🚨 We Need Just 20 People a Day — Help Us Reach 3,000 Members So Truth Can’t Be Silenced

I was banned for life on Instagram and censored everywhere else. This place — powered by you — is the only roof left where the truth can live. Become a member now.

Family — I’m asking you right at the top because this matters right now: please become a monthly, annual, or founding member today. We’re 2,787 strong. Our next, vital milestone is 3,000. If we hit that, we prove beyond doubt that they cannot silence us. Then 5,000! Then 10,000 and beyond.

I’ve been banned for life on Instagram. Accounts deleted. Years of community, organizing, and teaching wiped away by a platform decision with no appeal. On X/Twitter, entire posts have been removed at the demand of foreign governments. Facebook shadows my messages into near-invisibility. YouTube buries videos. TikTok throttles and erases. Wherever the algorithms and the billionaires hold power, hard truth becomes a target.

There is one place they cannot quietly bury me: this space, powered by readers, not by billionaire owners, not by advertisers, not by governments. That’s why The North Star exists here — and why it must grow.

Why 3,000 Matters (And Why 20 People a Day Works)

Numbers are not abstract. They are survival. When we hit 3,000 paid members we will:

• Be harder to censor because our revenue isn’t beholden to advertisers or platforms.

• Be able to expand investigative pieces, legal support for sources, and longform reporting that actually moves the needle.

• Keep this work independent — not owned, not leased, not silenced.

Twenty new members a day is not a fantasy. It’s a plan. Twenty people a day for twelve days gets us to 3,000. Twenty people a day for a month builds the foundation for sustainable expansion. That’s slow and steady — but steady wins this fight.

Guess what? If we get just 20 members per day for the rest of the year, we will end the year with 5,000 members! That’s why we need you to join today!

What Membership Actually Does (Quick List)

When you join, you aren’t buying inbox copies — you’re investing in a network that refuses to be erased. Your membership will:

• Protect a platform where I can name crimes, show receipts, and publish what other outlets won’t.

• Fund deep-dive investigations and on-the-ground reporting that mainstream editors won’t touch.

• Keep the work independent from advertisers, algorithms, and foreign pressure.

• Build a community that can organize, amplify, and demand accountability.

This isn’t charity. It’s solidarity. It’s choosing truth and refusing to bow.

Why This Is Urgent

Censorship is not a tech problem. It’s a political one. When a government asks a platform to remove footage of violence, and the platform complies without public scrutiny, the result is not just a deleted post — it’s an erased witness. When companies suppress images and names, they help bury accountability.

Those in power would prefer that the public never sees the receipts. They prefer that narratives be shaped in quiet rooms, behind closed gates. That’s the old playbook: remove the witnesses, rewrite the story, move the narrative. We don’t play by that rulebook here.

This is why your membership matters more than ever. It funds the documentation, the publishing, the legal time, and the safety work that protects sources and keeps the record public.

How We’ll Hit the Goal — And How You Help

Here’s the simple plan: you share this post with friends who care about independent reporting. You make one ask — “Will you join me?” — to twenty people you know in the next 48 hours. If each of those twenty says yes, we’re not just a newsletter — we’re a movement.

I will keep doing what I do best: chasing receipts, naming what others won’t, holding power accountable. Members give the oxygen that lets me keep breathing the truth into a public that so badly needs it.

A Little About What We’ve Built

Because of these 2,787 members we’ve already:

• Published exclusive reporting that forced public hearings.

• Paid legal expenses to protect a whistleblower’s identity.

• Kept coverage of atrocities alive when mainstream outlets were looking the other way.

Imagine how much more we can do at 5,000 members!

Family, Pause With Me Here

If you’ve read this far, you’re already part of the story. You know what silence does: it preserves impunity. You know what truth does: it breaks impunity. If you are moved, join us. If you can’t give now, share this link and ask someone else to join. Every single person matters.

👉 Become a member now: monthly • annual • founding member

We are building the one platform they cannot delete by fiat. That matters. It’s why I keep showing up.

Silence is complicity.
Silence is complicity.
Silence is complicity.

With gratitude and determination,
Shaun

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