Creators Network
Witness. Document. Amplify.
This is a curated starting point, not a closed list. These are creators already doing versions of this work who we believe should know about each other.
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United States
Brian Tyler Cohen
Platforms: YouTube · Instagram · Bluesky
Podcast: No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen
MSNBC contributor with 5M+ YouTube subscribers and an established interview format featuring top political and legal figures. Co-hosts Democracy Watch with Marc Elias. Already operating collaborative, legally-focused political content at scale.
Marc Elias / Democracy Docket
Platforms: democracydocket.com · Bluesky · Instagram · TikTok
Podcast: Defending Democracy with Marc Elias
The premier US legal voice on voting rights and constitutional crises. Already co-produces Democracy Watch with Brian Tyler Cohen. An international collaboration with Democracy Docket would carry significant legal and journalistic weight.
CoachD_Speaks
Platforms: Instagram · YouTube · TikTok
MeidasTouch contributor with a professional background in facilitating honest dialogue on contentious political topics. Smaller independent reach (~52K Instagram followers) but active across platforms.
Tennessee Brando
Platforms: YouTube · Instagram · TikTok · Spotify
Contact: Patreon
MeidasTouch contributor and self-described “Appalachian Progressive” who speaks directly to working-class Americans about authoritarianism and resistance. His musical background opens creative formats beyond straight commentary.
Trae Crowder (Liberal Redneck)
Platforms: YouTube · Instagram · Facebook
Contact: traecrowder.com
Comedian and WellRED Comedy Tour founder who makes heavy political content accessible through humor. Particularly effective at explaining Southern and rural American politics to outside audiences — a perspective that is often missing from international coverage.
Cody Johnston (Some More News)
Platforms: YouTube (~1M subscribers) · Patreon · Podcast · Instagram
Podcast: Some More News
Satirist who specializes in dissecting lazy and dishonest media narratives. His format — rigorous research delivered with dry humor — is well suited to analyzing how American media covers its own political crisis.
Aaron Parnas
Platforms: TikTok · Instagram · Substack
Contact: agparnasbusiness@gmail.com
4.5M+ TikTok followers with documented cross-border influence — his content ranked among the most-viewed by any creator during the 2025 Canadian federal election. Reaches Gen Z audiences in formats they actually consume. Note: In 2025 it was reported he received funding from the Chorus Creator Incubator Program, a liberal nonprofit, without initially disclosing it to his audience. He has disputed the characterization. Worth discussing directly before formalizing collaboration.
V Spehar (Under the Desk News)
Platforms: TikTok · Instagram
3.5M+ TikTok followers. Pioneer of accessible political news delivery — named to TIME’s 2025 list of top creators. Specializes in making complex issues digestible without despair. That tone translates well to international audiences trying to understand what is happening in America without being overwhelmed by it.
Canada
Guard The Leaf 🍁
Platforms: YouTube (63K+ subscribers, Sept 2025, growing rapidly) · Bluesky · Reddit · Substack
Contact: Via YouTube channel (email for collabs, per bio)
Anonymous Canadian creator covering Canada-U.S. tensions — sovereignty, the boycott, tourism, trade — from a grassroots perspective. Launched in late April 2025 and grew to 63,000+ subscribers within months. Explicitly open to interviews and collabs (stated in channel bio). Creator remains anonymous for personal safety reasons. Independently operated with no disclosed institutional funding.
Australia
Konrad Benjamin (Punter’s Politics)
Platforms: YouTube · TikTok
Former high school teacher whose satirical political videos have accumulated over 5 million views in a single year. Specifically targets working-class and millennial audiences — a demographic that is critical to reach in any country.
Michael West (Michael West Media)
Platforms: X · michaelwest.com.au
Investigative journalist specializing in corporate tax avoidance and government accountability. His skills translate directly to analyzing the corporate-political entanglement driving events in the US and globally.
The Juice Media
Platforms: YouTube (1M+ subscribers) · Instagram
Contact: thejuicemedia.com
Creators of the Honest Government Ads series — satirical takedowns of government policy that have reached global audiences and been censored by governments in India, Indonesia, and Tasmania. Their format is immediately adaptable to US-Australia collaborative content.
France / Europe
Hugo Travers (Hugo Décrypte)
Platforms: YouTube — Daily News (1.8M+ subscribers) · YouTube — Long Form (830K+ subscribers) · Instagram · TikTok
Contact: hugodecrypte.kessel.media
France’s leading explanatory news creator, with 14M+ followers across all platforms. Has interviewed Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelensky. Opened a Quebec office in September 2025, deepening his French-Canadian reach. His bilingual European perspective adds a continental voice that is currently underrepresented in English-language political discourse about the US.
🌱 Sustainability & Resilience
Parkrose Permaculture (Angela)
Platforms: YouTube · TikTok · Instagram · Bluesky
Contact: parkrosepermaculture.com · Patreon
Portland, OR-based permaculture farmer with 421K YouTube subscribers and 145M views. Her ethos — “Earth Care, People Care, Fair Share. Community over corporations. People over profit” — is explicitly political. Bridges the gap between sustainable living and systemic resistance in a format that reaches audiences well outside traditional political commentary.
Knitting Cult Lady (Daniella Mestyanek Young)
Platforms: TikTok · YouTube · Instagram · Bluesky
Contact: Patreon
Combat veteran, Harvard-trained organizational psychologist, and survivor of the Children of God cult. Author of Uncultured and The Culting of America. Analyzes authoritarian movements through the lens of cult psychology and coercive control, providing a uniquely credentialed framework for understanding how these movements recruit, retain, and radicalize members. Her analysis applies directly to what is happening in American politics right now.
Leah Penniman / Soul Fire Farm
Platforms: Instagram · Soul Fire Farm
Black Kreyol farmer, food justice activist, and co-founder of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton, NY. Her mission — ending racism in the food system and reclaiming ancestral connection to land — connects food sovereignty, racial equity, and resistance to corporate power in a single, coherent framework. Soros Racial Justice Fellow, Fulbright recipient, and James Beard Leadership Award honoree. Author of Farming While Black and Black Earth Wisdom. Brings an essential perspective on who bears the cost of systemic failure and who has always known how to survive it.
🏘️ Community Organizations & Resilience Networks
These are not individual creators but organizations whose model — hyper-local, community-rooted, and mutual aid-based — is the direct inspiration for this network’s approach. They demonstrate that the groundswell is already happening.
Reimagine Appalachia
Platforms: reimagineappalachia.org · X
A broad coalition across West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and Pennsylvania working to build an equitable, sustainable economy in Appalachia. Their model — connecting communities across state lines to share resources, advocating for workers, and building local resilience — is a direct template for what this network is attempting internationally.
Coalfield Development
Platforms: coalfield-development.org · Instagram
West Virginia-based organization rebuilding the post-coal economy through social enterprise, workforce training, and community ownership. One of the clearest examples of a community that did not wait for federal rescue. They built something lasting without it.
Know a resilience network or community organization doing similar work that belongs here? Nominate them.
Add Someone to This List
Know a creator doing important work who belongs here? We want to hear about them.
We are looking for creators who:
- Prioritize accuracy over outrage
- Are willing to collaborate across borders
- Understand that what is happening is larger than any single country’s politics
This list will be updated as the network grows. Last updated: February 2026.
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