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Matt - I suspect that for each person who responded to your request there are at least five more who wish they had either the skills or the time to help you. The recognition of how much we are being propagandized by our government is growing wider by the day, and you're a large driver of that awareness. Please continue with your crucial work, on behalf of all of us who are paying attention.

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"Just wanted to thank the overwhelming number of people who responded to the call for freelance help yesterday."

You earned this response, brother. Lead on.

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Thank you for what you are doing. My father escaped from two communist countries. He used to say that if we lose our freedom in America, then what...?

I've spent my life since my 20s talking about Free Speech as the cornerstone on Freedom. The radicals obviously agree with me...or they wouldn't be working to destroy it.

I enjoy your podcasts with Walter Kirn. Could you talk about what each of us can do ...specifically ... to save America.

Thank you.

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We are all standing behind your stoutheart, Matt. Ever grateful for your courage, integrity, stamina, and humor! We are legion and we’ve got your back!

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We are so appreciative of your work, it's a morale boost to know you are digging in! Gratitude and Respect, supporting you as best we can. Thank you, Matt.

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I wish I had the qualifications to help but I will help the best way I can by subscribing to your Substack. Thank you for all your continuous hard work.

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Get 'em!

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"I love my country but fear my government." Folks used to say this during Nixon (Watergate) and Reagan (Iran-Contra) terms.

The Deep State (yes, it exists) is a thousand times more dangerous, and especially more so when a complicit political party holds power.

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Keep the pressure on until they can't ignore you...

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My father was a partisan with Tito's army during WW2. During an ambush on a German truck convoy he was shot trying to save an injured comrade. Some other partisans returned to save both him and the other partisan. They never left their fighters behind. Because of his courage he and the others were lauded as heroes and given the appropriate medals.

After the war it was a different story. He got a great job and everything was fine until he saw how corrupt and oppressive the Communist system was; party members and officials had become, as Milovan Djilas had said, "a new class." My father was never a member of the party but he was a democratic socialist and remained so until the end of his life. He wrote a manuscript that he wanted to publish about how wrong things were but someone reported him to the Yugoslav authorities and he had to run for his life.

Even being a decorated, Nazi fighting war hero didn't save my father from totalitarian oppression. For me personally my father's example is part of why I think the work you are doing is so incredibly important. Freedom of expression and speech are a huge part of what makes us human. It is more than worth fighting for, it is worth dying for.

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As a 70's teenager and over 65 year old now, I recognize the importance of free speech. I have always been a contrarian. I don't want to or have need to follow the crowd. If something didn't seem right to me I observed both sides and went with the one that supported my moral stance (which, admittedly, has been fluid in the past). One fact is true: without the complete picture, we are all being influenced by an untruth or partial truth. Thank you for putting yourself "on the line" so to speak, so the rest of us can benefit.

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Feb 12, 2023·edited Feb 12, 2023

Hey Matt, I was just sitting down to write a cover letter. I have 20 years of experience with DoS and DoD contracts and grants. I was fired from DoS for reporting the wrong doing by contractors. The DoS Inspector General found that I had suffered 'retaliation prohibited by law' I did get a 'settlement' but not my job back. I know this stuff-really well. I hope I am not to late to be considered.

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Get the message out man. Between the Twitter Files, the Gerth story, the Hersh story, and a million other things, you'd think that there'd be some admittance of guilt, or at least soul-searching among the media-DC-Hollywood-actual-disinformation blob, but it seems to be getting worse and not better.

The bizarre AOC rants during the Twitter hearings, where she continues to claim the Hunter Biden laptop is Russian/right wing disinformation, are something else: a total denial of basic reality. I don't know how sensible, non-partisan people can turn this mess around, but keep fighting the good fight.

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OK, throw in my hat ! I've been monitoring free speech since my days as East European bureau chief of The New York Times, as CBS News correspondent dividing my time between Paris and Moscow. Then as president of the Overseas Press Club of America, now as a CNN columnist and founder of SubStack's Andelman Unleashed ... so don't hesitate to call on me!

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The 'disinformation' propaganda is not only re political nonsense - but used to deceive people about the felonious actions of the domestic financial terrorism by Wall Street, hedge funds, pension plan management, private portfolio, etc., etc., protected still by the leaders and law enforcement who have yet to do a damned thing about the financial crisis they imposed on the American People in massive 30,000+ illegal taking of property - continues but not a peep about any of it because the financial elite continue to be aided and abetted; enabled by our 'leaders' - don't forget this part of the 'propaganda machine' which Matt so wonderfully exposed years ago- but has been ignored since. Thanks for your work Matt!!

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Matt, if you will continue to tell the truth as you see it, and without partisanship, I will continue to support you. There are a very few others whose voices I trust as I do yours. I'm glad Elon entrusted you with this important work.

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Adding a voice to the groundswell of gratitude for being a pro-free thought, speech and action oriented journalist and proponent.

And while you must already know this, as your contributions escalate, your personal information and safety will be at greater risk. Truth tellers historically become "dangerous enemies" and therefore good targets for evil adversaries and malicious behaviors.

Take good care young man! Your message is essential to those who preserve and protect our freedoms. Godspeed.

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Wonderful work. I too am grateful like many here. I haven't liked it for years beginning with the NSA stuff. Hopefully this does result in some substantive changes and who knows, Watergate level impact on our country. If only other reporters had been doing their jobs........

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Just as others who have responded here already, my mom and grandmother escaped Communists and Nazis both.

I owe it to their bravery and their fighting spirit to preserve the country that saved them from authoritarian Hell and allowed me to be born into freedom.

I know exactly what I am seeing in our country today. I know it from the family stories I was told, and I am so hopeful, now, that we can put a stop to this spreading authoritarianism.

America is a truly grand experiment of Enlightenment philosophies enacted. If the principles of freedom of thought and speech are not sacrosanct here, then they exist nowhere.

God bless you, Matt. If I cannot help, I can still pray.

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I would watch for saboteurs and moles.

Narrative control won’t go quietly

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So grateful for what you are doing. Who knew it would come to this? So weird and alarming! Just like science fiction, only real. Smart to seek help from your audience, because, yes, we are with you and we are legion. Matt, you are an essential weather vane because, besides your reporting itself, what they say about you is wonderfully revealing. I trust the likes of you and Walter Kirn and Bari Weiss. Thank God you guys are there!

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There are a lot of us who are horny for some truthful reporting. Thank you.

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Matt, thank YOU. This work will be groundbreaking. Can't wait for the book(s)!

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I want the whole truth, nothing but the truth!!!!!!

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Feb 12, 2023·edited Feb 12, 2023

"It seems a lot of people are feeling the same frustrations, and want to lend a hand." Actually, we are legion. And glued to your Substack and podcast like our fathers, during the dark years of the Revolution, were glued to the radio for the Voice of America broadcasts. I'm talking about Castro's Revolution. You do the math.

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Thanks a lot for your work

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I never would have believed I would come to distrust all MSM and social platforms, the government, and all agencies. Twitter, substacks carefully chosen, and alternative video sources are the only ones I use. We have been utterly BETRAYED by entities that must be exposed and criminally charged.

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Matt,

A huge thank you for all you do, but specifically this new project! When I saw your “help wanted” email I literally jumped out of my chair in joy. After the initial excitement passed, all I could think about was how groundbreaking you and your organization have become. A flexible, project focused and deeply experienced team can be equal to the corporate press in resources which should scare the crap out of those who do not have our best interests at heart! Few people get a chance to change the world. I hope you’re one of them!

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Bless you , there Is hope, the narrow MSM narrative represents a tiny fraction of the population

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This is the way!

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Matt--you're a brave man, leading the way in the most urgent political struggle of our time. You're also funny and smart, with a keen sense of the absurd (a true survival skill at the current historical moment.) I'm filled with admiration and gratitude. Keep writing!

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Keep up the good work!

R. C. Reynolds

screenwriter/filmmaker

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I sent this to my writer friends.

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We need to bring back democracy in the US, including into US now “state media” -- no mention of Twitter Files, US Nord Stream act of war against Germany, a total collapse of Russia-gate DNC/CIA hoax, etc.

Instead we have DNC/St. Obama war monger Samantha Powers right now “spreading democracy” (regime change) in -- Hungary

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Feb 12, 2023·edited Feb 12, 2023

Thank you for the twitter files.The vaccine effed up my health and it was good to hear rep Mace tell twitter executives that it affected her too and that twitter censoring scientists who tried to stop it caused real harm in the real world. Yet they claim calling a transvestite by the right gender is causing real harm which it is not. The left and the media are truly evil. I really hope this government either reforms or falls due to revolution or collapse.

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Keep it goin Matt!!

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Matt,

Contact me to bring your information to The Intelligence Briefing on The Salem Radio Network and to The National Security Hour on iHeart Radio.

Mary Fanning

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So grateful for your presence. For all the life affirming work you're so passionately engaged in. The ideas and data that help us make better choices...

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Looking back to the early 1950's, and knowing where America is today, perhaps Senator Joseph McCarthy should be revisited, and his inquiries studied in more depth. He, like Donald Trump now, was endlessly vilified by Marxist mouths who feared truth as the destructive #1 enemy to what they now call democracy.

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Beware plants and saboteurs, Matt.

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Don’t hire any fbi!

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True self-governance under our Constitution is the antithesis of centralized control as evident in the recent actions of our federal government. Thanks for your contribution to the free marketplace of ideas based upon truth. The Truth is like a lion. You don't need to defend it. Let it loose. It will defend itself. - Saint Augustine

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The light of truth, always shines through darkness. Unbiased is honest. People are dying from lies. Keep shining the light!

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Thank you Matt. Like others I’ll help by subscribing. We desperately need voices like yours that communicate the objective truth and follow the truth wherever it leads, no matter the side, the team, the party. Keep going. More will come.

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Freedom of speech means just that. Disinformation misinformation are words invented lately to shut people up. Journalists mostly today are part of an agenda that long ago has decoupled itself from the function of the fourth estate. Matt Bari Glenn and their colleagues are what remains of it.

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I wish I could help but I know my limitations!

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Amidst the lies and the snarkiness (my word) that try to overwhelm us, you and your colleagues are a lifeline to reality and decency. Thank you so much.

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OK, just tell us what you need Matt, to keep doing what you are doing. This is important work.

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I am an investigative reporter since 1975, and would love to assist you in any way. I love your work!

Betsy Combier

betsy@advocatz.com

Editor, Advocatz.com

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Keep up the great work.

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