>> We've been around 18 years, and we made it at least to adulthood for now.
And from time to time, we ask you guys for a little bit of help to stay in business,
honestly.
And so, there's a couple of things that we promise you guys in return.
One is to constantly put out the progressive message there.
I was talking to a reporter recently, and he was tracking how Bernie Sanders rose online.
He's like, yeah, how did it happen?
Well, honestly, we were a decent sized part of that.
And I had a fan come up to me recently and say, something weird about the algorithm back
in 2015 whenever I searched Bernie Sanders, only your videos would come up.
Rather that one was an algorithm.
We were the only ones doing videos about Bernie Sanders, let alone positive videos and I mean
the whole TYT network.
And the mainstream media obviously was not, so we've been putting out that progressive
message for 18 years now.
We've done it with your help through membership and every once in a while fundraising drives,
like we're about to do, okay, tyt.com/go.
So I'm gonna explain the details of that in a second.
But the second problem is we give you guys is to help progressives actually get wonderful
candidates.
As Ryan Grim reported in his book, we've got people, The Young Turks audience raised $2.5
million for Justice Democrats.
And no one thought it was possible and look at that, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida
Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, let alone the three incumbents role kinda.
Look, did we do that all by ourselves?
Of course not.
Did you even do that all by yourselves?
Of course not.
They ran amazing campaigns, there was other wonderful groups involved and of course the
candidates themselves, but you helped make that happen.
We asked you to deliver something, you helped us to do that progressive message plus progressive
candidates and the third part of it is change.
At the end of the day, what we're all trying to do is get the positive change and we don't
pass the bills, we haven't done it.
Now, one of the things I want to do is empower you guys to be able to be those change agents.
So we're working on that internally right now that will launch later this year.
But in order to make that happen, all these things keep the progressive message on air,
help progressive candidates and most importantly, empower you to make the change.
All that's coming this year but we need your help.
So, we're trying to raise $200,000 a month for the rest of the year to get to $2 million
tribe.
So if you say, well Jake, you do this every once in a while, it's true.
We do do it every three or four years, okay.
New York Times recently wrote a story about Prager University and they said, all this
laudatory things, my god, is so amazing, it spreads the conservative message on college
campuses, etc.
And in the middle, just one little quick paragraph might even been a sentence by the way, they're
funded by two right wing billionaires who give them $23 million a year for free.
It's not an investment.
We had an investment, investment's totally different, right?
That's used to run your business, grow your business.
This is here, every year, 20 to $25 million check for free.
You can do anything you want with it, you don't have to make money, you don't have to
do anything else.
They have no economic pressure at all.
We have infinite economic pressure.
So every once in while, we need you guys and this is one of those times.
So we're gonna try and do one step at a time here.
We are asking you to go to TYT.com/go, every once in a while we'll show some thermometer
so see how it's going.
I would like to raise 200 a month through the end of the year, so we can get 2 million,
so we can make things up.
Look guys, I wanna keep super real with you guys.
I don't know if you know this, but Francis Maxwell, Hasan Piker, Brooke Thomas, they're
some of our best host ever and they're not here.
Kent Lieberstein, we loved him, loved him as a reporter.
You guys helped us hire him.
Somebody out beat us for him.
They did a great job on him, I'm super glad they got him.
And he's doing great work at the nation, but we don't have enough money.
And so, it's not fake, it's super cold, hard reality.
And so, we're doing our best here to try to make things happen.
I hope you can participate with us so that we can do this all throughout the election
year.
Man, this is such an important election year.
It doesn't get any bigger than this.
We are calling it end game, right?
Because it is, it's either progresses win and we get everything.
Not everything, but you get a progressive president, hopefully get a House of Senate
that's progressive.
My god, we're in position to pass the bills and change people's lives.
A story I tell all the time now backed up by a study that came out from Yale University
professors at Lancet.
That published it saying, yes Medicare for all, in fact, save 68,000 lives a year.
Guys, 68,000 people, picture it, that's a stadium.
That's a stadium full of people.
And either they're gonna live or they're gonna die.
It's not exaggeration, it's not hyperbole.
If we don't pass bills and we don't get you change, people actually die.
They die in wars.
They die because they don't have healthcare.
They die because of climate change.
We're all on a rescue mission together and we absolutely, positively need your help.
And we don't do it every year and we don't ask you unless we need it, unless it's absolutely
real.
So, TYT.com/go, please, please make that possible for us in this super important election year.
>> I think we have a fun video to share with you guys.
>> Yes, that's right.
>> This will kinda give you a sense of who we are and what we stand for, and we're hoping
that you'll support us and keep us sustainable.
>> The Supreme Court has ruled that Donald Trump can use military funds to-
>> To acquit Donald Trump.
>> 2020 is endgame, everything.
>> If progressives win, we're done apologizing.
They should apologize to us for all that they have done to us 1000 times over.
Well sad day for you, it is that and in 2020, we're going to clean your clock.
>> A major poll indicates that both Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are now leading
in the Democratic primary.
>> Here comes Warren.
There goes Biden.
>> Over the past few days, not only has Bernie Sanders gotten a number of high profile endorsements
in some of the early states.
He's been doing very well in the early state polls as well.
>> There's all these establishment candidates that have gotten a lot of airtime, but their
polling did not merit.
>> Bernie Sanders is one of the front runners, and that's not an accident.
>> And if there's gonna be all this media tension on Buttigieg which there has been,
I guess we got it Norwegian piano all of that, what about what you did?
>> For some reason, the media treats him with kid gloves.
They're so against going after him on very significant policy issues.
>> It is increasingly difficult for the American public to get any sort of truth.
The majority of America might turn on the evening news for a little while and just,
unfortunately don't get informed.
>> Logic is irrelevant, facts are irrelevant.
The only thing they got is fear and hatred.
>> Things are different this time around.
>> They always work from a point of fear and trying to second guess potential pushback
from Republicans.
It's a position of fear and lack of control.
>> There's some chance that Bernie's gonna have an uprising like no one's seen before
and it's gonna absolutely shock the establishment.
They all say, we need someone who can beat Donald Trump.
You know what they never do after that?
Pull out the head to head polls with Donald Trump and show that they're the one to do
it.
>> You have these wine cellar meetings and you have these big money donors, and that
doesn't necessarily guarantee you much.
>> So you could try to move mountains and you could do anything you like a month before
the election, and it's gonna have a minimal, minimal effect.
>> And gave the Congress the ability to control this president, I got them.
>> Certainly resonates with people of all political ideologies cuz we're all in the
same boat together.
We're dealing with the same frustrations, the same difficulties in providing for our
families.
>> Winning is everything.
>> Yes.
>> And he can win Super Tuesday, he can win California.
Right now, he's
in the lead.
Because there is a ton of hope right now.
>> More hope than we have every had in this country.
>> If you're asking why, I'm asking why not.