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A painful read, leaving me with an enhanced sense of respect for you and a deeply felt gratitude for the courageous stance you’re taking on behalf of all of us. We believe in truth. Thank you Alex, very much.

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Well said. Thank you, Alex

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Robert sums it up here perfectly! We count on your words and are so grateful for the sacrifices you make to bring us truth……with a bit of snark😏 Thank you so very much Alex!

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Robert said it so well I will simply endorse his words. Thank you for your integrity, Alex!

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Have you read the John Wells series? He’s a gifted writer!

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Which would you recommend first?

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I respectfully disagree.

However noble CH's mission, they hung you, a loyal and dedicated supporter, out to dry to cater to the ideology of elite donors for your act of free expression that had nothing to do with the mission of feeding the poor.

I don't like disloyalty, especially pragmatic disloyalty (if not for inconvenient moments, what value does loyalty have?).

Fuck them.

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Agreed. I work for a charity, and our CEO would never be this disloyal to a board member.

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I wouldn't be so sure these days

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Sadly, you speak the truth, as I see it.

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NPOs are an important channel and path to political power- you can purchase influence and jumpstart political careers simply by becoming a favored donor.

There are plenty of non-altruistic reasons to be engaged with an NPO. It isn't immune to gathering psychopaths.

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Concur… these are great examples of biting the hand that feeds. It takes courage to stand up and point out issues that are against the grain. Thank you for continuing to do so, Mr. Berenson, despite all of the current flowing against you. It is appreciated and certainly a breath of fresh air from the Automatons mechanically saying the same talking points over and over

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I have a much bigger problem with PEN, given their stated mission of protecting free expression!

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But, people in positions of power authority influence and control, they very effectively fuck us!

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Love this!

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I lived and worked around philanthropic and nonprofit organizations for a time.

There is a lot of slime and a lot of cynicism and a lot of elites that know best how the lumpen should be directed to live their lives.

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With a 10 foot pole...

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Here here!

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I truly love the comments section. Almost as much as your emails!! Both keep me sane in this time of insanity. I’d like to share a little light in the darkness we find ourselves in. My wife is a nurse. She has begged me for years to sell our house in PA, quit my union job, pull our kids out of public school in favor of us homeschooling them and go see this beautiful country of ours. I was always been the stick in the mud in her dream. Then Covooties hit and I realized that life is for living. So in May I quit, we sold our house, I’m now a homeschooling father of our three children and we’re currently in AZ. We’re gonna bounce around to the free states and make the most of the situation. I hope everyone reading this can make the most of what we are experiencing and turn it into some positive because I’ve never been happier. Peace and love to you all.

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Well done!

Next step: consider getting yourself an RV and you'll see even more of the country. I left San Francisco in April of this year (just in time, too; I'm not vaccinated and they city is closed to me now) and I've been traveling in my RV towing my motorcycle. Should have done this years ago!

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We thought about an RV and it’s still an option. As much as Covid has disrupted peoples lives we decided to not let it disrupt ours. My kids have never worn a mask and have no idea that Covid exists. We refuse to have them be fearful of something they have nothing to be fearful of. Arizona over Pennsylvania everyday!! It’s beautiful here and we are closer as a family now they we ever were. I am so thankful for this time with my children.

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One of the best comments sections! Congrats on the changes.

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"We’re gonna bounce around to the free states"

Americans should be grateful that there remain some "free states". Aside from a few places like Norway and Romania, most of the people in the developed world have no free zones available to them. Countries like the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand are uniformly oppressive. There is nowhere to go.

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They need to stay put and fix their countries! I'm surprised not. To see more resistance and strikes like they used to do so well in Europe. I hope they get to it before the clock runs out.

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There are 27 states that are pushing back against Biden's non-sensical mandates, fortunately.

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Just don’t publicize your politics and then go to the bathroom in front of illegal aliens…

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My lips are sealed

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Love this and wanted to echo that all y'all in the comments section, and of course Alex, well, you all are the people that give me a shred of hope and optimism. It's weird and wonderful that my optimism comes mostly from "strangers". But then again you all are not really strangers at all.

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Great story! We bought a home in AZ last year as well. We still have one foot in tyrannical WA state but are very close to leaving for good. Getting off the plane at SkyHarbor is like getting out of jail!!

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I love this. Good for you!

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Texans will love you folks! Come check out the Hill Country!

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Texas is definitely a stop. Let freedom reign!!!!!!

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Alex, I'm not sure I have the words to adequately describe how much your writing means to me.

I could trot out all the usual fare that it is inspirational or makes me feel brave...which it is and it does. But it's more than that. As I have always wanted to be a writer and have had dozens and dozens of people practically beat me over the head to do so, it is kind of pathetic that I don't know how to describe what that post stirred up inside of me.

So all I will say is thank you for not only your incredible skill but for the person you are and for sharing so generously with us all your wisdom, humor and light.

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Beautifully said 💗

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Kim: Well said and thank you for saying it. Amen!

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Thank you Kim. You got to the heart of it.

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For so much of my time in school, I remember people asking questions like "why didn't regular German people refuse to go along with the Nazis?" It was so incomprehensible to most of the people I grew up with. But now we know. There is little doubt that the Nazis controlled culture in a similar way that we see now. If you didn't go along with every little thing they said then you would be removed from "respectable" society. Of course, eventually, that meant being marched off to the camps but at first, it just meant not being socially acceptable. Intolerance of dissenting viewpoints is a dangerous cultural weapon to wield. I am old enough to remember when people said "I disagree with what you are saying but I'll fight to the death to protect your right to say it." Now people just report to Twitter and get the dissenting person banned.

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I have thought about this a lot lately. It pains me to know I have friends and family members who would have likely been good Germans....

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It is our universities that have been infected with hate for those they disagree with. Our state university where I lived proudly displayed a huge board of all the speakers that had come to that school. Not one conservative and they were proud of that.

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I believe I read that one of the most damaging ideas that took hold in pre-war Germany was to do everything for the ‘common good’…an idea that originated in the universities and quickly spread into the school system. When it was later determined that Jewish presence was damaging the common good of the German nation, the rational for getting rid of them had already been planted in a generation of school children and grownups who simply went along with it for the good of the nation.

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I have been thinking about this lately as well. So many teachers drilled it into our heads not to be a bystander. I never thought what is happening now would be happening and that so many people wouldn’t just be bystanders but would actually be supportive of censorship and enslavement. Our circle is small compared to the masses but I’m so grateful for all of you, including Alex and anyone with a voice brave enough to speak the truth.

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Media may be manipulating how much support there really is for censoring. Most those supporting censoring are white progressive college students that just cannot debate any issue without emotion. They want everything to be free and safe. Our generations getting weaker with each passing year. I am not sure what finally makes them realize they will eventually be silenced themselves. We often ignore what we think will not touch us.

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Great points!

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BINGO.

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Do you know why? They had been disarmed… am I wrong here? Plus they also inherently believed they were superior and couldn’t face the evil….

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I'm pro-Second Amendment, but people are putting far too much faith in guns as a solution to everything. Germany wasn't disarmed in the 1930s -- the Volk mostly went along willingly with the Zeitgeist.

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My heart broke a little reading this.

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At least he can look his kids in the eyes in ten years and say he fought for their future.

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Same

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Alex - thank you for seeking the truth and being okay with the consequences. The truth about lockdowns/masks/covid risks, etc...have separated my wife and I from very long-supported charities as well and so I understand the disappointment you are experiencing. I commend you for not condemning them for their choices, even if they maybe short-sighted. I wanted to post this message but I had to become a subscriber to post, which is actually great. What better way to encourage you than to become a subscriber? If you are ever in the Seattle/Bellevue area of the Northwest you can invite yourself into our home. I'm a right-wing, homeschooling dad and religious fanatic who loves Jesus, but I would suspect there is more that connects us than separates Americans who believe in the liberty of ALL Americans, no matter how small or large percentage of the population we make up. Thanks for working tirelessly to report the news which is fit to print/send. Keep up the good fight, in the end, Truth wins!

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Yes, these are the kinds of communities we have to create to survive what's coming. I'm thinking of Rod Dreher's latest book "Live Not by Lies" in which he interviews those who lived under communism: how they survived and their warnings to the West. Last year I refused to live by fear and this year that continues but I've added that I will not live by lies either.

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Your comment reminded me of this quotation by Theodore Dalrymple:

"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control."

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Great quote. We are truly living in a post-truth culture as evidenced by how easy it is for so many to believe lies. What's the quote - "It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled" ? There are people who are "congenital liars," two people come to my mind right away! But I'm starting to believe they are less scary than those living in a delusional psychosis that they can't seem to be shaken out of no matter how much data you give them.

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I just read this quote in James Simpsons’ Who Was Karl Marx? (a must read, that or anything else that elucidates Marx and his progeny). Chilling. The Left is playing a different game altogether. I’ve long felt that conservatives are bringing knives to a gun fight. We believe in truth, honesty, fair play, integrity, character, and accountability. And we fight accordingly. The engines that are running the Left don’t subscribe to any of those things. I heard TC last night cry “shame” on someone for something or other. I laughed. The Left can’t be shamed because they have long since jettisoned the predicates to feeling shamed. Same with calling them liars: since they don’t believe in truth that’s like throwing darts at a steel door or, again, bringing a knife to a gun fight. From Who Is Karl Marx: “Instead of attacking the U.S. at its strength, i.e., with conventional arms, they attack us through our vulnerabilities: our freedom, our open society, our generous natures and willingness to ‘play fair.’”

Just learning about Marx, but so far it’s been a deeply unsettling paradigm shift in how I see what is happening. Then I remember the closing lines from Bob Dylan’s When He Returns (from the album Slow Train Coming):

Of every earthly plan

That be known to man

He is unconcerned

He’s got plans of His own

To set up His throne

When He returns

From somewhere in the Bible: “When you see these things happening, look up, for your redemption draweth nigh.”

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I am not familiar with him but this quote has me very intrigued! Is it from one of his books? Looking him up online - wow, looks like he has a lot of good material.

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Yes - Dreher's and also Schaeffer's book "No Little People" have both had great impacts on my responses as well.

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Thanks for the recommendation. I'm not familiar with that work of his. I'm a homeschooling veteran and Jesus freak as well. :-)

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This little substack is also an example of his previous book, “The Benedict Option” - ie. a community of like-minded people encouraging each other against the encroaching darkness.

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I continue to be impressed by the capacity of my Christian brothers and sisters to forgive those who trespass against them, as the saying goes.

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It’s enough to drive the strongest amongst us mad and to begin questioning ourselves. Continue to be a rock Alex, your time is now and we’re with you.

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This should be an Op Ed in the WSJ. Please consider submitting? So poignant and I hope Jilly reads it and feels ashamed. Thanks very much for sharing. ( and may PEN rot….)

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Brilliant essay. Thanks for sharing your story. It seems the tide is hopefully turning with the new Project Veritas videos that came out last night with the Pfizer scientist touting the value of natural immunity, one said they feel they work for an evil corporation, a new Pfizer whistle blower coming forward with emails tomorrow, massive demonstrations all over Europe, NZ finally realizing ZERO CHINESE VIRUS is impossible. We all look forward to your 3 hour discussion with Joe Rogan soon!

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NZ's Prime Minister "Comrade" Jacinda Ardern (a known globalist and socialist -- in 2009 she was the head of the International Union of Socialist Youth, and in 2014, she was inducted into the World Economic Forum's "Young Global Leaders") has no intention of giving up on destroying NZ's national sovereignty in order to hand over NZ to the globalist/psychopathic NWO ruling class. Her public health goons recently announced that NZ will have "Covid travel passes" by Christmas. (Covid vaccines don't stop transmission; ergo, vaccine passports won't stop transmission. But the trusting, bamboozled Kiwi hobbits, who will accept Comrade Jacinda's diktats spewed daily on NZ's bought-off mainstream media just as they have accepted them since day one of the plandemic rollout, don't seem to have two brain cells to rub together.)

Since when does a virus with a greater than 98% recovery rate and a case fatality rate of only .26 (CDC) justify such draconian measures? When the ruling class, run by psychopaths, wants to control every part of your life -- where you reside, where you can work, if you can work, where you can travel, if you can attend a wedding or a funeral, if you can visit your grandmother at her retirement village, eat in a restaurant, purchase food at a supermarket, how much electricity you can use per month, if you are still allowed to parent your own children, etc., etc.

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Do you have some links, cites for these bits?

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Here's the hidden camera video with Pfizer. Project Veritas also has recent videos on J&J, FDA, etc.

https://youtu.be/On5RYFbcxWY

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It's Project Veritas. Look it up. They have been doing whistleblower releases

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The constant in this story is a man standing by and for things he believes in. Know that millions stand by and for you. Thank you.

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Truth is treason in the Empire of Lies.

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in times of universal deceit...

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Alex, please do not stop. A close friend, and ER nurse in Denver, worked through the pandemic, selflessly and hailed as a “hero”. She called us the other night crying. She’s getting fired now because she’s not vaccinated. She risked it all last year, when no one knew anything about the virus, and people stayed home. She went to work every day and took care of sick people. Now we

are going to help support her if they shit can her. Last year “hero” and now we fire you.

Alex, please do not stop. When I feel like caving, it’s stories like this that wake me up to stand alone if necessary.

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Good story—by measures uplifting and chilling—thanks for sharing. As you know, you are on the right side of history here. When societies go mad, there are usually a few who try to sound the alarm. When the history on this one is written, they will say, “There were a few who tried to tell the truth, including . . . and Alex Berenson.” Keep up the great work.

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Amen to that!

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I know it must hurt, but there are so many of us out here who are thankful for your voice, thankful for your research, and proud of your bravery. We may not be as important as board members from PEN or City Harvest, but we are loyal to you no matter what.

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Alex, you may not consider yourself a conservative, but your fans (I am one) are attracted to your integrity and persistence in expressing the truth. Not the elites version of truth. There are few celebrities with integrity and values. Large categories like Republican and Democrat or conservative/liberal no longer work. Everyone is nuanced and everything has been rationalized to the point of outright lies. Just get the jab. Not because of the medicine, but because of the hassle. It's preposterous that we have arrived here. You remain a beacon of light in these dark days (as corny as that sounds).

Thank you!

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The meaningful axis is no longer liberal vs. conservative. It is authoritarian vs. freedom.

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