🟩 Guess who is now the #1 trending, most visited, most engaged news platform on Substack?

12 million visits. The most-read independent news platform on Substack. But we’re still doing it with a fraction of the resources of the people we’ve passed. That’s got to change.

If you believe the truth matters — and that independent journalism should be funded by the people, not billionaires — then now is the time to join us.

👉🏽 Become a member today
👉🏽 Or chip in whatever you can here: thenorthstar.com/subscribe

If you’ve ever read one of our posts and said, “Why aren’t more people telling the truth like this?” — you already know why.

It’s not because the truth is too complex.
It’s not because it’s hard to see.
It’s because the people telling it aren’t getting funded.

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💥 What we’ve already done — with limited resources

• Over 12 million visits in just two weeks

• Ranked #1 on Substack’s Rising News list

• Breaking story after story about war crimes, starvation, occupation, and apartheid — with names, footage, and first-person truth

• Built the loudest independent platform telling the truth about Gaza, the U.S., and global injustice — and doing it daily, with receipts

All of this?
With a tiny team.
No corporate sponsorships.
No PR budget.
No editorial board.
Just you. And me.

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📉 Meanwhile…

We’re ranked #17 in paid members on Substack.
Not #3.
Not #5.
#17.

Despite being #1 in traffic.

That means we’re doing more work than almost anyone —
Reaching more people than almost everyone —
With fewer resources than nearly every name ahead of us.

That’s the funding gap we need to close.

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📢 This is the moment

We are 81 members away from crossing 2,000 paid subscribers.

We’ve outpaced million-dollar media companies.
We’ve out-reported major outlets with whole newsroom staffs.
And we’ve done it by telling the truth when it hurts.

If even a fraction of the people reading this right now stepped up to fund this work, we’d never have to ask again.

👉🏽 thenorthstar.com/subscribe

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💬 If you’re already a member — thank you.

You’ve made this possible.
You’re the reason we can say the names.
Show the faces.
And report what the world refuses to cover.

But if you’re reading this and haven’t joined yet…
This is the moment.
This is the line.
This is your time to stand with us.

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🛡️ Fund independent media. Fuel real resistance. Be part of this.

We don’t take ads.
We don’t rely on billionaires.
We don’t soft-pedal the truth.

We show you babies starved to death.
We show you snipers killing teens.
We show you the names and policies behind the genocide — and we say them out loud.

👉🏽 thenorthstar.com/subscribe

Join this. Fund this.
And let’s see how far we can go — together.

With conviction,
Shaun