Choosing to FIGHT Through 2024 - The Path Forward!

This wasn't easy to write, but here it goes.

We have an election coming up and now is when citizen journalists are needed the most. We are about to be hit with a massive tsunami of propaganda, PSYOPs, civil unrest, you name it. The likes of which we’ve never seen before. And people who can cut through the BS, and deliver the truth are needed now more than ever. Now is NOT the time to give up the fight, but rather, to dig our heels in and double/triple down our efforts!

At least that’s what I realized after being faced with a bit of adversity and ALMOST walking away… Allow me to explain!

As many of you know, I was recently faced with a VERY difficult decision.

I’ve been doing this now for about 3 years. First on YouTube, and now on Rumble. About a year ago, I was able to secure a pretty sweet deal with an advertiser that provided me with consistent income (which we’ve come to depend on as a family). However, the year is up, and my biggest advertiser has unfortunately decided to discontinue our relationship.

I can’t get into the specifics, but come October, my biggest source of revenue as a content creator will be gone. This revenue has allowed us to carry on exposing the deep state and the stolen elections long after being banned from YouTube, (despite not having the numbers we once did). So, with that gone, my back is against the wall.

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not in this for the money. Anyone who says otherwise either doesn’t know me or is lying. I care deeply about the fight for free and fair elections. I started all of this with a YouTube channel that wasn’t even monetized for the first 6 months, pumping out video after video without collecting a penny from Ad Revenue. Money was never the main focus, and it STILL isn’t 3 years in. When I started this, I had one goal in mind; Kick out the communists, expose the deep state, and secure our elections.

But ummm… That was before we had kids…

Now, three years later, things are VERY different. With a SECOND baby on the way, I am no longer in a position to do this without SOMETHING coming in. Some form of revenue must be there, or I just can’t justify it. As I’m sure you understand, I have to provide the best life for my children. Not only is money important, but so is time. Every second that I spend at the computer is a second away from my son (and soon to be daughter). My kids are my everything.

That said, if we don’t rid this country of communists and secure our elections, my kids won’t have a future, and money will be the least of our worries. So, boy, what a catch 22 am I right? I’d be losing sleep if I didn’t do SOMETHING to fight back. And the best way to fight back is…. Well, to keep doing what I’ve been doing for 3 years. That’s my niche. That’s my calling!

But… Like I said, I can’t do it without putting a major strain on our finances and the wellbeing of my family. Which I’m not willing to do.

I so badly don’t want to give up, and just walk away to a 9-5 while the country burns. This is truly where my heart is. This is where I belong! Fighting alongside all of you amazing patriots is what I want to do, and I would do anything to keep some skin in the game. With the 2024 election barreling towards us like a freight train, this is the absolute WORST time that someone like me could walk away.

SO, I’ve been digging, and searching, and praying for a path forward.

And at the end of the day, I've found myself with two viable options.

The first option is to walk away.

I have a job waiting for me. A great job with great benefits, 401k, and the whole 9 yards. I would be working for a multi-million-dollar condo complex with a lot of room for growth. The pay is AMAZING, but… The job is extremely demanding and very far away. Realistically, to take this job, it would require me to give this up entirely.

And trust me I’ve thought about doing both… But…

Two kids, a wife (who also works), and an hour commute. Not to mention overtime. This leaves me with practically nothing left. At first, I thought, “hmm maybe I could just do a show or two from the car on my way to and from work”, but if I’m honest with myself, I probably won’t even be plugged into the happenings enough to provide you with any real insight.

So that’s option 1. Which sucks.

Now, let’s talk about option 2. Staying in the fight!

On the other hand, I have a remote job offer with a boss who knows my situation and would completely accommodate me to keep doing this on the side. However, the pay is less... A lot less. But it’s a super flexible, cushy job, and it’s a work from home gig. If I take this job, I could stay in the game.

I would also have more time with my kids, and that’s SO important to me. I would just need to somehow make enough supplemental income to justify it.

So, these are my two choices, and I’ve been contemplating what to do for weeks. Silently suffering and losing sleep over it. Praying about it. Until finally, the other day, I poured my heart out to my Telegram audience. I was hesitant as I expected that if I brought up money, a bunch of a**holes would accuse me of being a “grifter” or “paytriot”, but I was so wrong. Everyone totally got it. The response was absolutely incredible.

In fact (don’t judge me) it made me cry… Just a little. NOT A LOT!

I witnessed so many amazing patriots offer their advice, prayers, and support. So many people expressing the value that they get from my work, and it made me emotional to know that there are so many out there who actually care.

Shortly after, a few prominent public figures began calling me up to offer some help, and guidance, and they helped me formulate a plan of action to keep going…

So, I think we have a plan. And after careful consideration, I now believe that option TWO is completely realistic!

The Bearded MAGA Ginger lives on to fight another day!

I had a conference call with Toni Shuppe and Seth Keshel who assured me that if I just change up my media model, I could easily make some supplemental income. At least enough to make it work. We went over some numbers, and everything seemed doable. It would just require some hard work and a bit of generosity from all of you out there.

So, without further ado, I’d like to present to you my plan going forward, and my new media model.

MY NEW MEDIA MODEL

1. Begin using SubStack as my primary platform for publishing content to try to build a healthy base of small contributors.

2. Utilize both VIDEO and WRITTEN content on this platform alternating between free and Supporters only content.

3. Continue to publish my FREE videos to Rumble and utilize Rumble for occasional Livestreams and guest appearances.

Pretty good eh? I came up with most of it myself.

Now you may be concerned about the paywalled content. Personally, I have always hated it, but unfortunately, in this situation I have to do what I can to make this work. Sadly, people don’t really subscribe unless you give them a reason to. That said, I am going to do my best NOT to put any calls to action behind a paywall, and mostly try to stick to opinion pieces and analysis that is based on publicly available information.

So, this is the plan, and in an effort to be fully transparent, here’s what it will take to make this work. I am hoping to find 300 patriots willing to contribute $5 a month by December. If I can bring in an extra $1500 a month, I can totally make this work.

And thanks to the gracious promotions from Seth Keshel, and Toni Shuppe, we are already off to a great start. We now sit at exactly 67 paid subscribers, just 233 shy of our goal. As long as I do my part, I believe that we can get there in a few months.

Believe me, I wish I didn’t have to sit here with my tin can begging you for support, but when you’re banned from every mainstream platform, and all of the alternative’s kind of suck in comparison, you either give up, sell out to some stupid network, or swallow your pride and shake your dam tin can.

I’ve come to realize that crowd funded journalism is truly the only path forward for us conservatives. We have to support each other, whereas the shills on the left are out making millions from YouTube ad revenue, and donations from big daddy Soros.

We, on the other hand have to fund our own efforts. And if we don’t, believe me we will be overshadowed and out funded.

When I began my YouTube channel in December of 2020. My channel immediately took off, receiving MILLIONS of views per month. Obviously, money was coming in (once my channel was finally monetized after 9 months). But, at the time I didn’t even think of the money. The money was merely a byproduct of my passion.

We were TRULY making a difference covering audits, court cases, exposing the Dominion machines, conducting hard-hitting interviews with the likes of Garland Favorito, and even flying across the country to conduct on the ground journalism in New Hampshire! I got to experience what it’s like to have a gigantic megaphone and the ability to direct energy where needed to effect change. While I was so wrapped up in the fight, I didn’t even stop to think that I had amassed the ability to collect a 6-figure income for years to come.

But you know what happened next. The commie overlords at YouTube began issuing strikes, and warnings, and my videos were being taken down left and right due to YouTube’s censorship practices. At this point, I began to see the very real threat of losing my channel permanently, and I was left with a difficult choice to make.

1. Censor myself, keep my channel, and keep the money flowing.

2. Continue down the path that I was on until they banned me.

People on the left who shill vaccines and deny election fraud are never faced with this choice. And unfortunately, many of the lukewarm “conservatives” in that situation would just censor themselves to stay on the platform, but I refused to do it. Despite the amount of money, we were bringing in, I chose the truth. I wasn’t going to sell my soul just to appease the Big Tech overlords.

I had to put my faith in God and know, that if I did what was RIGHT, rather than what was EASY, everything would be okay. So, I ran my channel into the ground, squeezing every last drop that I could in terms of exposure. I believe my very last video was an interview with Audit the Vote PA where we exposed the stolen election in PA.

A respectable way to go out, if you ask me.

When YouTube finally did ban my channel, my wife was 6 months pregnant and our family took a crushing financial blow, losing a very respectable income at the absolute worst time imaginable. We lost a LOT of money. And please understand that I don’t say this to brag. I say this to help you understand the decision that I made, and the luxury that these lefties are afforded by being allowed on these mainstream platforms.

There’s a reason everyone on Rumble is doing ad reads and begging for your monthly subscription, whereas YouTubers just make videos.

Let me put this into perspective for you. Below is an archived image of my channel analytics towards the end. You can see that in the 30 days before this image was taken, my channel received 3.8 million views. You can also see that this was below average for my channel...

I believe that I had received a weeklong suspension that month.

Now, YouTube pays roughly $2-$5 for every 1000 views in Ad Revenue, so do the math… It’s a lot.

And that’s just Ad Revenue. How much do you think an advertiser would be willing to pay someone to read a script on a video that receives 100,000 views? A lot. And what about the ability to drive traffic to a paywall at $5 a month? If you have 4 million viewers in a month, and .001% sign up to your paywall, that’s $20,000 a month. How about affiliate deals where you make a commission? Merch? Donations to a PayPal/Venmo/Cash App? All of these revenue streams combined one could easily bring home a nice living.

Now, let’s take a look at the last 30 days on Rumble and compare the two.

34,008 views in one month versus 3.8 million on a bad month on YouTube.

So, I just want you to understand. All of these people who gave up their channels also gave up 6 figure incomes just to get a story out there. Why? Because they felt the truth was more important than money. Are they grifters for asking for a $5 contribution? I personally don’t think so, and I hope you don’t either. So long as we think that way, we will lose.

The left not only has better funding, but they also have 100x the reach. We have to support each other to win. Ultimately, if I have to walk away, another one bites the dust… The communists win.

I refuse to allow that to happen, and I hope you won’t either.

So, to bring this baby to a close (finally), I’ll admit that there are times when I have deeply regretted my decision to get banned and be relegated to an echo chamber shaking a tin can. However, I remind myself that God put it on my heart to do what I did, and that means that there is no way that it was the wrong decision.

Now, God is calling on me to stay in the fight and has put it on my heart to put all of this out there to you and see what happens. If you choose to support me, it is my commitment to you that in exchange, I will keep putting a spotlight on the grassroots, keep exposing the deep state, keep issuing calls to action, and keep doing my best to make a difference.

Let’s get to 300 baby!

If you can’t contribute anything financially, a SHARE will do just as well!

Thank you all for sticking by this little old ginger through thick and thin. Put me in coach! I won’t let you down!