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Emboldened DSA Plans Socialist Primary Challenges Against Fellow Democrats
The Democratic Socialists of America expanded its House presence from two to eight members and added ally Abdul El-Sayed to the Senate after the midterms, claiming 50 total victories, including local races. The group is now shifting focus to primary challenges against other Democrats ahead of 2028.
Leftist streamer Hasan Piker said, “We should have f*cking ran socialists in every f*cking primary, dude.” Communication co-chair Aron Ali-McClory wrote that the socialist presence in Congress “will soar to heights unseen in over a century.” Piker identified Rep. Hillary Scholten (D-MI), who did not endorse El-Sayed, as a top target for a 2028 primary. The organization faces internal tensions over ideological purity and potential pushback from moderate Democrats.
Why It Matters
A hard-left faction inside one major party is openly plotting to purge moderates and install its own candidates through primaries. That kind of internal power grab risks locking a major party into rigid ideology and leaves voters with fewer practical options at the ballot box.
Schumer Asserts Caucus Unity as Sanders, Slotkin, and Five Senators-Elect Withhold Support
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said Tuesday he expects to be elected majority leader and that the Democratic caucus is united. Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) said after a meeting with him that they will not support his reelection as leader.
Sanders told reporters, “I like Chuck, nobody who works harder than Chuck Schumer. But in my view the time is now for change and I will not be supporting Chuck to be reelected as the Democrat leader.” Slotkin said, “I’m a no until and unless I see that from anyone.” At least five senators-elect, including Peggy Flanagan, Troy Jackson, Abdul El-Sayed, Juliana Stratton and Adam Hamilton, have also declined to back him. No formal challenger has declared.
Why It Matters
A fractured majority leader race shows Democrats already fighting over who controls the agenda before they even take the gavel. That kind of internal scramble risks stalling basic governance and leaves the country stuck with the same high-tax, open-border priorities that voters just rejected elsewhere.
Salazar Holds Florida House Seat After Recount Confirms Narrow Victory
Republican U.S. Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) won reelection to Florida’s 27th Congressional District, defeating Democrat Eliott Rodriguez by 1,086 votes after a machine recount. The recount of nearly 248,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County gave Salazar 124,519 votes, or 50.22 percent, to Rodriguez’s 123,433, or 49.78 percent. The margin under half a percentage point triggered the automatic recount under state law.
Salazar, a former television journalist and daughter of Cuban exiles, secured a fourth term in the heavily Hispanic district. “Once again, the voters of Florida’s District 27 have spoken,” she said. “The vote recount is over and our victory has been confirmed.” She added that the win showed “we won because we listened” to concerns over border security and the cost of living.
Why It Matters
Retaining this Miami-area seat keeps a Republican voice in a district that has shifted hard toward the party in recent cycles. The tight margin and Salazar’s own critiques of enforcement tactics expose real friction over immigration policy inside the coalition, yet the outcome still blocks a Democrat pickup in a place where open borders remain a live political liability.
Treasury Secretary Bessent Relocated to Military Base Amid Iranian Threats
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been moved from his home in the Washington, D.C., area to a U.S. military base after U.S. officials concluded that Iranian plotting against American officials had reached a more advanced stage. Three people familiar with the matter said the assessment was based in part on intelligence about threats to Bessent.
The threats come as Bessent leads an economic pressure campaign against Iran through tougher sanctions and trade restrictions. A Treasury Department spokesperson said Bessent “will not be deterred by the Iranian regime’s threats” and remains committed to the campaign. He is the latest Trump administration official relocated for security reasons, following moves by White House chief of staff Stephen Miller and former Attorney General Pam Bondi.
Why It Matters
Iranian threats against a Cabinet secretary force another senior official into military housing, showing how far Tehran is willing to go to disrupt U.S. policy. That kind of foreign intimidation of American decision-makers tests the country’s ability to protect its leaders while still applying real economic pressure.
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Democratic Socialists of America Push Socialist Messaging Into Childcare and Classrooms
The Democratic Socialists of America, after midterm gains that included the New York City mayor’s office, is expanding efforts to bring its message into classrooms, childcare programs, and school boards. The group urges organizers to approach childcare “from a socialist perspective” through initiatives such as Socialist Sprouts.
In New York City, the DSA’s Red Sprouts program held an October 2026 training for “resistance-driven childcare” at events, using “radical storytelling,” cooperative games, and age-appropriate discussions. The New York City chapter also created Comrades With Kids, a family organizing group. American Parents Coalition leader Alleigh Marré said, “What’s particularly concerning and insidious is their direct efforts to apply that to not just adults, but to youth.” The DSA’s National Political Education Committee has long offered related training and outlined a Socialist Sprouts curriculum in 2025.
Why It Matters
Injecting organized political ideology into childcare and early education undercuts parental authority and turns public institutions into recruitment tools. That practice threatens the neutral civic foundation Western culture relies on and risks producing a generation shaped by one faction’s worldview instead of open inquiry.
Texas Democrats File Multiple Gun Restriction Bills After Midterm Wins
Texas Democrats filed nearly 20 gun-control measures on November 9, the first day of prefiling for the 90th Legislature. The filings followed the party’s capture of the governorship and the Texas House. Proposals address firearm ownership by adults under 21, private sales, and extreme-risk protective orders.
House Bill 218 by state Rep. Ann Johnson (D-Houston) would authorize red-flag orders, including temporary ones issued without a hearing. Other bills by state Rep. Joe Moody (D-El Paso) and state Rep. Suleman Lalani (D-Sugar Land) would restrict transfers of certain semiautomatic rifles or all firearms to those under 21. Republicans retain control of the Texas Senate, which must approve any legislation.
Why It Matters
Immediate pushes for red-flag confiscation and age-based bans treat the Second Amendment as a privilege subject to judicial whim rather than a protected right. Such measures erode constitutional limits on government power and invite selective disarmament of law-abiding citizens in a state long defined by its defense of individual liberties.
Mamdani Holds Private Meetings With Labor Leaders to Influence 2028 Democrat Nomination
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has held private meetings with labor leaders to push for a union-aligned or left-wing candidate in the 2028 Democrat presidential race. The socialist mayor, ineligible to run himself because he is not a natural-born citizen, is concerned that if Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) stays out, progressives could lack a standard-bearer against a more centrist frontrunner.
A source familiar with the talks said Mamdani “wants the progressive ecosystem to mobilize quickly, strategically and efficiently if a moderate candidate is clearly on the rise.” Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has said voters want Democrats focused on governing after midterm gains rather than the next election. She told reporters, “the last thing that people want to hear from me or any other politician here is about the next election.”
Why It Matters
An ineligible foreign-born socialist is already working the back rooms to lock the Democrat nomination into a hard-left lane. That kind of influence-peddling from City Hall risks dragging national policy toward open borders, higher taxes, and weaker deterrence—all while ordinary voters are left with the bill.
Twice-Deported Honduran National Accused of Cockpit Breach and Bomb Threat on United Flight
A Honduran national previously deported twice from the United States was arrested after allegedly claiming to have a bomb and attempting to enter the cockpit of a United Airlines flight. Rony Alexander Gomez-Alberto was taken into custody by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office after Flight 2174 from Newark to New Orleans landed safely Monday night. Pilots issued a reported hijacking alert.
Department of Homeland Security officials said Gomez-Alberto illegally entered near El Indio, Texas, in 2011 and near Columbus, New Mexico, in 2014, and was removed after both encounters. He was arrested again near San Ysidro, California, in 2019. An immigration judge ordered his release in January 2020 pending removal proceedings. ICE lodged a detainer after the arrest. A DHS spokesperson said, “Criminal illegal aliens are NOT welcome in the United States.”
Why It Matters
Repeated illegal reentries followed by judicial release put a previously removed alien in a position to threaten a commercial airliner. The episode exposes how porous enforcement and lenient detention decisions can turn border failures into direct risks for ordinary passengers and crew.
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During a ceremony presided over by President Warren G. Harding, an unidentified American soldier from World War I was interred at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
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United Nations Elects Iran to Committee Shaping Human Rights and Counterterrorism Priorities
The United Nations General Assembly elected Iran to the Committee for Program and Coordination by a vote of 144. The body helps set UN priorities on women’s rights, human rights, disarmament, and counterterrorism.
The United States Mission to the United Nations disassociated itself from the earlier nomination. Ambassador Dan Negrea said, “The regime threatens its neighbors and has, for decades, infringed on the Iranian people’s ability to exercise their basic human rights. Due to these and other concerns, we believe Iran is unfit to serve.” UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer called the result a “travesty of justice” and noted the regime’s massacre of protesters. Israel objected during the session, citing a double standard in the treatment of its own candidates.
Why It Matters
Handing a seat on a body that shapes global human rights and counterterrorism priorities to a regime that sponsors terrorism and represses its own people makes a mockery of those standards. That kind of institutional farce erodes the credibility of any international system that claims to protect Western values or basic liberty.
British Universities Advertise Interest-Free Sharia Student Loans for Muslim Students
British universities are advertising interest-free sharia-compliant student loans under a planned Alternative Student Finance scheme. Repayments will be ring-fenced to finance other students on the program rather than going to the Treasury. Taxpayers will still cover any unpaid balances, which official forecasts estimate will affect nearly half of all student debt.
The scheme is designed to comply with Islamic rules against interest and is open to all students. Universities including University College London, Bristol, Leeds, Newcastle and De Montfort have begun promoting it, with some saying it could be available in the 2026-27 academic year. Suella Braverman, Reform’s education spokesman, called it “an outrageous anti-British scheme” that “creates a two-tier education system and divided society.” A Department for Education spokesman said claims of favorable treatment were “completely false.”
Why It Matters
A separate state-backed loan track built around Islamic finance principles carves out parallel rules inside a public system. That kind of special accommodation for one religious code risks turning equal citizenship into a menu of exceptions and leaves taxpayers on the hook for the difference.
Hoax Bomb Threats Force School Evacuations Across Scotland and Northern Ireland
Threatening emails claiming a bomb threat and promising “genocide against your people” prompted evacuations at hundreds of schools in Scotland and Northern Ireland on Wednesday. The messages, sent under the alias Mikhail Andropov and headed “DEATH IS NEAR,” also reached schools in Italy and the Republic of Ireland. More than 470 schools in Scotland and at least 300 in Northern Ireland received them.
Police Scotland and the Police Service of Northern Ireland assessed the emails as hoaxes with no credible threat. A Police Scotland spokesman said the messages “do not represent a credible threat” and advised no need to evacuate based solely on the emails. The same alias was used in recent threats to European broadcasters. A similar hoax targeted schools last month.
Why It Matters
Mass hoax campaigns that empty classrooms and force children into the cold treat ordinary schools as soft targets for intimidation. The pattern of repeated, coordinated email threats wastes police resources and normalizes fear in the very places meant to form the next generation of citizens.
Saint Nicholas Relic Stolen and Destroyed at French Basilica
Bone fragments attributed to Saint Nicholas, the fourth-century Bishop of Myra who inspired Santa Claus, were stolen from the Basilica of Saint-Nicolas-de-Port in Lorraine, France. The parish priest filed a complaint on November 2 after the October 28 theft of a reliquary from beneath a statue in the patronal chapel.
Police identified and arrested a suspect, who admitted breaking the display case, then burning and crushing the relic. He said he acted spontaneously because he viewed devotion to the remains as fetishism or idolatry. The basilica’s principal relic, kept in an arm-shaped reliquary in the treasury, remains safe. Priests of the Lorraine Parish stated, “Beyond the heritage value of this object, what touches us today is, above all, a profound attack on our history, our faith and the devotion of generations of pilgrims.”
Why It Matters
Deliberate destruction of a Christian relic weeks before its feast day attacks the historical roots of Western culture. France’s pattern of anti-Catholic incidents signals growing hostility toward the faith that shaped its laws, institutions, and traditions, eroding the civilizational inheritance free societies still rely on.
