Brace yourself. I just got shocking news from our team about last night.

Here's the email I sent to Robert De Niro, Stacey Abrams, Mayor Jacob Frey, Mark Ruffalo, and others who spoke at our State of the Union rebuttal event.

I waited most of the day to post this. Last night, we held one of the biggest rebuttals to the State of the Union address in American history. Trump was furious. He even said that our keynote speaker — Robert De Niro — should be deported for the crime of criticizing Trump. But that’s not what was shocking. Not even close. I waited all day because I wanted to be able to share the NUMBERS with you. And now they’re in.

It turns out your voice reached people. A LOT of people! I’ll let you read the news yourself. Below. I sent an email to all of our event speakers just a little bit ago, letting them know how much their message (and yours) resonated with the world.

Here’s that email:

Quick explanation: “impressions” means how many times folks encountered content about our event, whether viewing the whole program or reading about it. And I’m going to be honest with you. I suspected we might have had several million impressions…or maybe tens of millions?

But then our digital guy Scott — who used to be Barack Obama’s social media guru — told the team that STATE OF THE SWAMP drew 215 million impressions. Here’s the data for you to review yourself, broken down below. Wow. You wanted us to be loud… and we were LOUD.

Here’s the by-the-numbers breakdown of coverage of the event

• 215M+ Total Reach

• 80M+ Tier 1 National Media

• 40M+ Broadcast & Video

• 60M+ International Press

• 15M+ Regional/Local

• 20M+ Social Amplification

• Hell, we even made the opening monologue of Stephen Colbert’s Late Show.

But here are OTHER numbers that matter, too!

• 500+ U.S. Constitutions delivered to Members of Congress (in a morning event that was incredible!)

• 200 frog suits handed out

• 50 remarkable speakers who countered Trump’s lies and laid out a vision of defiance

• 45 amazing volunteers

• 40 major news outlets covering the event LIVE

• 15 key live-stream partners

• 3 amazing production partners (COURIER, Taskforce, & Newmerica Media)

• 2 new grassroots orgs “launched” (Trumpsonian & Portland Frog Brigade)

• 1 DEFIANT Voice Award presented

Why does all of this matter? Because our impact is growing. Far and wide. And our efforts to counter Trump’s abuses of power — and defend our rights — are getting stronger. I’ll share more details with you tomorrow and in the days ahead. Right now, I literally have to go let the dog out and spend some time with my family (it was a VERY busy few weeks leading up to this).

But let me just say one more thing: THANK YOU.

Your friend, in defiance,

Miles Taylor