Very Important Thursday Message from Meidas Founder

By Ben Meiselas

The feedback you gave me yesterday about my Substack article was amazing.

My article focused on the “why.”

That is, why are we fighting?

The point I made, which I think resonated with you, is that the “why” is about values and principles like love, empathy, community, equality, democracy, freedom, happiness, justice, and others.

We built the MeidasTouch Network on values and principles first, and then the politics falls into place by seeing which people and party align with these values and principles.

There are a lot of reasons our country is in this mess.

One of the biggest, I believe, is that our politics was turned into a game by cable news.

In this game, two teams competed for sound bites and attention. The scorecard that was kept bore no relation to objective data. The loudest and most obnoxious people sucked up the air time and set the framework.

This had to change—and this is being changed by the MeidasTouch Network.

Our approach is different.

We relentlessly cover the breaking news, but we stick to the facts.

We show the data.

We show the graphs and spreadsheets.

We read the court opinions and get into the footnotes and the notable concurring and dissenting opinions.

We “play the clips” the way I used to show a jury video deposition testimony when I was a trial lawyer.

The good news is that our approach is working. The MeidasTouch Network is the most-viewed network in the world now thanks to our subscribers (please subscribe now to this Substack if you can, since you fuel the growth of the network).

When you operate a media network built around values and principles, the reporting of the news through that framework becomes very natural. Also, for those who are not ultra-political, our reporting speaks most directly to the human condition and basic sensibilities instead of wonky partisan talk.

That has been one of the keys to our growth.

Thus, when we see the things Trump has done this week—or even in the past 24 hours—our reporting kicks into action and exposes it in ways the corporate news failed to do. Clearly, directly, and with a pro-democracy lens.

In the past 24 hours, Trump has done the following: He attacked Harvard since it refused to let him control its administration. He crashed the economy more. His regime said Abrego Garcia’s family is better off without him. He tried to take away public school funding in Maine. He is trying to have New York AG Letitia James prosecuted. He continues to kidnap migrants to send to extermination camps.

The MeidasTouch Network has covered it all. We’ve covered the contempt ruling by federal Judge Boasberg. We’ve covered all the court rulings. We haven’t missed a single one. We’ve covered all the protests and Bernie rallies. We’ve covered the shadow hearings. We’ve done 70 interviews in 3 weeks. I’m not tired. I know my duty is to fight right now.

If Trump’s erratic behavior feels like it’s accelerating, that’s because it is.

Trump compounds bad decisions with worse decisions, and worse decisions with catastrophic ones. This has always been his nature, and it’s why he bankrupted and destroyed so many businesses.

The one thing Trump is really good at is fraud.

He is an expert fraudster.

He runs a rug-pull and Ponzi scheme where he masks his failures with fraudulent promises of grandeur and then moves the goalposts to new promises he quickly breaks.

Trump has found the ultimate mark in the zombified MAGA mush-brains whose craniums have been turned into red globular jelly by Fox.

The MeidasTouch Network is the antidote to Fox. Whereas Fox is funded by oligarchs, MeidasTouch has grown thanks to our subscribers here on this Substack.

That’s why it’s really important—if you can—to subscribe.

Trump’s erratic behavior is accelerating because he isn’t getting his way. The federal courts have slowed his progress. The MeidasTouch Network and other independent media have brought back accountability to the fourth estate.

Trump depended on media kissing the ring—which most media did.

He never saw us coming!

Independent media has outflanked the fascist.

We will continue to outflank him and expose him—with your help.

We are hitting 450 million YouTube views / podcast downloads a month now (Add the MeidasTouch Podcast now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere else you get your podcasts).

More people watch Meidas than Fox.

You are making the difference.

Help us keep growing by subscribing now to this Substack or gifting someone you know a subscription.

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