| Hey, | We're about 9 months out from the midterm elections, and the administration is worried. Not about the economy — it's improving. Not about an immigration crisis — they're handling it. Not about foreign policy — Trump's approach is producing results. | What they're worried about is the media. Because with every single move, the press is fighting them — and based on the polls, it's working. The concern is that by midterms, it won't be the voters who decide what happened over the last two years. It'll be the headlines. | My concerns are less political… | Yes, media dishonesty has political consequences — it could stall everything this administration is trying to do. But what keeps me up is something bigger than that. It's the fact that millions of people are living inside fake realities right now. Narratives designed to divide us — to push us apart from our friends, our families, the people we love. That's what I'm concerned about. | Let me show you what I mean. | Here are some of the fake narratives that have been spreading this week. Every single one fell apart when you looked at the details. | Monday: President Trump was accused of sharing a racist video of the Obamas depicted as apes. But the brief clip appears to have auto-played at the end of a screen recording of an election-fraud video that Trump actually shared. The media and other (fooled) Republicans said it was the most "racist" thing Trump has done so far. | Tuesday: CBS News reported that fewer than 14% of migrants arrested by ICE faced violent charges. But DHS says that figure relies on narrow definitions that label crimes like drug trafficking, child pornography distribution, burglary, fraud, and human smuggling as "nonviolent" — obscuring the fact that roughly 70% had pending charges or prior convictions. | Wednesday: MS NOW suggested ICE is "buying off" local police to act as a Trump-aligned "paramilitary" force. In reality, the program in use has existed since the 1990s, is voluntary, and is simply used to reimburse departments for immigration-related costs — not for election interference. | Thursday: NBC News reported that an 18-month-old hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to detention and denied medication. DHS says the child received immediate treatment, spent eight days in a children's hospital, and was cleared by a pediatric doctor before returning to a family facility's medical unit. | And Friday: The New York Times suggested that the DOJ's seizure of 2020 Fulton County ballots means the Trump administration might manipulate the voting files. That sounds like a conspiracy theory to me…but what they reported is just speculative and not based on objective fact. | And someone in your life — your kid, your neighbor, your coworker — probably saw one of those headlines this week and stopped there. Now they believe something that isn't true. | Here's what I want to stress: the five stories I walked you through are from this week only. We point these out every single day. And roughly 40% of our most important reporting — the deep dives, the hoax trackers, the stories we pour the most into — never reaches our free readers. | That means you're only seeing part of the picture right now. | The facts I just showed you—paid members had them in their inbox the morning each story broke — before the narrative set, before the spin became reality, before their family group chat turned into a battlefield. | That's what a membership gets you. One short, calm email every morning with the full story — what actually happened, what the media left out, and why it matters. | Becoming a member is the single most important way to ensure we can keep doing this. We don't have corporate owners. We don't have billionaire backers. We ditched most of our advertisers because we'd rather answer to you than to a boardroom. So far, we're behind on our yearly growth goal. | That means the only thing standing between us and having to scale back this work is readers like you deciding it's worth supporting. |
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