Critical Wednesday Message from Meidas Founder

By Ben Meiselas

At a town hall yesterday in New York City hosted by Jim Acosta, Don Lemon, and Michael Cohen, the incredible panel credited the MeidasTouch Network for covering all the protests, town halls, and shadow hearings.

It has truly touched our hearts—and the hearts of our staff here at the MeidasTouch Network—when MeidasTouch has been given shoutouts at town halls and speeches across the country and throughout the world, like the resistance tour in Canada.

But as we’ve always said, and I want to repeat again here, the real heroes are the protest organizers, the political leaders who are fighting, and all of you who have shown up at the protests and events and given your time to fighting the authoritarian Trump regime.

I am honored that the MeidasTouch Network can play a part in covering what corporate news has suppressed. I am honored we have led the way and reshaped what news coverage should look like. 350 million YouTube views a month and 150 million podcast downloads a month is a testament to a hunger for objective data.

But it is most important we recognize who the real heroes are. It’s groups like Indivisible, and 50501, and the AFL-CIO, and the ACLU, and countless other groups and unions fighting for the people.

It’s the nonprofits and lawyers who never gave in to the Trump regime and put it all on the line each day in what must feel like a Sisyphean task—but who are making all the difference in the world.

It’s the fighters who are going into red districts and purple districts where the MAGA politicians are too cowardly to face the people—and they are listening to the pain people are experiencing.

It is you. The Meidas Mighty. The Maple Meidas. The pro-democracy community. It is you, the people. You are making a difference each day, and I am so damn proud of you and honored to be in this fight with you.

The MeidasTouch Network would not be getting more views than Fox News, more downloads than Rogan, and more Substack growth than any channel in the world had it not been for you. Every day, I treat the trust you’ve placed in me—and in us—as a sacred responsibility, and I make sure I am fighting to meet this moment.

Folks, we are not yet 100 days into this fascist regime, and yet it feels like an eternity. But you are making a major difference.

The cracks in the regime are showing—and spreading.

Each day we chisel away at the fascist façade and expose its repulsive underbelly—devoid of guts and filled with noxious fascist spray.

As I said at the outset of this week, we need to buckle up and prepare for the chaos to accelerate as Trump gets more desperate.

We’ve predicted every move he has made this week, almost to the second—and we’ve built programming around it.

More people get their news now from MeidasTouch than any network, so that means people are actually getting the truth about the events that are unfolding.

I expect today to be a turbulent day.

Trump’s trade wars are going horribly. The retaliation by the rest of the world has overwhelmed Trump. Foreign travel to the United States has diminished to a halt. Trump is driving the United States economy and markets into the ground. Trump is disobeying Supreme Court rulings and federal court orders. His regime is deteriorating from the weight of their own ill-fated kakistocracy design.

Back in January I predicted a “Democracy Summer,” when Americans will rise up in the biggest demonstrations in history.

We are getting there.

MeidasTouch will continue to be on the frontlines covering it all. Doing whatever we can. Bringing the full force of this network to the fight.

When times get tough, just remember: you are part of a massive pro-democracy community.

Remember why we fight.

Equality.
Empathy.
Kindness.
Truth.
Community.
Science.
Education.
Love.
Climate.
The environment.
Democracy.
Hope.
Peace.

We lead with these values and principles—first.

We have each other’s back, always.

We will not let Trump demoralize us and stop us. We will not let him take us out of the fight. We will not run. We will stand together, locking arms, shoulder to shoulder—and we will not submit and we will never give up.

I promise you, when we get through this together, we will look back on days and weeks like this, and appreciate the choices we made to stay in the fight.

Future generations depend on us. We must all meet the moment. And that we will.

I make this ask—humbly. The growth of the MeidasTouch Network is fueled by you. Our subscribers to this Substack have helped us build a media infrastructure that gets more views than any news network in the world right now. We are expanding as well, thanks to you. I’m sure you can see our expansion day over day. That’s thanks to you—our subscribers.

So, if you aren’t a subscriber, I hope you can become one now.

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Let’s keep beating Fox News, and Rogan. Let’s stay on track as the fastest-growing Substack in the world. Let’s keep exposing the Trump regime. Let’s keep fighting. Let’s keep getting out the truth to millions of people.

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