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 how Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch are laying the groundwork for a new civil war as the propagandists set Fox News cynically play with fire, telling the MAGA militias and

Christian soldiers that Trump will win in a blowout by a landslide, while the polls indicate a very tight race.

Clearly, they are organizing another Stop the Steel scenario if Kamala Harris wins by preparing Trump world for a fictional victory that must have been stolen.

Joining us is David Daley, the author of the new book, Anti-Democratic,

Inside the Rights 50-year plot to control American elections, as well as the national bestseller

Rat Eft, Why Your Vote Doesn't Count, which has been credited for kick-starting the national

movement to reform redistricting. He is the former editor-in-chief of Ceylon, a senior fellow at Fair Vote,

and has taught political science and journalism as a fellow at Wesleyan University,

Boston College, Smith College, and the University of Georgia.

We will discuss his article at the New Republic,

how John Roberts, yes, John Roberts, might decide who won the election.

Then with a prairie populist in Nebraska running for the US Senate on an anti-corporate platform of working-class identity politics

threatening to unseat and undistinguished big money-backed Republican incumbent,

we will speak with Austin Alman, a reporter and researcher with the Open Markets Institute

Center for Journalism and Liberty, where he writes about the intersection of corporate power,

public policy, and politics.

A native Nebraska, he is a contributor to the American prospect, where

his latest article we will discuss is

in search of the Trump

Osborne voters, Dan

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