Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Join us as we bring coverage from CPAC in Dallas for the rest of the week. Today, we look at the broader conservative movement and whether CPAC can regain its lost influence and energy and ask Matt Schlapp why he has moved the event to Texas. Plus, just what was the book that Markwayne Mullin used at his swearing-in ceremony …

Conservatives converge on Texas this week with awkward questions about Iran, midterm elections, and the future of Trumpism without Donald Trump looming over them.