Tuesday night, President Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran. The nation exhaled. We exhaled.

But before you call it a win, you need to understand what we agreed to.

Iran's ten-point proposal — which the White House accepted as the basis for negotiation — includes: a toll on the Strait of Hormuz that will generate over $7.5 billion a year in new Iranian revenue. The current government stays in power. Sanctions lifted. A non-aggression guarantee. Halting of IAEA investigations. Regional ceasefire including Hezbollah. U.S. military withdrawal from the region.

And the one that should stop you cold: recognition of Iran's right to nuclear enrichment.

The same nuclear program we launched Operation Midnight Hammer to destroy. The same "imminent threat" that justified bypassing Congress. The same two-weeks-to-ten-nuclear-weapons claim that came from Netanyahu to Witkoff to Trump — with no intelligence analyst anywhere in the chain.

Six weeks and thirteen dead Americans later, we just agreed to let them keep enriching.

Either the threat was real and we surrendered. Or the threat was exaggerated and we sent Americans to die for a lie. Pick one.

Meanwhile, National Guard units from eighteen states are still in theater — deployed without a declaration of war, with governors who don't know where their own troops are or when they're coming home.

This episode covers:

• The full breakdown of Iran's ten-point ceasefire proposal — and what each term actually means
• The equipment losses: F-35s, F-15s, the USS Gerald R. Ford, and billions in damage
• The thirteen Americans killed and the hundreds wounded in an unauthorized war
• The eighteen states with National Guard deployed — unit by unit, state by state
• What sitting governors said when asked about their own troops (they don't know)
• Why Defend the Guard legislation is the only structural fix
• The one thing President Trump still has to do — and why restraining Israel is not optional

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Joe Kent served 11 combat deployments. He earned six Bronze Stars. He was the director of the National Counterterrorism Center — appointed by Trump, confirmed by the Senate. His job was to know whether Iran posed an imminent threat.

He resigned rather than lie about it.

In his resignation letter, Kent said Iran posed no imminent threat — and that the president was deceived by an echo chamber running the same playbook used to drag us into Iraq. Within hours, the system destroyed him. The president called him weak on security. The press ran FBI leak stories. His colleagues went quiet.

Meanwhile, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee — the one man with the subpoena power and the gavel to hold a public hearing — refused. And in a classified briefing, Jim Risch told his colleagues exactly why: "I do not believe the administration's decision makers should be subject to public questioning by senators."

Dan McKnight has a long personal history with Jim Risch — from a satellite phone call on a mountain in Afghanistan in 2006 to a box of Afghanistan Papers delivered to his Boise office with no response. In this episode, Dan tells that story in full — and makes the case that Risch is not a bad man. He is a captured man. There is a difference.T

his episode covers:• Why "imminent threat" is a legal standard — not a talking point — and what it actually requires

• The two Tulsi Gabbard testimony moments that contradict the White House's justification for the war
• How the "two weeks to ten nuclear weapons" claim traveled from Netanyahu to Witkoff to Trump — with no intelligence analyst anywhere in the chain
• What Senator Tim Kaine revealed Risch said behind closed doors about public oversight• The Norman Brownstein video — and what it means when a lobbyist calls the SFRC "the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations for the State of Israel"
• A direct appeal to veterans: Joe Kent kept his promise. Jim Risch broke his. Which choice are you going to make?

Read the open letter published in The American Conservative — signed by Dan McKnight, Col. Douglas Macgregor, Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, and Capt. Matthew Hoh: https://www.theamericanconservative.com/veterans-have-earned-the-right-to-ask-its-time-we-did/

Add your name to the petition: https://BringOurTroopsHome.us then click "Stand With Joe Kent"

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We're not at war with Iran. At least that's what Speaker Mike Johnson says — it's just a "limited engagement."

But President Trump is demanding unconditional surrender.

You can't have it both ways.

When Tucker Carlson explained the historical meaning of "unconditional surrender," the entire right-wing media attacked him. Trump himself said Tucker "lost his way" and is "not smart enough to understand."

But who actually understands what the term means? Dan breaks down the history — from Ulysses S. Grant to the fall of Berlin — and shows why Tucker's analysis was accurate and Trump's definition was... something else entirely.

Plus: If Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and Syria taught us anything, it's that regime change fantasies become disasters. So who exactly is supposed to surrender?

And introducing NEOCON IDOL — this week's loser: Lindsey Graham, who's NOT with you... he's with Israel, until his dying day.

Join the movement

Bring Our Troops Home is the only national organization actively working to restore constitutional war powers by passing Defend the Guard legislation in the states.

If you believe Congress — not the president — should decide when America goes to war, join us.

Sign the petition, support the movement, and help us pass Defend the Guard in every state.

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Defend the Guard - https://DefendTheGuard.us

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