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After years of building, fighting, surviving, and carrying something that most people will never fully understand, I want to speak to you directly—not as a company update, not as a press release, but as the person who lived every second of this.Over the Easter holiday, and after countless prayer and reflection with family, I have reached an agreement in principle to sell the Wimkin portfolio, including the Wimkin web platform, the iOS and Android apps, Wimkin PRO Android app, WimkinFi, and Reelster, with due diligence underway and an expected closing on or before August 15, 2026.Following due diligence, this transaction is expected to return between 1.55x and 2.75x invested capital—55% to 175% returns in just three years, from 2023 through 2026. Let that sink in. During that same time, most legitimate investments did not come close. The S&P 500 did not exceed 60%. Real estate in most markets did not come close - not exceeding 50%. Even Bitcoin only lands in that same range (130% - 170%) depending on where you measure it. Only rare outliers like Nvidia and a handful of AI names beat it.In other words, 55% to 175% in three years is massive, and it places this outcome in elite company. But unlike those investments, this was not passive. This was built under bans, blacklisting, suppression, political targeting, zero institutional support, and nonstop operational pressure where failure was supposed to be the outcome.From the aftermath of the steal in November 2020 (only 2 months into our existence) through January 2025, during the Biden Administration years, this was not normal business difficulty. This was a period where we were the victims of assassination attempts multiple times per day by almost every force that could be brought against us—Big Tech, media pressure, activist pressure, financial pressure, infrastructure pressure, reputational pressure, and in my view even pressure streams and information warfare coming from multiple governments and government-connected ecosystems that had every interest in silencing independent, uncontrolled speech.We were banned by Apple. We were banned by Google. We were blacklisted from the ad systems that normally give a platform oxygen. Our platform still can't even send an email that gets delivered.We were treated as an enemy platform in the very period when the country was being lied to, manipulated, censored, and psychologically broken in real time.During Covid, while fear, propaganda, and narrative control were everywhere, Wimkin gave people a place to remain sane, grounded, and connected to real information, real dissent, real human conversation, and real community. That mattered. It mattered more than most people will ever admit.And then came January 6, iCOP, and the House Select Committee orbit. We were monitored in the surveillance environment. We were discussed and referenced in the investigatory environment. We were not just some random startup screaming into the void. We were close enough to the fire, visible enough, and disruptive enough to end up inside the same ecosystem of scrutiny that swallowed up so many people and platforms during those years.If anyone thinks I am overstating what happened, look at the record.HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE — SWORN TESTIMONY / SOURCE MATERIALShttps://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/january-6-select-committee/20220331_john-douglas-wright.pdfhttps://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/january-6-select-committee/20220322_lawrence-stackhouse.pdfhttps://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/january-6-select-committee/20220426_lewis-easton-cantwell.pdfhttps://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/january-6-select-committee/20220302_patrick-casey.pdf(Only 4 of hundreds)AP + NATIONAL NETWORK COVERAGE + ABC, NBC, CBS PICKUPS IN EVERY LOCAL MARKEThttps://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-politics-media-social-media-coronavirus-pandemic-f5b565ca93a792640211e6438f2db842https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/squelched-by-twitter-trump-seeks-new-online-megaphonehttps://www.wsls.com/news/politics/2021/01/09/squelched-by-twitter-trump-seeks-new-online-megaphone/https://spectrumnews1.com/oh/toledo/ap-top-news/2021/01/10/squelched-by-twitter-trump-seeks-new-online-megaphoneTHE RECORD — BIG TECH, MEDIA, SURVEILLANCE, AND GOVERNMENT PRESSUREhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/apples-app-store-removes-social-media-platform-wimkin-over-calls-to-violence-11610669305https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-play-suspends-wimkin-citing-posts-calling-for-violence-11611108309https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/apple-removes-wimkin-from-app-store-as-part-of-crackdown-by-tech-companies-on-dangerous-content-during-transition-wsjhttps://www.businessinsider.com/wimkin-founder-says-company-being-treated-unfairly-google-ban-2021-1https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-google-removed-wimkin-app-founder-reports-ddos-attack2021-1https://appleinsider.com/articles/21/01/15/apple-app-store-google-play-boot-social-media-app-wimkin-over-user-calls-for-violencehttps://www.independent.co.uk/tech/google-ban-wimkin-app-parler-b1790657.htmlhttps://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/usps-law-enforcement-arm-warned-of-violence-on-january-6/https://www.justsecurity.org/81806/january-6-intelligence-and-warning-timeline/https://www.snopes.com/articles/393823/usps-icop/https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2022/sep/25/mail-fraud-bidens-postal-inspectors-tracked-pro-gu/https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/us-postal-service-icop-surveillance-jan-6/2021/09/27/id/1038033/https://pjmedia.com/mark-anthony/2025/08/18/wimkin-social-media-takes-on-big-tech-govt-and-legacy-media-in-landmark-free-speech-case-n4942816https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/who-really-resisted-big-tech-hint-not-parlerhttps://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/parler-replacement-rumble-mewe-telegram-wimkin-15871616.phphttps://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2021/0110/Life-after-Twitter-Trump-looks-for-a-social-media-platformhttps://dig.watch/updates/apple-and-google-exclude-wimkin-social-media-online-store-due-threats-violencehttps://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/Wimkinhttps://www.globalsecurity.org/security/library/congress/january-6-select-committee/https://www.gao.gov/assets/730/720278.pdfhttps://www.tcd.ie/Economics/TEP/2025/TEP1425.pdfhttps://globalnews.ca/news/7566631/trump-twitter-ban/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/squelched-by-twitter-trump-seeks-new-online-megaphone-donald-trump-twitter-parler-apple-google-b1785001.htmlhttps://thecyberwire.com/newsletters/business-briefing/3/3And still—through all of that—we built. We built live streaming, real-time comments, group voice and video, a full social ecosystem, creator monetization, alternative mobile distribution, private communications tools, community systems, and a real digital home for people who were being suffocated everywhere else. And we did not just build it—we used it. To this day, Facebook is the only platform that offers all we do.Wimkin had real impact in the 2024 election, whether people want to admit it or not. When speech was shut down elsewhere, people came here. When people were demoralized, isolated, lied to, and manipulated, this platform gave them somewhere to gather, think, question, and stay grounded. That mattered then and it matters now.And the sickest part of all of it is that we did it with almost no real help. No meaningful cavalry. No serious movement infrastructure. No real coalition of supposed allies showing up when it mattered. Instead, we got faketriots. We got the same people screaming loudest about freedom, censorship, election integrity, and saving the country—showing up with their hands out.“Influencers” demanding $5,000 per post just to use the very platform that was fighting for the causes they claimed to believe in. They joined, built audiences, leveraged the traffic, and then refused to even post unless they were paid.Not builders. Not believers. Opportunists. And that did not just hurt Wimkin. It exposed everything. It exposed the emptiness, the vanity, the cowardice, and the grift at the core of what so many people thought was a real movement.I will say it plainly: MAGA, as we knew it, died on election night in 2024 at the hands of faketriots, opportunists, ego addicts, and cash-hungry “influencers” who chose money, clout, and whatever was easiest over actually building something real. You're seeing it in real-time. Trump can never be elected again meaning it's time to run to the next thing - midterms, and 2028 be damned. It's flat out disgusting and extremely disappointing.What people also do not understand is what it actually takes to run something like this without losing your mind. Wimkin is not a website. It is not a page. It is not a podcast. It is not an app you throw on the market and casually “manage.”It is a living, breathing, always-on digital organism that has to be defended, maintained, patched, scaled, moderated, distributed, stored, monitored, and legally protected every hour of every day. To truly run it right, and to keep it alive technically and legally, you need a real team of at least 25 to 50 people with actual, daily, working expertise in mobile engineering for iOS and Android; alternative Android distribution; backend architecture; API design; cloud infrastructure; server orchestration; database administration; replication; sharding; object storage; media storage; backup architecture; disaster recovery; RTMP ingest; HLS; WebRTC; video transcoding; adaptive bitrate ladders; live-stream failover; CDN architecture; cache invalidation; websocket infrastructure; real-time comment fanout; chat delivery systems; push notifications; search indexing; recommendation logic; feed ranking; anti-spam systems; abuse prevention; moderation tooling; trust and safety operations; account recovery systems; customer support operations; analytics; app performance monitoring; crash reporting; observability; logging; alerting; secrets management; WAF configuration; penetration testing; DDoS mitigation; payment processing; payout systems; fraud prevention; tax reporting; vendor management; terms-of-service enforcement; identity and access management; and CI/CD deployment pipelines. That is just the technical side.Don't forget actual moderators to analyze content and approve new sign-ups to weed through the tens of millions of bots.Then comes the legal side, which is its own monster. To keep a platform like Wimkin alive and legally afloat, you need real expertise in federal law, state law, and international law, including but not limited to Section 230 / intermediary liability issues; defamation; invasion of privacy; copyright and DMCA takedown procedure; trademark disputes; right of publicity; child-safety reporting obligations; threats / violent-content response; subpoena response; law-enforcement preservation requests; discovery preservation; consumer-protection and FTC issues; payment and processor compliance; creator-payout classification; tax and payroll treatment; app-store contractual compliance; telecom / recorded-communications issues; biometric and facial-recognition exposure if applicable; data-retention law; breach-notification law; state privacy laws; cross-border data issues; international intermediary-liability frameworks; geoblocking and sanctions issues; election-period content pressure; advertiser and payment-provider deplatforming risk; and the constant balancing act between lawful speech, unlawful conduct, and platform exposure in over 130 countries.That is what it takes. That is what people are pretending they can “jump in and run” when they have never even built a WordPress website or even a pre-fab Wix or Godaddy site.Then, find a marketing team to grow what you've built on a complete shoestring budget.So if anyone or a team out there believes they can take this further than I was able, that door remains open through April 30, 2026 for a real first right of refusal. But understand clearly what you are stepping into. This is not a hobby. This is not a vanity project. This is not a side hustle. This is not something you “try.” This is something you carry on your back while it tries to kill you every hour of every day. Our respective buyers understand that fully, and contractually will keep the platform integrity we were founded upon.And that brings me to the part that matters most.To my boys, and to my family as some of them are shareholders that receive these emails … I am sorry. I am sorry for every day this took from us. I am sorry for every moment I was there physically but mentally somewhere else—buried under pressure, problems, fires, legal threats, app issues, infrastructure issues, money issues, censorship issues, and the endless weight of keeping this thing alive. I am sorry for not being there when your health was slipping. I am sorry for every dinner interrupted. Every practice, game or match missed. Every exhausted look, every moment of stress you had to absorb because I chose to carry this platform as far as it could be carried on my own. I am sorry for the lost time that I will never get back with you and those I've lost along this journey. I kept telling myself I just needed one more push, one more fix, one more break, one more season, one more escape hatch, one more person. But the truth is, for me, that point was 2 years ago and I am finally acting on it, now. I cannot keep asking you to watch me carry something this heavy anymore. This platform took everything out of me, and you still stood there loving me through it anyway. This decision is me finally choosing you.Wimkin will live on without change to its core ideals. What we built is real. What it did is real. What it meant during Covid is real. What it meant during the election is real. What it meant to the people who needed a place to stay sane is real. What was done to us is real. And what it cost is real. Our buyer fully understands this, and fully respects it - and respects YOU.Wimkin isn't going anywhere but forward, but this daily fight—the one that consumed me for 6 years—ends here for me. This is the Avenue with the best opportunity and the least amount of risk, with guaranteed results for shareholders. That is my duty.We did not fail. We proved it.And now, we will change the world further with something that is a direct result of Wimkin and the relationships it created: our drug testing innovation. We will save countless lives, countless mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and children from these cartels' poisons - and do so alongside the federal government, whom I've been working with directly for nearly 90 days - getting us introduced to the Department of Veterans Affairs, inside of SAMHSA and the ONDCP.I will continue to keep you updated throughout this sale and drug testing milestones.Thank you all for your passion, grace, understanding, and for the love of our country. Most of us involved with ownership of Wimkin truly did it for just that, but it is my honor to have delivered you profit on top of it.I love you all, you'll always be family. You truly should be proud of what you helped accomplish.