Dear John,

I know that many of you are still in shock about what happened last week. Some of you don’t even want to read a newspaper or hear the news. I get it.

But we must not avert our eyes from this calamity, minimize it, or throw up our hands in despair or retreat. Because as awful as Trump's first presidency was — and it was a catastrophe — his second term threatens to be far worse.

Starting January 20, Trump and his MAGA lapdogs will have control of both houses of Congress, and, unlike in 2017, these Republicans are utterly cowed by Trump.

Meanwhile, Trump is filling his administration with unqualified lackeys like Matt Gaetz, his pick for attorney general, and Pete Hegseth, the Fox News TV host that he chose as his secretary of defense. And he also has effective control of the Supreme Court, which has already ruled that he is presumptively immune from prosecution for crimes committed in office.

Inequality Media was on the front lines battling Trump's agenda the first time around, and we have an even bigger and more effective team to fight back this time (more on that below).

But as a grassroots-funded organization, we rely on your donations to fund this work. Will you make a donation to Inequality Media and help support our efforts to be a bastion of truth and curtail Donald Trump’s cruel and radical agenda?

Protecting the vulnerable and preserving our rights and liberties will require a great deal of hard work by a wide range of people and organizations who heed the truth and believe in our Constitution, democracy, and the rule of law.

That work includes:

• Monitoring Trump and his government — despite the disinformation, propaganda, and lies we’ll be receiving — and disseminating the truth.
• Maintaining a watch over the people and institutions we value.
• Being ready to sound the alarm in our communities and networks when those people and institutions are under assault.
• Organizing and mobilizing nonviolent resistance to such assaults, using peaceful civil disobedience when necessary.
• Litigating through state and federal courts where possible.
• Speaking out against malicious lies like those that spread during the election by Elon Musk on his propaganda machine, X, and against vicious lies amplified on other MAGA mouthpieces.
• Using our economic muscle to boycott corporations that support Trump, Musk, and other centers of MAGA power.

And much more.

While Inequality Media won’t be directly involved in all of these strategies, we will play a key role in the Trump resistance through our massive social media following, which will allow us to broadcast the truth, educate the public, call out Trump's worst abuses, and build support for progressive priorities while bypassing the mainstream media.

It is up to us — the American people who still cherish democracy — to protect and preserve our system of self-government.

That's why I'm asking you today: Will you make a donation to Inequality Media and help support our efforts to curtail Donald Trump’s cruel and radical agenda?

Robert Reich
Inequality Media