The Dawn Stensland Show tackles the spiraling foreign policy debate after reports confirm US aircraft evacuations from a second UK base amidst active Iran threats. Dawn defends the strategic doctrine of peace through strength, connecting Ronald Reagan’s Cold War victories and Star Wars initiative to Donald Trump’s Operation Iron Gate naval blockade. Meanwhile, the crew clashes over the administration’s handling of the region, evaluating Marco Rubio’s defense of War Secretary Pete Hegseth and whether confronting Tehran’s nuclear ambitions is worth the domestic fallout.
We sit down in-studio with Pennsylvania State Treasurer Stacey Garrity for an unsparing post-election postmortem on the 2026 midterms and the brutal financial hurdles hitting Harrisburg. Treasurer Garrity reviews Josh Shapiro’s data center controversies, lost Republican state Senate seats, and the shutdown of local community skill games that keep fire halls and VFW posts solvent. With Veterans Day arriving, she outlines Treasury programs reuniting families with abandoned Purple Hearts, expands on PA ABLE accounts for disabled servicemen, and calls to eliminate green energy mandates to slash soaring winter utility bills.
Dawn and the team react to Speaker Mike Johnson slamming Thomas Massie’s snap impeachment resolution targeting War Secretary Pete Hegseth ahead of a fast-approaching House vote. The studio lines open up as conservative callers confront the steep political and economic tolls of endless foreign intervention versus domestic border security priorities. We close with breaking coverage of a tense industrial trench rescue in Bridgeton, New Jersey, before handing off to Dom Giordano for a look at congressional fights ahead.
