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Pete Buttigieg: "The right has been willing to spend 20, 30, 50 years on some of its most important projects. And we got to be asking ourselves, what are the bigger swings we ought to prepare for. If that's really what it takes to overturn Citizens United and get money out of politics, then we should be at work on that yesterday."
Ben Meiselas on the significance of independent media in the Trump era:
He thought he would bulldoze over us. He controlled the institutions, the media.
But people created independent news and media platforms that stood up, and citizen journalists became journalists.
We built the new structures that got out the truth and pushed out the information during this critical time.
And that gives me hope.
Jennifer Welch: "None of us would be where we are, none of us — I've Had It or any of these other channels — without MeidasTouch being our north star and guiding the way."
Ben Meiselas: The behavior is weird. It's evil. JD Vance has had a number of personalities over the past, you know, 15 years.
Jennifer Welch: What's so hard about it is watching these dorky villains get celebrated.
“When he says we’re all in this together, shoulder to shoulder — he fucking means it.”
Don Lemon on Ben Meiselas and the MeidasTouch Network — and why you should go buy WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy, out now.
“How do we fight their fire hose of lies with a fire hose of truth every day?”
Ben Meiselas and Don Lemon on why independent media is winning — and why the mainstream media’s instinct to normalize Trump is exactly why they’re losing.
The Constitution established that no one is above the law.
Then the right-wing Supreme Court handed presidents sweeping immunity, creating powers that even kings and queens don't enjoy.
Meiselas: "Our system was created as a rejection of kings, where no one is above the law. Yet we now have an absolute immunity doctrine."
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A brief pause from the news to share something from the heart.
When the clock strikes midnight tonight, our book, WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy, will officially be out in the world.
It’s hard to put into words what this moment means to us.
Whether you’ve been with us since we started MeidasTouch six years ago, whether you joined us somewhere along the way, or whether you’re seeing our names for the very first time in this post, we just want to say thank you.
Thank you for believing in us. Thank you for giving us a chance. Thank you for being part of this journey.
And thank you for bearing with us as we’ve promoted this book over the past several weeks. We know we’ve talked about it a lot!
The truth is, we don’t have the massive promotional budgets or the access to cable news and traditional media that so many other authors have. We’ve never had those advantages. What we do have is something infinitely more meaningful to us: you. The Meidas Mighty. This incredible pro-democracy community we’ve built together.
You’ve helped us build something we could have never imagined when we started this journey. And you’ve done it by showing up, by spreading the word, by refusing to give up, and by believing that our voices matter.
This book is, in many ways, our life’s work. It’s the culmination of years of reporting, organizing, fighting, learning, and growing alongside all of you.
It’s the story of how we got into this mess. It’s the story of the millions of everyday people who refused to back down in the face of authoritarianism. And most importantly, it’s about how we find our way out of this hell and back to democracy.
It’s as much your story as it is ours.
If you’ve already ordered a copy, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you. We genuinely cannot wait to see your photos with the book and hear what you think. That might be the part we’re looking forward to most.
If you haven’t ordered yet, thank you just for considering it. Truly. The book is available in hardcover, ebook, and audiobook, which we narrated ourselves. And if you’d like all three, we certainly won’t stop you! Order online. Go to your local bookstore. Tell your library to carry it. You will be the ones who help get this out into the world.
But more than anything, we just want you to know how grateful we are.
Six years ago, we couldn’t have imagined where this journey would take us, the people we would meet, or the community that would form around a shared belief that democracy is worth fighting for.
Through all the ups and downs, you’ve been there. And we don’t take a single one of you for granted.
So as we reach this milestone, we just want to say, sincerely, thank you for being with us. Thank you for lifting us up. Thank you for making all of this possible.
We wrote this book with a lot of love, a lot of hope, and an unwavering belief in what we can accomplish together.
We hope you enjoy it. We hope it makes you think. And most of all, we hope it reminds you of the extraordinary power we have when we stand together.
With all our gratitude,
Ben, Brett, and Jordy
P.S. We really can’t wait to see your photos with the book. Please tag us when your copies arrive!
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