Sunday Message from MeidasTouch Founder

By Ben Meiselas

As you know, this Sunday message is my favorite post of the week. It lets me pause for a brief moment with you, grab a cup of coffee, and reflect on the past week. It’s been an eventful week. It’s been a tragic week. It’s been a week filled with so many strong feelings. But one thing is obvious. The resistance grows stronger. Trump grows more desperate and more dangerous. This is where we stand.

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Let’s talk about this week. Then let’s talk about what Meidas did this week.

This week saw the Trump regime invade Minnesota with 2,000 paramilitary gestapo ICE forces that terrorized communities. The terror escalated and escalated, and ultimately an ICE terrorist murdered a 37-year-old mother in cold blood. Say her name. Renee Nicole Good was murdered by ICE gestapo agent Jonathan Ross. Trump, Vance, Kristi Noem, and the entire regime defamed Good after she was murdered by lying and saying she was a domestic terrorist who weaponized her vehicle as part of a terror attack on ICE. The lies from this regime are asinine and despicable.

Following the murder of Renee Good, the regime has ordered another 1,000 gestapo forces to join the 2,000 forces already in Minneapolis. The goal is to terrorize Blue states and Blue cities and invoke martial law. We’ve seen this authoritarian playbook throughout history in other countries. It’s shameful this is what is happening in the United States. In addition to adding an additional 1,000 forces to the invasion of Minneapolis, the Trump regime also sent a memo via terrorist Cabinet Member Kristi Noem saying they would ignore a federal judge’s order permitting Congress Members to immediately access and inspect detention centers upon request as required by longstanding law. Noem’s actions are clearly unlawful.

The Trump regime continues its criminal cover-up of the Epstein files. They have refused to make any production of documents for the past several weeks. To date they’ve only released about 1 percent of the files. They failed to produce a mandatory report about their redactions. The entire DOJ is now a racketeering enterprise involved in the cover-up of a child sex trafficking ring. It is disgusting. It was good to see Representatives Khanna and Massie write a letter to the federal judge this week demanding an independent monitor be appointed to take over the production of the documents.

Then there’s foreign policy. Last night, the United States Embassy in Venezuela issued an emergency evacuation order to any American in the country stating that gangs loyal to the authoritarian regime currently in control of Venezuela under Trump’s pal Delcy Rodríguez are going through the phones of people and torturing and kidnapping them if they support the United States or the Machado opposition party. So much for people celebrating in the streets in Venezuela. All the while, Trump keeps on threatening to invade Greenland, and the threats have gotten so serious that France and Germany and other European countries are preparing for what a war against the United States would look like if the United States carried out an invasion.

This is the state of Trump’s regime and the country. But as I said, the resistance grows stronger and Trump grows more despised each day. Peaceful protests are growing across the country that is fed up with a regime spending all its time attacking the people and inflicting pain and suffering instead of making people’s lives better and actually governing.

This has been a big week for Meidas. Thanks to the paid subscriptions on this Substack, we launched our Washington DC Bureau. Pablo Manríquez joined MeidasTouch and he has been reporting daily from Capitol Hill. We’ve been asking Representatives and Senators from both parties the questions you want answered. Finally, your voice is being heard on Capitol Hill.

We’ve expanded our partnership with Status Coup to bring you reporting from Minneapolis and on the frontlines of what’s taking place. This week I interviewed Governor Shapiro, Mayor Mamdani, Senators Schiff and Warren and Kim, Representatives Walkinshaw and Kamlager-Dove and Krishnamoorthi. I also interviewed Ben Folds, the former Ambassador to Denmark Rufus Gifford, the former Deputy National Security Advisor Jon Finer, and George Conway. It’s been a busy week.

We’ve been working tirelessly here at the MeidasTouch Network. We are in rapid expansion mode thanks to your support and your subscriptions here. I hope you’ve been satisfied with the expansion steps we’ve executed this week. I’ve been discussing them for a few months now so it’s good to see them in action and the impact they’re having.

We have a lot of work to do. This isn’t going to be easy. But I am very confident we will defeat this evil regime as long as we stay together and keep fighting. It’s okay to feel saddened by the injustices around us, but let us never lose hope. Don’t let them take away your joy, your empathy, and your desire for a better tomorrow. I promise you we will make it through this together.

Thanks for sharing this coffee with me on Sunday. If you are able to become a paid subscriber, please do so now. We need to keep this momentum and we need to keep growing. Thanks for all you do! I am so grateful to have you fighting with us.