The Vanguard

The Vanguard is bringing lively conversations to the left and platforming independent voices with ideas on the "vanguard" of modern leftist thought and politics. Soon, we'll be taking to the streets in an actual sprinter van, to film and report on the state of America.

The Vanguard is an effort to contribute to the counter-narrative, to take to the streets of this country and talk to real people, from all backgrounds and experiences. To dispel the spurious, far reaching, conjecture that our nation is too deeply polarized to reach a consensus. We must provide the proletariat with an alternative story to the one being proffered by the pundit class on both ends of the partisan spectrum.

It was once said by the great doctor of journalism Hunter S. Thompson, that there is no such thing as objective journalism. “Don’t bother to look for it here–not under any byline of mine; or anyone else I can think of…The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.” Everyone has a perspective and thus a bias, consciously or unconsciously. Those ideological glasses with which one perceives the world cannot be removed for the sake of reporting. Everyone has a motive; legacy media is motivated by profit from ad revenue, we are motivated by a desire to swing the power balance in this country away from corporations and back into the hands of the people. We will rely on support from direct contributions from Patreon and subscriptions alone, and as such we will be accountable to no one but our readers. Just two dudes chronicling the apocalypse.


– Zac Polston & Gavin Miller-Broomfield, Founding Editors of The Vanguard