MeidasTouch
American progressive online media network
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| March 2025 | Media Matters identified MeidasTouch as the 4th most popular progressive online show across streaming and social media platforms, with 6.4 million total viewers. |
| February 2025 | Podscribe ranked The MeidasTouch Podcast as the top podcast for monthly downloads and plays from January 1 – February 12, surpassing The Joe Rogan Experience. |
| February 12 2025 | The MeidasTouch Podcast saw a 141% increase in downloads and plays between February 12 – March 12, maintaining its top podcast ranking for February. |
| July 22 2024 | MeidasTouch editor-in-chief Ron Filipkowski posted a viral clip of JD Vance's 2021 Fox News interview with controversial remarks about 'childless cat ladies', which sparked widespread social media outrage and responses from celebrities like Jennifer Aniston and Taylor Swift. |
| July 21 2023 | MeidasTouch filed official paperwork to rename the organization to Democracy Defense Action. Later in the same year, the MeidasTouch name was repurposed for a news network called MeidasTouch Network. |
| February 2022 | MeidasTouch affiliate PatriotTakes published a compilation video of Joe Rogan using a racial slur, which led to controversy and allegations of a defamation attempt by the organization. |
| April 2021 | Rolling Stone magazine critiqued MeidasTouch's campaign fundraising, describing it as 'nonsensical' and more effective at raising money than helping Democrats win elections. |
| 2020 | MeidasTouch launched a targeted campaign against Republican candidates Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in the Georgia Senate elections, creating satirical attack ads, billboards, and direct mailings. |
| 2020 | The SuperPAC aired the 'The Grinches of Georgia' advertisement, which used humor and a nursery rhyme narrative to critique Loeffler and Perdue's stock sales during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic. |
| November 27 2020 | MeidasTouch claimed credit for making #DiaperDon the top trending topic on Twitter, mocking a Trump press briefing and provoking Trump to call for abolishing Section 230. |
| July 14 2020 | MeidasTouch released '#ByeDonJr' video, using Donald Trump Jr.'s comments about Biden against him and criticizing Trump's pandemic handling. |
| July 8 2020 | MeidasTouch released 'Creepy Trump' video, compiling Kellyanne Conway's comments about Joe Biden and Trump's statements about women, which was played on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC. |
| June 23 2020 | MeidasTouch released 'Trump Kills US' video, focusing on Trump's comment about slowing down COVID-19 testing, which they characterized as 'Mass murder on a national scale'. |
| June 17 2020 | MeidasTouch released 'Gop Cowards' video, accusing Republican senators of cowardice and urging followers to vote out 11 Republican legislators. |
| June 6 2020 | MeidasTouch released 'Bye Ivanka' video, critiquing Ivanka Trump's commencement speech and her relationship with China, highlighting that her Wichita State University Tech speech was canceled due to student and teacher pressure. |
| April 22 2020 | MeidasTouch released their first video 'Are You Better Off?', criticizing Trump's COVID-19 pandemic response, shared on Twitter and retweeted by George Conway. |
| March 2020 | Three brothers from Long Island founded MeidasTouch during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine. The founding members include Ben Meiselas (an attorney who represented Colin Kaepernick), Brett Meiselas (an Emmy-winning video editor from The Ellen DeGeneres Show), and Jordan Meiselas (a marketing supervisor from Brooklyn). |
| March 2020 | MeidasTouch was formed as a liberal political action committee with the primary goal of preventing Donald Trump's reelection in the 2020 United States presidential election. |
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