As the war with Iran expands, Rich Zeoli opens the show with the shocker out of Texas: Jasmine Crockett loses her U.S. Senate primary, refuses to concede, and starts yelling fraud while James Talarico becomes the media’s shiny new “Texas is flipping” fantasy. We talk through the Talarico hype machine, the Stephen Colbert “equal time” fugazi, and why Zeoli thinks Democrats are about to run the same script they ran with Beto O’Rourke—just with a new face. But Texas isn’t flipping blue anytime soon.

Then Rich pivots hard to the Middle East and the politics back home. We react to the escalating conflict with Iran, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s shocking news about the sinking of an Iranian warship. The War Powers vote is looming. Why is it that Democrats didn’t demand Congressional a ...