Message From Meidas Touch Network Founder Ben Meiselas [View all]

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By Ben Meiselas

It’s Sunday, which means it’s time for coffee together.

In today’s coffee chat, I want to discuss Republicans getting rude awakenings at town halls across the country, including in ruby-red Republican congressional districts.

People are pissed at Trump and Musk and are rising up. Pour yourself a coffee, tea, orange juice, or water, and let’s talk about it.

Go back to my posts from a few weeks ago, and I predicted this was going to happen.

The MAGA Republican Congress members who have been zombified by Elon Musk’s social media platform assumed they would return to their congressional districts like conquering heroes since Musk’s algorithm and his bot army told them they were doing a good job.

But in the real world, America has become a powder keg on the verge of exploding as Trump and Musk have crashed our economy, destroyed our alliances, gutted our government, demeaned and dehumanized workers, invaded our privacy, and fought only for billionaires and Putin.

We’ve been covering the town halls in areas from Georgia to Wisconsin to Oklahoma and elsewhere.

Voters are enraged about what Trump, Musk, and their group of 19-to-25-year-olds with names like “Big Balls” have done to our government and to our lives.

Republican Congress members fled their own town halls like cowards, and most others canceled their town halls after their constituents rose up and called them out.

On the other hand, Senator Bernie Sanders hosted a fully packed event in Nebraska, where he rallied workers.

The movement that is brewing isn’t so much about political parties. It’s about the rage and wrath of American workers and regular Americans who are being trampled on by a group of cartoonishly villainous billionaires like Musk and Trump.

Musk’s algorithm may control X, but it doesn’t control the moral compass of most Americans who are letting their Congress members know how pissed they are.

This energy we are seeing will continue to grow.

It will translate to protests growing bigger across the country.

Trump is already the MOST DESPISED president in history at this point in his time in office. It will get worse for him. Much worse for him.

As Trump gets rejected and feels the heat more, he will continue to spiral. He makes all the worst decisions under pressure and doubles and triples down on digging holes deeper.

What I expect to happen will start to accelerate quickly. We are seeing the cracks form and get bigger. Buckle up.

It is the honor of my lifetime to be in this fight with you.

I am not sure if you know this about me, but back when I was a civil rights litigator, I led major protests in Bakersfield and Los Angeles against corrupt government officials who inflicted unimaginable pain on the families I represented.

I feel that my experience there, along with previously being Colin Kaepernick’s lawyer when Trump attacked him in 2017 and my work in media, has armed me with the tools and prepared me to effectively lead the MeidasTouch Network and the MeidasMighty resistance to Trump and Musk’s tyranny. I know I am prepared to meet this moment.

I am so honored and humbled that our reporting at the MeidasTouch Network has invigorated the spirit of tens of millions of Americans and helped turn feelings of complacency and helplessness into a feeling that we can fight and win against these corrupt tyrants.

By the way, before I forget, here are some photos from the protests I led and a photo from my case with Kaepernick that I haven’t shared in a while.





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I am so confident that the fighting spirit we see growing in America will continue to grow.

This is not going to be easy, but if millions of us stay united, we are going to prevail and secure a better world for future generations.

I know our fight is a just one and a necessary one, and it’s one we must pursue fearlessly.

This isn’t a time for business as usual.

This is a time for unusual steps, where we will need to take matters into our own hands to peacefully take back our country.

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Thanks for having coffee with me.