🔥 Please Keep This Free for the World — Why Your Membership Matters Today!

The New York Times has 12 million subscribers and still can’t tell the truth about Gaza. We have 3,100 members—and we tell stories the powerful want buried.

Family, let me speak from the heart. Every day I try to write the pieces and make the videos you cannot find in the mainstream—truth-telling driven by receipts, law, and conscience, with the microphone pointed toward the oppressed, not the oppressor. We keep this free to the world on purpose: for readers in Gaza, for readers in Sudan, for readers living in deep poverty, for students who are just learning how to name what they see. That has always been our promise.

If this is the work you count on, become a member today. If you’re able, join as a monthly, annual, or founding member so we can keep it free for them—and even for you when you can’t afford to pay.

Let’s be plain about the moment. The New York Times has 12 million subscribers and still can’t tell a straight story about Gaza. We have 3,100 members—and we stay true to the oppressed in every single story. That comparison isn’t about size; it’s about allegiance. We don’t chase access to power. We chase the truth and the people crushed by power. That choice costs money. It also saves lives.

And now we need to grow—not to build a palace, but to hire two people so our new video show can deliver what you deserve: an editor who tightens every script and a producer who gets episodes cut, captioned, and live every day, with documents on screen that you can pause, screenshot, and share.

Here is what your membership does this week:

• Keeps it free for the world. No paywall for Gaza coverage. Ever.

• Funds two hires (editor + producer) so the daily video show can run at full speed.

• Puts receipts on screen—court filings, budgets, maps—so no one can gaslight you.

• Sustains reporting mainstream outlets ignore—the stories the powerful beg you not to read.

• Protects time for deep dives (law + history + eyewitness) that make you dangerous to liars.

I know you feel the stakes the way I do. This platform is one of the only places where you can read, in one breath, the law, the history, the quote, and the moral clarity—without someone upstairs watering it down. If we want that to continue, we have to build the capacity to do it every day, in writing and on video.

If you’ve ever said, “I’ll join later,” let later = today: become a member. If you can, join monthly, annually, or as a founding member. Your membership is not a tip; it’s the power bill that keeps the lights on for truth.

I won’t belabor it. You know what we do here. We name the crime, we show the document, we hold the line—and we keep it free so anyone, anywhere, can learn and share. 3,100 of you carry this work on your backs. When about 890 more of you join, we will be able to hire the two teammates who make the video show real—and we do it without selling our souls or putting a price tag on the truth.

If you value this, join us now. If you’ve already joined, send this to three people who believe in journalism that doesn’t blink. That is how we grow a platform that can’t be bought, can’t be bullied, and can’t be silenced.

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