Winning the argument and losing the friend is usually a bad trade.

An argument has two scores and only one of them gets announced. You can be entirely right about the fact and still have spent something that does not come back, because people remember the feeling of being flattened long after they forget what it was about. Being correct is cheap; being correct in a way that cost you somebody is not.

Before the next one escalates, work out what you are actually buying. If it is only the satisfaction of being right, leave it unclaimed. If the point genuinely matters, make it once, quietly, in private rather than in front of the group, and leave them room to agree later.