Background Briefing with 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

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

An Expert on Psychopathic Personality Disorder Ties Trump's Deteriorating Condition to the Crises We Face |Background Briefing's Anna Leah With the Authors of Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

The Third Anniversary of the Hamas Attack on Israel and How Netanyahu's Ignoring of Warnings is Impacting the October 27 Election | How France's Record Debt Underpins the Lack of Investment in Education as Students Protest Nationwide | How we Can Live Like a Citizen and Change Mindsets and Our Country backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.s...

Trump Invites Iran to Nuke the Democratic Cities of Los Angeles and San Diego | Putin Offers the Mother of All Corrupt Deals to the Trump/Witkoff Families For Selling Out Ukraine | Russia Covers Up a Researcher's Death by Pneumonic Plague in Siberia While Rubio Asks For Transparency backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/bac...

Will Brazil Join the Rightward Shift in Latin America Following Chile, Honduras and Colombia? | Sam Altman Says We Should Accept "Bad Things" With AI. What Could Go Wrong? | What Is in The Epstein Files That Trump is So Afraid Of and Will Todd Blanche and Kash Patel Shred Them if the Democrats Win in November? David will be joining Ian for a live conversation next Sunday October 11th at 6:30pm at...

Will the Macabre Barbarism of a Botched Execution in Tennessee Change People's Views on Capital Punishment? | An Analysis of Iran's Strategic Adaptation and the Likelihood of a Resumption of the Iran War | Anna Leah Looks Into the Real Culture War Underway in Ukraine backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

A "Christian" Crusader In Charge of the Nuclear Arsenal Who Is Invested in the End Times Should Scare Us All | "Everyone Got Pete Hegseth Wrong" | How Citizens are Fighting Back Against ICE Cruelty Their Taxpayer Money Is Funding backgroundbriefing.org/donate twitter.com/ianmastersmedia bsky.app/profile/ianmastersmedia.bsky.social linktr.ee/backgroundbriefing

How John Roberts Has Increased the Power of the Criminal in Charge of the Executive Branch While Weakening the Judicial Branch Whose Rulings Trump Ignores |The 6 Far Right Supreme Court Justices Just Allowed Stephen Miller to Continue Sending Deportees to a Cruel Fate in Third Countries | After 23 Years the US Leaves a Strategic Vacuum in Iraq That Iran is Likely to Fill backgroundbriefing.org/don...