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Good morning.

I'm Anna Palmer.

I'm Jake Sherman.

And welcome to The Daily Punch. Brought to you by Punchville News. It's Thursday, February 19th, 2026. Let's get in the mix here. Are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, the House Preps for Nairon Powers Resolution, plus the latest on DHS funding. Number two, big tech goes big on spending in the midterms. And number three, a report out of Texas from our very own Ali Mutnik on the ground covering the Senate GOP primary race. All right, Jake, let's get to it. We have a very packed AM edition given it is congressional recess. But let's start with the move on the Iran powers resolution. This is all

going to tee up for next week. Yeah, Rokana and Tom Massey are forcing a war powers resolution vote

on Iran. The big question right now, I mean, if you follow military and airplane Twitter,

which I'm not sure you do, Anna, but...

Not for me. You know, there's a lot of things I follow. Olympics, fashion, food. Food, I know you're

big in, too, and also travel, but you're not into... But not the plane movement Twitter. That is not

not big on. I know that's the new thing, really.

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