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Trump Has Many More Voter Suppression Tools Than He Had For the Jan 6, 2021 Coup and He'll Try Again But Fail If Voters Show Up | The Ties Between Election Deniers, MAGA Media and Key Figures in the Right Wing Media Manosphere | Why White Christian Women Like Erika Kirk, Paula White, Karoline Leavitt and Natalie Harp Worship a Corrupt Degenerate backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

October 28, 2026 - Robert Young Pelton | Dr. Hassan Jabareen by Ian Masters

While Musk Spends Half a Billion on Republicans, "Spam PAC's" and Greedy Consultants Eat up a Lot of Hard-Earned Money From Democratic Small Donors | The Report From Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee Alleges Trump Was "An Active Participant in Jeffrey Epstein's Abuse of Young Women and Girls in the Mid-to-Late 1990s" backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

The Turnaround in Brazil Propelled by Young Voters Who Reelected Lula To a 4th Term | The Historical Record on Midterm Elections and History's Verdict of Trump as America's Worst Ever President backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Pedophelia Protection Defines the Trump Administration Along With Treason | Disarray in Europe and Growing Illiberal Populism in a World in Need of a New Architecture For Global Governance | The Genesis of the Growth of Oligarchical Political Power From the Powell Memo to Elon Musk backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

A White House Correspondent Trump Called a "Sick Person" Who Vance Labelled an "Imbecile" On How He Was Banned From Air Force One | Trump's "Yalta" in His Quest For a Nobel Prize To Take Place at the APEC Summit in China With Putin and Xi But No Zelensky | The Growing Bipartisan Opposition to Data Centers backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

October 21, 2026 - Avi Asher-Schapiro | Robert Alexander | Chuck Collins by Ian Masters

October 20, 2026 - Paul Pillar | David Andelman | Mike Dennison by Ian Masters

Trump Follows Putin's Advice to Convene a Summit with Xi, Putin and Trump, Without Zelensky, to End Putin's War on Ukraine | DHS's Efforts to Denaturalize Congresswoman Omar and Obama's Defense of Her | If and When Will Republican Senators Stand Up To Trump? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

The Richest Man in the World, Who Bought the Last Election For the Republicans, Has Spent $366 Million So Far On the Midterms Including $168 Million to Elect Ken Paxton | A Brave Young Exiled Russian Journalist and the Filmmaker of MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART II - EXILE | The Author of Crossing the Red Line: Biden, His Advisors, and Israel's War in Gaza backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

October 15, 2026 - Robert Pape | Sarah Leah Whitson | Santiago Mayer by Ian Masters

October 14th, 2026 - Natalie Melnyczuk | Benn Steil | Julie Ingersoll by Ian Masters

October 13, 2026 - Tamar Jacoby | Sharon Weinberger | Dr. Sumit Ganguly by Ian Masters

How After the Midterms Democrats Must Extinguish the Many Flavors of Trump and MAGA Fascism | The Left Should Rediscover the Word Evil and Apply it to Trump and MAGA | The Author of Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

The Democrats Daunting To-Do List When They Take The House and Senate | Hegseth's Obscene Focus on Lethality Mimics Iran's Public Executions and Gives Aid and Comfort to Jihadis | Why Did Leading California Democrats Cave to Larry and David Ellison's Blackmail? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing