🔥 I’m asking you plainly: will you help hold this up?

No guilt. No games. Just a clear ask to join the people keeping The North Star alive.

Family,

I’m going to keep this direct.

If this work has ever helped you see more clearly, feel less alone, or say what you were already thinking, I’m asking you to become a member today.

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 elders on fixed incomes—because a smaller circle of people who can afford it choose to carry the cost. Your support keeps this work free for them, and even for you when you can’t afford to pay.

Now let me tell you why I’m asking right now.

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The world is trying to train you into numbness.

It’s trying to make genocide sound like “a conflict.”
It’s trying to make ethnic cleansing sound like “policy.”
It’s trying to make starvation sound like “aid challenges.”
It’s trying to make propaganda sound like “balance.”
It’s trying to make silence feel normal.

The North Star exists to fight that training.

Not with slogans. With receipts. With plain language. With moral clarity that refuses to be bought or softened.

And I want you to understand something: this doesn’t survive on applause. It survives on people deciding, “I’m going to fund the truth.”

There is no corporate sponsor behind this. No political party writing checks. No billionaire telling me what I’m allowed to say. That independence is the whole point—and it’s also the whole cost.

So when you become a member, you are not “supporting a creator.” You are building a platform that stays free for the world and stays honest when the world is lying.

That’s why I’m asking you again:

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

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Let me speak to two groups of people.

If money is tight, hear me clearly: you are not who I’m asking right now. Stay. Read. Share what you can. You’re exactly why I keep this open.

But if you do have some margin—and you’ve been reading for a while—this is me saying: don’t assume “other people” are carrying it.

A membership is a decision. A quiet “yes.” A small act of alignment.

It’s you saying, “I want this voice in the world. I want this work free for people who can’t pay. I want receipts and truth when powerful institutions are trying to bury both.”

And it takes one minute.

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

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If you’re already a member, thank you. Truly. You’re the reason this work stays free for the world. If you want to help today, forward this email to three people you trust and tell them, “Join this. We need it.”

I’m going to keep doing my part. I’m going to keep writing. I’m going to keep naming what’s happening plainly. I’m going to keep refusing numbness.

What I’m asking is: will you stand with me in it?

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 powerful way: forward this email to three people who care about truth. One forward can do more than any algorithm ever will.