November 05, 2026

The American Conservative Morning Briefing · Nov 5, 2026 · 4m

Good morning! Today is Thursday, November 5th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Democrats swept Tuesday's midterms in a historic rout, flipping both chambers of Congress and governorships in Ohio, Texas, Georgia, and Nevada, with Vice President Vance publicly blaming the Iran War for the loss. Ann Coulter names Benjamin Netanyahu and Rupert Murdoch as chief architects of the Iran War disaster, pointing to collapsed public support for Israel and a CPI shock rivaling the invasion of Ukraine. Seventy years after Soviet tanks crushed the Hungarian Revolution, Doug…