They Won’t Silence Meidas…

By Ben Meiselas

I will keep this one short. Please read my letter to Jimmy Kimmel I posted on Substack yesterday. It has already been read over 1 million times. I was being very serious when I said that Jimmy Kimmel should join the MeidasTouch Network. I recognize I don’t have the type of money ABC paid him, but we have built something really special here where free speech is celebrated. I thank all of our Substack subscribers and new subscribers to this Substack for helping us grow to be in a position to try and sign someone like Kimmel.

If you’ve ever been hesitating, I think you see the importance of subscribing to this Substack now based on what just happened.

Here’s the thing. We are no stranger to being threatened. We just don’t fold like corporate news. Trump sued our hosts before for hundreds of millions of dollars. Trump family members have threatened to sue us. Trump’s top aides have sued us before. Trump attacked us in his criminal filings. We get constant death threats. MAGA attacks our sponsors and they’ve tried to get us banned from every platform. The bottom line is their threats mean nothing to us. They aren’t going to silence us because this isn’t about the Meiselas brothers. This isn’t about any particular platform. This isn’t about me or any host. This is about you. This is about you and this movement for democracy and empathy and community and facts and love. I am not afraid to say that. Empathy is a good thing. Science is a good thing. Facts are good things. Democracy is a good thing. We know what our values are and we will never be bullied into submission.

I hope you will consider subscribing to this Substack now. We need your help more than ever to expand. The fact that we are the top YouTube podcast as ranked by YouTube itself is thanks to our subscribers here, who have allowed us to compete with all that right-wing slop out there. I am not afraid to ask for help when we need it, and I know, given everything going on right now, we definitely need it. Our numbers speak for themselves, but we have to keep this pace. Do me a favor if you can. Please read my letter to Kimmel now, leave a comment, and hit subscribe to this Substack.