Meidas Needs Your Help for the Next Chapter…

By Ben Meiselas

My brothers and I are wrapping up our trip to New York City. We have another big day today of events for the network.

I haven’t been getting much sleep trying to keep up with all the content and attending these important events and meetings. But this trip has definitely been worth it.

We won the Webby Award for Best Podcast of the Year.

We did a 2-hour sit-down interview with Katie Couric.

We celebrated Mother’s Day and our mom’s birthday together as a family.

My daughter Ximena and Jordy’s son got to meet for the first time.

We have a major event today involving our YouTube channel in New York City, which I will report back on later in the day.

And—get this—on May 19, I turn 40 years old! The big 4-0!!!

We are undoubtedly entering a new chapter in the growth of the MeidasTouch Network.

We’ve gone from scrappy upstart to the most viewed news network in America, winning the top honor at The Webby Awards.

Well, we are still very scrappy, and we still have a small team and resources that are a fraction of a fraction of our competition. But thanks to our Substack subscribers, we are leading Fox, MSNBC, CNN, and all news networks in views and engagement.

This means more Americans—and people across the world—are committed to getting factual and objective reporting from the MeidasTouch Network than anywhere else.

We have more big news.

The latest Podscribe data was released yesterday, which tracks podcast downloads. Podscribe is the industry standard in measuring podcast reach.

The MeidasTouch Podcast is the #1 podcast on the new May 2025 Podscribe charts—with 91.1M monthly downloads.

That's more than Rogan, Tucker Carlson, and Ben Shapiro combined. You can help keep this momentum going by adding the MeidasTouch Podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify and leaving a 5-star review if you haven’t yet.

I am not going to rehash here the threats, harassment, hacking attempts, doxxing, and other attacks by MAGA and those close to Trump against the MeidasTouch Network. We know those threats are escalating. We know we are one of the biggest targets of the Trump regime now. That comes with the territory. We’ve expected it, and we are prepared for it.

More than ever, we need your help to continue to grow this independent media network. The best way you can help is to share this Substack and this network with family, friends, neighbors, co-workers, and others you know. As soon as you finish reading this Substack, if you put in the comments below how many people you’ve shared this Substack and our YouTube channel with, that would be great. You can also check out our merch stores and represent the MeidasTouch Network in public with MeidasTouch gear at store.meidastouch.com.

The best way you can help us grow and fight back against Trump and MAGA is by becoming a subscriber to this Substack. If you already subscribe, you can consider gifting a subscription to people you know. We have some of the best exclusive reporting on this Substack, we have the top daily bulletins from our Editor-in-Chief Ron Filipkowski, and we have some great guest collaborations and op-eds.

Importantly, we’ve grown our network thanks to our Substack subscribers. Our competition is funded by right-wing billionaire oligarchs—and they still lose to us in views and engagement. We need your help to keep growing as we enter this next chapter. We appreciate you subscribing and spreading the word.