Florida’s Voice with Drew Steele
Florida's Voice: Hurricane Isaias Panhandle Landfall, Hegseth on Fort Hood Firing Squad, H-1B Crackdown, and von Spakovsky on Mail Ballots
Oct 8, 2026 · 43 min · 13 segments
Hurricane Isaias is forecast to make landfall between Mobile Bay and Navarre Beach Friday evening, October 9, into Saturday morning, with a possible Category 2 or 3 peak before any weakening. Governor…
Hurricane Isaias is forecast to make landfall between Mobile Bay and Navarre Beach Friday evening, October 9, into Saturday morning, with a possible Category 2 or 3 peak before any weakening. Governor Ron DeSantis says the state is preparing for a major hurricane and a lopsided east-side surge that could affect most of the Florida Panhandle, citing Hurricane Michael as a reminder not to under-prepare. Storm-surge warnings cover Bay, Escambia, Franklin, Gulf, Jefferson, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Taylor, and Walton counties, with additional watches inland and in Dixie and Levy; updates are at floridadisaster.org/updates, alongside National Guard activation and staged resources.Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says Army Major Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter who killed 13 people including a pregnant soldier in 2009 while shouting “Allahu Akbar,” will face a public firing squad of soldiers at Fort Hood on a Thursday at 1 p.m.—the same time and place as the attack—the first such military execution since World War II. President Trump, campaigning in Texas, said the Obama administration had Hasan’s emails to a known terrorist about waging jihad and still labeled the massacre “workplace violence,” denying victims Purple Hearts and related benefits. The discussed execution date is December 3.Democratic socialist Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed is set to campaign with Barack Obama after previously saying the country was not better off after Obama’s eight years and that Democrats kept repeating those mistakes. Vice President JD Vance, discussing H-1B fraud, argues that many self-described socialists howl at prioritizing American workers and that, in practice, the label often pairs replacing U.S. workers with foreign labor and boys in girls’ sports. Drew Steele also revisits David Jolly calling DSA-aligned Angie Nixon a “warrior” and “fighter.”News desk items include a continuing blockade of Iranian ports, Trump’s statement that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon and that 22 million barrels moved through the Strait of Hormuz overnight, with no resumption of strikes promised before the midterms; suspensions of Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini from the permanent labor certification program amid the H-1B crackdown Vance tied to Microsoft layoffs; a Labor Department Inspector General probe of alleged J-1 fraud at nine universities; and a 20-year sentence for Palm Coast’s Scott Beverst after more than 16,000 child sexual abuse files.Hans von Spakovsky of Advancing American Freedom explains why Florida-style ballot requests differ from California’s automatic all-mail system and outdated rolls, how ballots end up scattered, why automatic DMV registration plus licenses for illegal aliens creates risk, and how the optional SAVE citizenship database—upheld for willing states—cannot fix states that refuse it. He warns a Democratic House could target funding for those tools, and the show notes Eric Daugherty’s Senate read of Republicans 51, Democrats 44, with toss-ups still in play.
Hurricane Isaias is forecast to make landfall between Mobile Bay and Navarre Beach Friday evening, October 9, into Saturday morning, with a possible Category 2 or 3 peak before any weakening. Governor…
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