🚨 Independent Media or Silence? The Choice Is Ours
Why I’m asking you — personally — to subscribe today
Family, this work — our journalism, our community, our courage to speak truth when others stay silent — only survives if we build it together.
I refuse to let billionaire-funded outlets, ad-driven platforms, or content behind paywalls be the only voice people hear about Gaza, political violence, or injustice. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to join us, this is it.
Please become a monthly, annual, or founding member today.
Why Membership Matters Right Now
Every day I sit down to write, I feel the same tension. On one side: corporate media, locked behind paywalls, reshaped by advertisers, sanitized for the powerful. On the other: us — small, stubborn, fearless, determined to tell the truth with moral clarity.
And here’s the thing: we are winning.
Your support has pushed us into the very top tier of Substack’s news platforms. Our Gaza coverage has reached tens of millions of readers. We’ve broken through with fearless commentary on issues others won’t even touch. No other news platform in the Top 20 on Substack even covers the genocide - or virtually any issue I cover for that matter.
But none of it is guaranteed. Without members, this entire project collapses.
The Progress We’ve Made
When we launched, people doubted whether independent media could break through. They doubted whether people-powered journalism could even survive in a world of billionaire outlets and algorithm-driven platforms.
And yet here we are:
2,725 paying members and counting — pushing toward 3,000.
#2 in engagement among all Substack news platforms.
Gaza coverage reaching the world for free, not hidden behind a paywall - forcing other platforms to now do the same.
Family, that is your victory. Every milestone we’ve hit belongs to you.
The Urgency of Today
But let me be blunt: the need is urgent.
While Palestinians are kidnapped by the thousands, bombed in their homes, and starved behind blockades, CNN and the New York Times put Gaza stories behind paywalls. They treat truth like a commodity. And even then, they only tell a fraction of the truth.
We do the opposite. We make Gaza reporting free for the whole world. We speak with courage about political violence, state crimes, and American complicity. But all of that depends on you.
Every subscription says: we refuse silence. Every member is another voice standing between truth and erasure.
What We’re Building Together
I don’t want this to just be about me writing articles. This is about building something bigger:
A publication that refuses to hide genocide behind paywalls.
A platform where stories of injustice are told with courage and moral clarity.
A community proving that independent, people-powered journalism is not only possible — it’s unstoppable.
Not ads. Not billionaires. Not algorithms. Just us.
That’s the vision every single subscription sustains.
Why You Should Join Today
Family, I’m asking you directly: join today. Don’t put it off. Don’t assume someone else will do it.
Here’s why your membership matters right now:
To keep Gaza coverage free for the entire world.
To grow independent journalism that refuses censorship.
To amplify stories the mainstream ignores or erases.
To prove we don’t need billionaires to tell the truth.
If you’ve been reading and thinking, “I’ll subscribe later” — let today be that day.
👉 Become a monthly, annual, or founding member right now.
Bottom Membership Appeal
Family, if you’ve ever believed in me, or in this work, I need you today. I cannot — we cannot — do this without you.
Please join as a monthly, annual, or founding member right now.
Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun
FYI: Here are 3 popular articles for free, without a paywall.
The strange American ritual where everyone other than straight white people pray the shooter isn't "one of our own"
Articles like the one you are about to read are really why I became a journalist. What I am about to tell you was just the reality for MILLIONS and millions of Americans but you won’t hear a word about it on the mainstream news. Because those outlets really only tell a narrow sliver of perspectives. If you support independent journalism, and want this w…
My thoughts on the assassination of Charlie Kirk
I won’t keep saying this, but I had surgery to repair nerve damage in my right arm and hand on this past Monday and I’m just now able to begin using the fingers on my right hand. And the doctors asked me to not type much for these next few weeks.
