Sunday Message From Meidas Founder

By Ben Meiselas

It’s Sunday. For those new to this Substack, I deliver a Sunday message each week. I ask our Subscribers here to grab a coffee or tea or water or whatever while we chat and reflect.

I am so damn proud of you. What you did this weekend was historic. You showed up and rallied and spread the word about the Hands Off protests. Thousands of protests sprung up across America and the world. You sent a powerful message. The Trump regime and Musk are detested. MAGA is detested. The pro-democracy community is on the offense now!

Corporate news tried to suppress it and downplay the size and scope of the protests. They couldn’t do it. The MeidasTouch Network gets far more views than any of the corporate news now.

We partnered with MoveOn and other organizations who led the protests, and we streamed the protests live.

We then meticulously covered the protests from all angles and on all of our platforms.

On YouTube alone, our protest coverage got over 4 million views. I expect it will be closer tomorrow to 7 million views by the end of today. We also had thousands of MeidasMighty members embedded in protests across the country, sending us photos and videos which we reposted and shared.

This past week was particularly difficult. Trump intentionally and maliciously crashed the markets as part of his retribution campaign. I know how difficult these times are. I hear you. We at the MeidasTouch Network do more than just produce news content. The most important thing I tell my team to do is to listen to you and hear what you are going through. I want you to know we will never stop fighting for you, no matter what Trump and Musk and MAGA throw our way and try to do to us.

Despite the harm Trump inflicted, I’ve heard so many of you share how you felt this weekend. Hope. I felt hope seeing the millions of people, in the aggregate, in the thousands of cities rise up this weekend. I feel hope seeing Democratic leaders finally stand up and fight. I feel hope that we have this media network and that we have inspired an ecosystem of other networks to fight for you. I feel hope. I feel energized.

And I know this is all just the beginning.

I know that as big as the protests were this weekend, this is but an appetizer and foreshadowing of what is to come in the next weeks and months.

The protests will grow and grow.

This will be a moment like no other in the history of our country.

We treat our role at the MeidasTouch Network to meet this moment as a life-or-death task, since we know for you that is how you feel when you wake up every day.

Corporate news has failed to meet the moment or they have intentionally kissed the fascist ring and submitted.

Screw them!

We don’t need them.

The people-powered protests and the people-powered media networks will reclaim our country.

Hands Off!

Elbows Up!

Shoutout to the Meidas Mighty!

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Thanks, Meidas Mighty. Thanks for letting me share this coffee with you. Back to making some videos for YouTube now.