The Rightist

Good morning. Here is what matters today, in five.

1. Caravan of 2,000 bets on a bluer Congress. A migrant caravan of roughly 2,000 is moving north through Mexico, some saying last week’s Democratic wins will open the door. Border czar Tom Homan’s reply: they get turned around or prosecuted, and the White House is “not giving one inch,” via The Daily Wire.

Democrats won Congress. They did not win the Rio Grande.

2. Interest on the debt hit $1.4 trillion last year. A Government Accountability Office audit puts fiscal 2026 interest costs at $1.4 trillion, with $1.1 trillion paid to bondholders. Total federal debt reached $40.2 trillion, up $2.5 trillion in a year, and interest now outspends Medicare and the military, via The Center Square.

3. Loudoun lesson plan calls Thanksgiving a “Day of Mourning.” A district-approved lesson plan in Loudoun County, Virginia, recommended for second graders, teaches Thanksgiving as a “Day of Mourning.” This is the same district that put parents’ rights on the map in 2021, via the Washington Free Beacon.

Pass the turkey, and the grief counselor.

4. Colom flips Mississippi; Democrats hold 55 Senate seats. The Associated Press called Mississippi’s Senate race Wednesday for Democrat Scott Colom, who unseated Cindy Hyde-Smith with 49.2% after a week of provisional-ballot counting. The seventh flip gives Democrats 55 seats, with Alaska still counting, via The Center Square.

5. Three Iran-linked operatives indicted over plot on U.S. airmen. The Justice Department unsealed an eight-count indictment in New York charging three men with backing Kata’ib Hizballah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in nearly 20 attacks or attempts, including a September plot against American servicemembers at a British air base, via The Center Square.

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