Declaration
No Cults. No Crowns. Just Good Coffee.
Independent roaster declares its customers caffeinated and ungovernable; billionaires decline to comment.
No billionaires whispering in your ear. No cults of personality. No crowns. Just good coffee, roasted honestly and sold by an independent brand that would rather be pouring than protesting — but will do both if pressed.
Coffee has always been political. It fueled the salons of Paris and the coffeehouses of London, where ordinary people argued about how they ought to be governed. We think that tradition is worth keeping.
So every bag carries a pledge: two dollars to Indivisible, the grassroots movement defending democracy one town hall at a time. The rest is up to you.
The Market
Three roasts trading at $22.50. All up.
No. II · [Roast level]
$22.50 ▲
Égalité
A fair cup for everyone.
[Tasting notes and origin.]
No. III · [Roast level]
$22.50 ▲
Fraternité
Best shared, never hoarded.
[Tasting notes and origin.]
In Brief
Gear for the cause. Mugs, filters and more in Accessories.
Whole bean or ground. Choose your grind at checkout.
Opinion
Why No Kings?
An editorial
Because we refuse to accept a government that intrudes on our rights, wages war on its own people and promotes tyranny. Simple as that.
Why Coffee?
An editorial
Coffee feeds discussion and debate. Do we want to lead a revolution? No. But we don’t want to be in a position where we need to, either. We didn’t choose this — autocrats, oligarchs and tyrants did. So: we won’t back down.
“Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.”
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Nobel Lecture, 1972
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On the Jukebox This Week
Democracy · 2025
No Kings
Jesse Welles
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