Hello and welcome to Background Briefing, available 24-7 at Background Briefing.org. I'm Ian Masters,

and today we'll look into a number of stories and issues in the news.

We'll begin with Zoran Mandami's resounding victory in the race for mayor of New York City,

which has captured the nation's attention and mobilized young Gen Z voters to propel him to win big and overcome the hysterical lies of the moneyed establishment and backers of Andrew Cuomo like Elon Musk.

Joining us is Moyer Donaghan, writer and residence at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research

at Stanford University. Her work has appeared in the London Review of Books, Book Forum,

and the Paris Review. And she is the co-host of the podcast in bed with the right and a columnist

at The Guardian, where her latest article is Memdani's victory is a rebuke to the failed

strategies of the Democratic Party. And to bring a fresh perspective from the generation who came

out for Memdani, the young voters the Democrats need to engage.

Background Briefing's new Gen Z reporter, Sasha Cohen, will be interviewing Moira.

Then we'll examine the warning from California's Governor Newsom in his victory speech last

night celebrating the overwhelming passage of Proposition 50, that Donald Trump will do anything at everything

to rig the vote to deny Democrats a win in next year's midterms, and that Democrats,

independents, and reasonable Republicans have to wake up to that reality if we are to save

our democracy. Joining us is Alexander Kayser, a professor of history and social policy at Harvard's Kennedy School, where his current research interests include election reform, the history of democracies, and the history of poverty.

His book, The Right to Vote, The Contested History of Democracy in the United States, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and previously he chaired the Social Science

Research Council's National Research Commission on Voting and Elections. His latest book is,

Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? Then finally, as Trump and Miller keeps spewing the absurdity

that Democrats are radical leftists and communists, when it is clear that Republicans are harboring

real radicals and have a Nazi problem. We'll speak with Michael Edison Hayden, a leading expert on

far-right extremism in the United States. His debut book, Strange People on the Hill,

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