True Mainstream · for people with an audience
Your audience already argues about the news. You can hand them the argument.
You don't sell products. You have people who trust you, and the fastest way to lose them is to point them at something that wastes their time or embarrasses you. So here is the only version that matters — what you'd actually be sending them to, what you earn, and what you'd be staking your name on.
What your audience gets
- Both sides of a story, side by side, with a bar they drag themselves. You aren't telling them what to think. They can see who left out what.
- The original articles, one click away. We don't reprint anyone's work — we point to it. Nothing for you to apologize for later.
- No ads. Not under the story, not between them, not dressed up as one. Your recommendation isn't standing next to someone else's banner.
- 22,248 articles in the last 24 hours, from 146 countries and territories. The number on the page is a live counter, not a brochure figure.
- It works the moment it loads. Search, country, and local-versus-world all run on the device, so nobody waits on a spinner while deciding whether you were right.
What you earn
- 50% of what they pay, for their first year. Then 30% for as long as they stay a member. Recurring, not a one-time bounty that dies with the click.
- Do the math on one person. A VIP membership is $4.95 a month, so one of them is about $29.70 to you in year one and about $17.80 a year after that. The High Table is $49.95 a month — about $299.70 in year one, then about $179.80 a year, for as long as they keep it.
- It compounds quietly. A hundred VIP members who stay are roughly $1,780 a year to you, every year, doing nothing. Most affiliate programs pay you once and forget your name.
- Paid straight to your Stripe account. Connect it once. We move the money. You don't invoice anyone and you don't chase a check.
- They can pay the easy way. Google Pay, Apple Pay, Amazon Pay, Cash App, or a card. Fewer steps between your recommendation and a membership means more of your recommendations count.
Why this is safe to attach your name to
- It isn't partisan, and you don't have to pretend it is. The bar shows left and right and lets the reader decide. Recommending it doesn't put you on a side.
- You can check every claim yourself before you say a word about it. Open the site. The counter, the bar, and the country switch are all on the first screen.
- Your link remembers them for 30 days. Someone who clicks today and subscribes next week is still yours.
- There's no approval queue and no cap. You join, you get your link, and there's no ceiling on how many people you can send.
- The one rule protects you too. You can't earn on your own signup. Nobody can pad the numbers, which is what keeps the program worth being part of.
The fine print, in one place
Payouts run once a month and cover the month before last, so a sale in March is paid on the 1st of May. Your first payout waits one more month. The minimum is $50. Each commission sits until a refund window has passed, so a refund is settled before any money moves and you're never asked to return it. All of this is written out at truemainstream.com/affiliate/terms.
If you've read this far, the useful thing is to spend two minutes on the site and see whether you'd send it to the people who trust you. Everything above is checkable there.
Look at the site first
Become an affiliate
You'll need an account to sign up. The program terms are one page, and they're linked above rather than buried.