Friday, June 19, 2026

One quick question

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Hey, Max here.

I noticed you went through the MaxDividends trial but decided not to upgrade to Premium — and that’s completely okay.

I have one quick favor to ask.

I’m constantly trying to make MaxDividends genuinely more useful and valuable, and I’d love to better understand what’s missing for you.

I put together a one-question survey that takes less than 15 seconds:

What would make MaxDividends valuable enough that upgrading to Premium would feel like an easy decision for you?

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Your answer will directly influence what we build next.

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Opinions change. Income pays.

MaxDividends Mission: Helping people build growing passive income, retire early, and live off dividends.

Hi — Max here.

We hear opinions every single day. Bullish. Bearish. Confident. Afraid.

Everyone has a take. Everyone has a forecast. Everyone is certain — until they aren’t. Meanwhile, dividends either show up in our account — or they don’t.

That’s the quiet difference you and I have probably already felt.

Where are you right now with your investing?

👉 I want growing dividend income (10%+ and rising) while my capital grows too

👉 I want high, monthly dividend income right now (10%+)

👉 I’m focused on growing my capital (15%+ per year)

👉 I’m just getting started with dividend investing

Income-focused investing doesn’t require us to win debates or predict headlines. We’re not trying to be the smartest voice in the room. We’re getting paid to stay patient.

While opinions swing back and forth, cash flow tells the truth.

This is my portfolio and the dividends it pays. I’m not waiting for profits — I receive cash every month. I reinvest it into new shares, which generates even more income. MaxDividends App (Included in Premium)

The MaxDividends Income System is built around that idea:

less commentary, more clarity.
less noise, more cash flow.

Instead of reacting to what people say will happen, we track what businesses are actually doing: generating cash, covering dividends, and supporting future income.

These are verified, confirmed dividends. Income checked by the MaxDividends team — I know I’ll receive this payment tomorrow. And you know what? I’ll grab a coffee and take my wife out to lunch. Kforce is paying. MaxDividends App (Included in Premium)

That’s how portfolios stop feeling fragile. That’s how income becomes something you can rely on — regardless of the mood of the market.

Because in the end, opinions don’t pay bills. Income does. Step inside the system.

— Max

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My Dividend Portfolio. Goal: $12K in 120 Months — Month 24, Week 5

June 19, 2026

My Dividend Portfolio. Goal: $12K in 120 Months — Month 24, Week 5

Dividend Income (Today): $1,116 / month

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Intro

Every Friday, I share what I’m buying — real moves, no fluff. The plan is simple: mix high yield with dividend growth to build income that grows year after year.

My goal is $12,000/month in ~10 years. This journey is open to anyone — it’s about creating a legacy, taking care of loved ones, and leaving behind a stream of income that outlives you.

Over time, I’ve simplified my process and now rely on one tool above all others: the MaxDividends Research Platform. It helps me find quality dividend stocks, track dividend growth, and stay focused on long-term income investing.

Hi partners — Max here!

It’s been quite a week in the world of politics, but for me and my portfolio, it’s been business as usual.

Another week in the books, and my dividend income grew again — by about $6 more per month. Not exactly life-changing money on its own, but there was a time when that number was $0. Today, it’s approaching $1,200 per month.

Those of you who have been with us for a while have seen this journey from the very beginning. Back then, I kept saying the same thing: time is going to pass no matter what. It keeps moving forward whether we like it or not. The real question is what your financial position will look like when that time has passed.

Well, that time has passed.

It’s now been two years since day one, and today my portfolio generates nearly $15,000 per year in dividend income — and that number keeps climbing.

What’s even more exciting is that, based on very conservative projections, if I simply leave everything as it is today and make no additional contributions, my annual dividend income could grow toward $35,000 per year over the next decade. That’s roughly $3,000 per month in passive income.

And even that isn’t the finish line.

The income stream should continue growing well beyond that point.

That’s the power of dividend growth investing. The power of a disciplined system, consistently applied over time. It’s the same system I use myself, and it’s exactly why I remain so excited about the long-term opportunity ahead.

Below, you'll find a detailed breakdown of what I bought this week, how the portfolio is positioned today, and what I'm planning for next week and beyond.

My portfolio is a fully transparent, real-time journey — no polishing the numbers and no adjusting results after the fact.

It’s a path anyone can follow with the right system and the MaxDividends app.

Alright — let’s get to today’s buys. So grab a coffee — let’s dig in ☕💪

My Latest Dividend Milestone

✅ $100/month – hit at Month 3
✅ $250/month – hit at Month 5
✅ $500/month – hit at Month 10
✅ $750/month – hit at Month 16
✅ $1,000/month – hit at Month 23
🎯 $1,250/month → 90% complete

Track the moment your dividends start paying for your life. The MaxDividends Research Platform. Dividend Tracker. Goals.

These Bills Are Already Being Paid by Dividends

✅ Phone + Internet — $120
✅ Utilities — $350
✅ Coffee, lunches, small joys — $400

This is what financial freedom looks like — one expense at a time. MaxDividends Research Platform. Dividend Tracker. Goals.

My Current Goal

🎯 Groceries Top-Up — $252 / $700

Financial freedom in progress. The MaxDividends Research Platform. Dividend Tracker. Goals. Progress.

My Next Goals

🎯 Gym + Streaming + Family Apps — $200
🎯 Weekend activities with the kids — $300
🎯 Insurance — $300
🎯 1–2 US flights or a short weekend getaway — $700
🎯 Rent: $2,700/month

These expenses are next in line for my dividends. MaxDividends Research Platform. Dividend Tracker. Goals.

💵 The Dividend Flywheel

My dividend income is now running at about $1,121 per month. It’s not a headline number. It won’t trend on social media. But it does matter.

Because this is what real progress looks like when income is built the right way. Quiet. Measurable. The income base keeps rising.

Every reinvested dollar tightens the structure. Every dividend hike raises the floor. And over time, that turns into momentum you can actually feel.

Portfolio Snapshot

Total Invested (cash I personally added): ~$361,638
Current Market Value: ~$377,910
Annual Dividends: ~$13,452 (+$59 vs. last week)
Dividend Yield on Cost: ~3.71%

The snowball keeps rolling — heavier every week.

🔔 Dividend Raises: 20 so far — Year to Date (2026)

Greif Inc +10%
BestBuy +1.05%
Johnson & Johnson +3.10%
PepsiCo +4%
Novo Nordisk +2.6%
Mueller Industries +40%
Zoetis +6%

I continued adding to several positions that I still find attractive at current prices while the opportunity remains available.

In general, when building the portfolio, I try to allocate new capital in roughly equal dollar amounts across my highest-conviction ideas. From there, I let the businesses do the work. Over time, some positions naturally emerge as larger contributors, while others take a smaller role within the portfolio.

💡 The full update — including my latest purchases, plans for next week, and several new dividend opportunities recently added to my watchlist — is now available on the MaxDividends Research Platform and inside our members-only community.

The MaxDividends Research Platform → Tools.

Every Friday, I share what I’m buying. Use it as a source of ideas for your own portfolio.

I explain the rules and decision-making process behind every purchase, so you can take what’s most useful and adapt it to your own investing journey.

I also share my progress openly — to motivate you to keep going, get started, or simply stay consistent when markets get noisy.

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*Disclaimer: This article reflects the author’s personal opinions and is intended for educational and entertainment purposes only. It does not constitute financial advice in any form. Always do your own research and consult a licensed financial advisor. The author may hold positions in some of the stocks mentioned, in line with the views expressed. This is a disclosure, not a recommendation to buy or sell any securities.

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The crimes of communism cover-up

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Father's Day is this Sunday, and we all know how the father is treated in popular culture nowadays: the dispensable, henpecked doofus with no ambition, no particular vision to convey to his children, and who commands no respect from anyone.

What's more, in the household the father represents "the patriarchy," and feminism has told us that's a bad thing. (Incidentally, you won't find a better book on that subject than Steven Goldberg's The Inevitability of Patriarchy.)

In my case, I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that I was set on the road to becoming the man I am today because of conversations I had with my father. No doubt about that at all.

I can easily see myself having otherwise gone in for mainstream left-liberalism, the default set of positions for anyone who hasn't really thought deeply, examined data, etc.

That's why a car covered in bumper stickers is vastly more likely to belong to a left-liberal than to anyone else: their whole philosophy is a bumper sticker, a series of wishes and demands divorced from tradeoffs, or how economics works, or any of those other mundane things their opponents insist on talking about. Want higher wages? Just demand them. Want lower rents? Just demand them. Whatever social outcome you want, the state can always crack enough skulls to bring it about, and with no collateral effects.

Thank goodness Dad spared me the indignity of going through life like that.

I grew up in the 1980s, as the Cold War continued to rage, and it was from my father that I learned both (1) the horrors of communism and (2) that there were plenty of people out there who sought to cover up or downplay those horrors.

In fact the year my father died -- thirty years ago next month; he died much too young -- I interviewed for a print magazine Professor Eugene Genovese, the ex-Marxist historian of the American South who had written a 1994 article called "The Question." The question Genovese had in mind was aimed at his fellow leftists: when it came to communist crimes, what did you know and when did you know it?

It was Dad who had grounded me in all that stuff.

He was self-taught: although he later earned his GED, he dropped out of high school as a younger man. He was intensely self-conscious about that, so he read everything he could -- for his own enrichment, no doubt, but also so he could be the best father he could to me.

We had these conversations together starting when I was around 9 or 10, and at age 53 I still remember them. I hope my own children remember their conversations with me as fondly as I do these with him.

Since the world has gone insane, fathers need to hold more crucial conversations with their kids than ever. An excellent kickstart to that process are the Tuttle Twins Guidebooks, a series of seven books a dad can use to inoculate his kids against some of the worst things they'll encounter.

Hence the set includes volumes on spotting logical fallacies, on courageous heroes, on inspiring entrepreneurs, on the world's villains, the world's worst ideas, and on the real-live conspiracies that really have existed.

These are the kinds of conversations you can have at the dinner table, on a road trip, and just about anywhere else. They'll keep your kids from having their minds colonized by crazy people, and they have the added benefit of being memories your kids will recall with fondness throughout their lives.

You don't need my help to be a good father, but we can all benefit from some quality support material, and these are it -- and they're written by my old friend Connor Boyack, who by coincidence happens to be an exemplary father himself.

The Tuttle Twins Guidebooks, on sale right now for Father's Day, can jumpstart a summer of important conversations between the kids and dad:

https://www.tomwoods.com/fathers

Tom Woods

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Did you fall for any of these 11 famous hoaxes?

Jun 19, 2026

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Did you fall for any of these 11 famous hoaxes?

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The fact that not every little thing in our world can yet be explained makes life a bit more interesting for many of us. And that urge to believe in certain things has fostered many myths and hoaxes that continue to fool people to this day. How many of the following 11 do you know?