Editor's Note: Investigative journalist Alison Greene recently recommended this interview to her Substack readers, calling it "one of the most important conversations I've heard in a long time." I am very grateful, but more important is the work she and her It's Up to Us movement are doing to fight back against efforts to rig the voter rolls in many states. Learn more here and watch for our followup interview with Alison June 29, where we'll discuss steps we all can take to help protect the vote in the upcoming mid-term elections.
Most Americans understand that democracy depends on free elections.
Fewer realize it also depends on something else:
People willing to tell the truth.
In my latest Lean to the Left conversation, whistleblower advocate Marcel Reid delivers a warning every American should hear.
“Democracies don’t last if people don’t know the truth.”
Reid knows the cost of speaking out.
A former ACORN whistleblower, she lost friends, standing, and certainty about how the world works. Yet she continues fighting for those who expose corruption, fraud, abuse, and injustice.
She explains why journalists and whistleblowers depend on each other, why attacks on the press should concern everyone, and why fear is making fewer Americans willing to report wrongdoing.
This conversation also takes an unexpected turn into the hidden dangers of guardianship systems that can strip vulnerable people of control over their own lives.
Truth isn’t self-executing.
It requires courageous people willing to defend it.
I hope you’ll watch, listen, and share this important conversation.
— Bob
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