The Meidas Mighty Are Ready to Fight in 2025…LET’S GO!! Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network Jan 1 Written by Ben Meiselas It’s January 1, 2025. Happy New Year. Your responses to my New Year’s post yesterday morning were incredible and inspiring. If you want to know one reason I am so optimistic about what we can accomplish in 2025, just go and read all the responses made by this community to my post from yesterday morning. It will surely put a smile on your face. I stayed up until midnight last night with my wife, who I married this past May, and my daughter Ximena, who arrived this past September and has been the biggest blessing of my entire life. My wife’s family was at my home as well. They moved here from Guadalajara, Mexico, more than three decades ago. Together, in my living room, my family—spanning generations and traversing borders—was making s’mores. One happy family filled with love and a little giggly three-month-old with her whole life ahead of her. It made me so happy to see her smile. From time to time, I would check in with this Substack, our YouTube channel, or our social media channels to see your comments and reflect on how important you are to my life as well. It was a very special New Year’s celebration for me. Thank you for making it so special. Look, we are tested most in times of adversity and hardship. Will we meet this moment? Will we join together and fight harder? Will we build our coalition in size and strength? Will we rally around each other, support each other, uplift each other, and set positive examples? We will meet this moment. I am sure of it. As I wake up on this first day of 2025, I feel a renewed and refreshed sense of purpose. I feel more energized than ever. I am confident that this community is now equipped with the tools and strength in numbers to push back against the threats to democracy and move the pendulum of history back to progress and freedom here in the United States and across the world. I wake up on this first day of 2025 knowing I am part of the Meidas Mighty. We don’t give up. We don’t submit. We fight. And despite inevitable setbacks, in the end, we win. Because love beats hate. Truth beats lies. Freedom beats oppression. Let’s start 2025 strong, Meidas Mighty. We got this! This is a people-powered network with zero oligarchs and zero outside investors. One of the main ways we grow is through this Substack. We fell 93 paid subscribers short of our Substack subscriber goal yesterday, so if you can become a paid subscriber now, we can possibly hit that goal today. Happy New Year! Check out the MeidasTouch YouTube channel all day today for original programming made possible by your subscriptions helping the MeidasTouch Network grow. The YouTube channel is free to everyone. Thanks, Meidas Mighty.