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As Unreported Truths enters its third year, I hope to keep giving you news and analysis you do not see anywhere else - about more than Covid. And the occasional personal story too...

Two years ago, Unreported Truths roared to life.

Two factors drove its creation. First, by June 2021 I feared political pressure might force Twitter to censor me - as it did.

But the second reason was more positive. I wanted to cover Covid and the mRNAs more intensely than 280-character Twitter bursts allowed. The Unreported Truths booklets were great, but they didn’t allow for real-time reporting.

Substack offered a censorship-free platform where I could write at length. I decided to offer most articles free, figuring I could paywall some later if no one subscribed.

I threw up a logo - just the words Unreported Truths stretching off a white page - and got to writing. My first real post came out on June 15, 2021, on the death of Northwestern University student Simone Scott from apparent mRNA vaccine-caused myocarditis. I still think about Simone, and her mom Valerie, who lost her only child to the jabs.

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The first few articles set the tone: 500 to 2,000 words, illustrated with a few photos or graphs. Some were pure reporting, like the piece on Simone, but the majority included analysis too. Nothing fancy, no podcasts or video. No noodling with the homepage, just the standard Substack format.

It worked better than I could have hoped.

By September 2021, Unreported Truths had over 100,000 subscribers. The fastest launch in Substack history, with no advertising or marketing and no media coverage, aside from a few negative stories. Most of you didn’t pay, but enough did that I knew I was could support my family, a great relief.

Since then, readership has kept growing. It now stands at over 250,000 - again, still mostly unpaid. And you don’t just subscribe. You read and like and comment and email me with tips and attaboys and criticisms too. I try to read everything, even if I can’t always answer. I’d like to think we have built a community.

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I mention all this not to brag but for the opposite reason.

We are entering a third year - a third year in which those of you who signed up for annual subscriptions in summer 2021 must decide whether to reup, with more Substacks than ever competing for your time and money.

I think a lot about how I can make what I’m doing better for you, more valuable.

Last year, as Bari Weiss put her Free Press newsletter together, I considered doing the same - trying to make Unreported Truths into a broader independent voice. But I decided that I wasn’t a manager, I was a writer and reporter first, and that I should focus on finding stories other people weren’t.

Similarly, this spring, I stuck with Substack instead of switching to Locals because the Substack engine is built for writing and you made clear you preferred Unreported Truths stay. But I am still considering ways to use Locals’s strong streaming technology to offer extra material, like subscriber-only live chats from time to time.

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(If you missed it on Twitter… Happy Father’s Day, from my family to yours!)

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Mostly, though, I want to keep a mix of topics that will interest you - and me. Big newspapers can cover everything. I have to be selective. I don’t think I will ever be accused of not working hard, but still I only get three or four shots to write most weeks - fewer if I am working on something longer (which better be important).

How to use them?

Most of you signed up because of Covid and the mRNAs. The epidemic and the mandates are over now, but building a historical record about what happened and continuing to investigate mRNA failure is vital. I think it’s important to keep writing on important studies like the Korean myocarditis paper and the decisions that led to mandates.

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Probably no surprise given my ban, but I have grown to believe big tech and social media censorship are also crucially important. A handful of private companies - all of which lean hard left (except for Twitter under Elon Musk) - have extraordinary control of what people can see and hear and debate online. I feel almost uniquely positioned to investigate and comment on the issue.

I think the mainstream media has fallen down covering crime and drug legalization, too, but I simply have not had the time to write about it as much as I would like. (This is where hiring another reporter or two might be so valuable.) I do plan to try to do more; I am still interested in scheduling ride-alongs and reporting what cops have to say firsthand.

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And as for crime…

Top investigative reporters have never properly looked at the Hunter Biden scandal. As with the Covid jabs, a vitally important story has fallen prey to the media’s hatred of Donald Trump.

The problem is that the truth about Hunter is enmeshed in national security and intelligence agencies. Getting access to those places requires years of contact-building even for reporters who have the institutional power of a big paper behind them. Figuring out who inside (if anyone) can be trusted takes even longer.

I would have to move to DC even to begin the process. I don’t think doing so is the best use of my time… but hey, if you work at one of the three-letter agencies and want to talk, drop me a note on Protonmail and let’s have a cup of coffee.

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Some of you have suggested I pivot to climate change. In fact, probably the most frequent suggestion Unreported Truths readers have made recently is that I take a look at the modeling on climate. Scientists couldn’t even figure out how many people Sars-Cov-2 would kill a week after they made a projection, how can we trust them to tell us what the weather will look like in 50 years?

This argument intuitively makes sense to me, but many journalists have already raised questions about the accuracy of weather models. The debate is highly polarized and I am not sure I have much to add.

My views on the crisis in American health care and our addiction to drugs - prescription and illegal - are far more radical and (I hope) interesting. I think medicine has gone wildly off course, harming not just individual patients but our entire society. I don’t know if I will have time to explore those issues properly, they are complicated and tough to explain, but I want to try.

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(THE TRUTH IS WORTH IT)

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So that’s where Unreported Truths stands, two years in.

I hope it’s obvious I want to do more, and if the opportunity arises to hire a reporter or researcher or two so I can go deeper on more topics. Covid and the vaccines matter, but so much else does too.

If you’ve gotten this far, I have two asks for you.

First, tell me what you think, what I should do, what you think of the story priorities I’ve outlined, whether I should refresh the look of stories and the home page, how Unreported Truths can be even better. More than 10,000 of you voted on the possible move to Locals, and almost 1,000 commented. I would love to see a similarly vigorous discussion this time. I don’t promise I’ll obey, but I will listen.

Second, consider subscribing for a month, or a year - and if you have already subscribed annually, please reup when your subscription comes due! (Or even move up to become a founding member and get a free signed copy of PANDEMIA or any of my books.)

Unreported Truths has always had loose paywalls, thanks to the generosity of the paying readers who support the entire site. I want to keep it that way - I’d like to reach the largest audience possible.

With your support the truth can win.

Onward

Alex