We’re Seizing a Massive Opportunity the Democratic Establishment Missed
Trump owns the chaos at the airport. We’re making sure travelers know it.
Note: We shared this letter yesterday to a number of our most invested supporters. The response was so overwhelming, that we decided to make it available to all of our subscribers to read. This reflects some of the work you may not know that Lincoln Square does with paid subscriber and donor revenue—recapturing the social media feeds once dominated by the right-wing media machine.
Right now, as you read this, hundreds of thousands of Americans are trapped at the nation’s busiest airports..
They are standing in security lines at Hartsfield-Jackson (ATL), JFK, Newark (EWR), and George Bush Intercontinental (IAH) that stretch for up to 8 hours. They are missing weddings, funerals, and long-awaited Spring Break vacations.
And while they wait, they’re scrolling through their social media feeds while being fed lies. The well-funded Right-wing media machine is working overtime to blame Democrats for the shutdown chaos. But this is the truth: President Trump and the Republicans are holding our travelers and airports hostage.
Trump is blocking every single piece of legislation to pay our TSA agents—who are currently working without a paycheck—until he forces through the extreme SAVE Act. He is using the misery of American travelers as a bargaining chip to pass a bill that experts warn would disenfranchise millions of legal voters.
While our TSA heroes struggle to pay rent, Trump has deployed maskless ICE agents to our airports. This isn’t about security; as Steve Bannon admitted, it’s a “test run” to normalize their presence before they are deployed to polling places.
What is Lincoln Square doing about it?
We Are Launching a Digital Strike
We aren’t letting them control the narrative.
We have a unique opportunity to reach a captive, frustrated audience of Americans, concentrated in a dozen or more locations across the country—in busy airports. While hundreds of thousands of travelers are stuck in these 8-hour lines, they are doing one thing: scrolling their phones.
We are seizing an opportunity the Democratic establishment has missed. We simply cannot wait for them to get their digital strategy in order—the lines are growing, the travelers are frustrated, and the GOP’s lies are spreading.
We have launched a massive, geotargeted digital campaign specifically hitting the feeds of travelers at the nation’s busiest and most backed-up airports, including:
Atlanta (ATL)
Houston (IAH & HOU)
New York/New Jersey (JFK & EWR)
New Orleans (MSY)
Phoenix (PHX)
Dallas (DFW & DAL)
Orlando (MCO & SFB)
Chicago (ORD & MDW)
Charlotte (CLT)
Denver (DEN)
Our short-form videos and graphics will cut through the GOP noise, reminding travelers that their missed flights and unpaid TSA heroes are the direct result of Republican obstruction. While they’re waiting and scrolling, they’ll see messaging and graphics like these:
… and the ICE Agents patrolling airport Terminals?
We’re targeting them too.
As travelers wait hours and see ICE agents hamming it up with their fellow Gestapo buddies, we’ll be deploying messaging that these are the same agents who, when the masks are on, are terrorizing our communities.
This isn’t about “security.” As Steve Bannon recently admitted on his podcast, this deployment is a “test run” to normalize the presence of ICE in public spaces so they can be deployed to polling places during the 2026 elections.
We won’t let them hide behind fake smiles and bottles of water. We’re going to remind travelers the face of ICE when the masks are on and the cameras are off.
We aren’t just reaching travelers—we’re targeting the ICE & DHS agents, too.
By using Interest-Based Targeting (focusing on Law Enforcement, DHS employment, and specific Agency affiliations) combined with Hyper-Geofencing (targeting the specific coordinates of security checkpoints and airport terminal gates),: we can ensure that when an agent checks their phone on break, they’ll see a reminder from us that America is watching.
Our ads will deliver a clear message to every agent on the floor:
“A smile doesn’t erase your record. Handing out water today doesn’t make us forget the communities you terrorized yesterday. Accountability is coming.”
We are stripping away the mask of “friendliness” and reminding them that we know exactly why Bannon wants them there. They aren’t there to help; they are there to normalize a police state.
Your support doesn’t just give travelers the truth behind the long lines and chaos—it puts the agents of this shutdown on notice.
How you can help us reach them.
We are peppering these travelers with the truth right now, but we need the digital ad spend to stay in their feeds at every airport through the end of Spring Break.
We can put your dollars to use RIGHT NOW. Our digital and creative team (all three of us) are ready to increase our ad spend and create new graphics depending on how much we raise in the next 24-48 hours.
Don’t let the Republicans win the narrative while they ruin our travel. Let’s make sure every person in those long airport lines knows exactly who turned their Spring Breaks into a nightmare.
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