Background Briefing with Ian Masters

The Espionage Competition Between the U.S. and China | Call For a Generational Change in Democratic House and Senate Leadership Fall on Deaf Ears | A Former Marine Deployed to Afghanistan on What it Means to Serve a Country That Doesn't Know Its Military backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

Trump Doubles Down on Hate With Stephen Miller His Co-President and the House GOP Follows With Jim Jordan as Their New Leader | Will the Honey Trap by China's Ministry of State Security of the Nvidia CEO Slow Down the AI Boom? | How Billionaire Money Swayed Public Policy in California But Backfired in Texas backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia....

Should the Democrats Prioritize Accountability or Affordability? | The "Deal Guys" Could Never Deliver Trump's Promised "Big, Beautiful Agreement" Between Russia and Ukraine Unless There is a Referendum on the Deal By the Ukrainian People | Anna Leah on Corruption As the Number One Issue and the People's Demand For Clean Government backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app...

Trump Doubles Down Choosing a Fire-Breathing Fanatic as His Next Chief of Staff | Can Stephen Miller Save Hegseth's Job? | Again Trump Cozies Up to Who He Calls "The Top Person in Russia" While Blaming Ukraine For the Killling

Trump Doubles Down Choosing a Fire-Breathing Fanatic as His Next Chief of Staff by Ian Masters

Trump Cozies Up to Who He Calls "The Top Person in Russia" While Blaming Ukraine For the Killling by Ian Masters

The Origin Story of Trump's Disastrous Against Iran and Why MBZ and MBS are Furious With the "Deal Guy" Jared Kushner | With Big Oil the Winner of the Iran War, Will the Price of Gas Continue to Dominate and Decide Our Elections? backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

November 4th, 2026 - Moira Donegan | Robert Kuttner | Anthea Butler by Ian Masters

November 3rd, 2026 - Thanassis Cambanis | Gregory Treverton | William Hartung by Ian Masters

The Importance of Abdul El Sayed's US Senate Victory in Michigan | How Trump Revived and Rescued the Democratic Party | The Director of the University of Florida's Election Lab Who Has Provided the Media With the Latest on Voting So Far backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

In the Biggest Bank Robbery in History, $6.3 Billion in Crypto Scam Was Stolen From Crypto Scammers | After a Blue Wave "Change Election," Will Democrats Go Bold Or Play It Safe? |Trump is About to Deport 1.3 Million On Temporary Protected Status Back to a Cruel Fate in Countries Like Afghanistan backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social...

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/ianmasters...

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/profi...

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/back...

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

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/i...

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