Meidas Founder Delivers Sunday Message

By Ben Meiselas

Grab your Sunday coffee, tea, water, or whatever, and let’s chat.

For those who celebrate, Happy Easter. I hope you can spend time with your family. I’ve saved an honorary seat for the Meidas Mighty at my dinner table tonight, so I will be thinking of you and your courage.

I mean it when I say how proud I am of you and how honored I am to call you a friend. The odds were against you by a lot. The billionaires with all the money in the world—what they call “f*** you money”—were scared and submitted to protect their wealth. How’s that working out for them?

No one expected we’d still be here together fighting against the Trump regime on Easter Sunday. Scratch that. I expected it. We expected it. You expected it. Trump and Musk thought they’d control the White House, Congress, the federal courts, the media, and universities by now. They failed.

As a whole, federal courts have stood up to the Trump regime, although there are some notable bad rulings. Harvard has led the way in showing universities how to resist. The corporate media imploded, but independent media led by the MeidasTouch Network took its place. We grew with the help of our Substack subscribers here (subscribe now if you can).

Yesterday we saw mass protests across the country once again. Shoutout to 50501 for their work in coordinating these protests. The MeidasTouch Network worked closely with 50501 leadership yesterday to bring you images and videos from the protests. What I found amazing about yesterday’s protests we covered were the activations in thousands of small towns, not just the big cities.

So here we are—it’s Easter Sunday. We are not yet at the 100-day mark of the disastrous presidency. What have we learned? What lessons can we share today about the Trump regime? Here are some observations.

First, the Trump regime is run by dangerous idiots. Their corruption is somehow exceeded by their incompetence. It resembles Trump’s failed, bankrupted businesses. I’ve described Trump’s Cabinet meetings as the worst season of The Apprentice meets Kim Jong Un’s North Korea.

Second, the world has come to the universal conclusion—friend and foe alike—that Trump is a reckless extortionist who backs down when you stand up to him and extorts you more if you make a deal with him. The obvious conclusion is he can’t be trusted and he terminally exists in the world of bad faith.

Third, the Trump regime enjoys cruelty. They are bad people. They get off on the suffering. It makes them feel strong and powerful. The money alone never satiates them. Using the money to inflict pain and hurt people is what they enjoy most. Trump admires those who torture.

Fourth, the regime is crashing, and the crash is accelerating daily. They are irredeemable, and the regime is unsalvageable. They’ve trapped themselves in their own corruption, deceit, and incompetence. The dominoes are already falling and the cascading collapse is picking up speed.

Fifth, the opposition and resistance is robust and real. As Trump’s house of cards falls, the opposite is true of the resistance, which builds brick by brick. We are scrappy. We are resourceful. And together, we are mighty.

We have all brought unique skills to this fight against the Trump regime. We have stood shoulder to shoulder not just here in the United States, but in solidarity with pro-democracy communities internationally.

We are not letting Trump write the final chapter of our history as a democracy. We are making sure this period remains contained as an out-of-sequence disastrous chapter that we can soon turn the page from—and move toward a future filled with endless passages of a thriving and vibrant democracy that will define our collective story.

And so it must be written, and so we must write it.

We have been called upon right now in this perilous moment to stand up and fight.

None of us wanted this moment as our reality on Easter Day 2025. But that’s not what was in store for us.

We must now meet this moment.

We are meeting this moment.

You are meeting this moment.

You’ve summoned the courage to fight an authoritarian regime.

You’ve found your voice and your community.

You know what you are fighting for.

So as we reflect on what comes next on this Easter Day 2025, we should take solace in what we’ve done already—and we must prepare for the fight of our lives in the future.

Trump is desperate. He will act out and throw more our way. We know how to beat him. We beat him with people power.

We take to the streets. We take to the courts. We build our own media.

We grow our community.

We empower others who share our principles and values to lead.

We grow even more.

On this Easter Day, as I am drinking this cup of coffee first thing in the morning, a tear is slowly dripping down my left eye. Not because I am sad. No—these are tears of joy as I reflect on what we’ve done together already and what I know we are capable of doing together in the future.

We will never give up.

We will never submit.

We will fight until we win.

We will win.

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Thanks, MeidasMighty, for letting me share this cup of coffee with you on Easter Sunday.