Important Thursday Message by Meidas Founder

By Ben Meiselas

Hello MeidasTouch Network subscribers and visitors. We hope you will all consider subscribing to this Substack today or gifting subscriptions to others. We need your support now more than ever.

Let’s start with personal Meidas Mighty news.

Yesterday was a big day for the MeidasTouch Network.

I had the opportunity to be one of the main speakers at the Milken Institute Global Conference on a panel about the future of podcasting.

During my speech, I shared with the packed crowd in Los Angeles that the MeidasTouch Network became the top news network because of the Meidas Mighty community.

I described how this community leads with our core values and principles of empathy and love and respect and democracy—and how when you truly stand on principle, it makes your political decisions easy. I spent a lot of time talking about this Substack community in my panel speech. The clip of the speech I gave on empathy went viral on social media and shows that we don’t ever have to betray our values to inspire others.

Separately, MeidasTouch Network Gen Z host Adam Mockler was one of the main speakers at the Trending Up Conference in Washington, D.C., which is one of the top progressive conferences in the United States.

Adam Mockler is only 22 years old and is already one of the top hosts for the MeidasTouch Network—and he’s one of the most viewed news hosts in the world right now.

We also have a 19-year-old operations supervisor at the network named Hayden Wright, who was invited as a speaker on the panel in Washington, D.C., as well.

Mockler was able to secure interviews with the top Democratic political leaders in D.C.

So, from coast to coast, thanks to your subscriptions on this Substack, the MeidasTouch Network was leading the discussions on both the future of all media on my panel and the future of messaging in the Democratic Party on Mockler’s panel.

Some more brief news on MeidasTouch, and then let’s talk about national and international news.

Since you are a stakeholder in this network as a subscriber, I think it’s vital that I hold myself accountable to you—and that you can see how your subscriptions translate into real-world success.

Three data points I want to share:

First, the MeidasTouch Network continues to lead Fox News in digital views. The latest digital charts show us expanding our lead over Fox. I’ve always heard “we need our own Fox” that is used for good. Well, you built it here.

Second, we continue to lead Joe Rogan in podcast downloads. (Remember to add the MeidasTouch Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.)

Third, we are the fastest-growing Substack in the world. Please subscribe now to help the independent reporting at MeidasTouch Network continue to grow.

Let’s talk national and international news.

The Dems are getting their fight on more. I’ve been covering the House of Representatives hearings where the Democrats are going gloves-off and calling Republicans and Trump out more effectively. Donald Trump’s approval continues to plummet. He looks fatigued and his behavior is utterly demented. Americans are incredibly seeing him for the life-long loser that he is. The international community has zero respect for him. Friend and foe alike internationally smell a coward and see weakness—and are easily outmaneuvering him.

The midterms couldn’t come sooner. Am I right?

The good news is that they are actually sooner than we think.

We also got a big Virginia governor’s race coming up this November with an incredible Democratic candidate in former Virginia Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, who was made for this moment. I just wrapped up a great interview with Spanberger I will drop shortly.

I hope you will check out all our videos on YouTube today. I’ve got four big videos I made for this morning already—covering Trump’s accelerating implosion, the GOP civil war over the budget, the GOP “DOGE” hearing that went completely off the rails, and Fox News struggling to cover up for Donald Trump’s failures.

It’s been a busy morning, as always, here at the MeidasTouch Network.

We hope you will consider subscribing today to grow the MeidasTouch Network.

The success I’ve outlined here—and that you see every day—is made possible thanks to you. That’s our secret formula. You!

If you’re already subscribed, you can gift subscriptions for others as well.

I’m sorry if I sound like a broken record here encouraging subscriptions to this Substack, but I’d rather sound like a broken record and continue to lead all news networks and podcasts, than allow Fox and Rogan and others to use their right-wing oligarch funding to get more viewers than us with their lies and deceit. I want us to stay number one.

Thanks for reading this, and thanks for helping build the biggest pro-democracy media company and community in the world.