March 23, 2026
Hey everyone,
People sometimes ask me why I spend so much time on this work — building Quarex, QuarexNews, QuarexRadio, making videos, researching candidates. So I want to tell you.
The threats to our democracy are not hypothetical. They are happening right now.
The Save America Act is working its way through Congress — a bill designed to make it harder for Americans to vote. Media ownership has been consolidated into the hands of a few billionaires who decide what you see and what you don't. Over 2,900 local newspapers have closed, leaving more than 200 counties with zero local news coverage. The people who are supposed to inform you have been bought, gutted, or silenced.
The internet is still free. You can still build something, publish something, share something without asking permission. But that window may not stay open forever. Net neutrality is gone. Platforms are being pressured. Governments around the world are learning how to control what their citizens can access.
So I act now, while I still can.
I'm a technical person. I've spent my career building systems. So I built the tools that I believe are needed — a free knowledge platform with nearly 1,000 research books, civic news for any location on earth in 18 languages, daily audio and video news briefings, and structured candidate research for every federal race in 2026. All free. No ads. No paywalls. No tracking.
And yes, I run a partisan YouTube channel — TakeAmericaBackAgain. Some people have a problem with that. But I don't think it's partisan to document a president bombing fishing boats, starving an island of eleven million people, striking a school full of children, or invading a sovereign nation without congressional authorization. That's not politics. That's accountability.
Quarex is non-partisan. It gives you structured information and lets you make up your own mind. But I am a person with eyes and a conscience, and I will not be silent while serious abuses are taking place right here, right now.
This is why I do this work. Because I can. Because someone should. And because the tools to inform people should not belong to billionaires.
-Pete