An Update for All Subscribers <3

Independent investigative reporter is making a difference

***Please take out a membership to support the light of truth.***

I sent Bette’s Founding Members a progress report, and I wanted to share some of the highlights with all subscribers.

Independent investigative reporting matters. Authoritarians attack the press on their way to power for a reason, and those of us who opted to do this work independently have the ability to speak truth to power in a way that corporate-controlled journalists simply can’t — that’s why they’re always playing catch up to work that my teams have been doing for years.

Despite being behind enemy lines on X/Twitter, I am still going viral with my reporting, as are my colleagues.

This matters because we are countering well-funded “black swan” narratives by traitors to democratic values, who are aligned with Putin and other foreign autocrats.

They have all the money in the world to execute their nefarious plans, but as my most recent report revealed, they’re weird, and weird is cover for corruption.

It’s amusing and pitiful that mainstream news is just now publishing reports on how JD Vance and Peter Thiel own a pro-Putin propaganda platform (Rumble) — a fact RadPod has reported for three years.

As I told our Founding Members this morning, we are making it less comfortable to be a stenographer for fascism.

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Quick Progress Report

Bette Dangerous is read in 80 countries, 50 states, has a 75 percent annual membership retention rate and the top four overlapping communities are Letters from An American by Heather Cox Richardson, Lucid by Ruth Ben-Ghiat, The Good In Us by Mary L. Trump, and Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance. Truly, excellent company.

Although I made the decision to remove the paywall on a year’s worth of investigations, your memberships support my work and also gain you access to community events.

Thank you to each of you who support my work. We have a challenging few months ahead, but we’ll get through it. 💜

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Bette Dangerous is a reader-funded magazine. Thank you to all monthly, annual, and founding members. Thank you to everyone helping subsidize my excellent summer “workation” by doing the following:

• Upgrade to Paid Member

• Upgrade to Founding Member

• Gifting memberships

• Share my reporting with allies

• Buying my ebooks — here’s a promo code: Birthday-Special

• Donating to the ko-fi fund or directly to venmo

A private link to an annual membership discount for older adults, those on fixed incomes or drawing disability, as well as activists and members of the media is available upon request at bettedangerous/gmail. 🥹

More info about Bette Dangerous - This magazine is written by Heidi Siegmund Cuda, an Emmy-award winning investigative reporter/producer, 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.

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Begin each day with a grateful heart.

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In good company…