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Important Sunday Night Message

This week is going to be a very busy week. Stay tuned.

Aaron Parnas Dec 8

Good evening, everyone. I hope your Sunday has been restful and full of moments that reminded you why community matters. I am stepping away for a few minutes from a small celebration my wife organized for me after being named to Forbes 30 Under 30. It is nothing extravagant, just friends, laughter, and a cake that I suspect is far too big for our kitchen counter. Still, I wanted to speak with you directly before this week begins because it is going to be one of the busiest and most consequential weeks of the year, and I want you to know what lies ahead.

More than anything, I want to tell you how proud I am of what we have built together. This newsroom is not powered by corporate sponsors or political interests. It exists because of you. At a time when the White House is publicly targeting journalists by name and bot networks are working overtime to intimidate and silence independent reporters, your support is what keeps this operation alive. It is the foundation that allows us to keep asking the hard questions and keep publishing the stories others refuse to touch.

If you are able, I ask you once again to consider subscribing tonight. I know I make this request often, but subscriptions are the sole reason I can continue doing this work full time. Journalism that refuses to back down has no shortcut, no safety net, and no substitute. It lives only when people who believe in truth choose to sustain it. Let us keep going. Let us keep digging. Let us keep fighting back together.

Tomorrow, I will be sitting down with Senator Mark Kelly and former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords to discuss the state of America. Senator Kelly has recently faced a wave of attacks from the right, including the President of the United States calling for his execution. That is not politics. That is an attempt to instill fear. It is an attempt to silence. And it is exactly why journalism must remain vigilant.

On Wednesday, I will speak at the National Gun Violence Vigil in Washington, D.C. I want to give you a preview of my remarks. I will be addressing a room full of survivors and advocates, and I will be talking about why journalists cannot allow gun violence to become normalized in this country. We have reached a point where mass shootings enter the news cycle with frightening regularity. There are days when even I feel the creeping numbness that comes from repetition. But our job is to resist that numbness, to refuse the temptation to normalize something that should never be accepted. I look forward to sharing the full speech with you once it concludes. If you are in the DMV area, please join us.

This week I will also be meeting with young people who have traveled from across the country to Washington. Many of them are here for conferences, workshops, and advocacy programs. I am excited to talk with them about media literacy, about the role of journalism in a democracy, and about the importance of civic knowledge at a time when civics is not taught consistently in classrooms across the nation. Young Americans deserve to understand the world they are inheriting. I consider it part of my mission to help them do so.

Here is what else I want you to know. I am deeply proud of our coverage this week. While much of the media ecosystem quickly shifts from one headline to the next, we have stayed focused. Because of our reporting, tens of millions of households heard stories that otherwise may have been buried. We accomplished that together, and we are only getting started.

We are living in an era where chaos is no longer accidental. It is the point. Political strategy has become an exercise in exhaustion. The truth still exists, but it is constantly buried under a tidal wave of noise.

Here is how that strategy works. You witness so much wrongdoing that your ability to be shocked begins to erode. You face so many scandals that the details start to blur together. Eventually, you become so tired of trying to keep up that tuning out feels like the only option left. That is the goal. They do not need your agreement. They only need your fatigue.

I will not sugarcoat this. It can feel frightening. I feel that fear too. But I want you to hear this part clearly. I am here with you in this fight. And this community proves that the strategy of chaos does not work on everyone. Even in the middle of a storm, we have built one of the most engaged and independent news platforms in the world.

The months ahead will be even more chaotic. That is not speculation. That is intention. The political machine will continue to push scandal after scandal into the public square, hoping the noise will distract us from the freedoms and truths slipping quietly beneath the surface.

But here is what I know. They can flood the zone. They can try to exhaust the public. They can attempt to bury the truth under endless waves of distraction. We will still be here. We will still be reporting. We will still be cutting through the noise together.

I am working on new projects that will strengthen this platform even further. Yes, we face resistance. Trump’s political allies and MAGA influencers have attempted to discredit us, overwhelm us, and even shut us down. But they cannot erase a movement that millions of people are watching. They cannot silence a community that refuses to look away.

We are here. We are growing. And we are not done.