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b'Over the past couple of years, The Indypendent News Hour has become the premiere news and public affairs show on WBAI, a listen-sponsored community radio station whose signal beams 90 miles in all directions from atop a Midtown skyscraper. On Nov. 8 2022, we expanded our normal one-hour news show into a five-hour election night special.\\n\\nWe not only keep track of key races in New York and nationally but provide a deeper analysis of the issues that have animated the midterms \\u2014 crime, inflation, abortion rights, the threat to democracy \\u2014 and ones that haven\\u2019t been discussed nearly enough: the racist backlash to Black Lives Matter, the demise of local news and the spread of conspiracy theories, the growing power of the billionaire class over the rest of society. \\n\\nThroughout the show, we heard live interviews with NYC voters by roving Indy reporters. Here is the five-hour breakdown.\\n\\nFIRST HOUR\\n\\u2014Interview with Ben Max, editor of Gotham Gazette, about the most competitive governor\\u2019s race in New York in a generation as well as key congressional and legislative races that could swing the balance of power in Washington and Albany.\\n\\n\\u2014Interviews with Socialist state legislators Jabari Brisport and Phara Souffrant Forrest about Kathy Hochul turning to the New York Left to save her floundering campaign. \\n\\nSECOND HOUR\\n\\u2014Interview with legendary NYC journalist Tom Robbins. \\n\\n\\u2014Interview with Bob Hennelly about the demise of local media and the national media echo chamber that has been promoting the \\u201cred wave\\u201d for weeks. \\n\\n\\u2014Grassroots report from Florida where Gov. Ron DeSantis is pioneering is testing out his version of homegrown American fascism as prepares to run for President in 2024. \\n\\nTHIRD HOUR\\n\\u2014Interview with acclaimed Marxist-feminist-anti-racist scholar Linda Mart\\xedn Alcoff. Will there be a backlash against the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade? If not, why not?\\n\\n\\u2014Interview with Indy Contributing Editor Nicholas Powers about the underlying causes of the public hysteria over crime, the rise of conspiracy theories and why working class people of color are now also starting to move away from supporting the Democrats.\\n\\nFOURTH HOUR\\n\\u2014Grassroots report from North Carolina where Cheri Beasley is trying to become the first Black woman from the South to be elected to the Senate. \\n\\n\\u2014Interview with Mondale Robinson of the Black Male Voter Project. \\n\\n\\u2014Interview with Carrie Santoro, executive director of Pennsylvania Stands Up. \\n\\n\\u2014Interview with historian Max Elbaum about what the left must do to defeat MAGA and reset U.S. politics in a more progressive direction\\n\\nFIFTH HOUR\\n\\u2014Interview with Linda Sarsour, Brooklyn-born Palestinian-American activist, Women\\u2019s March co-founder and national surrogate for Bernie Sanders in 2016 and 2020. \\n\\u2014Grassroots report from Arizona.\\n\\u2014Interview with Ron Daniels, President and Founder of the Institute of the Black World 21s Century about the Midterm elections and their impact on Black America.'