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Just a quick note of thanks to my subscribers, monthly and annual members and my founding members - you give me hope that we will see our way out of trouble times.
When I launched Bette Dangerous, I was sitting in my campaign office, days before an election where my candidate and our team had fought a brutal race, seeing it through to the finish and seeing her win.
As her campaign manager, I had spent the year keeping everything and everyone together - least of all myself.
I launched Bette Dangerous because I needed to write. The media was not only failing us but new media had been spawned - discreetly funded and in the business of distracting from the truth. Social media platforms were being weaponized to mislead and radicalize people to wrong-headed ends. If I continued to City Hall, I would have to be a silent observer about our fascist times. One of you reminded me that I would be in terrible anguish.
I am grateful every day for the freedom and liberty we still possess to speak truth to power.
But we are not out of the woods. Today, General Mike Flynn sent a threatening letter to my podcast partner, Jim Stewartson. The same General Flynn, whose brother Joe is targeting me with an ongoing harassment campaign - a form of economic terrorism, because I have had to shut off likes and comments so my community is not assaulted with ugly, vicious images and words.
As you know, I write about dissidents, and truth-tellers in fascist places, the importance of their words, and their integrity.
I will continue to write. I will continue to speak truth to power.
And from the bottom of my heart, I thank you for your support. I do this work while we are still able to write and think for ourselves. If you are not yet a paid member, today would be a good day to upgrade.
I pray our DOJ hastens the hounds of justice against the traitors of our times.
In the meantime, you’ll find me here, speaking truth to power, an unflinching bearer of truth in a time of grave deception.
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Bette Dangerous is a reader-funded magazine. Thank you to all monthly, annual, and founding members. Thank you as well to all those who support my work with your generous coffee tips and who buy my ebooks. A private link to group activist discounts available upon request by emailing bettedangerous@gmail.com.
More info about Bette Dangerous - This magazine is written by Heidi Siegmund Cuda, an Emmy-award winning investigative reporter, author, and veteran music and nightlife columnist. She is the cohost of RADICALIZED Truth Survives, an investigative show about disinformation and is part of the Byline Media team. Thank you for your support of independent investigative journalism.
Save the date! The next Bette Dangerous ‘Speakeasy’ Zoom for paid members is Sunday, May 7, 4 pm PT, featuring ‘Canaries in the Net’ podcast team Alex Alvarova and Josef Holy, who can offer insights into disinformation campaigns targeting the Czech Republic and Eastern Europe, the overlap in America and the West, and how we inoculate ourselves against disinformation. Paid members will also receive invites to our new weekly Bette’s Happy Hour, a wellness checkin. The next Happy Hour is this Tuesday, 5 pm PT.
We have a membership gifting program so if you’re bucks up and wish to adopt a member, you can learn more about that here. My generous benefactors have awarded eight gift memberships in the past week. If you would like to be added to the next gifting lottery, please reach out to the email address above. Thank you all, truly.
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(Jim received this letter this morning, filled with multiple erroneous assertions from a law firm that represents Donald Trump, Mike Flynn, and Libyan warlords)
(Reporters who never backed down)
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“I say a silent prayer of thanksgiving as I walk upon the earth.”-Audrey Peterman.
“May the viral hope for truth and humanity wash away the chaos of these years.”-S.C., Bette community member
“Something Sacred never dies in almost all of us, who can hear the invitation of Truth…”-words written by a member of Bette’s community
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