Saying It Out Loud

The information we’re swimming in—the stories we hear about ourselves, our country, our future—isn’t just noise.

It’s power.

And right now, it’s up for grabs.

Here’s why we’re doing all this. The part that keeps us up at night: fact-based information isn’t just a civic nice-to-have. It’s the foundation. It shapes how we vote, how we invest, how we related to one another. When that foundation cracks—or worse, gets manipulated at scale—nothing works. Not democracy. Not markets. Not community.

Every once in a while, we have to pause. Not because we’re exhausted—though let’s be real, we are—but to remember why this matters. Why we started.

We asked Kevin Newman—who’s been in more newsrooms than most of us have had hot breakfasts—to help us zoom out.

We’re in a delicate moment when it comes to information and facts.

Here’s the uncomfortable truth: many of the stories we believe about this country aren’t even being written here. They’re filtered through someone else’s lens. Shaped by algorithms. Flattened to fit a narrative that isn’t ours.

And the people guiding those conversations?

So yeah—big questions.
Who gets to define us?
Who’s telling our story?
And what are we all going to do about it?