🔥 A 60-Second “Yes” That Keeps This Work Free for the World

No guilt. No games. Just the truth about what your membership makes possible.

Family,

I’m going to do something different today.

For many of you, today is a holiday, but for millions of people around the world, the day will still be full of injustice and brutality. This is why I do what I do.

If you believe this work should exist in the world, I need you to become a member.

Please click here to become a member and click here to join as a monthly, annual, or founding member.

I keep this work free for the world—for readers in Gaza, for students in public schools, for families living in deep poverty, for people who will never be able to afford paywalls—because a smaller circle of people who can afford it decide to carry the cost. Your membership keeps this work free for them, and even for you when you can’t afford to pay.

Now let me tell you what you’re actually saying “yes” to.

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Imagine this space disappears tomorrow.

Not “I take a vacation.” Not “I post less.”

I mean: the lights go off.

No more long posts that name what’s happening plainly.
No more receipts.
No more breakdowns that you can forward to your family and say, “Read this—this is what’s really going on.”
No more place where Gaza doesn’t get buried under the next distraction.
No more place where we refuse the euphemisms and refuse the cowardice.

If that thought makes you angry—or even just uneasy—that’s your answer.

Because everything you value about this space is not “free.” It’s just paid for by other people.

And I’m grateful to them. But I’m also asking you: are you willing to be one of them?

If yes, it takes one minute.

Click here to become a member.
Click here to join as a monthly, annual, or founding member.

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Here’s the quiet truth about how this works

There are three kinds of readers:

1. People who never open anything.

2. People who open, read, feel it… and keep moving.

3. People who open, read, feel it… and decide to help hold it up.

This email is for the third group.

Not because you’re “better.” Because you’re ready.

You’ve read enough. You’ve seen enough. You’ve felt enough.

You already know that the world is being flooded with propaganda and numbness, and that most institutions have decided silence is safer than truth. You already know that speaking plainly about genocide, colonialism, and empire costs something.

So I’m asking you to step into the group that makes it possible.

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If you’re wondering, “Does my membership really matter?”

Yes.

Because membership doesn’t work like a donation jar where one big gift does all the heavy lifting. Membership works like a foundation. Each person is a brick. Enough bricks and the building stands. Without them, it doesn’t.

Your membership buys:

Time—to read the documents, trace the money, verify the claims, and write with clarity instead of speed.
Independence—so no corporation, no party, no billionaire gets to decide what I’m allowed to say.
Consistency—so this work isn’t random bursts of truth, but a steady platform that doesn’t go quiet when the story gets uncomfortable.

If that’s the kind of thing you want in the world, this is how you help create it.

Click here to become a member and click here to join as a monthly, annual, or founding member.

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Two quick notes before I end

If money is tight, hear me clearly: I’m not trying to take your last dollars. Stay. Read. Share. You are the reason I keep this free.

But if you can afford it—and you’ve been waiting for the right moment—this is the right moment.

Not because it’s convenient. Because the world is training people to look away, and I need a community of people who refuse.

So I’m going to ask one last time, plainly:

Please click here to become a member.
And click here to join as a monthly, annual, or founding member.

Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

Don’t Stop Here

If you can’t join today, you can still help in a way that changes everything: forward this email to three people who care about truth. Tell them to read The North Star for a week. If it moves them, they’ll join—and that’s how we grow something that can’t be silenced.