It’s Ben Meiselas… Don’t let up today!!
!By Ben Meiselas
Hello everyone. It’s Ben Meiselas, co-founder of the MeidasTouch Network. I will be brief with this post. I have a simple message: Don’t let up today.
This was a tough weekend. That’s an understatement. But this regime wants us to feel so exhausted that we will give up. It’s natural and normal to feel exhausted, and pained, and distressed, and angry, and a myriad of other emotions. I received tens of thousands of your messages this weekend, and I know how you feel. Many people came up to me at the park on Sunday and let me know how sad they are after the events that unfolded. It is devastating what Trump has done to this country. There’s no way around that.
But here’s the thing. We have to keep the resistance going and growing. We have to keep the momentum from the end of 2025 into this year and expand our efforts. The Trump regime is intentionally trying to hit us with a shock-and-awe campaign of psychological warfare and torture, and we must resist at all costs. The cracks in the regime are growing bigger. Beneath the faux bravado is weakness and panic in the regime. They’ve never been less popular, and cultural icons like NBA players, music artists, and business leaders are finally starting to speak. I made a video on YouTube about it this morning.
Here at MeidasTouch, we will keep growing this network. We currently have on-the-ground reporters in Washington, D.C., Minneapolis, Nuuk (Greenland), Canada, and in other locations. We have expanded our reach to make sure we bring you and the world the reporting needed to get out the truth and expose the Trump regime. Most importantly, we’ve been focusing on making sure the voices of this community are leading the conversations on Capitol Hill.
You’ve built this network and community into a force that is defeating and neutralizing the Trump propaganda machine and encouraging other independent news outlets to start and expand. Now is the time we fight with all we’ve got. We are grateful to all our subscribers here who helped grow this network, and we hope that you feel you can lean on the MeidasTouch Network during these dark days so we can all pull together, fight back, and help each other through this.
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We got this. You got this. Let’s keep fighting.
Pam Bondi demanding Minnesota’s voter rolls while federal agents murder protesters in the streets is textbook authoritarian playbook. I’ve been tracking this exact pattern from Argentina’s Dirty War, and the parallels are chilling.
The sequence is deliberate:
Deploy paramilitary forces (ICE with promised federal immunity).
Commit extrajudicial killings (Renee Good, Alex Pretti).
Blame victims as “domestic terrorists.”
Use the “chaos” to justify escalation.
Demand state compliance or face more violence.
Bondi’s demand for voter rolls isn’t about election integrity. It’s about identifying who to target. Argentina’s dictatorship did the same…used state records to build lists of “subversives” for detention and disappearance.
The Minneapolis resistance we are all documenting: the legal observers, the Signal networks, the trained protesters; is exactly what prevented Argentina’s body count from being even higher. The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo did this. They made the invisible visible. They documented every disappearance. They created international pressure.
But here’s what Argentina’s neighbors didn’t do: apply meaningful external pressure while it was still stoppable.
Europe is making the same mistake right now. Mark Carney stood at Davos and spoke truth about building alternatives to American power. Got a standing ovation. Then what? Where’s Macron’s follow-through? Where’s Scholz? Where’s the FIFA World Cup boycott? Where are the sanctions on regime officials operating death squads?
The regime is telling you what comes next. Stephen Miller: “You have federal immunity.” NSPM-7: protesters are domestic terrorists. Secret ICE memos: no judicial warrants needed. Bondi: give us your voter rolls or we escalate.
They’re not hiding it. They’re announcing it. Building the legal fiction. Establishing precedent. Creating permission for what comes after the midterms if they lose them.
This is Argentina 1976, not Argentina 1983. The difference between those years is what happens now. Whether Americans resist (and Minneapolis is showing how). Whether allies apply pressure (and Europe is failing this test).
The body count is rising. The infrastructure is operational. The normalization is happening.
Believe them when they tell you what comes next.
— Johan
Former Foreign Service Officer
Thank u, Ben and MTN! I wish I could help this network more financially. America needs people like you. Good luck!