Nothing changes if nothing changes.
Dear Friend,
It’s Friday evening, and I couldn’t rest until I reached out to share what’s happening behind the scenes of this midterm election cycle—what we’ve accomplished with your support, and the emerging threat directly ahead of us.
When we launched the Campaign for an Informed America, we set out to build a truth-telling counterweight to the right-wing media machine. Thanks to your generosity, we hired a top-tier news graphics producer and blew past our initial targets—delivering 28 million impressions and facts directly to 20 million voters in key swing districts over the past month alone.
Now, with less than 100 days until the midterms, we urgently need to scale up.
We must immediately hire a dedicated video editor to produce short-form content that meets younger voters where they are—on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook—shaping opinions before lies take root. We are just $120,000 away from fully deploying our advanced behavioral, sentiment, and demographic targeting across critical swing districts.
An Growing Threat to Our Democracy
We knew we were up against a billion-dollar MAGA media machine. But a second threat to our democracy is rapidly escalating: corporate and special interest PACs pouring tens of millions into Democratic primaries to back establishment candidates who promise to protect the status quo.
These PACs aren’t interested in systemic change or defeating authoritarianism—they care about preserving their own access, profits, and power. They want elected representatives who prioritize corporate interests over the clear will of their constituents.
Look at what the status quo has inflicted on everyday working families while claiming to defend democracy:
Environmental Exploitation: Corporate data centers are popping up across states with Democratic governors, polluting local air and risking drinking water.
Economic Strain: Working families pay hundreds in extra expenses monthly while corporations rake in record profits.
Erosion of Rights: Tech giants track daily movements and hand that data over to the government, while private prisons fill up and costs skyrocket.
Establishment politics is actively enabling a modern oligarchy, putting corporate campaign war chests ahead of the public good.
The Business Model of Political Outrage
This self-inflicted chaos in government feeds directly into legacy news networks. For cable outlets and TV pundits, political volatility isn’t just an event to report—it’s a profitable business model.
Corrupt corporate policies lead to public breakdown, and public outrage translates into high ratings, lucrative ad slots, and secure, high-paying pundit contracts. When progressive, grassroots candidates step up vowing to ban special interest money, end corporate tax loopholes, and restore power to the people, they threaten that comfortable gravy train.
So, pundits take to the airwaves under the guise of “defending democracy” to attack grassroots candidates and label real systemic change as “unelectable.”
It’s a fatal bargain. By capitulating to corporate money for short-term ratings, these media elites are making a dangerous mistake: they are helping erode the very First Amendment protections that allow their own platforms to exist. An oppressive system never spares the pundits who helped build it.
Holding the Line on Principles
True morality isn’t an optional bargaining chip, and it cannot end with personal conduct—it must extend to how we govern.
When candidates violate core ethics, we must hold them accountable, even when doing so risks a critical seat. Doing the right thing must come first. But that same standard must apply to corporate influence. It is an affront to the democracy we claim to fight for when politicians talk about ethics while surrendering our air, our water, and our economy to the highest bidder.
Democracy shouldn’t be bought with multi-million-dollar corporate ad buys. Winning the old-fashioned way—by being a public servant whose policies actually serve constituents—is the only path forward. Getting corporate money out of politics is the one thing the establishment fears, because without guaranteed dark money, they finally have to answer to us.
Digital Precision: How We Win
While traditional operations waste time fighting a rapidly changing electorate, Lincoln Square is building the modern digital infrastructure required to beat back misinformation and reach voters directly. We don’t just post content; we deliver undeniable facts that break through the noise:
Government Surveillance: Visuals exposing police misuse of FLOCK surveillance cameras reached 7 million swing-district voters.
Corporate Influence: Interactive graphics showing voters how to track candidates taking corporate PAC money reached 5 million voters.
Environmental Exploitation: Investigative graphics exposing the dangers of corporate data centers reached 3 million voters in flippable districts.
We have the data, the strategy, and the proof that it works. Now, we need the resources to take this operation to every corner of the country.
The Midterms Are the Proving Ground for 2028
What we are doing right now isn’t just about 2026—it’s about laying the groundswell to reclaim our nation in 2028.
The upcoming midterms are the ultimate test of whether a true people-powered movement can outmatch billionaire-backed war chests on both sides, defeat corporate-bought candidates, and elect unapologetic fighters. Fascism and oligarchy are not defeated by clinging to a broken status quo. They are defeated when millions of everyday people show up in numbers so overwhelming, unified, and clear that the results cannot be bought, rigged, or denied.
To deliver 1 billion impressions to 200 million voters over these final 100 days, we need your help right now. 100% of your donation goes directly toward high-impact content creation and precision targeting—no high-priced consultants, just data-driven impact.
Every $25 allows us to reach 2,500 voters in key swing districts. [ [link removed] ]
Let’s restore what’s right, defeat the lies, break the stranglehold of dark money, and take back our democracy together.
Please act tonight.
With urgency and resolve,
Velda
Lincoln Square