News On Tap For Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Game On, Cowboy

Today’s “News On Tap” smells like election victory - and unlike some Republicans, we know that smell. We’ve got all the major election recaps, from Texas, from North Carolina, and from Arkansas. We’ve also got updates on Trump’s epic failure of a war in Iran, the effects of that war, along with Trump’s immigration war too. Plus ICE Barbie Kristi Noem had to face the music on Capitol Hill again today, and there’s some conflict at the Paralympics too. Plus, Bob Cesca’s back at the bar tonight to talk about all of it with us. Read up, get informed, & come by the bar tonight!

First Round - The 2026 Election Begins

Texas Results

• Talarico Wins Democratic Primary For U.S. Senate In Texas Over Crockett In Fiercely Contested Election Marked By Record Turnout And Confusion At Polls

• Markos Moulitsas: Crockett Could Have Won, But Texas Democratic Primary Voters Made The Safer Bet In Talarico, Based On Their Racist, Sexist State. It Was Probably The Right Call, For Them.

• Fmr. U.S. House Rep. Colin Allred & Current U.S. House Rep Julie Johnson Head To Runoff In Democratic Primary For Dallas-Area Seat

• Hundreds Of Voters In Dallas And Williamson Counties Affected By Polling Location Confusion

• Democratic Reps. Al Green And Christian Menefee Head To A Runoff In Texas Primary

• Texas Republican Senate Primary Heads To Runoff, With Cornyn & Paxton Both On Ballot

• Incumbent Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales, Who Drove His Staffer/Mistress To Kill Herself, Will Face Off Again Against YouTube Gun Nut In Primary Runoff For Texas Seat That Includes Uvalde

• Former Texas State Senator, Extremist MAGA Don Huffines ( Who Owns Epstein’s NM Ranch) Wins Republican Primary For Texas Comptroller

• MAGA Extremist Texas Republican Declares Victory In Race To Unseat Fox Favorite Republican Rep. Dan Crenshaw

Results From North Carolina

• Democrat Roy Cooper And Republican Michael Whatley Set To Face Off In Key U.S. Senate General Election Race In North Carolina

• North Carolina Democrat Who Voted For Pro-ICE Bill Gets Absolutely Crushed In Primary

• A Two Vote Margin: North Carolina Republican Senate Leader Phil Berger In Virtual Tie, 2 Points Behind Challenger Sam Page

Results From Arkansas

• Democrats Flip Republican State House Seat In Deep-Red Arkansas After Suing Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders To Force Vote

• Steve Benen: Democrats Score Upset Win In Arkansas Special Election, Giving Republicans New Reason To Worry

Second Round - Trump's New Illegal War

Updates From Operation Epic Failure

• Live Updates: Hegseth Says U.S. “Just Getting Started” In Iran War As Conflict Intensifies And Spreads

• U.S. Navy Submarine, Using Torpedoes, Sinks Iranian Warship In International Waters

• NATO Air Defenses Shoot Down Iranian Missile Headed Toward Turkey

• U.S. Lost Nearly $2B Worth Of Military Equipment In First 4 Days Of Strikes Against Iran

• The Dangerous Munitions Mismatch Between America & Iran - The U.S. Has A Limited Supply Of Expensive Weapons. Iran Has Cheap & Plentiful Arms. [Gift Link]

• DOD Officials Make Chilling Admission In Secret Briefing: Iran’s One-Way Attack Drones Have Become A Bigger Problem Than Trump’s Team Predicted

• Trump’s CIA Secretly Arming Kurdish Forces In Attempt To Spark Uprising In Iran

• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Son Emerges As Leading Choice To Be His Successor [Gift Link]

Cause & Effects

• Hundreds Of Thousands Of Americans Stranded In Middle East After Trump State Dept. Warning Still Struggling To Leave

• Trump Admin. Helps MAGA Influencers Including Famous Dog Walker Flee Middle East War Zone On Private Jet, While Abandoning Tens Of Thousands Of Other Americans

• These Are The American Service Members That Have Died So Far In Trump’s War In Iran [Gift Link]

Trump’s Other Illegal Wars

• U.S. Opens Military Action In Ecuador, Nominally To Take Down ‘Terrorist Organizations’

• Trump Regime Turns Up Heat On Venezuela With Threat To Indict New Leader Delcy Rodriguez

Third Round - Congress Finally Does Some Work

ICE Barbie Faces The Music

• After A Solid Beating In The Senate On Tuesday, Sec. Noem Faces Further Grilling In House Hearing Today

• DHS Sec, Noem Slammed By Senators Of Both Parties For Her Incompetence, As Republican Sen. Tillis Calls Her Leadership “A Disaster”

• Sec. Noem Refuses To Retract Statement Calling Minnesotans Killed By Federal Agents ‘Domestic Terrorists’

• New Report Confirms Sec. Noem’s Unnecessary Spending Review Has Held Up More Than 1,000 FEMA Contracts, Grants, & Awards

Elsewhere On Capitol Hill

• Senate Set To Vote On War Powers Resolution Today, To Try To Prevent Trump From Continuing His War On Iran

• Republican Senators Ted Cruz & Tim Scott Are Now Asking Treasury To Approve $200B Tax Cut, Without Congressional Approval

Fourth Round - More News To Drink About

Immigration Wars

• New YouGov Poll Shows Half Of Americans Now Support Abolishing ICE In Record Poll

• Read The New YouGov Poll Yourself: Support For Abolishing ICE Reaches 50%

• Democrats Say They Won’t Back Down On DHS/ICE Reform Demands Because Of Trump’s War In Iran

• Trump DOJ Rescinds Biden Justice Dept. Policy That Tightly Restricted When Law Enforcement Agents That Tightly Restricted When Law Enforcement Could Burst Into A Home Without Knocking

The Trumpstein Files

• Commerce Sec. Howard Lutnick Agrees To Testify About Epstein In Front Of House Oversight Committee

• Bill Gates, Kathryn Ruemmler Among New Targets In House Oversight’s Epstein Investigation

Fifth Round - Media, Entertainment, & More

• Gayle King Inks New Deal At ‘CBS Mornings’ Now Set To Stay With Show On Sinking Network

• Barbra Streisand In Talks For Oscars Performance To Honor Robert Redford

• Kevin Bacon, Ted Danson, Tom Selleck & Dolph Lundgren To Front History Channel Docuseries

• Paralympics Games Opening Ceremony Faces Growing Large Boycott & Travel Uncertainty After U.S. & Israel Start War On Iran

• FIFA Now Selling Tickets For Less Than $17 For Matches To Determine World Cup Spots

Your Bar Regular Tonight

Bob Cesca, podcaster, broadcaster, journalist, artist, & host of The Bob Cesca Show, and co-host of the award-winning Trek Politics is back tonight for some more drinks & fun political discussion. We’ll recap Bob’s favorite stories from Tuesday’s elections, and of course, we’ll tackle the latest in Trump & Netanyahu’s stupid war on Iran. Plus, Bob wrote a great piece in The Banter on another choice Americans really need to face: We can either have billionaires or democracy - but not both. Grab a drink and join us tonight!

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