Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for November 8, 2026. Today’s headlines are dominated by the aftermath of the recent midterm elections in the U.S., where voters sent a clear message to politicians: tackle corruption, integrity, and ethics, issues that drove many to the polls. The Democrats’ decisive victory is expected to influence […]

November
9

694: Opening meeting of the Seventeenth Council of Toledo
during which the Visigoth Catholic monarch, King Egica publicly charged
the Jews with planning to “exterminate and [destroy] their
homeland.”  This charge was the excuse fo…