April 7, 2026
Hey, it’s John.
I noticed you’ve been opening our newsletters. Nearly all of them. But you haven’t subscribed.
I’m not going to guilt you about it. I know how many asks are hitting your inbox right now.
But I want to ask you something directly: will you step up and become a paid member of Raw America today?
Let me update you on what we’ve done, about what we’re about to do.
This week, we’re finalizing a deal with a Capitol Hill reporter that will give Raw America exclusive, breaking news straight from inside Congress. A boots-on-the-ground correspondent working Senate hallways and hearing rooms, getting you the story before anyone else does.
That’s not something most two-month-old publications can say. We can say it because of readers who decided this work mattered.
Here’s what’s happening right now that the corporate press is burying.
Tucker Carlson just called Trump “evil.” Did you hear this from mainstream media?
Carlson said, “To send a tweet with the F word on Easter morning promising the murder of civilians and then saying ‘praise be to Allah’ — you are mocking every other Christian and me.”
“That is evil,” he added. “That is an intentional desecration of beauty and truth — which is the definition of evil.”
We covered this in our Substack notes last night.
On Easter, Marjorie Taylor Greene said, “Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshipping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness. I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit.”
MAGA is breaking. And Raw America is there to meet the moment, to capture all of it as it goes down.
This is the moment we built Raw America for.
I’ve been doing this for twenty-two years. I covered Iraq. I covered Trump’s first term. I covered the capture of the Supreme Court, and the horror show that’s filtered down.
I know what it looks like when the official narrative is cracking. I know what it looks like when power is hoping you get tired and look away.
We’re not looking away.
Not one bit.
We know it’s hard to take. That the news is depressing. That tough things are happening every day.
But I need you with us.
Listen: if just 5% of the people reading this right now became paid subscribers, we could fund our entire operation for the year. Five percent. One in twenty. That’s it.
Your subscription doesn’t just pay for the Capitol Hill reporter. It doesn’t just pay for our editor, and our team that produces the daily newsletters.
It pays for the live interviews with people the regime wishes would stay silent.
It pays for defiance. It ensures the media stays alive in a time when Trump and all his friends would rather it stay quiet.
I have to be honest. Nobody is coming to save us. It’s just us now. We need to step up to meet the moment.
Jeff Bezos won’t do this. The Ellisons’ lawyers won’t allow it. Elon Musk aims to end liberal media altogether.
The oligarchs buying the American press are counting on you to sit on your hands and do nothing.
I hate to say it. But it’s true.
I want us to prove them wrong.
Join us. Subscribe today and help us keep building something they can’t buy.
We’re just getting started. It hasn’t even been 90 days. I’m so excited you’re here with us, as we build this people-powered movement.
— John Byrne,
Founder, Raw America and Raw Story
P.S. The Epstein story, MAGA collapsing in on itself — these aren’t separate stories. They’re one story. And we’re going to keep connecting the dots until the people responsible are held accountable.
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