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The Texas Capitol Plot, the IRGC Letter and Talarico’s Church: Jim Pfaff on Worldview Tube — Washington Report | Oct 1, 2026

Published: October 1, 2026
Network: Worldview Tube
Analysis: Conservative Caucus President Jim Pfaff

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Texas authorities and the FBI arrested a suspect in an alleged plot to attack the state Capitol in Austin the day before this show aired. On the October 1, 2026 edition of Worldview Tube’s Washington Report, host Logan Howse opened with the Texas Capitol plot, and Conservative Caucus President Jim Pfaff said it is breathtaking how insane this election season has been. The show went on to Kash Patel’s FBI, the RAF Fairford suspects bailed in Britain, the IRGC’s open letter to American voters, Hasan Piker and the Democratic Socialists of America, audio from James Talarico’s church, and Florida’s lawsuit against Pfizer.

Topics Covered

• The Texas Capitol Plot and Kash Patel’s FBI
• The RAF Fairford Suspects and Britain’s Fear of Islamists
• Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Writes to American Voters
• Hasan Piker, the DSA and James Talarico
• Talarico’s Church and the Philosophers on Mars Hill
• Florida’s Pfizer Lawsuit and Vaccine Liability
• Key Takeaways

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The Texas Capitol Plot and Kash Patel’s FBI

Pfaff tied the Texas Capitol plot to November before any details were in: it reemphasized to him that Democrats are a disaster if they take over Congress, and the odds, he said, are that they will at least take the House.

Howse then played a Fox News report on the Texas Capitol plot. According to Texas officials, the attack was supposed to happen that day and was stopped by the Texas Department of Public Safety and the FBI, with the arrest early Wednesday of 40-year-old Benny Caldera at a home near San Antonio. FBI Director Kash Patel wrote: threaten Americans or our institutions and law enforcement will move fast.

Howse said there had been a lot of attacks thwarted by the FBI in the last year or two, at least 10 large ones by his estimate. Pfaff’s response to the Texas Capitol plot was about the bureau. He allowed that Patel has drawn criticism from time to time, and said maybe some of it is earned. But he judged the FBI by results.

“I don’t know that any FBI director has been perfect, but this FBI is actually crime-fighting, and they’re doing so not just on the terrorist front but here in the United States, and not just illegals in the United States but anyone committing crimes in the United States. It’s actually a breathtakingly good record.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

In this case, Pfaff noted, the plot was apparently reported by someone who was concerned, at least according to the article he read, and he called that a pretty darn good record. Howse recalled the old pattern: people report something, the FBI does not listen, and the attacker turns out to have been on a watch list. Pfaff said that ran through the last four-plus years and started earlier.

“It was even happening during the Trump administration when his then FBI director Christopher Wray was doing a sucky job. What a difference an FBI director can make.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

The RAF Fairford Suspects and Britain’s Fear of Islamists

Britain released on bail five suspects in the planned attack on RAF Fairford, a base the United States uses. Howse played President Trump in the Oval Office. On the UK’s claim that Iran played a role, Trump said, “We’re studying it very hard,” noting Iran has no money, no Navy and no Air Force. Asked if he was satisfied with the UK, he said, “Well, no, the UK did release a number of people that we caught wanting to blow up a base.”

Pfaff asked what court does that for a murderer. With a clear accusation of first-degree murder, he said, that person is not getting out quickly, and if let out at all, the bond is very high.

Pfaff said the people in political power and police power in the UK are “scared to death of Islamists,” and recalled a case, though not the victim’s name, in which a man was stabbed by an Islamist, a policeman sided with the attacker, and the victim died because the attacker claimed he was the one threatened.

“It’s because they’re running scared of Islam and those who are adherents to it in a radical way in Great Britain. And they keep doing this and it’s insane.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Howse noted the Tommy Robinson protests with hundreds of thousands in the streets. Pfaff compared the aerial view to Glenn Beck’s Tea Party gathering on the National Mall, in 2010 as he recalled it, which the Park Service put at a quarter million and his own calculations put close to a million. He would not be surprised if the latest one in England topped a million.

“They say that Great Britain’s lost when it comes to the issue of Islamic immigrants. I’m not necessarily certain that it is lost. You’ve got a huge number of people in that population who are tired of it.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Writes to American Voters

Howse read the headline from Time: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has penned an open letter to American voters calling on U.S. civilians to wrest control back from corrupt politicians. Pfaff said the letter specifically mentions Democrats, so the IRGC is in effect endorsing them, urging Americans to vote against Republicans and put Democrats in power in Congress.

“Banner day for Democrats, getting a terrorist organization or the military of a radical corrupt Islamic state who has been fomenting terror around the world and killed thousands of Americans asking them to get rid of Donald Trump’s party. It’s insane. I’m going to be calling it out between now and November 3rd.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Pfaff has not seen anyone ask Democratic candidates about the letter. If asked, he expects them to disavow it and then twist the answer into how bad the United States is.

He was candid about the war itself: he has been suspicious about why the United States should have fought it, particularly at this time. TCC covered the president’s Iran posture earlier in his analysis of Trump’s UN speech on Iran, Greenland and Cuba.

“I don’t doubt what Donald Trump’s actual motives are and what he hopes to do. And he’s shown me confidence that he’s not into doing a forever war.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

The engagement has been economic as well as military. Pfaff cited administration reporting, which he has not been able to validate, that nearly as much oil moves through the Strait of Hormuz as before, just no Iranian oil, so it sounds like Trump is winning that argument. It is tough for Americans to swallow at the gas pump, he said. More breathtaking to him: he does not hear Democrats trying to denounce the IRGC’s endorsement.

Hasan Piker, the DSA and James Talarico

Howse turned to the Democratic Socialists of America, which even unaffiliated Democrats such as Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will have to face. He played Hasan Piker, who said “inshallah,” joked that Texas is “no Sharia state,” and said of Talarico: “We are the force that allowed him to win this seat of power. And if he wants to maintain it, he’s got to play ball.”

“We need to understand it is the Islamist/Maoist communist faction of the Democrat Party that’s running the Democrat Party in essence.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Few Democrats try to moderate away from that faction, Pfaff said, and it does not matter: this is the energy behind the party. TCC covered the party’s socialist wing earlier in his Worldview Tube analysis of Schumer’s favorability and the Democratic socialists.

On Piker’s joke about being arrested in Texas, Pfaff said that is not what we do in the West. Piker, he said, recently called for a Maoist-style cultural revolution that throws opponents in jail. Conservatives will take him on vigorously, politically.

“If Hasan Piker and his ilk ever get enough control and power, you’re going to get thrown in jail if you don’t agree with them. That is literally what they’re going to do.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Talarico’s Church and the Philosophers on Mars Hill

After the break, Howse played audio from what he believed was a Townhall investigative piece at Talarico’s church. A woman Howse believed to be the senior pastor said most members would call themselves agnostic or atheist, and that some wish “that young man had not just nicked his ear but been more successful.” In a second clip, the same minister, whom Howse identified as Reverend Babs Miller, called the virgin birth a pagan belief, said there is no way of knowing whether Jesus existed, and said Jesus was put on the cross because Rome hated him, not to save us.

Pfaff called her a pagan. This, he said, is exactly what the philosophers said when they got frustrated with Paul in Athens at the Areopagus, on Mars Hill, and accused him of spouting crazy ideas: Greek philosopher types, or at least late Stoicism and Epicureanism.

Then the electoral case. Roughly a majority of Americans believe in the Judeo-Christian ethic, he said, not necessarily as practicing Christians but as people who hold the Bible to be at least an ethical, moral teaching, and in Texas that number is definitely more than half. Christians who sit on the sidelines miss that Talarico represents what the Democrat Party is about, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and outside groups are spending a lot of money to elect him.

“He mirrors this exact teaching. This is what he believes in. And yet he goes around and claims Christianity. It’s one thing for him to have certain beliefs and then as an American try to run for office. It’s another thing to pretend like you’re something you’re not. He is not a Christian.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Plenty of non-practicing Americans who believe in the American system get elected, Pfaff said. Claiming Christianity while saying things antithetical to the American Republic is different. Evangelicals and Catholics need to vote against Talarico, and register if they are not. Even conservatives with questions about the miracles do not think Jesus was a social justice warrior. “This is literally insane pagan thinking,” he said.

The New Atheist movement of the late ’90s and early 2000s has pretty much gone by the wayside, he added, because the scientific evidence puts severe doubt on the materialist chance view of the universe and the intelligent design argument keeps winning.

“In science and in archaeology and in textual criticism, the veracity of the Bible is more clear now than it has ever been in human history because of what we have archaeologically and science.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

Florida’s Pfizer Lawsuit and Vaccine Liability

With a few minutes left, Howse played a statement he believed was put out by the Florida Attorney General, announcing a lawsuit against Pfizer and CEO Albert Bourla for deceptive practices over the mRNA COVID vaccine.

Howse noted Bourla was at the White House dinner with Xi the week before; Pfaff said that reflects Pfizer’s size, not that it was a good thing. His objection was the legal shield: Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson and the other COVID vaccine makers were given immunity from harm done, which he called wrong.

“Just because vaccination is an amazing scientific breakthrough in some ways does not mean that these companies need to get a pass on civil liability.”
— Jim Pfaff, President, The Conservative Caucus

As he understands it, that immunity would not protect them if Florida’s case succeeds. Other states need to join Florida, he said, because this was an absurd lie foisted on the American people. Bourla did call people criminals for not taking it, Pfaff said, and the companies used people like Anthony Fauci to make that happen. Hardly anyone paid for a vaccine directly; federal funds covered it. They caused a lot of harm, Pfaff said, and should be held to account.

Key Takeaways

1. The Texas Capitol plot was stopped on a tip – Texas DPS and the FBI arrested 40-year-old Benny Caldera near San Antonio. Pfaff credits Kash Patel’s FBI with a breathtakingly good record, unlike the Wray years.
2. Britain is running scared – Pfaff says UK authorities fear Islamists, but the crowds tell him Britain is not lost.
3. The IRGC endorsed Democrats – Pfaff says the open letter is in effect an endorsement, and he will call it out between now and November 3rd.
4. Not a forever war – Pfaff has been suspicious about the war and its timing but trusts Trump’s motives and his economic approach.
5. Talarico is not a Christian, in Pfaff’s view – Pfaff says Talarico mirrors his church’s teaching and urges Texas Christians to vote against him.
6. No more liability pass for vaccine makers – Pfaff backs Florida’s lawsuit against Pfizer and Albert Bourla and wants other states to join.

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About The Conservative Caucus:
The Conservative Caucus is a grassroots public policy action organization, formed in 1974. Headed by President Jim Pfaff, the Caucus is committed to advancing free enterprise, limited government, and traditional values.

Originally broadcast Oct 1, 2026 on Worldview Tube — Washington Report with Logan Howse.