Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for December 19, 2025. Today’s international headlines bring us news from across the globe. In Venezuela, leader Nicolás Maduro has followed in Hugo Chávez’s footsteps by ushering in an early Christmas season, a tactic often used by authoritarian leaders. Meanwhile, in Israel, a remarkable trend has emerged […]

Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for December 14, 2025. Starting with our top stories today, in the U.S., the 2020 ‘fake electors’ scheme is back in the spotlight, with Wisconsin potentially seeing the first trial involving key figures in the effort to overturn the election results. Meanwhile, inflation continues to be a […]

Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for December 13, 2025. First up, in today’s headlines, we’re seeing continued fallout from the 2020 election, with Wisconsin potentially becoming the first state to try figures involved in the “fake electors” scheme. Domestically, inflation continues to plague voters, now weighing on President Trump’s economic approval, a […]

December
9

1212:
In Mainz, coronation of Frederick II as King of Germany during whose reign the
Jewish “community of Austria began to flourish” due to his “recognition that
the Jews were a separate ethnic and religious group and were not bound to the
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Good evening, and welcome to #ourCOG Daily Brief for December 6, 2025. Today in U.S. news, military leaders are under the microscope regarding recent drug boat attacks, prompting discussions on when troops should follow orders versus push back against those of questionable legality. A significant Supreme Court precedent, nearly a century old, limiting the president’s […]

December 3

311: Sixty-sixty-year-old Emperor Diocletian passed away.

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1368: Birthdate of Charles VI, the French king who would order the
expulsion of the Jews from his re…