Adam and Dick open with Hormuz Watch. Oil still isn’t flowing, Houthi ballistic missiles hit the Riyadh airport, and the U.S. is pulling diplomats and some embassy-duty Marines out of Saudi Arabia. They also cover Trump’s repeal of the Russian energy sanctions, the planned trilateral talks with China and Russia, and reports that new strikes on Iran are being telegraphed for after the midterms.

Then they cover the DOJ’s recent actions. The raid on Ilhan Omar’s home, the Virginia state senator investigation, and the Corey Lewandowski probe all raise questions about whether the unwritten rule against charging candidates near an election is gone. They also touch on the press secretary’s bar-passage controversy.

The back half goes local. With about two weeks until the election, they discuss the internal poll putting Killen at 46 to 44 in CD5, the yard-sign energy in Falcon, and the 2024 HD16 race decided by three votes. They also look at the tight Colorado Senate majority, the CD4 race against Boebert, and why returning your ballot early gets you off the canvassing list.

Twenty days before the election, Adam and Dick start with a Halloween song and work through a heavy news week. They cover the decision not to stream an upcoming execution, and the school shooting in Bend, Oregon, where a parent with a concealed weapon stopped the attacker. They discuss why the shooting doesn’t settle the gun policy argument and what practical gun safety measures could look like with so many guns already in circulation.

Then they turn to the midterms: the House looking likely to flip, competitive Senate races in Texas, Georgia, and South Carolina, Musk’s spending on the Paxton side in Texas, and the Talafrico nickname. Adam recaps the Ballots and Brews event at Cerebus and where El Paso County Colorado Progressive Veterans goes after Election Day, including legislation for Colorado veterans.

The Hormuz Watch looks at what Congress could do about the Iran war after the new session begins in January, including a war powers approach and how the courts might respond. The episode closes with RFK Jr.’s comments on the Pennsylvania measles deaths, his shift on vaccines, and the large new MMR and autism study.

Adam Gillard and Dick Wilkinson record a late-night edition of Left Face. They start with the federal government’s plan to execute Nidal Hasan, the Fort Hood shooter, by firing squad and to live-stream it. Both hosts, who were serving at the time of the attack, say they won’t lose sleep over Hasan’s sentence. They argue that broadcasting it turns a forgotten murderer into a terrorist recruiting tool and the martyr he said he wanted to be.

Next, they cover ICE activity in Colorado Springs, including a child pulled from school after her parents were detained, and an ICE shooting during a traffic stop in New York City with a five-year-old in the car. That leads into a ballot question on local police cooperation with ICE. Dick explains where he draws the line between jail handoffs and following local police around.

Hormuz Watch looks at the U.S. buying Russian oil despite laws barring it, Rep. Adam Smith raising impeachment, Houthi strikes reaching Riyadh, a sitting senator denied access to U.S. bases in the region, and a CNN report on Hormuz traffic that didn’t match the ship trackers.

They close with the CD5 race between Rep. Jeff Crank and Jessica Killen as it turns negative, and with Progressive Veterans knocking doors for veteran candidates Mike Pearson in HD 22 and Michelle Tweed in HD 21.