Witness. Document. Amplify: A Network for This Moment
No Filter. No Borders. No Silence.
I’ve been quietly building something. I think this particular moment demands it.
What is happening in the United States right now is not only an American problem. It is the most visible current stage of something larger. And the people who can still see it clearly need to find each other across borders.
Over the past several months, I’ve watched creators and journalists doing some of the most honest work on this moment, and they’re scattered. A Canadian creator documents the economic fallout of the boycott with more clarity than most outlets on either side of the border. A French journalist with 14 million followers reports on what his audience sees when they look at what’s unfolding. An Australian satirist makes government accountability look like common sense. A West Virginia community organization quietly builds what institutions have stopped providing.
These people are doing versions of the same work. They just don’t know it yet.
That’s the gap we should be trying to close.
What Is This?
Witness. Document. Amplify. is an open, international network of creators, journalists, commentators, legal observers, satirists, and ordinary people. It’s built around a simple premise: this will not be solved by any single country’s voices alone.
Here’s what I’ve come to believe about how we got here. Democratic institutions don’t collapse overnight. They are purchased, slowly, by people with enough money to buy legislators, regulators, and media outlets until those institutions stop functioning as checks on anything. That process has played out before, in other countries. And it arrived in the United States without being named, in part because the media that might have named it was being bought at the same time.
The same class of people who benefit from this process don’t stop at one border. A foothold in the most powerful country in the world is not an endpoint. It’s a launch point.
That’s why outside perspectives matter here. Voices from other countries can say things that those inside the fog sometimes can’t. They aren’t navigating the same pressures or subject to the same constraints. And they reach audiences that no domestic voice ever will.
The network has four priorities right now:
Boycott. Economic pressure is already working. Make it visible. Expand it.
Document and dialog. Connect voices on the ground with platforms willing to amplify them, across borders and in both directions. Build a record that is harder to suppress than any single institution.
Unfiltered perspective. Say clearly what is happening and what it looks like from where you stand. Without softening, without diplomatic hedging. That kind of honesty cuts through in ways that insider commentary often can’t.
Show life elsewhere. A slower burn, but important. What do functioning democracies actually feel like from the inside? Not as gloating. As evidence.
This Is Already Happening
I want to be clear about something: I’m not leading this. Nobody is. This network exists because a groundswell is already underway, and what it needs is connection, not direction.
No government is coming to fix this. But witnesses can document it. Communities can connect. And the record, honestly kept, is harder to disappear than any single institution.
As institutions have failed or been weaponized, communities have been quietly building alternatives. Organizations like Reimagine Appalachia and Coalfield Development are weaving networks of mutual aid and local resilience, sharing resources and skills across county lines without waiting for permission from above. That instinct, hyper-local and practical, is exactly the one this network is trying to extend across borders.
Hyper-local and international are not opposites. A community witnessing its own reality clearly and honestly, then connecting that witness to others doing the same thing elsewhere: that is how groundswells work.
The Creator List
As a starting point, I’ve put together a curated list of creators across the US, Canada, Australia, and Europe who are already doing versions of this work. It’s not a closed list. It’s a living document, and it will grow.
The criteria are straightforward: accuracy over outrage, willingness to collaborate across borders, and an understanding that this is larger than any single country’s politics. These are people worth knowing about and worth amplifying.
Collaboration is the point. A creator in one country telling a hyper-local story often doesn’t know that the same story is playing out somewhere else, told by someone they’ve never heard of. That connection is where something larger starts. Help me find more people who are doing this work and who are open to doing it together.
You can find the full list in the GitHub repository.
How You Can Help
If you’re a creator: Look through the list. Reach out to someone doing complementary work in another country. Start a conversation. You don’t need anyone’s permission.
If you’re a regular person: Think about the creators you already follow who are doing this kind of work. Share this project with them. Ask them to connect with someone on the list. One introduction can start something real.
If you know someone who belongs on the list: Nominate them. I’m actively looking for voices doing this work honestly and openly.
A Note on What This Is Not
This is not a campaign. It’s not a brand. It’s not designed to generate clicks or feed engagement metrics. It’s open source, licensed CC0, which means you can fork it, translate it, adapt it, and share it without asking anyone.
No country is coming to rescue the United States. That’s not how this works. What international solidarity can do is bear witness, provide perspective, and remind the people living through this that they are not alone.
The rest is up to the people on the ground.
The full project, including the creator list and participation guide, lives on GitHub. If you know a creator who belongs on the list, nominate them here.
