A Free Now Foundation Exclusive

Have you ever wanted to witness the kind of fire that can’t be faked? Power that comes from conviction, not career strategy? Passion that pierces through propaganda? Our supporters cleared their calendars for May 10, 2025 in Silicon Valley. Del Bigtree, the man who turned a camera lens into a weapon against corruption, headlined Free Now Foundation’s 5th Anniversary Benefit Dinner and MAHA Celebration. This wasn’t just another keynote. It’s was a live wire moment in a time when truth is under siege and courage is in short supply.

Whether you’ve followed Del Bigtree since The HighWire’s first broadcast or you’re only now discovering the force behind ICAN’s landmark victories, this was a chance to be in the room with one of the most relentless truth-tellers of our time.

Before he ever touched a microphone or challenged the pharmaceutical establishment on live broadcast, Del Bigtree was just a regular California dad—working behind the scenes as a producer on the Emmy Award-winning show The Doctors. He understood television, he understood storytelling, and he understood the public’s deep thirst for answers when it comes to health. What he didn’t see coming was the moment that would upend his entire career and crack open his life’s purpose. That moment arrived in the form of two unlikely interlopers: Dr. Andrew Wakefield and Polly Tommey, armed with raw footage, buried data, and a story no mainstream outlet dared touch. They asked Del to help shape their film VAXXED: From Coverup to Catastrophe, and he said yes.

After getting booted from the 2016 Tribeca Film festival, parents across the country began hosting underground screenings of VAXXED in private theaters. Del didn’t just watch from the sidelines. He got on the bus. 

He hit the road with Wakefield, Polly, and a rotation of whistleblowers and grieving families, city after city, screening after screening. And night after night, he stood in front of packed theaters and asked the same haunting question: “If you are the parent of a vaccine-injured child, I want you to stand up.” At first, a few brave souls rose. Then more. And more. Until almost the entire audience was on its feet; shoulders trembling, eyes wide, parents realizing they were not crazy and they were not alone. Something seismic shifted on that tour. Del didn’t just find a cause. He found his calling.

And like every good high wire act, the stakes only got higher.

Del didn’t crawl back to his television career after that tour. In fact, he set it on fire. And out of the ashes came The HighWire, his no-holds-barred online broadcast that dared to say what legacy media couldn’t be forced to whisper. The new show’s name was a promise to parents, because walking the high wire means there’s no safety net, no corporate sponsor waiting in the wings, no scripted narrative approved by pharma ad dollars. It’s just you, the truth, and a long drop if you slip. Del dove headfirst into the stories the mainstream kept buried: vaccine injury, medical censorship, rigged legislation, rubber-stamped science. One week he’d be interviewing a mother whose child vanished after a routine shot, the next he’d be face-to-face with lawmakers steamrolling mandates that made informed consent a thing of the past. If media was silencing doctors, Del gave them a mic. If they were hiding data, Del put it on screen. And people showed up in droves; not because he told them what to think, but because he let them see what was never supposed to be seen.

But The HighWire was just one wing of the machine. Del knew awareness wasn’t enough. Americans had to bring this fight to the courts, in the agencies, in the shadows where the rules get written. So he founded ICAN, the Informed Consent Action Network, and let it loose like a legal wrecking ball. They forced the CDC to hand over vaccine safety data. They sued the NIH and won. They filed the petition that made the FDA blink, because in 2020, COVID vaccine trials were using other vaccines as placebos. Think about that. But ICAN went for the jugular. They demanded saline. And though the FDA never publicly credited them, the agency quietly reversed course midstream. Suddenly, saline placebos were being required, and the control groups couldn’t be shrunk to irrelevance. That only happened because Del Bigtree and ICAN refused to back down.

This isn’t a story about a guy who left Hollywood. It’s the story of a man who looked the machine in the eye, saw the bodies in its gears, and decided he’d rather burn bridges than betray the truth.

And if you think Del Bigtree’s just a man behind a microphone, think again. In 2025, his leadership has gone thermonuclear. Through both ICAN and his new non-profit, MAHA Action, he’s igniting change in every corner of the country, from Senate hearing rooms to statehouse steps. In January, MAHA flooded the halls of the U.S. Capitol as nominees like Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Dr. Oz, and Dr. Marty Makary took their seats before the Senate. They packed the rooms, ran sharp media campaigns, and made damn sure no politician left those hearings unaware that the health freedom movement is wide awake and watching. And when the National Press Club hosted MAHA’s landmark press conference? Thirty-five media outlets showed up in person, with another fifty tuned in remotely.

But Del’s reach goes far beyond Washington. In Florida, supporters and organizations stormed the Capitol for Legislative Day. In Texas, MAHA volunteers flooded hearings on SB 25, a bill taking on the broken nutritional standards that feed our children chemical sludge. In Arizona, it was MAHA Moms standing shoulder-to-shoulder with expert witnesses to support the Healthy Schools Act. In Ohio they’re laying groundwork with legislators behind closed doors, strategizing with Reps. Jennifer Gross and Tim Barhost on how to dismantle medical coercion from the inside out. This is war room strategy. This is how change gets made.

And the tools just keep getting sharper. MAHA’s new 50-State Bill Tracker is a living, constantly updated machine tracking over 300 bills across the nation, giving the public advocacy tools in real-time. Meanwhile, MAHA’s college program is surging. With over 300 students recruited and chapters launching coast to coast, the next generation isn’t waiting to be handed a movement; they’re building it themselves. And as if that weren’t enough, Del’s vision is stretching into food policy, farming sovereignty, and even cereal testing (yes, comparing toxic American brands to their U.K. counterparts). If you thought Del was just about vaccines, buckle up.

The media can’t ignore him anymore. In 2025 alone, Del’s been featured in The New York Times, Fox News, and Politico. His new MAHA podcast shot to #18 in the U.S. Health & Wellness charts with a staggering 17 million impressions. Even legacy media has had to reckon with the fact that Del’s not just reporting on the movement—he is the movement. From CPAC to SXSW to the Food Independence Summit this July, he’s been lighting up national stages and bringing the REAL Health Framework (Research, Educate, Activate, Legislate) into the heart of every conversation that matters.

And let’s not forget ICAN, the legal engine behind the curtain, firing off win after win. In 2025 alone, they cracked open the CDC’s secret vault and forced the release of V-safe free-text entries, exposing thousands of buried injury reports the public was never supposed to see. When Dartmouth Hitchcock tried to deny a kidney transplant over a COVID shot, ICAN dropped a legal team hammer and the hospital backed off. Their FOIA work on bird flu vaccine trials has revealed shaky ingredients and questionable study designs, putting regulators on notice. And they uncovered that little detail about the Gates Foundation introducing an NIH official to BioNTech’s CEO before COVID was declared a pandemic. Just a coincidence, right?

This isn’t a movement of complaints. It’s a movement with receipts, reach, and results. And at the center of it is a man with a mic, a legal team, and a mission. On May 10th, we saw him live, and made sure not to wear something flammable because Del Bigtree sets the room on fire.