About Status Coup News Substack
Status Coup is the leading independent news outlet reporting ON-THE-GROUND across America covering the important stories corporate media ignores and COVERS UP. As we report on-the-ground, we interview and elevate the voices of the working people that are typically ignored and buried by the mainstream media—with the goal of giving the microphone back to the people. We’ve become known for and relied upon for our on-scene coverage of worker strikes and union organizing, protests and political movements, environmental disasters and growing list of U.S. cities becoming corporate sacrifice zones, worker exploitation, poverty and homelessness, the predatory for-profit health insurance industry, rising authoritarianism and extremism, and more.
As we report ON-THE-GROUND, Status Coup is very often the only news outlet there covering the critical stories kept hidden from the masses.
Status Coup Covers What the Corporate Media COVERS UP
Here are just some of the critical stories Status Coup has led the way covering ON-THE-GROUND across America:
2020 presidential campaign, 2022 midterms, 2024 presidential campaign, 2025 Bernie Sanders “Fight Oligarchy” tour
Over 100 pro-Palestine ceasefire protests/student protest encampments in NYC, D.C., Chicago, Los Angeles
COVID pandemic reporting trip through Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan focusing on economic struggle, evictions, etc.
Inflation reporting trip through Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia focusing on rising layoffs, poverty, etc
UAW worker strikes, John Deere strikes, Amazon worker strikes, Starbucks worker strikes, nurses strikes
Amazon Labor Union organizing campaign and victory (10 reporting trips to Staten Island warehouse)
Starbucks Workers United union organizing campaign and victory (reported on-the-ground in Buffalo)
The ongoing Flint water crisis and cover-up (over a dozen reporting trips to Flint, produced a full-length documentary)
The East Palestine train derailment/chemical detonation (eight reporting trips to East Palestine)
The Kalamazoo, Michigan chemical gas/paper mill crisis
“Coal Country” West Virginia water crisis
Central California lithium battery fire and chemical contamination of nearby farms
To get a better idea of who we are and our ON-THE-GROUND reporting, watch our video montage above.
“Most people are not lacking compassion—most people have no f*cking idea what the hell is going on all around them” -Status Coup reporter Jordan Chariton
Through our ON-THE-GROUND and investigative reporting, we have broken many stories on corporate and governmental corruption, environmental disasters and communities being poisoned, the deadly results of for-profit healthcare, rampant poverty and rising homelessness, and more.
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