Meidas Founder Gives Sunday Message
By Ben Meiselas
Hey Meidas Mighty. This is MeidasTouch Co-Founder Ben Meiselas here with an important Sunday message. I want to welcome all our new subscribers to this Substack. For those who are not subscribers, welcome, and we’d love to have you subscribe today as well. Grab a cup of coffee with me, a tea, or a cup of water, and let’s chat.
Vanity Fair recently published an article about the MeidasTouch Network with the following headline: “The Trump Resistance Won’t Be Televised—It’ll Be on MeidasTouch.” This is true. Day in and day out, the MeidasTouch Network leads the coverage of the growing rallies and protests to the Trump regime. With your help (and with zero investors), we built the most-watched news network in America (more views than Fox, CNN, and MSNBC and more podcast downloads than Rogan), and we do not intend to run this network with any of the same programming decisions made by corporate news. We do not intend to slow down anytime soon. (Please remember to add the MeidasTouch Podcast on audio on Apple Podcasts and Spotify).
We’ve made it our priority to provide live coverage of every Senator Bernie Sanders and Congresswoman AOC rally. We have resources deployed at speeches like Senator Ossoff’s rally in Atlanta, Congressman Ro Khanna’s event today in Bakersfield, and Congressman Swalwell’s event in Florida. We have now turned the machinery and infrastructure we’ve built here into a force to cover the ferocious, growing pro-democracy movement sweeping the country.
You’ve heard me use this term before: The Summer of Democracy. That is where we are headed. Trump is terrified of that prospect.
Senator Bernie Sanders and AOC are drawing 35k people in Denver and 24k people in Tucson, and I believe they will soon be drawing crowds of 75k to 100k per event. This is not a movement of partisans. This is a movement of pissed-off American workers screwed by the Trump and Musk regime for the oligarchy.
Trump and Musk wanted to inflict shock and awe to destroy the will of the people. They failed. They have caused grievous damage, for sure. But they did not break our will and resilience. They did not destroy the resistance. Now the “shock and awe” is the growing opposition against the Trump regime. People are mobilizing and rallying. MeidasTouch is the catalyst and chronicler of this historical moment and movement where the people rise to defeat fascism.
I am proud of all the stats I’m sure you have heard about MeidasTouch lately. Yes, we beat Fox and all networks in digital views. Yes, we beat Joe Rogan. We never sought this press, but I am glad if it helps expand our audience to people who may have never heard of us before.
What I am most proud of, however, is this community. You are the silent heroes who are not so silent anymore! I am thrilled we get to cover your protests and we get to activate your citizen journalism skills as we do to highlight protests, like we did with the “We Dissent” protests yesterday in Detroit and Windsor.
Here is a dose of hard reality that is fatal to Trump and the pill he does not want to swallow but that is being shoved down his throat: Trump and Musk are getting weaker and more desperate now. The opposition is growing stronger. As long as we have the will to fight, this trend will continue. And, oh boy, don’t we have the will to fight?
History will judge where we stood in these pivotal moments as our country teeters on the brink of submission to kakistocracy. We never submit. We never obey. We dig in. We hold the line. We fight. We take the initiative. We build alliances here and abroad. We never back down.
The MeidasTouch Network is built to meet this moment, since we are built by the Meidas Mighty. In a current moment filled too frequently with bad news and setbacks, the MeidasTouch Network represents the fighting spirit that is needed now. But more than throwing out superlatives and lofty rhetoric, we should be judged by our actions and how we fight. Do we never cede an inch and fight like our lives depend on it—because they do? Do we use our platform as a source for amplifying the most tenacious pro-democracy fighters? Do we fearlessly challenge and seek to defeat the oligarchy? That is how we should be judged.
On this Sunday, I have never been more energized to continue this fight with you. I am grateful for all you do. Let’s keep on growing this platform together and make history together.
Of course, if you can subscribe now—if you aren’t a subscriber—we’d love that. We’ve grown with no outside investors, so our subscribers here are the jet fuel that helps this grow and beat all corporate news. We appreciate you all so much.
Thanks for letting me share my thoughts over a cup of coffee with you. Please subscribe if you can.
You are bringing a light, showing that there IS a fight and we need to grow and continue!
Keep showing and keep attending people!!
Good morning Ben,
Thank you for airing the Bernie Sanders/AOC Speeches. They are leading a movement that will organize ordinary, hardworking Americans to take America back from the oligarch fascists that are in control of our government. I hope that all democrats and all independents in Congress will follow their example and provide honest information about how Trump and his administration is destroying our democracy. Use Trump’s tactic of telling the same story over and over again. This counter measure of telling people the truth over and over and bringing the facts to back it up will wake up masses to who this guy really is.
This president is turning our greatest ally, Canada, against us. He is siding with Putin in the war against Ukraine. He appointed Elon Musk to eliminate all of his detractors from the government. I could list a boatload more of the things Trump has done that are detrimental to our country.