We are live. Welcome to another episode of Welcome to the Party, pal. I'm joined as always by my amazing co-host, former Tea Party Republican Congressman Joe Walsh. And I'm Democratic strategist Mike Nellis. We're going to be diving into a couple of different topics for this week's show. The first one is going to be, we're going to talk about Tucker Carlson's embrace of Nick Fuentes. We kind of want to get into that one, talk about what it means for the MAGA movement and the Republican Party.

We're going to talk about Tucker Carlson's embrace of Nick Fuentes. We kind of want to get into that one, talk about what it means for the MAGA movement and the Republican Party. We're going to be talking about Trump authorizing strikes on Venezuela, and we're going to be talking about the Republican Party using SNAP this weekend and running out of money as leverage in this. I'm noticing that the count is not rising. So like the push alert has probably not gone out yet, but we'll just keep rolling with it anyway. So for the folks that are here, please do us a favor and hit the heart button for us so that more people join as the push alert goes out. And then tell us where you're watching it from and tell us what comments you have. So Joe, I just want to check in on you. Like, how are you doing? How are you holding up? It's been two weeks since we last checked in. Mike Nellis, it's good to be with you, my younger brother.

It's always good weeks since we last checked in. Mike Nellis, it's good to be with you, my younger brother.

It's always good to see your smiling, passionate face.

You know, good. But again, I go back to what you and I do here.

And this was your idea, and I love you for it.

Welcome to the party, pal, a new Democrat.

Not everybody embraced me. And it's weird, Mike,

every fucking week, I still get people who won't embrace me on the Democratic side. And I get it.

I've always understood that. But you did from the beginning and most people have from the beginning.

And truthfully, most grassroots Democrats have. The establishment you and I've talked about has been a little bit more of a golf clap. But they'll come around. Well, I think it's, I think it's an earned thing, right? Like, more people are going to be distrustful. And, like, you know, I had met you, I at least talked to you beforehand, like we've done a show together and people

that I know trust you. And I watched you do the work too. Like, you primary Donald Trump for

Christ's sake. Like you did the work and I think that deserves we see. I mean, that's part of where

it's this, I know we, I know this wasn't on the agenda, but like Marjorie Taylor Green is doing

the view next week and she continues to go woke. Like, I don't know how sincere that is, right? Now, if tomorrow, she's like, hey, I'm a Democrat. I'm going to go. How would you react to that? How would you react to that? I would not trust it right now. But now if she did it over the course of years and I kind of watched her put that work in, like I watched you put the work in, Joe. And that's why I trust you. And like, you could be making more money and have more power and influence in the Republican Party over there.

Yeah.

And saying the thing, work in, Joe, and that's why I trust you. And, like, you could be making more money and have more

power and influence in the Republican Party over there and saying the things that they want to say and embracing the people that they want to embrace. But you're not. You're here with us. And I'm sure if you and I got into an economic policy debate, we would disagree with each other. I'm probably a shit. But, like, that's not the point writer. And I know you have an agenda, but I had a conversation this last week with a longtime Democrat who's a radio host, and he's a hardcore great progressive.

And he said, Joe, the party, if the party is, as Mike Nellis said, because he read your piece a few months ago, if the party is big enough for Joe Walsh and Zoran, Mamdani,

then that's a party that doesn't stand for anything. It's too big because of policy

differences. Do you understand or buy any of that? Yeah, I don't buy into that because, like,

I think electoral politics are hard and you got to bring people together and like look

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