Hello and welcome to background briefing, available 24-7 at background briefing.

I'm Ian Masters, and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin on this 100th day before the election as the Democrats have gone from despair to euphoria almost overnight, with the emergence of Camilla Harris, who was vice president, was the second fiddle, whose main job was not to overshadow Biden and stick with his agenda.

Now she is stepping out of the shadows into the limelight, and so far has been impressive.

Joining us to assess this change, as Trump promises his beautiful Christians,

they will only have to vote once, then he'll fix everything, is Adele Stan, an independent journalist, who is a longtime chronicler of the right wing of American politics.

A winner of the Hillman Prives in Opinion and Analysis Journalism, her work has appeared in Mother Jones, the nation, and the American prospect,

as well as on the op-ed pages of the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times.

Then we'll examine the full circle of the shadowy power of Opus Day

wielded by the Prince of Dark Money, Leonard Leo,

who has captured the judicial branch and seated the six right-wing justices on the Supreme Court

and now appears poised to capture the executive

branch by placing J.D. Vance in the Oval Office to enact the agenda of Project 2025.

Now we just learned from The Guardian that Kevin Roberts, the leader of Project 2025, is a member of Opus Day.

Joining us is Lisa Graves, the executive director of the new corporate watchdog group TrueNearth Research.

She has served as a senior advisor in all three branches of the federal government,

as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department,

as Chief Counsel for nominations on the Senate Judiciary Committee,

and as a Deputy Chief of the Article III Judges Division for the U.S. courts.

Then finally we will check in on today's elections in Venezuela, where the opposition should win, according to the polls,

but the corrupt and incompetent Maduro government is doing

everything it can to hold onto power, and, like Trump, may not concede. Joining us to David Smaldi,

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