MAGA is Scared of MeidasTouch Network…GOOD!

By Ben Meiselas

I have a few data points I want to share urgently with you.

First, former MAGA Republican Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy just sheepishly admitted that MeidasTouch is now beating all the right-wing podcasts that helped Trump in the 2024 election. McCarthy admitted this—of all places—to Bill Maher on his show. It was quite the moment to have both Bill Maher and McCarthy perplexed and trying to hide how pissed they both are at the rapid growth of the MeidasTouch Network. It was the perfect juxtaposition of the past and the future.

Second, our partnership with former MSNBC host Katie Phang will start to roll out over the next several days. We will be making a major announcement about the shows we will be working on together. We are fortunate that MeidasTouch has become the top network for the top talent who are no longer at cable news to call home. After all, Meidas now gets more views than cable.

Third, the Trump “podcast initiative” at the White House has been a total disaster. You will recall, the Trump White House created its own room for right-wing MAGA podcasters to get special access to amplify Trump’s talking points. They are all failing miserably. Meidas now gets more views and podcast downloads than every single right-wing podcast combined (Remember to add the MeidasTouch Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.).

Fourth, as a result, Trump is desperately trying to push the official White House YouTube channel to get more coverage of his disastrous events than our coverage of those same events—so he can try and spin them how he likes. Trump’s White House YouTube page has been a massive failure, and the MeidasTouch Network gets 5 to 10 times the views on our fact-checks of his press conferences than he gets on his own event posts.

Fifth, the MeidasTouch YouTube account just hit 4.8 million subscribers—which is basically twice the amount of the White House account. More importantly, our coverage lately has focused on top interviews with political leaders and deep dives with whistleblowers and heads of incredible advocacy groups like Indivisible, Democracy Forward, ACLU, and End Citizens United. I’ve done about 90 major interviews in 90 days, while Trump has done zero deals in 90 days.

As I’m sure you know by now, we are among the top groups on Trump’s list to go after again. He has sued our hosts and dismissed those lawsuits in the past, and he has attacked us in court filings before. We expect his next attack to come soon—and we are fully prepared to aggressively go on the offense if he tries to come at us. We will continue to monitor what he does.

Last, the cracks in the Trump regime continue to grow as the resistance grows stronger. Just think about Trump’s behavior in the last 24 to 48 hours. He’s always been unhinged, but as you’ve seen from our reports, he’s barely coherent and his approval is plummeting to record lows.

Now we need to keep up the pressure.

The MAGA politicians fear us.

Trump and his regime know we’ve outflanked him on digital media.

The right-wing podcasts trail us by huge margins in monthly downloads.

And we’ve built this with you—our Substack subscribers. We’ve started this month strong with a subscriber push. Let’s keep it going. We don’t have any of the resources Fox and Rogan do, but we continue to beat them thanks to our subscribers here. If you aren’t yet a subscriber, please become a member of our Substack now. You can gift memberships as well. Help us hit our subscriber goal—and let’s send a powerful message to Kevin McCarthy, Trump, and all the MAGA media that they can’t stop us.

Thanks, Meidas Mighty!