From New York, this is Democracy Now.

Okay. This program is a blessing. It's a very blessing to know that they

are helping us and helping our kids and helping us to be able to feed our children when we

don't have jobs right now. Just hours before some 42 million people lost food benefits in what could be the longest

government shutdown in U.S. history, President Trump held a lavish great Gadsby Halloween

party at Marlago.

We'll speak with the head of the international F. Scott

Fitzgerald Society about the Great Gatsby, a book about unaccountable power and cruelty.

But first to Mariana Chilton, author of The Painful Truth about Hunger in America.

Next, tomorrow is Election Day.

We'll bring you a report on the South Asian grassroots movement

that's hope fuels Zohran Mamdani's historic run for mayor here in New York City.

From the get-go, our communities were going to be a big part of its base.

Just 24-7, they are thinking how to win.

They are not only just volunteers.

They build actually movement.

I think the fact that the campaign spoke to the very material issues of working-class people

as first and foremost has really made a very significant difference.

Then President Trump threatens to bomb Africa's most populous country, Nigeria, accusing the government

of failing to protect Christians. We'll speak with the acclaimed Nigerian writer Wolle Shoyenka, the winner of the Nobel Prize

for Literature, who was denied a visa into the United States by the Trump administration.

All that and more coming up.

...