The committee was founded in March 2020 by Ben, Brett and Jordan Meiselas, three brothers from
Long Island, while in quarantine due to the
COVID-19 pandemic. The group name and slogan come from their mother and father, combining their surname and their mother's maiden name, Golden, and later that year, news reporting indicated the MeidasTouch name was being used for a news network called MeidasTouch Network.
Political Action Committee 2020 U.S. presidential election On April 22, 2020, the committee released their first video, titled "Are You Better Off?", an allusion to
Ronald Reagan's famous line in the 1980 general election presidential debate, which criticized Trump's handling of the
COVID-19 pandemic in the United States; The committee shared the video in a Twitter reply to
George Conway, which was then retweeted by him. Her
Wichita State University Tech speech was canceled due to student and teacher pressure. On June 17, 2020, another video was released, "Gop Cowards", which accused
Republican senators of being cowards. Near the end of the video, followers are urged to vote 11 Republican legislators out. On June 23, the committee released a video called "Trump Kills US". The video focuses on Trump's comment at his
Tulsa rally which urged doctors to "slow the testing down". MeidasTouch called it "Mass murder on a national scale". On July 8, a new video was released called "Creepy Trump". It compiled
Kellyanne Conway's comments on
Joe Biden and put it together with Trump statements. The ad uses clips of Conway's comments and remarks Trump has presented about women, and was played on
Fox News,
CNN and
MSNBC. On July 14, another video was released called "#ByeDonJr". It takes
Donald Trump Jr.'s comments on
Fox News about Biden and applies them against Trump. The video also further criticizes the older Trump's handling of the pandemic.
2020–2021 Georgia Senate elections The SuperPAC targeted Republican candidates in the
2020–21 United States Senate election in Georgia and the
2020–21 United States Senate special election in Georgia with several televised attack ads,
billboards, direct mailings and door-to-door canvassing efforts.
The Hill credits MeidasTouch as framing the Republican candidates
Kelly Loeffler and
David Perdue as "Looting Loeffler" and "Chicken Perdue," respectively. "The ad takes aim at the senators—dubbed 'Looting Loeffler and Chicken Perdue'—and highlights the controversies surrounding their stock purchases,"
The Hill said.
News network and podcast On July 22, 2024, shortly after
JD Vance was named Donald Trump's running mate, MeidasTouch editor-in-chief
Ron Filipkowski posted a clip from a 2021
Fox News interview in which Vance stated, "we are effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless
cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they've made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too." The resurfaced remarks from Vance sparked viral outrage against the candidate across social media, with many celebrities weighing in, including
Jennifer Aniston and
Taylor Swift. Swift, referencing Vance's comments, signed off her post endorsing
Kamala Harris as a "childless cat lady." In 2024, Adam Mockler joined MeidasTouch as a contributor, anchoring coverage and commentary. MeidasTouch has also weighed in on Canadian politics, with
New Democratic Party MP
Charlie Angus appearing as a guest commentator. In September 2025, Angus launched MeidasTouch's Canadian channel, MeidasCanada, on
Labour Day. In July 2025, MeidasTouch unearthed a video clip of a 2010 deposition by convicted sex offender
Jeffrey Epstein, in which he was asked if he had socialized with underage girls in the presence of Donald Trump. In October 2025, MeidasTouch broke the news that Donald Trump planned to fire munitions over the
Interstate 5 in California, causing the interstate's closure, during the
No Kings Protests. The Trump administration initially denied the reporting. The
San Francisco Chronicle later reported on munitions striking two
California Highway Patrol vehicles on October 18, 2025. An investigation by the
U.S. Marines Corps described the incident as the result of a "one in a million" malfunction. The report determined that the explosion was "highly improbable; beyond reasonable expectations and should not have happened, but it did." In March 2026,
Forbes described MeidasTouch as using "a 'trial lawyer approach,' combining legal analysis (by attorney Ben Meiselas), media commentary and brotherly banter to explain complex political issues—setting it apart from, for instance, CNN or other cable news opinion-based roundtables." == Founders ==