2026 Mid-Year Report
Friends, as we reach the halfway mark of 2026, I’m excited to share just how far we’ve come and where we’re headed. At Emergent Order Foundation, our mission remains as urgent as ever: to tell heroic stories that inspire trust, elevate truth, and advance human flourishing.
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THIS YEAR MARKS A TURNING POINT
We’ve moved from momentum to movement. What started with the documentary seeds of Dad Saves America in 2020 has grown into a studio that’s capturing attention and transforming lives.
We’ve seen that trust is not just an outcome, but a strategy. That’s why every video, every fellowship, and every partnership is grounded in the belief that truth told well can reach hearts and change culture.
GROUNDBREAKING NEW PROJECTS
Strictly Education
Introducing Strictly Education… EO Foundation has teamed up with Katharine Birbalsingh, headmistress of the UK's highest-performing school, to bring her results to an American audience. Her Michaela Community School has produced top national results with a working-class, immigrant student body, proving her strict, knowledge-rich model works regardless of the ideological consensus running the other way. Strictly Education will show what that model actually looks like in the classroom, week after week, on the platform that already turned Dad Saves America into a top 0.2% YouTube channel. The channel went live June 21 with nothing but a trailer and has already topped 16,000 subscribers, with weekly episodes launching in August alongside Katharine's new book. This is the supply-side answer to school choice: proof that great schools can be built, not just chosen.
The Censorship Files
Michael Shellenberger and Matt Taibbi broke the Twitter Files story and exposed the architecture behind America's censorship regime, from the buried Hunter Biden laptop story to the silencing of COVID dissenters. Now they're bringing that reporting to the screen with EO Foundation, producing a feature-length documentary built from years of testimony, documents, and reporting. The film is in active production, with major interviews already shot and post-production underway for a Q1 2027 release. Michael and Matt bring the sourcing and credibility; EO brings the storytelling, production, and distribution to reach millions directly, without gatekeepers. The Censorship Files is shaping up to be the definitive record of how speech was controlled in America, told by the two journalists who uncovered it.
Our Achievements
We deliver repeatable, relatable, reliable content to our targeted, owned audiences.
Over the past decade, our team at Emergent Order Foundation has produced dozens of films and series with critical acclaim and distribution across major platforms. Our powerful, principled storytelling has touched hearts, changed minds, repealed laws, and transformed classrooms for more than 100 million viewers and growing.
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2026 Mid-Year Report
The world is entering a new era, one marked by the disruption of information, identity, and even reality itself. In a time when artificial intelligence clouds what’s real, trust has become the currency that matters most. And that’s exactly what we’ve been building: trust earned through transparency, consistency, and courageous storytelling.
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