Dear Fellow Patriots,
I’m writing to you today not just as the Chief of Growth at Lincoln Square Media, but as a mother and a grandmother who is deeply worried about how fast the ground is shifting beneath our feet. I look at the country right now and realize that if we don’t act, we are on the verge of leaving behind a completely unrecognizable America for our children and grandchildren.
We’ve all felt it. Over the last year, the sheer volume of lies coming from the White House has moved past standard political spin. We are watching a deliberate, systematic attempt to erase the very idea of objective truth. This isn’t a new political strategy—it’s an old, dangerous playbook. Historically, the first thing dictators and fascists do to dismantle a democracy is attack the public’s shared reality.
Think back to the “Big Lie” (Große Lüge) weaponized by the Nazi regime, or the way Joseph Stalin used state propaganda to erase economic failures by blaming invisible “foreign saboteurs.” The goal wasn’t just to make people believe a specific lie. The goal was cognitive exhaustion—wearing the public down until they became so tired of trying to figure out what was true that they simply surrendered to the state’s narrative.
We are seeing that exact playbook unfold right now in America, and none of it is benign.
Look at how this administration handled the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool renovation. They bypassed competitive bidding, handed a no-bid contract to a political donor, and watched a $1.5 million project balloon into a $14 million disaster. When the pool immediately turned into a green, peeling eye-sore, the administration couldn’t admit to basic incompetence. Instead, they blamed left-wing “vandals” and fabricated stories about chemical sabotage.
Worse yet, the legacy media fell right into the trap of “sane-washing” these delusions. Instead of exposing the financial corruption, major mainstream outlets printed headlines that legitimized the gaslighting.
The mainstream media is legitimizing a parallel reality. By covering imaginary saboteurs as real news, they help the president vilify opponents and fracture public trust. This isn’t just absurd—it’s incredibly dangerous. What look like “insane allegations” are actually part of a calculated strategy by the world’s most powerful leader to erase our shared facts and replace them with his own.
We see this same terrifying pattern with Operation Epic Fury—the unauthorized, catastrophic war with Iran. Despite a $100 billion price tag and mounting casualties, Trump has stood before the press dozens of times falsely claiming total victory and asserting a peace deal is “imminent.” His administration even went so far as to compare the military’s algae crisis at the reflecting pool to the war in Iran to minimize the reality of the conflict.
And when the NYT reported accurately on the strategic failures and staggering costs, Trump didn’t just complain—he openly threatened to use state power to go after the network for its negative coverage of his failed war in the Middle East and to hide the true cost of this war from the American families paying for it.
This assault on our truth is happening at every level of government. Down in Texas, where the State Board of Education approved a controversial, mandatory reading list that integrates Bible stories and scripture passages into the English and literature curriculum for over 5 million public school students, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick openly looked into a camera from the Oval Office, standing behind the President, and claimed the separation of church and state “is not in the Constitution.” Combined with the relentless, poisonous lies about widespread voter fraud, these aren’t just random falsehoods. They are major, coordinated threats to our constitutional freedoms. They are designed to condition a base of voters to reject the rule of law and dismantle the peaceful transfer of power.
When a leader rejects congressional oversight, threatens journalists, and rewrites our history and shared reality, independent media becomes our final line of defense.
At Lincoln Square Media, we don’t “sane-wash” authoritarian behavior. We track down the no-bid contract records, we expose the true human and financial costs of an unauthorized war, and we call out the lies and Fascist strategies in real-time. But a hostile administration has a massive megaphone, and independent journalism cannot stand alone against that kind of onslaught.
We are approaching the 250th anniversary of the United States. The fight we are in right now, and the solidarity we build today, is the best and only way to ensure we see 250 more years of freedom. Right now, moderate Democrats and left-wing progressives risk letting ourselves be divided at the polls. But division is exactly how autocracy wins. Solidarity is the only way we survive this moment, and it requires all of us to stand together.
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Please stand with us, protect our shared reality, and let’s defend our democracy together.
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Velda and Lincoln Square Media Team