By Brownstone Institute at Brownstone dot org.

Five years ago, Anthony Fauci warned Americans not to plan any holiday travel. Or parties. Too dangerous. You might catch Covid. You have to stay in your home. Continue living off stimulus payments, upgrading your digital technology with any extra funds.

No weddings. No funerals. No Thanksgiving. No Christmas. Shopping only with store capacity limits. Arrows on the floor. Four people per elevator. Sheets of Plexiglas separated merchants from masked customers.

It did not end with the new president. It got worse. There were shot mandates and masks on planes and trains. Later, the president warned of a winter of death for those refusing the shots.

It's hard to believe this happened in America, all on the advice of "the experts."

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Dissenters were aggressively silenced. People with another medical or scientific opinion were shouted down as cranks and grandma killers. The students were shut out of schools, losing learning and hope, turning toward digital addiction and exotic theories of gender.

The elections were a mess. This is because 8 months earlier, the CDC had urged the entire country to use mail-in ballots, the most famously insecure voting method available. This fundamental change was funded by Congress and implemented in most states. This figured into the contentious election of 2020 and again in the midterms of 2022.

We could go on and on. In fact, Brownstone Institute has, in more than 3,500 articles in our journal plus 20 books, all of which have been essential for a world digging out of the rubble. The digital reach is global, with many translations and branches in Spain and Italy.

The influence is wide but our work is far from done. The damage of the period is structural, cultural, economic, and social. Trust in everything is gone.

Brownstone Institute has been the voice of credibility. With roots tracing to the Great Barrington Declaration - the signers having gone from disgrace to fame as heads of major agencies today - Brownstone Institute has emerged as one of the world's most influential voices in the recovering of freedom and civilization after that calamity of the last five years.

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We've built out a national and global network of scientists, researchers, doctors, journalists, economists, and historians - ferocious truth tellers who know what's what and who are not afraid to say it - who have led the way out of a world of lies. We've been a constant presence: podcasts, supper clubs, major events and retreats, and a digital empire of truth.

All of these activities have only grown as has traffic on our sites. Elites in high places have been deeply rattled by all of this. Reporters hound our offices daily to figure out how we broke through.

Here is the secret. It's only been possible because of our supporters. We have no other way of funding this work: no government grants, no pharma kickbacks, no big endowments from universities. We have only your willingness to give for a great cause. You have believed in what we do, trusted that the ideas could carry the day.

We have made enormous progress. But the pressure on this tiny institution is intense. We need to do much more, including backing scholars with fellowships, consulting and funding on major media projects, expanding our publishing, and growing supper clubs into a nationwide network of communities of support.

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This is the time of year that makes or breaks our momentum. That's because it is the traditional giving season. People are sizing up their financial position and looking at the many ways in which charitable giving is assisted by tax deductions. Everyone too is assessing which institutions merit continued support given how many major voices went silent.

We are now asking you today to give Brownstone Institute a vote of confidence, not only with your reading and sharing, which we appreciate, but also with...