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The Tower Newsletter: October 2026 - https://mailchi.mp/0f18d79bde19/the-tower-newsletter-october-2026

When Black media dies, nobody reports your funeral.

That's not a line. It's the arithmetic. When the outlet that covered your church closing, your school board, your uncle's business is gone — those things still happen. They just stop being written down.

A month ago I told you everything moved to one address. You've had thirty days to check whether that was talk.

It wasn't. It publishes every day, it carries a retired judge and a physician and a pastor, and it puts your events up for free.

Name the Black outlet this city lost that you still miss. I want to see that list.

Keep showing up. That's the whole ask.

https://realpower.tv/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=when-black-media-dies

Nobody in this city calls me for comment. They call me when something has to move.

Twenty-five years of that — campaigns, council fights, corporate tables, church basements. That's a different job than being a commentator and it pays differently too.

Every Tuesday at noon I say out loud what I learned that week. RealPower.tv and 95.9 FM WOVU.

What's the thing in this city you'd move first if you had the phone numbers? Name it.

Saturday, Oct. 3, 10 AM to noon. Early vote opens three days later.

Ohio opens early voting on Tuesday, October 6. The people who decide November are not the loudest people in the room. They are the ones who show up and bring somebody with them.

Two breakfasts down. Now we're taking the show on the road.
Get Out the Vote Breakfast #3

Saturday, October 3, 10 AM to 12 noon
Warrensville Heights Civic & Senior Center
4567 Green Road, Warrensville Heights, OH 44128

Good food. Real talk about how we turn out our own streets. A seat at the table for every church, chapter, lodge and block club ready to work between now and Election Day.

The breakfast is free and everyone is welcome. There is no party, no candidate and no endorsement at this event. The only goal is turnout.

If you came to the first two, come back and bring one more person. If you haven't been yet, this is the one.

RSVP: https://realpower.tv/events/?utm_source=brevo&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=gotv-breakfast-3

Three days later we Roll to the Polls. Come Saturday and leave with your plan.

Kenn Dowell
Publisher, RealPower.TV
Sponsored by RealPower.TV,

Eight Black candidates are on the ballot for governor this November. The most in the history of this country.

You probably didn't see that headline. It ran, and then it went.

That's exactly why we run Off the Wire every week — the reporting happens, and then it disappears unless somebody keeps it somewhere you can find it.

How many of the eight can you name right now, without looking it up? Honest answers only — I want the real number.

Via the Associated Press:
https://realpower.tv/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=eight-black-candidates

Four weeks ago I told you I put everything in one place. Here's what's been on it since.

A retired judge on justice. A physician on why the medicine wasn't built for us. A pastor on authenticity. Reporting on $1.2 million in lead money handed back. Transit cuts through Glenville. Eight Black candidates on a governor's ballot.

Every show. Every column. Every day. One address.

Now tell me what we missed. What should be on there in October? Name it.

Link in the first comment.