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Tonight📺: Someone who knows a lot about running against a popular Democrat in Texas is Sen. Ted Cruz. He joins me tonight on whether the GOP can save Ken Paxton in the Lone Star State.
📊Recent polling shows Democrat James Talarico winning the polls at 42%
And Paxton is at 39%
📚Cruz is out with a new book, “Going Further: The Incomparable Clarence Thomas”
Midterm watch👀: Democrats have a new argument for excusing Abdul El-Sayed’s anti-Israel, pro-Islamist views — win a Democratic Senate majority at all costs because Trump is so evil.
🤦To the point that a Jewish Michigan attorney general says Jews need to forget about “safety and security” of their people. (This admits that electing him endangers Jews…🤦)
Don’t forget‼️: El-Sayed doesn’t think Israel should be able to defend themselves.
He excused an attack on a Jewish daycare, saying: “hurt people hurt people”
He campaigned with Hasan Piker, who is an anti-American, pro-Stalinist, Holocaust enthusiast
He says, “If you want to achieve the American Dream, you should move to Canada because it’s twice as likely there”
This week📺: El-Sayed has been all over TV trying to clean up his past — he thinks he can talk his way out of all these problems.
Tonight📺: Mark McKinnon and Madeline Summerville
Iran‼️: The U.S. launched new strikes today against Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz.
💣This comes after Iran attempted to attack commercial ships in the strait and prepared to lay mines.
Donald Trump feels confident right now in Iran for two reasons:
He feels the Iranian regime is getting weaker by the day
Today, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promised they’ll “asphyxiate” Iran because they know where the IRGC is hiding their millions of dollars
Eric Daugherty@EricLDaugh🚨 BREAKING: Scott Bessent just sent shivers down the spine of Iranian regime leaders. What a bad*ss... "I will say it on worldwide TV: we KNOW WHERE in the British Virgin Islands your accounts are, at these trust companies. We know the hundred million dollar houses you have …1:55 PM · Sep 1, 2026 · 1.46M Views1.22K Replies · 12.5K Reposts · 57.4K LikesIs this how we can squeeze them?
He thinks he has a lot more options in Iran because of Venezuela
Venezuela’s oil market is undergoing a big transformation.
Tonight📺: Brig. Gen. John Teichert and Amb. Nathan Sales
Big Brother📸: America is slowly and secretly turning into a surveillance state that looks a lot like China.
We already told you about all the law enforcement abusing Flock cameras — but what happens now when these cameras are used exactly as they’re designed to be used?
These cameras know more about you than your license plate number and state
They capture a picture of your car
The make, model and color
Any visible features (car racks, trailers, unique details, etc)
Locations of where your car is spotted
At the end of the day, the camera and data can build a picture of where you were all day.
🛑Florida and Texas both move to block Flock cameras in their states
Now, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., is launching a Senate investigation into Flock Safety over mass surveillance.
Big picture‼️: One of the things that makes America great is the freedom to live your life without constant surveillance. So the question today is:
Do we want to become a surveillance state that looks more and more like China?
Or do we want to live in a country that values our privacy?
Sorry Leland but you are on the wrong side on FLOC cameras. The call for their removal is just de facto defund the police. FLOC cameras have the ability to completely eliminate the crime of car jacking where the average American has the most likely hood of being murdered. Can't drive far or long in a stolen car while being tracked or get away with the famous hit and run which I myself was a victim of. Same with organized shoplifting where folks dash out of stores with merchandise and jump into their cars before law enforcement can respond. Can't drive far before being stopped with the goods in the car with flock following.
If you truly don't want to be tracked then don't have a mobile phone or ever go into any major grocery or chain or convince store where you will be faced with, yes facial recognition. Are controls needed, for sure, but don't trash the technology.
For decades crimes have been solved using tapes of surveillance cameras-whats the issue-certainly as long as any data destroyed within a couple of months UNLESS part of specific Investigation.