026-09-15 “Russia Boosts the German Far Right — Again” 🔎 NewsGuard Reality Check
- 2026-08-01 “Voters believe that Israel is influencing U.S. elections through AIPAC.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-08-01 “Voters believe that political contributions should be funded by U.S. individuals or organizations, not foreign entities.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
- 2026-08-01 “Voters believe that Haley Stevens is beholden to Netanyahu due to her support for Israel and AIPAC.” 🗳️ voters in The Focus Group
M193 · first seen 2026-10-05 · last 2026-10-27 · what this is · how the index works