WAR AGAINST US: We're Hitting the Road to Tell Your Stories
As Trump wastes a billion dollars a day waging illegal Iran War, we're looking to speak to working class Americans on your daily battle to stay afloat amid our new Gilded Age. PLEASE READ FULL EMAIL!
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On the road again…
While the Trump regime wages an illegal war of choice in the Middle East that’s costing lives—and thus far $18 billion dollars—we’re preparing to hit the road to focus on the war right here at home…
AGAINST US.
In the coming days, we’ll be going on a reporting road trip, starting in the Midwest states, focusing on the economic pain and anxiety everyday working-class Americans are suffering through as prices—gas, groceries, healthcare, childcare, electric bills, utility costs, rent, mortgage, crushing student loan debt—soar.
But to do this important ON-THE-GROUND reporting, we need YOU! We seek to interviews folks, living in the Midwest, about your personal stories of suffering in an economy where the rich are getting richer—but you’re just trying to stay afloat amidst the economic wreckage.
We’re looking to interview folks who are:
Drowning under high prices for gas, groceries, healthcare, childcare, rent, mortgages, student loan debt, utility and electric bill increases, and more.
Facing eviction and/or homelessness (or may default on their mortgage).
Choosing between paying for groceries or medicine (or other tough choices).
Facing being laid off from your job, or have recently been laid off, due to our worsening economy and/or companies laying off workers in favor of using AI.
Young adults forced to still live with your parents because you can’t afford to rent an apartment or buy a home.
Recent college graduates who can’t find work as AI wipes out entry level jobs.
Couples who fear they’ll never be able to buy a home.
Couples who’ve decided, or are hesitant, to have children due to the economy.
Seniors barely able to live off the crumbs they’re receiving from Social Security and our other inadequate social safety net programs.
Low-income Americans who’ve had their Medicaid, SNAP, or other welfare benefits cut.
Union workers being crushed under unsafe and unjust working conditions as their companies continue to union-bust and offer inadequate pay and benefits.
Whatever else we didn’t list here but fits under our new American Gilded Age.
We’re starting in the Midwest, and plan to drive through several states, so if you live in the Midwest, have a story, and want to be interviewed, PLEASE EMAIL US at info@statuscoup.com details of your story and the city/town you live in.
And let’s keep it real: our current economic hunger games didn’t magically begin when Donald Trump glided down that escalator in 2015—or when he returned to the White House in 2025.
Although his policies have made life much worse for everyday working class people, including those MAGA supporters he fooled into thinking he was some populist champion of worker bees, our current economic hellscape is the result of BIPARTISAN neoliberalism that has allowed the majority of U.S. wealth—created by the working class—to be stolen and hoarded by plutocrats and the top 1 percent (actually, the top 0.01%).
This is why, unlike mainstream media and most independent media, we feel it is crucially important to be ON-THE-GROUND WITH THE PEOPLE to tell your stories…
Not in the deceptively edited 10-second soundbites you routinely see on local or national news—but through in-depth and authentic interviews on the road across the country.
We’re calling this trip The War Against Us. We’re no strangers to these kinds of reporting trips. Longtime viewers will remember similar trips we’ve taken during the early parts of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and during the worst of inflation in 2022 (watch highlights below).
Jon Farina and I will be hitting the road soon, so do not wait. Email us at info@statuscoup.com and tell us your story. We’ll see you out there!
Thank you Status Coup for all of your coverage. We need to hear from the people who are as suffering.
Thank you for your immeasurable service to the Collective We. We truly care about you, what you hope to achieve, and all that you document for the world to see. You are OUR eyes and ears!!!