Tonight I want to come to you with an urgent PSA: We are living in a moment where the truth is not just under attack—it is being methodically buried. Piece by piece, the pillars of transparency, accuracy, and accountability are being dismantled in full view of the public.
What we are seeing from the White House is not a series of isolated decisions or coincidental missteps. It is a deliberate campaign to conceal accurate data, rewrite history in real time, and erase inconvenient truths from our collective memory. This is not politics as usual—it is the slow, grinding erosion of the public’s right to know.
And I will not stand by and watch it happen in silence. I am an independent journalist. My allegiance is not to party or power, but to the truth itself. Subscribe, support, and share. Every single subscription strengthens my ability to investigate, to publish without fear, and to keep this work free from the influence of those who would rather see it silenced.
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Today we learned that the Trump Administration is working with the Smithsonian to ensure that all exhibits in its museums reflect Donald Trump’s personal vision of American history. Think about what that means. The Smithsonian is one of our most trusted institutions, a place where generations of Americans go to learn about the complex, often messy truth of our past.
Now it risks becoming a curated propaganda wing of the executive branch. This is not about adding new scholarship, highlighting overlooked stories, or correcting historical inaccuracies. It’s about reshaping our national narrative to serve the political needs of one man.
Once history is rewritten to match the preferences of those in power, the past stops being a shared record and becomes a weapon.
History is not supposed to be a tool for the ruling class to reinforce their image. Our museums are meant to preserve and present the truth, even when that truth is inconvenient, even when it exposes the flaws of our leaders or the failings of our systems.
Once a government starts dictating what parts of history we can and cannot see, we are no longer operating in a democracy committed to an informed citizenry—we are drifting toward authoritarianism. The rewriting of history is always one of the earliest steps.
As if altering the past weren’t enough, we also learned that Trump’s new pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics wants to cease releasing monthly jobs reports. This is not a minor bureaucratic change—it is a seismic shift in how the public understands the health of the economy.
Why?
Because Trump has claimed these reports are “rigged.” Rather than addressing the data or offering evidence for such claims, the response is simply to remove the data from public view.
The monthly jobs report is one of the most important, nonpartisan economic indicators available to the public. It influences everything from government policy to Wall Street decisions to whether a family decides they can afford to buy a home.
If this move goes forward, Americans will be flying blind on the state of their own economy—relying solely on whatever carefully selected numbers the White House chooses to release. That is not transparency. That is not accountability. That is narrative control. And once the government controls the numbers, it controls the truth.
And then there’s the Epstein files—still concealed from the public. We are told that justice is about transparency and accountability, but somehow, in this case, the truth remains locked away in sealed court documents.
The powerful walk free, names remain hidden, and the public is left to guess at the full scope of what happened. This silence is not accidental. It is part of a larger, consistent pattern: when the truth threatens those in power, it is hidden, reframed, or erased altogether.
Taken together, these stories are not random. They form a chilling, coherent picture of a government willing to control both the narrative of our past and the information about our present—while leaving unanswered questions about corruption and abuse untouched. It’s the historical record, the economic reality, and the mechanisms of justice—all being filtered, edited, or withheld.
This is why independent media is not just important—it’s essential. Without strong, independent journalism, we are left with whatever version of reality those in power decide we should see. We need journalists and platforms that are not beholden to political leaders, corporate sponsors, or the whims of billionaires.
We need watchdogs who can speak truth to power without fear of retaliation, who can dig where others are told not to dig, and who can hold leaders accountable in an era when truth itself is treated as a partisan weapon.
An independent press is not a luxury for a democracy—it is a safeguard against its decay. The ability to know our own history, to understand our own economy, and to demand transparency from our government is not a privilege—it is a right.
And when those rights are stripped away, it is not just facts we lose, but the very ability to govern ourselves.
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The fight for truth is the fight for democracy. The question is not whether we should care—it is whether we care enough to act before it’s too late. Because if we wait, if we assume someone else will step in, we may wake up one day to find the truth has been buried so deep that digging it back up will take generations. And by then, the history written for us will be the only history anyone remembers.