Local Revolutionary Truth

Tell the truth. It can be revolutionary.

Think of the times in history that publishing the written word led to profound change in the world. Luther's 95 theses. The Gutenberg bible. The American and French revolutions. Pravda's profound role in the Russian revolution. The recent role of X in changing our political landscape.

All of these show the tremendous lift that can happen with an alternative news source. Despite the historical success shown by these and many other examples, conservatives seldom establish a means for telling the truth beyond social media.

Is it hard to begin an alternative news source? Not at all. It's a website, and WordPress got its start as exactly that: content-oriented websites.

In the early 2000's, blogs emerged as a disruptive challenge to mainstream media. Articles like this were common:

Many of the righty and non-partisan bloggers have been hammering away at mainstream news coverage (as opposed to commentators, which irk the left) for being excessively anti-war, anti-Bush and pro-Kerry. They have also shown the mainstream news media to simply be lazy and sloppy. Some of the revelations have been quite disturbing. Newspapers, for example, could often persist in doing poor work because as monopolists they had no competition.

Facebook simplified and unified what blogs were doing by making it available for anyone to post words or pictures in a real time stream in a single website. It gave everyone the ability to like, share, and comment and be notified of interaction by others. Independent blogs were pretty much replaced by Facebook. This continued for better than a decade until the government discovered that they could shut down disruptive voices by pushing Facebook and Twitter to censor.

So the people scattered. Many left social media. But everyone still uses the web and can still get to a website if they know of it.

As local news is dying, it leaves a vacuum that can be filled by us. People want the truth.

This Rubik's Cube is something I twist on every day. How do we help inform people? The establishment of a local conservative news outlet has always led to a wave of good people getting into office.

As I say in my seminars, in any county, if the truth is spoken to those we know, as that truth gets passed around and shared, we are only two or at most three conversations from informing everyone in the county.

So how to facilitate the sharing of local revolutionary truth... that's the puzzle to be solved.

1 Comment

Randy Reeves (Mar 11, 2025 8:09 AM):

Consistency of message, that's the cure.
We all remember the era of "flip flopping" on issues. The media was set on catching any politician wavering from any nuisance of word choice that granted them the "gotcha" moment.
I'm all in favor of catching lies or half truths but having a conversation is far more productive than keeping score. Headlines are not news stories. They are teasers of facts. Facts, when discussed properly, are the bedrock of truth telling.