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Good morning. I'm Anna Palmer. And I'm Jake Sherman. And welcome to The Daily Punch, brought to you by Punchable News. It's Monday, September 1st, 2025. Happy Labor Day, everybody. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, Congress returns this week. Here's what they're coming back to. Number two, the latest on the Texas Republican Senate primary. Hint, hint, John Cornyn is doing better. And number three, the GOP's

26 strategy, bear hugging President Donald Trump. All right, Jake, let's get into it. Happy Monday. It is great to be back

after a week where Punchball News closed its doors and took a much-needed break ahead of what is going to be a very intense September.

Yeah, it was a nice week off. Welcome back to you. We haven't done the podcast together in what seems to be like the longest

stretch in a long time. I had people say to me last week they were looking for the podcast. I said,

don't look anymore because we're not going to be back until September 1st. And I was looking at my

calendar yesterday, Anna, and I was immediately like getting hives based on all the calls and meetings and flyout day launches on at the end of the week on Thursday.

I was in the studio, as you know, last week putting things together, making sure the shots look good and the various

elements of the studio look cool.

And it's very cool to have a global world studio headquarters like we do in our Capitol Hill

townhouse.

Every time you say that, it just gets longer and longer global world.

I'm going to call you Hollywood Sherman from now on.

Yeah.

That's going to be your new nickname.

I wonder if, you know, yeah, it's five years ago, almost five years ago when we started Punchball News.

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