Media Offender Midterm Mailbag Call

No such thing as a stupid question for a midterm nobody could have predicted

Moments before the Blue Wave (Eric Garcia),

Welcome back to The Political Spectrum. I’m still catching up on sleep. But before we start, I just want to say “thank you.”

We are a little less than a month into this experiment with the newsletter. So far I have made it into something that generates $7,520 in annualized revenue. As of Friday, we now have 126 paid subscribers. And countless people have sent money to Ko-Fi.com/EricMGarcia.

That paid for my reporting trips in Georgia and North Carolina. We also have 438 free subscribers. (Hopefully we get that to 538 before the 2027-2028 presidential primary kicks off). I’m also grateful I have been able to write for publications I admire so far, like Zeteo, MS NOW, The Washington Examiner.

As you can imagine, the next few weeks, I will be focusing heavily on the Lame Duck session in Congress, getting to know some of the freshly-elected members and reporting out the agenda on the Hill as it comes. I have a few disability-relaed pieces in the hopper now.

Then it will be off to the races as the 2028 presidential primary campaign begins. Also, my next book, Manly While Stimming: Autism and the Myth of the Masculine Ideal, comes out March 30, and I will be actively promoting that soon. Pre-order here.

But in between, I see this as a chance to build and grow this outlet. I want to make it my most consistent form of revenue and an outlet that is directly accountable to the people who pay for it: the readers.

So with that in mind, I am once again asking for your financial support with a special edition of the Media Offender Mailbag for the midterms. Paid subscribers can send direct messages or comment below to ask questions below and I’ll try and answer the best I can. Nothing is verboten.

Also, if anyone has any tips, send them to my Signal, emgarcia.85

So for now, ask away.

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