We are extremely sad to report that Jon Rappoport—longtime ally and friend of Catherine, of Solari, and of many in the “new media” space—passed away on July 8.

In interviews and seminars, Jon has been a regular presence at the Solari Report since 2006. At that time 20 years ago, Catherine introduced him to Solari subscribers as “one of the finest sources of information revealing who’s who at the top of the power hierarchy, how resources are really governed, and the culture that currently dominates our planet.” Jon’s use of logic, his exercise of critical thinking, and his unmatched nose for research imbued him with an almost superhuman capability to see through fake news (before he moved to Substack in 2022, his website was NoMoreFakeNews.com).

Jon’s bio includes many accomplishments—decades as a freelance investigative reporter, radio producer, and commentator; a 1994 run for Congress; extensive and forensic analysis of mainstream medicine’s crimes; and additional artistic hats as a painter and poet—but even that list does not do justice to Jon’s modern-day embodiment of the Renaissance man.

For those of us accustomed to finding Jon’s prodigious output in our daily inboxes (ranging in tone from impassioned to scolding to irreverently hilarious) and wondering how we are going to fill the gap that his departure leaves, Jon’s producer, business associate, and close friend Tom Kudla has an answer:

“I believe the greatest way to honor Jon is to continue reading his work, studying it carefully, asking difficult questions, and thinking independently—the qualities that defined both his work and his life.”

To that end, Kudla is taking on the role of editorial steward and overseeing the preservation and continued publication of Jon’s huge body of work. At Jon’s Substack—now the Jon Rappoport Archive—some of Jon’s most important articles will be republished, along with materials that Jon never had an opportunity to publish in his lifetime.

In Jon’s first Solari appearance in 2006, Catherine flagged one of the core messages underlying his work—that we “have the power to invent our world—one that is true and beautiful.” As Jon himself put it:

“One of the great joys that a person could experience is to imagine and create…. [W]hat individual freedom is for [is] to create your world, invent your world, invent your future, invent what it is that you want, invent something better than we have now.”

Jon “walked his talk” and experienced that joy and freedom many times over, offering a beautiful example for the rest of us to try to emulate.