Status Coup LED on the Front Lines of Fascism
In 2025, Status Coup served as the premier news outlet ON-THE-GROUND IN-THE-TRENCHES exposing Trump's violent federal invasion terrorizing immigrants and citizens across America. WE NEED YOU for 2026.
Hey folks, it’s Jordan.
You’re getting a gazillion holiday emails begging you for money, so I’ll be short and hopefully sweet.
Status Coup BARNSTORMED America in 2025, leading all news outlets—corporate and independent—in covering and exposing President Trump’s terror campaign carried out by masked ICE thugs and crazed border patrol charlatans. Our reporters, JT Cestkowski and Tina-Desiree Berg, along with videojournalist Jon Farina, have been tear gassed, struck by rubber bullets, threatened by ICE and local police—but remained fearless in-the-trenches in LA, NYC, Florida, Washington D.C., Chicago (for 2 months), Charlotte, and now Minneapolis. We’ve also broken important stories about ICE invasions in Portland and Memphis. In addition to exposing rampant lawless violence aimed toward innocent people, I am most proud of the hundreds of protesters and everyday people we gave voice to who are normally ignored by mainstream media.
WATCH BELOW our short recap/promo of our 2025 ON THE GROUND reporting.
Simply put: there is NO OTHER OUTLET IN AMERICA consistently doing this type of raw, authentic, aggressive, INDEPENDENT, ON-THE-GROUND reporting. I’m incredibly proud of our small, scrappy, passionate team—a team we expanded this year by adding:
Reporter JT Cestkowski
Producer Michelle Dao
Contributors Zeynab Day and Ron Placone
This ON-THE-GROUND reporting is critically important in this alarming moment of accelerating fascism springing from the White House, Congress, the MAGA sycophants propping up Trump’s lawlessness, and a corrupt and futile Democratic Party.
***It’s also INCREDIBLY EXPENSIVE to do this ON-THE-GROUND reporting without a corporate parent company, major corporate sponsors, and the rest of the usual corporate suspects***
In a media landscape littered WITH SUBSTANCE-LESS NOISE and BLOVIATING BULLSHITTERS on YouTube, TikTok, Cable News, and everywhere else—I am extremely proud of how much we’ve accomplished and how many important stories we’ve broken—and important voices we’ve given a microphone too—with FAR FEWER resources than corporate news outlets and major podcasts.
The more viewers that sign up to support us as paying members—for as low as 16 cents a day—the more we can report ON-THE-GROUND in 2026 to continue aggressively shining a bright spotlight on the alarming violence and fascism coming from the Trump administration.
Together, we can continue waking up the masses.
***NO OTHER NEWS OUTLET—MAINSTREAM OR INDEPENDENT—IS CONSISTENTLY DOING THIS LEVEL OF ON THE GROUND JUSTICE JOURNALISM. FULL TRANSPARENCY:while reporting ON THE GROUND in LA, NYC, Florida, D.C., Chicago (for 2 months), Charlotte, and Minneapolis, we have spent well over $40,000 flights, hotels, rent a car, gas, food, safety equipment, and more).
We are INDEPENDENT and need more funding to continue showing you the front lines of the battle against fascism in America. Please support our justice journalism as a paying Status Coup member for as low as $5 bucks a month.